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[EJB]

You'd lose the emotional triggers of connecting with a specific cause. Additionally, there's a lot of affinity fundraising which would not be anywhere as effective.

There are ways to get both. The families can set up private pages w pitches, but donations wouldn’t directly go to them but would be allocated. If you want to make it more fancy, there could be subfunds in specific cities or locations to make the allocation closer to the specific contribution and still tax deductible.

I think you’d lose some $10 donations but get more $1000 ones.

[12HRS]

I will join @aygart and @Iz in matching

[AsherO]

You'd lose the emotional triggers of connecting with a specific cause. Additionally, there's a lot of affinity fundraising and would not be anywhere as successful.

So use an affinity platform with matchers, teams, leaderboards etc.

[EJB]

So use an affinity platform with matchers, teams, leaderboards etc.

Yup

[avromie7]

You'd lose the emotional triggers of connecting with a specific cause. Additionally, there's a lot of affinity fundraising and would not be anywhere as successful.

There's no reason we can't have both.

As far as which funds get more or less, it can be established up front who gets what maybe percentage based.

[Vesko]

Why doesn't someone make a group victims fund that evenly distributes to approved families? That way contributions will be tax deductible per IRS.

There have been funds established like that. (That's besides for the funds that have always been around to support almanos, yesomim, and needy people.) They didn't make as much as these campaigns. People that know the niftar donate more and solicit more than they would for a mass fund. In addition, even strangers give more (collectively for sure- most person would faster give $20 to 6 funds than $100 to one). People connect to individual stories more, both due to tendency to live knowing what money is going for and human emotional makeup. One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic is a fact of human nature that affects us all.


Most of these larger funds are verified causes that are being run through rabbanim. Any donor can get a tax receipt if they want.

The reality is that most people donating $20 or $50 are not itemizing anyways.

[Lurker]

You'd lose the emotional triggers of connecting with a specific cause. Additionally, there's a lot of affinity fundraising and would not be anywhere as successful.

There are ways to do it. Think of a pushka with many slots leading to one bucket. There could even be counters to keep track of which families are bringing in the most money, and maybe split the allocation of funds partially equally and partially by what each family's page brought in.

[Iz]

I will BL"N do this as well. I will use @Iz 's calculations.

I will join @aygart and @Iz in matching

Which means that I am matching their matches too. So if someone donated $10, @aygart and @12HRS add (at least) $20, and I add $30, for a total of $60. We can reach $1000 pretty quickly!

[AsherO]

Which means that I am matching their matches too. So if someone donated $10, @aygart and @12HRS add (at least) $20, and I add $30, for a total of $60. We can reach $1000 pretty quickly!

If each of you are matching $10 then a $10 donation results in $40 total, how do you figure $60?

[Lurker]

Which means that I am matching their matches too. So if someone donated $10, @aygart and @12HRS add (at least) $20, and I add $30, for a total of $60. We can reach $1000 pretty quickly!

Am I understanding that you're matching up to $1000 per cause?

[Iz]

If each of you are matching $10 then a $10 donation results in $40 total, how do you figure $60?

Because there are 3 $10 donations before me, so I add $30.

[Iz]

Am I understanding that you're matching up to $1000 per cause?

הלואי!

[Chapshnell]

Because there are 3 $10 before me, so I add $30.

wow that is very special of you

[EJB]

Because there are 3 $10 before me, so I add $30.

Per cause? Nice!

[Iz]

wow that is very special of you

Nah, I just have $1000 מעות מעשר that is available for this. Just trying to maximize the return on it!

[Lurker]

הלואי!

So then I'm pretty sure you're already at $1000. On mine alone, if I gave a combined $160, which was then tripled to $480, that's halfway there. And so many others have already given.

[Vesko]

Which means that I am matching their matches too. So if someone donated $10, @aygart and @12HRS add (at least) $20, and I add $30, for a total of $60. We can reach $1000 pretty quickly!

If any other matcher is matching matches too, you all hit $1000 instantly.

(Sorry, just had to point that out.)


I think it's really amazing what you're doing. Tizku lmitzvos. May you never have to come onto מתנת בשר ודם, and may you always be from the givers and not the takers.

[Jeremiah]

$36 berg
$36 fendel

[EJB]

Any good communal funds for this? I saw a number for maos chittim but any now.

[Chapshnell]

Over $4,935,055 raised so far. Mi keamcha yisroel!

FIVE MILLION DOLLARS.