Topic: Bitcoin 100: Developed Specifically for Non-Profits - page 27. (Read 262768 times)

And one more!


So far I haven't seen any issues with the ones Frankie has been introducing us to.

From: Frankie

Dear Kate,

Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation that is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 each to my friend Jessie Morey's IBME and my friend Amy's Primate Education Network. I think he will really appreciate the Eureka! Recycling mission.

Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.

BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work to get it set up, but I know the money could do a lot of good helping with new initiatives at Eureka.

@Dmitry, Kate and I are old friends from my renewable energy days. She works for Eureka! Recycling, a terrific nonprofit in Minneapolis/ St Paul that works towards improving municipal recycling and building a zero waste future. A $1,000 donation would be a big help with their projects.

Good luck!

Dear Megan,

Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation that is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 to my friend Jessie Morey's IBME and my friend Amy's Primate Education Network, and I realized I hadn't reached out to you! I think he will like the Girls Rock! DC mission.

Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.

BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work to get it set up, but I know the money could do a lot of good helping with scholarships for your program.

@Dmitry, Megan is a great friend of mine who helps run the DC chapter of the fabulous nonprofit Girls Rock!. They run an annual summer camp to build self confidence and leadership skills for young girls, culminating in a live concert for rock bands the girls create together. Recently they started offering an after school program as well. Their impact for the girls is huge and $1,000 would make a big difference for them.

Good luck!

Frankie

Grace,

Please meet my friend Dmitry. We met in business school and he now runs a foundation and is looking for worthy nonprofits to donate to. He just donated $1,000 to Jessie Morey's IBME and I thought of you next. I think he will like your Capital Area Food Bank mission.

Dmitry's foundation is called BitCoin100. They arose out of the generosity of a few early BitCoin adopters to promote the value of the currency for nonprofits: when donors make their donations in BitCoins, the recipient nonprofit keeps 100% (hence the name). None of the funds are lost to credit card or processing fees.

BitCoin100 donates $1,000 to selected nonprofits who agree to accept the currency on their donation page. It doesn't take much work, but I know the money could do a lot of good for the Food Bank.

@Dmitry, Grace is a good friend of mine who is thoroughly dedicated to improving others' lives through food. She's also a good friend of Jessie Morey.

Good luck!

Frankie

How can we get a determination as to whether or not we qualify?

From votehemp.com/mission_goals.html ...

"Vote Hemp is a national, single-issue, nonprofit organization dedicated to the acceptance of and free market for industrial hemp, low-THC oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis, and to changes in current law to allow U.S. farmers to grow the crop. Our ultimate goal is having hemp grown on a commercial scale in the U.S. once again and for the crop to be able to be processed here as well. We educate people on the issues surrounding hemp, register voters, and build coalitions to fulfill our mission.
Vote Hemp is working to shift federal regulation of industrial hemp farming out of the hands of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and get hemp farming regulated on the state level.

Vote Hemp also works to defend against any new laws, regulations or policies that would prohibit or restrict hemp commerce or imports.

Vote Hemp is not a drug policy organization, nor do we take positions on drug policy issues other than the improper classification of hemp as a drug.

Vote Hemp was founded in May 2000 by members of the hemp industry and was incorporated in the District of Columbia as a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization. Since then Vote Hemp has emerged as the unquestionable lead political activist organization of the hemp industry. We have demonstrated that Vote Hemp is a strategic organization working for meaningful change in Washington, DC, a necessary precursor to expanding the hemp industry in the U.S. and worldwide.

To get a deeper understanding of the mission of Vote Hemp please read The Vote Hemp Treatise: A Renewal of Common Sense: The Case for Hemp in 21st Century America, written by Erik Rothenberg, President of Atlas Corporation and a former Director of Vote Hemp.

Donations, bequests, and in-kind donations to support this effort can be made online. You can also find sample letters and easy ways to contact elected officials; see theVote Hemp Action Center.

Some of the best pages to start with on the Vote Hemp Web site are our Federal Legislation page, State Action page, News Coverage page, and our Download Centerpage. There you can find information on the new bill H.R 1009 which was recently introduced in Congress, what kind of hemp legislation has been introduced in yourstate, the latest in hemp news, and find just about everything else.

Please also check out our What Can I Do? page for all kinds of ways to get involved and help out.

