Donations
Donations
Personal
We can contribute using our Paypal and GoogleCheckout accounts.
Donation Thermometer
I saw mention of incuding a thermometer on the FOS (front of site) Here is some example code we could use, unless someone wants to be creative and make it themselves.
http://www.fundraiserinsight.org/thermometer/
SMS Donations
I was listening to the This American Life podcast this morning and Ira was doing his usual beg for donations speel. As usual I fell bad because I haven't donated and its been years of hearing this pitch. Then Ira says you can text them 5 bucks by texting Life to some number. So I gave them 5 bucks.
I looked into the organization and its pretty cool. Theyre a non profit I guess? And if you're a 5013c theyll give you a keyword to text to them and you can specify the amount. Sadly well have to wait for 5013c but this seems like an amazing way to grab impulse/guilt donations.
Corporate
Please compile a list of corporations and entities we would like to approach, and things we would ask for. From some initial research local seems to be big. Local companies, and even local arms of global companies are interested in showing they are part of their community so it will be important to target these. From the same research, it seems like it will be extremely difficult to get anything until our 501c3 has cleared.
- I think computer software would be an easy one to get as they really aren't giving up anything. Things like Altium circuit designer for PCB design, Adobe products and such.
- We have a lot of high tech companies who may have old stock to give up. Also there's been a lot of good posts online about dumpster diving these high tech companies for the stuff they're throwing out. Anyone have ideas on this?
- Sort of a donation, dumpster diving is a possibility :) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/i8y-IKqL-CQ/dumpsterologist-radi.html