From: Joshua Ramjit

Hello,

My name is Joshua Ramjit and I am the CFO of The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative in DC. I am writing concerning the offer of a $1,000 Bitcoin donation. Per your instructions, the information you request is below:

Tax ID: 61-1574947

The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative (HMFI) aims to empower individuals by promoting financial independence and stimulating economic growth in and around D.C. We achieve these goals by providing small business loans, personalized business consulting, and credit-builder loans to low-income entrepreneurs who are unable to access capital in the formal financial system.

The Hilltop Microfinance Initiative (HMFI) is managed and staffed by Georgetown University students – with the occasional assistance of alumni, professors, and other D.C.-area community development leaders. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit organization registered in Washington D.C. that is financed entirely by the generosity of individuals and foundations committed to our ideals of financial empowerment and entrepreneurship. Though we are connected to Georgetown University through our staff and through our commitment to service, we maintain no formal connection to the University. As a result, HMFI is completely independent and autonomous in its activities.

I want to let you know that we have just added a Bitcoin donation function to our website at hilltopmfi.org. It is at the bottom of the home page.

From: Francesco

Ciao Rassah,
sono molto contento che tu abbia un buon ricordo dell'Italia
I'm running the Meetup in Rome and working hard to help the spread of Bitcoin in Italy. During last times there is a lot of interest in Italy and usually people use BitStamp as they have an account with Unicredit Bank, that is an italian bank group. There have been some news on national and regional tv in a positive way regarding the new shops that started to accept Bitcoin. Here is a tv news about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF79IAZw5cg
Today we have around 180 shops on CoinMap, go on with the revolution!

I'm talking with the association of blind people, http://www.uiciechi.it/ that have the mission to help their integration in society.
I had telephone conversation with this ONLUS and they are interested to know more on the possibility to start accepting bitcoin donation, after that i visit the association i will able to give you an update!
I have also contacted the association for deaf-mute people and for the research on cancer http://www.airc.it/. I'm waiting for an answer from them.

Ciao e buona giornata!
Francesco

From: Scott W

Hi Rassah,

I'm a board member for the Tempe Bicycle Action Group.  We're a 501c3
profit in the service of the Tempe, AZ (home to Arizona State
University) cycling community.  Using raised funds, we organize teams
to hand out free bike lights to people riding at night without them.
We do adult bike safety classes, organize fun rides and events to
foster community, install bike racks for businesses that request them,
bring art to the community, and work with the City of Tempe
transportation staff to staff the annual Tempe Bike Count with
volunteers and volunteer coordination.  Our efforts are almost
entirely volunteer efforts, but we partner with local businesses and
national companies to put on volunteer appreciation parties.

We would be honored to be considered for a grant of $1000 worth of
BitCoin.  Our site currently accepts PayPal, but I don't think anyone
actually likes PayPal (there are too many stories of frozen accounts
and destroyed antique violins).  We also currently take donations (and
sell t-shirts) by Square at larger events we participate in.  I'd be
delighted to use this potential donation as an opportunity to set up
BitPay or similar on our WordPress blog at http://biketempe.org.  We
have a NetBook (once the trendy thing before tablets) we use for mail
list signup at events that we could use to accept BitCoin.  I need to
read more to learn about the appropriate way to do that.

Please let me know how we would need to proceed to apply for this grant.

Thank you and your volunteers for the work that you do!

Best regards,
-scott

From: Andrew S

Good day.

I am reaching out to you on behalf of my organization, Nonprofit Technology Resources (NTR). We accept donated computer from individuals and corporations, and refurbish them with the help of welfare-to-work program participants and interns from the city’s technical training institutes. These people gain a range of both ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ employment skills. With the support of individual and institutional donors, many of these refurbished computers are given away, with a training workshop, to low-income Philadelphians and the organizations that serve them. Many others are sold at a discount to other nonprofit organizations to be distributed to their clients, also with a training workshop. The rest are sold in our Computer Thrift Store, which is open to the public.