"

Thanks for your time.
With respect,

Just to be clear, we're not talking about psychoactive marjiuana, we're talking about the substance that can't get you high, less than 0.3% THC content, legal to grow almost everywhere in the world except America, in a situation that thus depresses the global hemp market and even prohibits research into the crop, which stands to serve enormous benefits to mankind in the form of biofuels, building materials, biodegradable plastics, even superconductors.

Just wanted to make it clear we're not trying to legalize drugs. We're trying to get a separate defintion for hemp as distinct from marijuana.

Not to get all evangelical. But ... Hawaii is looking to use hemp for phytoremediation to remove contaminants left in the ground at old army bases. And - no joke - struggling farmers in Tasmania are being kept down by US hemp prohibition.

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/1892518/hemp-report-positive/

An example of our regs damping down international demand: Naturally Advanced Tech
http://www.hemp.org/news/category/cannabis/naturally-advanced-technologies-inc
Naturally Advanced had been focusing its business on a hemp-based fiber, with operations based in Vancouver, Canada, where laws don't restrict the use of hemp. In the last year, the company has focused on proving its technology with flax fiber, which is more readily available in the U.S., said Naturally Advanced spokeswoman Erin Brunner

And it turns out that hemp-derived carbon nanosheets outperform graphene at a fraction of the cost in supercapacitor electrodes. Wrap your head around the possibilities inherent in that. Now maybe it becomes clear how it became illegal to even grow this plant to be researched at universities in this country.

Thanks for your consideration.

With respect,

Alex B-Z

pathwaystoeducation.ca looks terrific!

I just got a reply to my concern/objection:


Comments?

Fraid you're right, Rassah. They clearly identify themselves as a "lobbying organization".

Rassah;

I understand - though personally I do not consider lobbying for industrial hemp cultivation to be political in the partisan sense, any more so than lobbying for hunger relief or AIDS treatment or fair treatment of political prisoners is political. We're about as non-partisan as one could possibly get. It was with this in mind that I reached out.

I've also passed on info on BitCoin 100 to some of the people working on Bitcoin Black Friday, hopefully they'll be in touch.

Thanks for your timely response.

W/ respect,
ABZ

$1,000 donation sent to http://lendforamerica.org/  

https://blockchain.info/tx/3ed19c68f347675f7a476b6dc8e5673562ff8bf547aee1b6e18fea30c8d30aac


and another $1,000 sent to http://ibme.info/

https://blockchain.info/tx/7856a62172c79edb28f2eb8afa498cb366b1e7a6b5d31228bf0813498fad306e

Edd, you got more work to do  

Awwww. Just got this in the mail


Guys, please verify and confirm, but my first reply had to be to point out that Bitcoin100 can't donate to political orgs 

Hi there. Alex with Vote Hemp here with a quick question. Just how prominently do you expect Bitcoin 100 orgs to display their acceptance of bitcoin donations?

We're adding a bitcoin donation option to http://www.votehemp.org/contribute in the next day or two and I want to let my guys know if they also need to put some sort of indicator on the landing page as well - at the moment we don't reference any contribution options on the index page. "contribute" is an option under the "Take Action" drop-down.

Thanks for your time and for all that you do.

Have you heard about Bitcoin Black Friday? That and Bitcoin100.org are what enabled me to convince my bosses to add a bitcoin donation option, by the way.

With respect,

Alex

I got a reply:


I told him no rush, that we still have plenty to give out, offered help if he needed it, and suggested BitPay for their 0% non-profit fees thing.

Also, I assumed everyone here likes asses, and went ahead and solicited these guys http://donkeyrescue.com

From Mark (theburroman)

I am very interested. Is there a time limit? The reason I ask is that we are in development of an entirely new website that will launch after the first of the year. I can incorporate Bitcoin into it easily enough, but would it be better to put it on the current site now?

Thanks, edd. We'll wake you when we need you again. 

Bitcoin100 Charity page updated to reflect Primate Education Network (PEN) and Esquina Tango.

I took care of your latter request, Rassah. Check it out to see if it passes muster: http://bitcoin100.org/contact/

edd could more easily take care of the other request, seeing that the WP editing process is catered to his liking. I could easily get up to speed as to how he has it set up, but opted not to take the time to go through the learning curve.

Checking on the latest NPOs now.

Thank you very much! The people at Esquina Tango are thrilled!

I am now working with the Austin Creative Alliance, an Austin-based "nonprofit 501(c)3 service organization whose members include 160 arts organizations established and emerging".

See their website at www.austincreativealliance.org