Topic: Bitcoin 100: Developed Specifically for Non-Profits - page 74. (Read 262769 times)

It is a charity that benefits animals, which I will be trying to convince to help spread Bitcoin awareness to humans dressed like animals, once they come to a convention that typically hosts 3,000+ of such humans.
Btc100 funds would only be donated in the originally intended way. All the subsequent attempts at convincing I will do on my own. The only way humans dressed like animals will benefit is from knowing about a better money transmittal service than the PayPal types that have been ripping them off for the last decade. Wider addoption is good, especially when there's a global group of 10's of thousands on places like deviantart, furaffinity, sofurry, etc, who are all very internet savvy, extremely connected, and spend A LOT of money on p2p transactions trading and selling art and custom work.
Frankly, that community is perfect for this technology, but there isn't any authoritative way of introducing it to them. When I tried with some, they either come back with "Isn't that a scam/pyramid? I don't get it" or they keep using PayPal, accepting the risk, just because it's easier. I am hoping with this charity displaying Bitcoin as a donation method, it will give Bitcoin a bit more legitimacy.

If it is a charity benefits animals, not humans dressed like animals, I support it.  I would be happy to donate to Hello Bully or a similar org.

*bump*

Does anyone have any objections or comments regarding my idea of trying to get an AnthroCon chosen charity to accept this?

Nor should you be  

Got a reply

I will wait for more people to read this thread and give feedback before I decide whether to pursue this idea (If I do go to this convention, I will obviously try to donate with Bitcoin while there, but considering ALL the hotels in the area completely sold out within 2 hours of registration opening, and so far I have no room to stay, I was planning on skipping it this year...)

From http://hellobully.com/


If every dollar counts, then why use PayPal?

I like this list: http://www.anthrocon.org/charity

Looks great, paraipan. You should be proud of your work. Now go and show you friends and family what you'll been doing in your free time. They, too, will be proud of you.

meh, for the giggles, not very proud doing it though  

Also, http://www.anthrocon.org/charity and http://hellobully.com/

Also just sent this:

Hi Nicole.

I was wondering what your organization does with donated funds. From the overview I got from your website it looks as if your organization depends more on actual volunteers and education campaigns rather than just monetary donations. Could you please give me a brief overview of how donated funds are spent and how they help?

Thank you very much!

-- Dmitry

Also, I think that year's theme was prehistoric... stuff... thus the guy dressed like a caveman, with a wheel "invention" in the front. Also, fursuits are about 10% of the fandom, and frankly freak me out Most other fans are into it for the same reason Anime fans are into it: art style and community around it (and porn).

The bottom line is that these people are artists, not a group of people doing strange things to Teddy Bears. http://www.anthrocon.org/

I'm keen on this idea.

~Bruno~



For shit and giggles, can somebody shop that round thing in the middle of the pic held by that furry to represent a Bitcoin coin?

Actually, my sneaky idea was to get whatever is the next charity to be sponsored by AnthroCon to accept Bitcoin. Once they do, I can post that fact to a whole bunch of furry mailing lists. AnthroCon, a furry convention in Pittsburgh PA, is attended by 3,000 to 5,000 people from around the world, and every year the charity they pick raises $1,000 to $3,000. Usually these are small, at times local, charities. The other added benefit is having a legitimate reason for exposing the furry community to Bitcoin (instead of "Hey gais, look at this!" it'll be "Hey gais! These guys take Bitcoin too!"). The furry fandom is in desperate need for something like Bitcoin. Although porn is not the main aspect of the fandom, it is still a fairly large part, and because PayPal and other payment processors have strict anti-porn rules, they have actually shut down accounts and seized commission funds of some artists (which sucks when art commissions are their main source of income), and seized donation and subscription funds from art websites that also happen to host porn (these sites allow artists to upload their own art, and don't censor or discriminate against the content). These websites and artists are struggling to find methods to get paid for commissions or subscriptions. Some are using the Square VISA thingy, and some have even tried using Second Life Linden, but both methods have very high fees. Maybe with enough of a donation, we can get the charity to actually advertise that they take Bitcoin as one of their payment methods when they come to the convention (they usually get a table in a very prominant spot, where they display their charity info and accept donations in person).

