This may not appeal to some, but frankly, I'm in for the money.
I'm looking for something sustainable, looking to bring the coins to merchants as well as other nearby countries.
Currently, I've got access to a BITCOIN payment gateway system that already has merchants using it and I'm currently looking to add in LITECOIN as well as lately, there has been some interest in this part of the world.
Would love to also add BLAKECOIN however, we will need some form of exchange to allow merchants to convert to fiat.
For donations, maybe what we can do is to pull our resources together and have a bitcoin donation pool.
I don't see why you need a Bitcoin donation pool?
thought you had access to "I can tap on my pool of private investors and VCs to chip in and make this big" yet you ask the miners here first?
Investors are not gamblers. They don't throw money at problems. They invest only if and when it makes sense for them to.