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Tell your friends!

On August 18 2007 11:02 Zorglub wrote: When we had the donations debate here, the thread was bumped too and the actual donors could debate, I doubt people are gonna register at a new forum only to debate this. Moving the debate only makes this thread die and donations dissapear since this is the only advertising you got by now

Okay, fair enough.

I'm going to be spending the donations in two weeks. Here's me current plan for the donations.

Building a backup "treasury" from month-to-month would be very effective, but I'm wary of the thought of sitting on a bunch of donations every month.

Also, any advice on how best to spread the word of the site would be appreciated.

Thanks.

still the christian fanatics... why not the SOS site? what was negative about them? it was also only 28$ per child = more kids helped

In fact I think giving it to christian fanatics might scare some donors away.

And to spread the word: make the site look better, have a banner made (byrnesam?), ask people if you can get a small banner add on their sites for free, that would be the cheapest way, and make the purpose of the page first thing you see when you come to the site, perhaps ask pokerstars and other big sites if they can mention you in the news, or their homepage or somewhere

I wish some other donors would say what they think....

On August 19 2007 11:09 Zorglub wrote: still the christian fanatics... why not the SOS site? what was negative about them? it was also only 28$ per child = more kids helped In fact I think giving it to christian fanatics might scare some donors away. And to spread the word: make the site look better, have a banner made (byrnesam?), ask people if you can get a small banner add on their sites for free, that would be the cheapest way, and make the purpose of the page first thing you see when you come to the site, perhaps ask pokerstars and other big sites if they can mention you in the news, or their homepage or somewhere

Yeah, I won't be donating to the christian fanatics. Especially if they're taking a % of the money out for themselves.

Why not a making a poll here so donors could choose democraticly where the money is going to ?

On August 19 2007 14:55 Graisseux wrote: Why not a making a poll here so donors could choose democraticly where the money is going to ?

makes too much sense for us to do that

......is there any way we can make sure our money is going to charity and not being pocketed?!?!?!?!?

*UPDATE*

I've traded some emails back-and-forth to SOS-USA, and I like what I've heard so far.

I've received some feedback via MSN, and this thread, and I think we're going to move away from World Vision for a few reasons:

1. It's a religious affiliation. And although I'm not altogether against a religiously driven charity, I want to be connected with completely unbiased charities whose sole goal is to help kids.

2. World Vision takes a percentage of each donation for administration fees; as far as I've read, SOS-USA does not. EDIT: The SOS UK site does not take an administration fee; the SOS USA site does

3. SOS-USA allows for "Annual Sponsorships", where you sponsor a child for an entire year. I think this may a step in the right direction for us.

Please post any concerns you have regarding SOS-USA here.

Thanks again for the input everyone, and THANK YOU PINK RANGER for our first donation in 2 days B-)

once again, great job Kory

On August 19 2007 17:21 MrArsenal24 wrote: ......is there any way we can make sure our money is going to charity and not being pocketed?!?!?!?!?

You can't, exactly.

Once I make this month's donations, I will post screenshots/RL pictures of receipts + any information they provide me with. The only thing I can do at this point is promise you all that I have zero intention of robbing anyone.

My MSN is cbkprice (at) hotmail (dot) com. I'm always more than happy to chat with anyone who has questions regarding the site.

Thanks again,

Cory

As far as I could understand, the only negative thing about SOS is that the US site takes 10% in administration fees (to pay for accountant, administration jobs etc.), where as the UK site doesnt do this because they rely on volunteer workers, but then again the US site costs 28$ per child and the UK site 20£ per child which is a bit more.

And maybe it will be too much of a hassle for Kory to exchange the $ to £ and we will lose a little there too. But even with the 10% for administration I think SOS - USA is far better than worldvision (which also took part of it for administration)

How do you make a poll?

^
ask floofy

i agree with zorglub 100%

http://charitynavigator.org/

This site was recommended to me by a friend of mine who works at the Boys 'N Girls club.

Pretty interesting.

I made a small change to the Charities page. This setup will allow me to show non-child sponsorship donations if we should decide to go that route.

Also, clicking on the link in the "Charity Description" column will bring you to a forum topic displaying images/screenshots of the specific donation.

Poll: Your opinion about PokerDonnors.com
(Vote): Go with SOS USA
(Vote): Go with world vision
(Vote): Kory obvious scammer
(Vote): dunno but Talentedtom own

damn i need more than one vote, go with SOS usa would be my choice

dumb poll floofy..