[Bitcoin 100]

Little People of America (@LPANational)

This open letter is in response to our tweet to you dated Nov. 21, 2012:

@LPANational @Bitcoin100 would like to donate over $1,000 USD to your venerable cause. Please contact us to find out how to accept. #Bitcoin

Of which you so kindly replied:

@Bitcoin100 wow. that is fantastic. Thank you for thinking of LPA and our work.

After reading the below, please review http://bitcoin.org/ to learn more about Bitcoin, or simply have one of your representatives join this forum, whereupon we will gladly address all your questions and concerns. Also, feel free to contact me, Bruno, via email at bitcoin100@yahoo.com.

Bitcoin 100 will gladly donate 100 bitcoins (100 BTC), approximately $1,200 USD (current exchange rate), to your venerable organization. There is only one tiny string attached prior to us contributing said donation. The caveat I speak of has already been accepted by a couple other non-profits of which I'll provide proof momentarily.

All we would ask in return is for you to embed on your website a Bitcoin donation option on this page of yours: http://www.lpaonline.org/donate

Ideally, it would look something like the following:

Donate to LPA

Little People of America, Inc., is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that depends entirely on membership dues and contributions to serve people with dwarfism and their families.

In addition to our general fund, you may request your donation be used specifically for medical scholarships, college and vocational scholarships, adoption grants, or the Kitchen's First Time Conference Attendees Fund.  Other options are also available.  Please call the office or e-mail to discuss any specific concerns and options.  Click to donate online.   Click here if you are donating in honor of an athlete or athletic event (i.e.  a local 5K, 10K).  Click here to see images of current $50 for 50 More Years Gifts.

By mail or fax:

Little People of America
National Office
250 El Camino Real, Suite 201
Tustin, CA 92780

Fax: 714-368-3367
Phone:  1-888-LPA-2001



If choosing Bitcoin, 100% of your donation will reach us, due to the elimination of processing fees commonly associated with every other payment provider.

Our Bitcoin address: 1LPofATXV8gjuWu24v591YmGFn828k3wZV

Feel free to re-word the above, but the important aspects are the incorporation of the Bitcoin donation button and providing an address (explained in a moment). The only other thing is that you informally agree to keep this option available perpetually. If in the future you do break this gentleman agreement between us and eliminate the Bitcoin donation option, you WILL NOT be asked to return any funds. We have faith that this will not occur, thus continually providing your organization with another source of revenue, sans the pesky fees and credit card chargebacks.

1LPofATXV8gjuWu24v591YmGFn828k3wZV

The Bitcon address above was specifically hashed by a moderator of this forum going by the pseudonym psy. (reference this post) Without going into too much detail about Bitcoin addresses, the one generated above has the FirstBits 1LPofA. Ideally, 1LPA or 1LPoA would have been better choices, but they were not available.

There's no need for you to concern yourselves with any of the technical aspects associated with Bitcoin vanity addresses. I simply added this aspect to give this proposal a personal touch, and you're more than happy to use any address you are comfortable with. Think of it as having the vanity license plate LPA on your Mini Hummer.  

The following two sites (links & screenshots) have previously accepted our proposal.

http://www.groupbstrepinternational.org/donate.html


http://www.kenija2012.net/kako-donirati.php


Although Bitcoin 100 did not have a direct hand in achive.org embedding the Bitcoin donation option onto their website, to date they have received over $6,000 USD in donations via Bitcoin. I'll safely assume they enjoyed not paying the approximately $200 USD in processing fees.

http://archive.org/donate/index.php


Most recently, WordPress, the 22nd largest site on the internet, starting accepting Bitcoin as a payment option.

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/11/15/pay-another-way-bitcoin/


That's it in a nutshell, my friend. Bitcoin 100 hopes that you give this genuine offer your consideration.

Sincerely,

Bruno K.

[Surely, This Can't be Right!!!]

Surely, This Can't be Right!!! Comments below the image.

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From Network for Good's website, I've gleaned the following:

• 100,000+ NONPROFITS COUNT ON US
• DONATIONS DISTRIBUTED: $575 MILLION TO DATE!

