[NXT] $6k Raised for Songs of Love

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

** Update **

$6k for the kids!!

"** Songs of Love **

Alright, I just head back from John at Songs of Love. Be proud everyone, we raised over (drum roll) $6k for the kids!!

"... The Nxt community is the most compassionate group
that we have so far come across in the cryptocurrency world. We are eternally grateful to you John for spearheading this most amazing campaign. We will be delighted to bring Nxt in at the 5,000 sponsorship level and we will be giving you the full back page of our event program as well as top billing on our event web site at www.songsoflove.org/LA. Please provide us with the logo you would like to see displayed on our site and event program. I addition, I was so moved by your effort that I still want to come up with the Nxt theme song. I would like to work with you on the various elements you'd like included in the lyrics of the song. You can reach out to me for a discussion about this.


I will be back from LA on March 14 and can get on with creating the Nxt theme song at that time." - John Beltzer, Songs of Love"


I've asked Damelon to send a few test coins to their officially address just to verify everything is working correctly. We'll move the rest and notify the community once this is complete.



Goal

Raise $10k worth of Nxt (170,000) for Songs of Love, a national non-profit 501(a)(3) organization

Goal: 170,000 Nxt
Paid: ~40k  Nxt (PLUS: anonymous donor is will to match funds 1-to-1 up to 100k NXT!!!)

Total: ~ 80k Nxt

http://www.songsoflove.org/nxt/


Deadline: Feb 27, 14


Charity Background

The Songs of Love Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing personalized songs for children and teens currently facing tough medical, physical or emotional challenges, free of charge. Songs of Love is one of the first charities to accept Bitcoin and other crypto currencies without asking to be paid in fiat!

http://www.songsoflove.org/


Here's their segment on 60 Minutes:

http://www.songsoflove.org/60minutes/


Why Charity

I work as a full time network engineer/trainer for a leading managed service provider. Aside from my technical role, I also help lead charity initiatives within the organization. I do my best to volunteer time and financial resources to local charities in our area ranging from the Food Harvest to various homeless shelters.


NXT Challenges

Writer's need and want a story! Let's give them one! We've noticed that the technical story doesn't appeal to a lot of writers and they are asking for something that appeals to their readers. This ís appealing and we can piggyback Nxt on this story. We can feed them technical stuff to include in their articles to use as they see fit.


The Win/Win

I'm all about the win/win when it comes to crypto.  By supporting this initiative, we're not only helping sick children that could truly use our support but also showing that this community understands the value of giving back. Now that's something to write about!


The *** BIG *** Bonus

If we're able to raise at least $10k, we'll be the official sponsor for the Inaugural Songs of Love LA Benefit located here:

https://www.songsoflove.org/LA/

Mainstream media will be covering the event, we'll have the opportunity to get our name out there. Anytime we reach out to the media, we'll be able to lead with that information. We're not just one of the endless coins yapping away on message boards, we're NXT.. the eco-system that's made for business.


Who Will Hold the Money?

The money will be held by Damelon, a trusted member of the NXT community that produces the NXT Summaries


Action Item

1. Send your NXT payment to the following address which is controlled by Damelon:

4636321498642303120

I will ask Damelon to confirm this is his address in the thread


2. Make a post and let us know what you contributed


3. Let others in the community know about the initiative


Deadlines

In order to become the headlining sponsor, we need to turn the money in by Feb 27th at the absolute latest.  If we do not reach that goal by the Feb 27th deadline, we'll send Songs of Love the amount raised and still create a press release around that number.  The address of Songs of Love will be posted and we will have the director, John Beltzer, verify it was received.


NXT Press

Once we break $2,000, I will coordinate with the different PR teams to start creating press releases and get them out to our contacts. If you're not familiar with our results, take a look at NiftyNikel's Miami Bitcoin Conference Reports:

http://www.nxtcoins.nl/miami-bitcoin-conference-updates-summary/

Once we get that information out, we'll then create a PR campaign around our Trekcon involvement. CoinTropolis will be donating 5 coins to the first 2000 people that attend the event. This charity push will start a stream a news that the community has been demanding. Check out the list of stars:

http://www.trekconspringfield.com/


Summary

If $30k can be raised for a bobsled team, surely this community can come together and help raise $10k for sick children.  CoinTropolis will start off the party by donating 10,000 NXT to this venture.  If you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them in this thread as quickly as possible.


John Manglaviti
CoinTroplis --- Supporting NXT

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[Damelon]

Confirming that account 4636321498642303120 is the account to donate to and that I am responsible for these funds.

Let's make this a good one! I am also sending 1000 Nxt to this account to start.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

il donate towards the end if your struggling to reach the 11k.. not being tight, i just really dont have that much to play with... :/ if nem is released before the 27th and works out well il donate more! i love the idea too guys good work!