Limited, but much more appreciative. In the spirit of Bitcoin 100's namesake, we could have them do the same thing that we're requiring of the formidable non-profits, but instead of awarding 100 BTC, we could seed their account with $100 USD. They may even look upon that as paid advertising on their respective sites, thus being awarded for using a small amount of real estate, with the added bonus of generating more revenue for their cause.

At the onset, Bitcoin wouldn't get that much exposure, but when you start adding up all those little sites, coupled with having the opportunity to show larger non-profits existing Bitcoin accepting charitable sites, a win-win scenario starts to unfold, albeit slowly. Plus, you'll never know when one of those organizations will get national air play, increasing Bitcoin's awareness several fold. As I've mentioned a couple posts back, we can even hand-pick such causes that are already in the news, thus increasing our chances of mega-exposure.

~Bruno~

Should we focus exclusively on large global charities, or would local ones be acceptable? Things like Ferret Rescue located in Pennsylvania, or an animal shelter or Girl Scout group in some particular state for example. It would be much easier to get them to accept, but the downside is that exposure would be much more limited.
Thoughts?

fixed that for you 

We need a Bitcoin 100 for Musicians.

If someone could setup a site that sells bitcoin for mp3s mp3s for bitcoins or just get an artist to accept bitcoins on their own site, that would be awesome.

I just want to make sure that my intent came across as sincere, for I truly don't pray but felt I needed to express my feelings as best as possible at that time. I truly hope others here who do pray, take time to express Derek's lost in their prayers.

~Bruno~

sorry to hear that Derek, may he rest in peace

No need to pray to offer condolences and well-wishes, Bruno. You definitely have mine, Derek.

Sorry to hear about your lost, Derek. If I prayed, I would say an extra one for your dad. Perhaps somebody else here will be kind enough to do that for me, for your dad.

~Bruno~

I apologize for my apparent lack of participation in this thread lately.  I did manage to get an additional 10 emailings out to charities from our other thread. Which btw, needs to be more obvious in this thread so we can discuss those there. Or is it all on the website now?  I have not had the time to go check it out. Either way, total emails sent out at this point is 16. I have received 0 responses thus far.

I will be a bit more unavailable for the near foreseeable future as my father has passed away. He left our reality this morning at 7:24 AM EST. He was only 51 years old and leaves behind 5 sons and 1 beautiful daughter and a loving wife as well as 7 brothers and sisters, his mother and father, many nieces and nephews and 4 grandchildren. He was a very open minded person, a wonderful father, provider and friend to many, many less fortunate people whose lives he touched very deeply. His presence here will be missed dearly!! I have been about 5 hours away from my home and office to be with my family during this time. I just returned home last evening and will be leaving again in the next day or so to help settle his affairs.  In the meantime my business affairs will be delayed....


-Derek

Allow me to throw this idea at you, to be kicked around. Perhaps, instead of, or in conjunction with, approaching the so called big names in non-profits, we approach most recent causes currently in the news to bring immediate awareness to Bitcoin.

The following are only examples of what I'm trying to relay, therefore may not be strong candidates. I simply searched Google news to help drive the point home.

http://www.thestate.com/2012/02/13/2151193/navy-veteran-is-glad-for-help.html  --> http://www.doingthemostgood.org/programs/thewoodyardfund.aspx (this one is a bad example, but I'll leave it here just the same for inspiration)

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/belle_fourche/cold-day-warm-hearts-in-the-northern-hills-for-missing/article_dfcb67e4-552f-11e1-bd1f-0019bb2963f4.html

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20120213/NEWS06/302130061/MSU-s-Zeke-II-Wonder-Dog-dies?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7C%7Cp

http://www.examiner.com/animal-welfare-in-palm-springs/homeless-woman-and-her-dog-hit-by-car-dog-survives-but-needs-medical-care What I like about this one, or possibly some other similar story, is that the dog is not only healed, but adopted by a bitcoiner and renamed Bitcoin, thus allowing all those who followed the story from the beginning (mostly non-bitcoiners) a means to see how Bitcoin has been doing since his accident.