Then I did the math.

100,000 X $600 = $60,000,000 that Network for Good (good for them) takes in--Minimum, A YEAR!

They have been online for over 10 years, therefore $575,000,000/10 = $57,000,000 a year on average they have collected and dispersed donations to date.

I would be happy with 10%--or less--with that business model in hand.

Note in the image that the charitable organizations still pay that 3% processing fee.

I think it's time for a little disruptive innovation starting with charitable organizations, hence Bitcoin100. http://www.claytonchristensen.com/disruptive_innovation.html

Some examples of disruptive innovation include:

Disruptor                                     Disruptee

Cellular phones                              Fixed line telephony
Community colleges                       Four-year colleges
Discount retailers                           Full-service department stores
Retail medical clinic                        Traditional doctor’s offices
Bitcoin                                         Fiat

[Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)]

Consider this the official thread for posting your choices as to which nonprofit charitable organizations shall be reached out to in having them embed a Bitcoin donation option onto their respective websites.

I've listed the first ten, offered up by one of the users, to get your creative juices flowing. As suggestions pour in, I'll simply add them to the list. During the course of this action, I may periodically rearrange the list as well as add notes after their names.

• Against Malaria Foundation (AMF)
• Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)
• GiveDirectly
• Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)
• Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

• Nyaya Health
• Pratham
• Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF)
• VillageReach
• Nurse-Family Partnership

• charity: water
• The Girl Effect
• Pencils of Promise
• War Child
• Free Wheelchair Mission

• Make A Wish
• Unicef  Many different programs under one roof
• St. Jude
• Amnesty International
• Norml

• Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders in the US)
• ChildFund
• Water
• LDS Philanthropies
• Canadian Cancer Society

• Autism Speaks
• Operation USA
• The Fistula Foundation
• Nothing But Nets
• The Bill & Melinga Gates Foundation

• Immortality Institute
• Healing Hands for Haiti
• Khan Academy

Keep the suggestions flowing!

[bithobo]

I wish to thank bithobo for creating, with my input, the following image. For his efforts, I'll be donating 5 BTC to the very next Bitcoin100 wallet--starting soon.



Most of you may be wondering what this is all about, and what the hell this image has to do with it.

Quite frankly, I barely have a clue, too. But upon first seeing bithobo's handiwork here, I couldn't rest till he completed what I envisioned, above.

What you're viewing is a mock-up of the obverse side of a two-sided Bitcoin bill. Before I proceed, allow me to state that the vanity address is fake, but possibly important to the talking points of this thread. If this were a real bill, as bithobo sees them being one day, that vanity address would match the large QR code within the image which, by the way, does work and links to the water.org website. On the other bills created, he has the URL on the side directed toward bitcoin.org, whereas I suggested water.org in this example, again, up for discussion on this thread. The QR code above the Bitcoin symbol links to bitcoin.org and, it too, is functional. The water.org logo in the image was acquired from their website. Note the same blue hue from the logo is used in the two number ones, which also incorporates  the color orange, represented in the Biitcoin logo. That same shade of orange is carried over to the texts on the right side of the overall image.

But enough of the design elements. The question remains, what the heck are we going to do with it? Hence this thread. This image in my mind kept pulling at me, and I felt that someway, somehow, this can be utilized by Bitcoin in general and, moreover, Bitcoin100 in particular. Yes, I have some ideas, but I also felt that during any articulation, my thought process would get lost in translation. Therefore, I made the conscience decision to have the community discuss what direction, if any, should be taken in respect to this image which represents a physical Bitcoin bill--if it were real.

Feel free to discuss the design elements, as well as what you would like to see changed and why. Also, ask questions, thus allowing me to pick my brain to conjure up answers.

The one thing I like to bring to your attention is picture, if you will, this type of bill uniquely designed for other nonprofit organizations, let alone the myriad of corporate institutes.

Note the vanity address, albeit being fake.

Here's hoping you enjoyed the image, regardless if you opt to not join the conversation.

~Bruno~