I really appreciate the response, thank you so much!

John

[utopianfuture]

I donate 1K. Thanks for the initiative.

Sent. transaction id 3041746654500171882.

[gs02xzz]

Confirming that account 4636321498642303120 is the account to donate to and that I am responsible for these funds.

Let's make this a good one! I am also sending 1000 Nxt to this account to start.

+1. I will definitely donate for it.

Edit: sent 583 NXT from Dgex.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

If you guys have any question, just let me know. I have a fairly public profile from interviews I've done before with Peercoin and Feathercoin... even so, I didn't want to hold the coins since I was leading the initiative. If you rather ask questions through either Skype or through a phone call, just drop me a PM.  I'm excited about the initiative, Nikel and I are also getting the swarm information together tonight.

[xyzzyx]

Sent 1000 NXT.

Transaction ID 8438668053695172564

[bitfromit]

Posted on other forum : https://nextcoin.org/index.php/topic,4037.0.html

[Damelon]

Wow, that went quickly!

24,452 Nst already donated!

just another 10,000 Nxt and Nifty and Justabit can push this with the media

I also like that there is a mix of big and small donations. Doesn't matter if it's 10 or 10,000 Nxt, it's a community effort

[lucky88888]

Hi, I'm going to donate 1,000 nxt, just need to wait until DGex release the funds.
I will edit this post with transaction id when i'm done.

EDIT:Transaction ID 11658980660879941520

[Mario123]

Made a charity page as a hub for all (future) charities. I really hope we get a lot more on this list.

www.nxtforcharity.org

[Damelon]

Made a charity page as a hub for all (future) charities. I really hope we get a lot more on this list.

www.nxtforcharity.org

Great!

How does/will this work?
Will people be able to register a charity they want/need funds for on this page?
Or will this be a place for showing them all together, maintained by the site owner?

Edit: didn't scroll down 
Disregard.

Hi, I'm going to donate 1,000 nxt, just need to wait until DGex release the funds.
I will edit this post with transaction id when i'm done.

Nice!

[Mario123]

Made a charity page as a hub for all (future) charities. I really hope we get a lot more on this list.

www.nxtforcharity.org

Great!

How does/will this work?
Will people be able to register a charity they want/need funds for on this page?
Or will this be a place for showing them all together, maintained by the site owner?

This for now.

[gmoneycoin]

Donated 1000 NXT.
Transaction ID 7503632926372118556

[VanBreuk]

2,000 NXT from me. I lost two sons last year, this is on their behalf, 1K from each.

TxID: 150896872450537893

[jl777]

I authorized 5000 NXT from NXTcommunityfund. You will need to send this post to rickyjames to collect on it

James

[Damelon]

I authorized 5000 NXT from NXTcommunityfund. You will need to send this post to rickyjames to collect on it

James

2,000 NXT from me. I lost two sons last year, this is on their behalf, 1K from each.

TxID: 150896872450537893

Donated 1000 NXT.
Transaction ID 7503632926372118556

You are all great!

Nearly at the first goalpost in one day!

[sepehr]

Dear Guys,

I'm a Nxter and also a member of board of one of branches of Raad-Charity.
This Charity is giving disability people in Iran free education to learn their own jobs and also to learn a real job to learn and act.

Website for the charity is this:

http://raad-charity.org/

Also see here for more introduction:

http://raad-charity.org/en_US/about-us/more-info

It's our pleasure to receive charity from Nxt community.

Raad is ready to recieve charity in bitcoin and Nxt.
I have opened a Nxt account for them now:

17693807308875168506

I have sent the first payment to them myself from the last cashe I have received in peerexplorer.

I hope that community accepts to donate to this charity.

If you require for sure I can ask to include the NXT Number in the website.

But the most important is disabilty boys and girls that are under Raad-charity institue:

Please visit the gallery here:

http://raad-charity.org/index.php?mact=Album,meda2f,default,1&meda2falbumid=63&meda2freturnid=157&page=157&hl=en_US

I have included one picture here:

[bitcoinpaul]

Sepher, please secure your NXT account with one outgoing transaction.

How can the community know that you will give the NXT to this charity? Posting the NXT account# on the homepage would be a first step.

[Damelon]

We just reached 32452 Nxt!

http://www.mynxt.info/blockexplorer/details.php?action=ac&ac=4636321498642303120

That's $1842,75!

Nearly there, and a great result within 24 hours!

Just 2548 Nxt to go for the first goalpost!

Small donations extremely welcome. The more people donating, the better.

[bitcoinpaul]

CoinTropolis_Justa, what do you think of the raad charity thing?

