I just got an email from Cameroon, a West African orphanage that wants instructions on how to request biblepay donations.
I want to touch on a few "training issues" first:
1) We should start small, and test the charity to ensure they work well. Maybe help them enter a proposal for one orphan first and then we get community feedback.
2) We need to ensure their authenticity by doing some research to see how the current reviews are of their service and they actually sponsor real children.
3) We need to ask them how far they can integrate their IT with us. Remember with compassion, we receive inbound childrens letters into our API and post them through the SAN into PDFs for all to read. We write to them through the API to a translator who rewrites the document to the child. We have online BIOs with links to the children. We basically want to know the level of integration they offer and promise biblepay. Show them links to the accountability.biblepay.org web site and the way the Orphan menus work.
4) We should ask them if they would consider giving us PR, by placing our logo on their website, and a paragraph about us we can link to.
So, Im programming quite a few systems, starting a slack, doing maintenance, and jumpstarting stratis, so obviously Im overloaded. I cant wear yet another hat called "Director of Charity Integration" etc. I need help from a volunteer who wants to be responsible for new charity evaluation, onboarding, partner integration etc. Who wants to kindly volunteer for this? It entails me introducing the charity to you through email and then you picking up the ball with them.
Thanks!
I would think until we have paid forward our current orphans premiums by at least one calendar year we should remain open to new ideas, but focus on stabilizing our support to those we've already started to commit to rather than branch out.
