Historical September 1985 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Westminster Communications, Inc., a company formed by Marcia Kerz and Marjorie Weir, two West End residents, opened new offices recently at 1001 Bellevue (at Clayton Road) in Richmond Heights. Their business focuses on building donor bases and contact lists for organizations, campaigns and businesses, developing plans to reach the individuals, and implementing the plans through mail and phonebank programs. Westminster Communications has special expertise in helping non-profit organizations prospect for new potential donors and, once located, build those new donors into a healthy renewal program.
According to Marcia Kerz, president of the company, “Too much time and energy is expended by many organizations with little success in trying to find new donors. What is needed is a well-organized, systematic approach to locating new donors and communicating with past and present donors.” Westminster Communications’ services include building the plan, identifying appropriate lists, designing the entire mailing package, writing copy for the letter and all enclosures, and assuring that the package is completed and in the mail in a timely manner.
The firm also offers organizations, campaigns and businesses direct assistance with an important ingredient in any solicitation effort in 1985—how to use computers in their program.
The firm has extensive expertise in the use of microcomputers and will assist clients in purchasing computers and software that will meet their needs, and in actual custom software programming for a donor base or contact system. Both Kerz and Weir have been actively involved in the St. Louis community. Kerz served as Executive Director of the Conference on Education, a non-profit organization based in St. Louis, and most recently as the manager of the 1984 successful campaign of Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods. Weir’s community involvement included serving as a member of the St. Louis Board of Education from 1977 to 1983.
She is presently a member of the Botanical Garden Subdistrict Commission and the St. Louis Public Library Board.
For more information about services provided by Westminster Communications, call 314/645-4488.
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Marj Weir and Marcia Kerz. The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1985, page 5. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September 1985.
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