[sepehr]

Sepher, please secure your NXT account with one outgoing transaction.

How can the community know that you will give the NXT to this charity? Posting the NXT account# on the homepage would be a first step.

Thanks bitcoinpal for your reply. I didn't understand what you mean by securing raad account with one outgoing transaction! please guide more.
Also I will ask them to update the website with NXT account# ASAP.

They are really needy people, and It will be my pleasure to attract your attention to them.

I'm just a member of larg community of raad. They have several branches in Iran. And they help disable youth to believe to themselves.

[bitcoinpaul]

Send 1 NXT from your account to your account. That way, your account gets a public key -> account secured.

Sorry for misspelling your name. But we are even now

Thanks bitcoinpal for your reply.

[sepehr]

Send 1 NXT from your account to your account. That way, your account gets a public key -> account secured.

Sorry for misspelling your name. But we are even now

Thanks bitcoinpal for your reply.

OK, bitcoinpaul!

I will arrange to send 1 NXT to it's own account maybe tomorrow, but now I have not the passphrase on this computer.

By the way can you guide what is securing account mean in NXT? I have not read about it yet and not secured my own account also!

Also sorry for misspelling your name my friend

[converge80]

Great initiative! 521 NXT donated.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

CoinTropolis_Justa, what do you think of the raad charity thing?

Hey Bitcoinpaul, I haven't had a chance to look at it yet (but I will).  I'm working in the background with Nikel on getting the template press release posted... I want the community to see exactly what we are going to do when we hit goalposts.

I'm all about charity, I'd just request the raad charity please create another thread. With the deadline quickly approaching, I'm doing my best to keep this thread focused on the end result.

I'm about to email Coindesk and CC Songs of Love.

[Mario123]

Should I add or change something on nxtforcharity.org before you mail them?

[Damelon]

http://www.mynxt.info/blockexplorer/details.php?action=ac&ac=4636321498642303120

1434 Nxt to go

[okaynow]

good work. will edit later with tx id.

edit:
http://87.230.14.1/nxt/nxt.cgi?action=2000&tra=2109507922549410103

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Should I add or change something on nxtforcharity.org before you mail them?

Looks solid, just sending out a few feelers and contacting local tv stations. CoinTropolis_Danny is hitting the twitter circuit, Matt sent out swarm information earlier and I'll coordinate an update from John (Songs of Love) and get our logo and all that good stuff on their website. Not bad everyone for less than 24 hours! Thanks to everyone that's supporting this initiative.

Next time someone says "What can you ever buy with Nxt", we have answer on how it's immediately useful to people in need.

[CoinTropolis_NiftyNikel]

We just reached 32452 Nxt!

http://www.mynxt.info/blockexplorer/details.php?action=ac&ac=4636321498642303120

That's $1842,75!

Nearly there, and a great result within 24 hours!

Just 2548 Nxt to go for the first goalpost!

Small donations extremely welcome. The more people donating, the better.

I appreciate all of the donations so far! Keep up the great work guys!!

[CoinTropolis_J]

This is amazing progress!  Thank you all for your donations!

[salsacz]

is there a banner / poster / flyer?

[Mario123]

Donated the 500 NXT bounty I got from marketing fund for the website www.nxtforcharity.org

http://www.mynxt.info/blockexplorer/details.php?action=tx&tx=11202166566206417984

->

35,213.00

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Local tv station wants to interview me about Nxt and the Songs of Love drive this week, information to follow in a few.

" I'm a producer for the midday newscast on KSPR. I was wondering if you (or someone else) would like to come on the midday for a live interview this week to talk about the Songs of Love fundraiser. The interview part of the newscast starts around 11:20 am, but we like for our guests to arrive around 10:45 am."

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

is there a banner / poster / flyer?

Hey Salsacz,

We're focusing on getting that done today. I know Nifty is working on working on a progress bar here:

http://www.cointropolis.com/#!philanthropy/c1l63

I've been sending out feelers to media last night and will be working to get a Nxt page up at Songs of Love later this afternoon.


Hey Everyone,

Fantastic job on the donations so far, really appreciate everyone chipping in! I'm working through PMs this afternoon and will make sure I get to everyone.

[bitcoinpaul]

There should be NXT on their homepage.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

There should be NXT on their homepage.

Working on it.

[oldnbold]

Excellent idea - It deserves to do well. 500 NXT sent. TX Id. 10430536317710957663

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Update:

Please keep in mind, we soft launched over the weekend to get things moving forward. I've sent Songs of Love the marketing material to get a landing page ready for Nxt and also asked their founder to make a post in the main Nxt thread.

