Subject: Thank you for Darwin Day event

From: [email-masked]

Dear Info Person,

We at Darwinday.org want to thank all of you who have developed Darwin Day Celebrations for the past few years, including the one this past February.  Please express our appreciation to all of the other people in your organization who made your Event possible.  Each individual Celebration contributed significantly to the spirit of the occasion and together they made a grand statement about the importance of scientific knowledge to our modern world.  As we work together each year to expand both the number of Events and the number of participants we hope you will reach out to other groups in your area and invite them to participate also.  It is only through mutual cooperation and assistance that we can hope to achieve our goal of a Global Celebration by 2009, Darwin's 200th birthday!  The role of human curiosity and ingenuity in developing the vast knowledge we now possess about the material world deserves to be recognized by all of us.  Darwin's central role in promoting a secular scientific explanation for life on our planet was crucial to the rapid advancement of verifiable knowledge.

Currently Darwinday.org is preparing to reach out to many thousands of additional groups early next fall to invite them to join us in 2006.  In fact, we have just updated our website and made it possible for you to register your event as soon as it is ready for next year.  This is a process that we will repeat each year as we go forward to 2009 and beyond.

In addition, we have begun to translate our website into additional languages and we expect this project to continue through 2005 and into 2006 so that we can reach those who speak one of the major languages other than English.  It is our intention to design flyers and leaflets that you can download and change to reflect local information, so that they can be used to promote individual events.  If you have additional ideas about what you we can do to assist you with promotional work, please feel free to send us your suggestions.

Again, we sincerely thank you for a job well done!

Bob Stephens
President of Darwinday.org.