I am inquiring about the Bitcoin 100 donation. NTR is a non-political, avowedly secular organization that focuses on providing technology and training for all low-income Philadelphians. NTR is a registered 501(c)(3) organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.  Would you please advise on eligibility and how to enroll?

Thank you very much for your assistance. 

P.S. One of our board members found the Bitcoin 100 promotion last week, and asked that I pursue the opportunity. I set us up to accept Bitcoin on February 5, 2014- not even a full 48 hours ago. And it was done explicitly in response to the Bitcoin 100 campaign.

Andrew Smith
Development Manager
Nonprofit Technology Resources

And yet another request:

Seriously, they both look fine, Rassah.

I don't think that assertive is the same as dominant. Dominant people are more agressive.
They probably have a higher testosterone level, which means they are more masculine.

This what happens when you learn history from the discovery channel. 

Seeking a cent amount to represent a Shremie, named after Charlie Shrem.

AFAIK they have not shipped yet.

I just downloaded Mycelium from Google Play.

For other market, I'd recommend wandoujia.com, which is very popular.

Besides Baidu, there are a lot of other popular markets, like wandoujia.com, xiaomi market, etc

BTW, we still can download apps from google play.

@Rassah, history repeats itself and soon there may be new civil war if no action taken to resolve tech joblessness problem! This time it can be 1000x times bloodier than it had been during Russian revolution and civil war.

Also you won't have any chances to start with janitorial job in the countries where capitalist and tech elites will save the power because they simply won't need human to do these entry-level jobs!

Some say around 100 million ? Who - thecommentator.com ? They are hardly a reputable source are they ?

I have just realised that quoting/referencing third party's on internet forums as a source of authority is a completely useless practice.

What we should do really is quote our own credentials and our self interest in that over which we are passing opinion. But of course - thats not going to happen is it ?

From: Frankie

Dear Laura,

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 recently donated $1,000 each to my friend Jessie's IBME and my friend Amy's Primate Education Network. I think he will really appreciate the work you're doing with Heart of Oregon Corps.

@Dmitry, I met Laura at a dinner party this weekend. She's the executive director of a great organization: Heart of Oregon Corps helps young people find a way out of poverty through jobs and education. They could make a big difference with a $1,000 donation.

Good luck!

From: KR

Greetings Rassah,

    I am writing because I am inspired by the work you do with Bitcoin100.org, and also because I am a volunteer with a NPO that is doing some very important research that directly impacts health and environmental issues on a global scale.  Carnicom Institute is currently trying to raise funds for several projects, the most urgent being the acquisition of PCR equipment to assist in the DNA analysis of the elemental biological entity suspected to result in the phenomenon of "Morgellons Disease", which has yet to be positively identified by medical science.  I joined the team a few months ago, and was already a bitcoin enthusiast before that.  One of the first offerings I made to the institute was to assist them in being able to accept bitcoin donations on their website.  They are a registered 501(c)(3), and there is a donation widget on the organization's front page:

http://carnicominstitute.org/

In the event that Bitcoin100 is still offering support, we would like to be considered for the assistance that your organization provides to bitcoin-accepting NPO's.  If there is anything I can do to answer any questions or to better meet the donation criteria, then please feel free to reply to this message.

I appreciate what you do, keep up the great work,

Kaylee Tejeda

From: tani olhanoski

Hi Dmitry!

I hope this email reaches you, I know Bitcoin 100 is currently undergoing restructuring.

I've been a foster home for rescued dogs with the NYC Shiba Rescue (http://nycshibarescue.org), and just a few months ago also took over the position of Head of Fundraising. The first thing I wanted them to do was accept Bitcoin (I've been a Bitcoin advocate for years), as I knew it would help us reach a more global audience, and would make donations much easier to accept, without having to pay enormous Paypal fees.

Well, the time has finally come, and we now have a Bitpay account, front and center on our donation page! We're very excited to start accepting donations, and so I thought I'd reach out to your organization in the hopes we can gain some publicity on your website.

