Important Follow-up Message

Dear Friends,

In follow-up to my earlier message, I have an important issue for your consideration. Last week on Behav-An, our 1700+ member strong virtual community, a message went out from a member concerning the urgent support of National Public Radio (NPR). This issue illustrates how NPR advances its mission: through "listener support."

So too does the Cambridge Center rely on user support...we provide a *multitude* of ongoing and ever increasing services in support of the accurate dissemination of behavior principles, as well as the interaction of behavior analysts and the public through our Behavioral Virtual Community.

Behav-An is just one of many services, both within our Behavioral Virtual Community and in the many other web-based informational services the Cambridge Center offers to keep the public informed about behavior and behavior analysis.

Yet a very small minority of those who frequently use our services ever contribute to the organization which provides and supports these valuable and important services.

In the spirit of Public Broadcasting, if the many services we offer to keep you in communication with other behavior analysts, or to inform the public about advances in the study of behavior mean something to you, we simply ask that you help support the Cambridge Center by joining us as a member, sending us a tax-deductible contribution, and very importantly letting your family, friends and colleagues know about what we are doing and encouraging them to join us as well!

Our special Friends program is dedicated to this end. Please visit today, join us, start your OWN WEBSITE in our Friends program, and help us get the word out! Please support all that we do, and in so doing, support behavior analysis, by going today to:

http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=2376&u=2376-497691&e=661773

Your participation in our Friends program is a terrific way to help the Cambridge Center as we continue on in 2002 in our many initiatives to advance behavior analysis around the world!  So, I strongly encourage you if you have not yet done so to go to:

http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=2376&u=2376-497691&e=661773

Also, I would ask that you PLEASE FORWARD A MESSAGE of your own (FULL INSTRUCTIONS are found on the Kintera Friends website once you visit) to at least five others that you know who may be interested in joining the Center--colleagues in your office, department or school, fellow students, or friends and family.  Please help us by spreading the word and encouraging others to become members of the Cambridge Center!

Our members represent behavior analysts, parents, students, teachers, and anyone else interested in behavior analysis, and how to effectively utilize behavior principles to make our lives better in the home, in school, and in the workplace.  The past couple years were very productive for the Cambridge Center and our Behavioral Virtual Community, and we have active plans for 2002 to significantly enhance our services to YOU!

By your own actions you are showcasing to the world the power of behavior analysis, that as a philosophy and a set of principles behavior analysis is not only alive and well, but poised to continue to make significant contributions to worldwide societies in every imaginable context!

For those of you who have not yet elected to support the Cambridge Center, I again invite you to show your support for the virtual community by supporting the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. I ask that you each go to:

http://www.kintera.org/faf/r.asp?t=4&i=2376&u=2376-497691&e=661773

and participate in our Friends program to support this precious activity of the Cambridge Center, specifically in support of the continuation of our activities at www.behavior.org and our behavioral virtual community (which also qualifies you for CCBS Membership).

The mission of the Cambridge Center is to both advance behavior analysis as a science AND be the bridge between behavioral scientists and the public in the accurate dissemination of how to effectively utilize behavior principles in the home, in the school, and in the workplace to make a DIFFERENCE!

Thank you again.

Joe Plaud