A Great Way to Fund All Kinds of Projects!Earlier this year Molly Ivins, a local writer with national impact passed away from cancer. She had a great impact on her community and some of her neighbors are putting together a campaign to raise money for a bench in her honor in a local Austin park. I heard about this when it was posted on the HerDomain listserv last Friday and it triggered a vague memory of an online site that helps people organize that kind of fundraising.
Fundable lets groups of people pool funds to make purchases or raise money. Similar to online auctions, Fundable's pages, called "group actions," are created by people who use this site. Each group action has a description of how much money needs to be collected and what it will do. Once enough pledges (not payments) have been collected, Fundable turns them into real payments and sends the total to the group action's organizer.
No one takes a risk when making a pledge: if a group action expires before reaching its total in pledges, Fundable deletes all pledges and never charges money. This lets you participate in a group purchase or fundraiser without worrying about what other people will do. No one pays until and unless everyone else makes a pledge.
While there is no cost to set up a group action, once the group action is complete and the funds have been raised, Fundable charges a 7% handling fee for acting as the escrow agent.
I don't know if the neighborhood group will use this for the tribute bench for Molly, but I'm glad I was reminded of the organization.
rg
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Another website that people use to raise money online in memoriam of some is Firstgiving.com. Firstgiving is a company that lets anyone set up a free personalized fundraising page for any nonprofit that is registered through GuideStar (a national registry of non-profits). After you set up your page Firstgiving helps you promote it on your blog or social network page with either a badge or a widget. Another Firstgiving difference is that the company sends any funds raised directly to the organization involved.
I wanted to share one of Silvisrivers poems with yer readers GuRuth*
Their Community Arts Project for raising Funding for Mental Health awareness is www.nbca.blogspot.com
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The Purple Door
It was a long time ago
When I met that Purple being
With his heart of light
He said
"I am a part of you all
There
By your broken sight
Its true the pain and madness
They made you of
Will touch pure gift
Its also true my colourkins
That this is by
Hell's rift
In one hand you will always hold
The demon
And the other will make
Stars into friends
Your heart will throw out courage
To be itself
In the world
Of compromise
And sickened existential bends ... "
Why Purple then ?
I said ...
" Because your kind
Are the Royalty of pure bruise
I shall call them
The hurting race
The mad defenders
Of innerness and outerness
For covering up and surfaces is
So often what they choose
Lo
Even in their glossed lives
They miss
The tribal fires
The mad dances
The grief and healing as it lances
And so become such skilful liars
Why
You'd think their lives were endless.........."
Should they wear Purple then ?
I said
"They do , they do
But the only soul some have
Sometimes
Is kept by treading and
Glueing its bottom on the shoe ....."
Tell me Long ears why you are changing to ash
And blowing
Gust gods
Of a long curl eared breeze ?
" Its easy colourkins
I'm all creation
I'll see you in the ground
The skies
The rains
That grow fat liquid drops
Upon the cooling leaves of trees ....
Kiss of star-eye to you all...
whoooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhhhhh
Thanks GuRuth!! & continue yer Great Work!!
Cheers! Billy ;))
Peace*
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