This past year we took in many dogs with serious medical conditions, who are thankfully now on their way to a full recovery, and many have already placed in new homes. Unfortunately this has left us with about $11,000 in veterinary bills from 2013 alone. We are thrilled that we were able to save these dogs' lives and find warm, loving homes for them, but it left us in dire need of donations and support.

If there is any way you could assist us in getting started with our Bitcoin donation campaign, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Tani Olhanoski
Head of Fundraising
NYC Shiba Rescue
a 501(c) Organization

For charities:

• As you said, transparent transactions add a whole new level of accountability to charities. For example, Bitcoin100 uses a single address for all its accounting (https://blockchain.info/address/1BTC1oo1J3MEt5SFj74ZBcF2Mk97Aah4ac), so everyone can always see how much we have, and all the money coming in and going out. The only time anything should be going out is when it's going to a charity, so any questionable transfers would get us instantly busted.
• Charities get to keep more of the money they were given (BitPay, Coinbase, and BIPS charge 0% processing fees for nonprofits)
  Adding bitcoin instantly opens a charity to accepting donations from around the world, which is especially great if you are a charity in, for instance, Cebu, Philippines, where the local pool of donors may be small, but global support for what you do may be enormous.
• Thieves sometimes use leftover funds from stolen credit cards and PayPal accounts to donate to charities. When the theft is discovered, the charities get hit with chagebacks, which involves a fee ranging from $20 to $100, and having their likely-already-spent money pulled right back out of their bank accounts (which may result in overdraft fees as well). Bitcoin doesn't have chargebacks and isn't susceptible to that kind of theft or fraud.
• Globally dispersed charities, such as one that would have its central office in USA and it's operations in Africa, can send money internationally much easier, quicker, and cheaper if that money is kept as bitcoin. For instance, it's possible for a funds manager in any part of the world to send bitcoins to a field worker in any other part of the world, and have them use that money to order supplies from Amazon, or a slew of other products and services, within a few minutes (I have literally received funds while waiting in a checkout line, and had a gift card purchased and ready to go before my last item was scanned). Likewise it's easier to pay salaries with bitcoin to employees stationed around the world, since the currency conversion, if needed, is done by each individual employee at the source, and the money gets deposited to everyone within minutes.

For the poor

• Bitcoin allows anyone to open an online "bank" account. Your level of income, credit score, area of residence, age, race, religion, or anything else doesn't matter. Just install and app on your phone or set up a wallet account on a computer (even a public one), and you instantly have access to the online economy. (I have read a few Post-2008 articles about towns in US being abandoned by banks due to the low income of the population making maintaining the branch unprofitable, thus cutting the people of the place out from the international banking system.)
• Remittance payments are typically done through MTO's (Money Transfer Operators, like Western Union), which typically charge fees raging from 6% to 11%, and typically much higher if the destination is more remote. Essentially, the poorer you are, and the more desperate your family back home is, the more you get screwed. Bitcoin allows people to send international payments to places all over the world for anywhere from %0 to 3%, including exchanging into and out of the currency (0% because in many areas people will actually pay you a fee to get your bitcoins, since it lets them buy things from abroad).
• Many of the poorest countries are actually blocked from receiving money from abroad. For instance, despite PayPal's impressive list of supported countries, in many of those countries the citizens are restricted to only sending money between themselves. Credit cards, likewise, block sending payments to many countries due to fraud issues. Bitcoin can still be sent there, so a poor software developer can still be hired from abroad, and a poor merchant can still sell his wares to everyone around the world.
• That last one is the most important; "The other 6 billion" as BitcoinTalk's Andreas Antonopoulos calls them. Bitcoin requires very low level of technology to work. For instance, companies like Coinapult let you to use bitcoin with just a simple dumbpone and SMS service, which are very prevalent throughout the 3rd world. Imagine a farmer or a merchant with access only to villages within walking distance, suddenly being able to take his business to the online global market, with just the help of a basic cell phone.

With a possibility to switch it on/off of course :-).

I like this org, but can't seem to find their donation page. They are fairly new and use a wiki as their website, but they are linked to 501(c)3 org. I'm curious as to where they would prominently display the Bitcoin donation option on their website. They do have a descent Facebook page.