[Mario123]

Updated www.nxtforcharity.org with progress bar (i have to manually edit it, though)

[Damelon]

This is coming along very well

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

HUGE NEWS - MATCHING DONATIONS - 100k Nxt

I PM'ed a community member (well known user in Nxt community) that wishes to remain anonymous for clarification on a few questions. Bottom line, he's willing to donate 100k Nxt as matching 1-to-1 donations.  As soon as I get final details, I'll post here and get it out to our social media.

[Mario123]

 

[Damelon]

HUGE NEWS - MATCHING DONATIONS - 100k Nxt

I PM'ed a community member (well known user in Nxt community) that wishes to remain anonymous for clarification on a few questions. Bottom line, he's willing to donate 100k Nxt as matching 1-to-1 donations.  As soon as I get final details, I'll post here and get it out to our social media.

Was hoping for something like this 
We have a great bunch of whales out there!

[VanBreuk]

Awesome news 

Big thank you to the generous donor, keep us updated.

[Isildur23]

Thank you, generous donor! You are writing the history

[sepehr]

HUGE NEWS - MATCHING DONATIONS - 100k Nxt

I PM'ed a community member (well known user in Nxt community) that wishes to remain anonymous for clarification on a few questions. Bottom line, he's willing to donate 100k Nxt as matching 1-to-1 donations.  As soon as I get final details, I'll post here and get it out to our social media.

Really Huge!  

I have asked raad charity to include NXT account in their website. as a first step:

http://raad-charity.org/

It may takes few days, for sure.

As this charity is in Iran it may attract a lot of attention in Media, Please consider the positive and maybe negative points!

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Here's how the 100k Nxt matching funds will work for Songs of Love:

"Whenever you reach 100K before the deadline, I'll immediately top it up with another 100K
If you reach an amount less than 100K by the deadline, I'll top it up with the same amount.

Cheers!"

I've asked the anonymous donor if I could send the PM to Damelon as well (that way he can back my story).  Just sent, I've asked Damelon to verify this is in fact the case! I'm all about transparency while also protecting the requests of others.

[Damelon]

I can confirm this once again. 

So!

ANY DONATION MADE UP TILL WE REACH 100,000 NXT WILL BE DOUBLED!!

[mgburks77]

sent 154 nxt

[sepehr]

Sent 250 Nxt:

Transaction id: 2008140199828628560

[sepehr]

Also created a new page in wiki to populate the word:

http://wiki.nxtcrypto.org/wiki/Charities

Let me know any feedback.

[rajc]

great idea!
1k sent.

what i love about crypto is, that it is real money, but no so real . $60 is like 10% of my monthly wage, but here I m like: "great idea! 1k sent." lol

[Damelon]

great idea!
1k sent.

what i love about crypto is, that it is real money, but no so real . $60 is like 10% of my monthly wage, but here I m like: "great idea! 1k sent." lol

Thank you all for donating

Every donation gets doubled, so this is effectively $120!

We are now at 39023 Nxt which will be doubled to 78046 Nxt.

At current rates this is ~ $ 4777,-!

Keep donating, people

And remember that even small donations are really, really welcome. if you feel comfortable with giving 10 Nxt, give 10.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

Charity Update 1:

We will receive plenty of complimentary tickets for the event when we hit our $10k mark. Folks, with matching donations, we're already half way there.  I'm on a TV news station tomorrow to talk about Nxt and Songs of Love.

11:20am Thursday Feb 20 (US-Central -6:00 GMT)

http://www.kspr.com/video-photo/live


Charity Update 2:

"We want to make sure everyone knows that each child get their very own “song of love” on a CD that they can play anytime they are feeling down or in the middle of a scary and/or painful hospital procedure.

Thanks! " - John Beltzer, Founder of Songs of Love

[elmust]

I'll sent soon.Rightnow still working on the wallet

[Mario123]

Damn, I missed the interview.

[Damelon]

So! Nxt has been on TV for this charity in the person of Justabit!

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/Community-Closeup-Raising-money-to-inspire-kids/21051620_24582392

 

Damn, I missed the interview.

Go watch now

[hedge]

Send 1000 NXT 

Transaction id: 9744280739133670959

hedge

[bitcoinpaul]

Very good!

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

We are making progress!!  Can we hit 50,000 Nxt by the end of the weekend (which would be doubled to 100k!)? Let's do this...

[sepehr]

So! Nxt has been on TV for this charity in the person of Justabit!

http://www.kspr.com/news/local/Community-Closeup-Raising-money-to-inspire-kids/21051620_24582392

 

Great interview! He might speak more about NXT but that's ok!

[lucky88888]

+1999nxt sent! (donated by 7017504655955743955 to me, i thought these kids needed more than i do. )

Transaction id: 14838262749888270700

This feels good!  

EDIT:

It's taking some time to getting confirmations tonight..
Will send again if it bounces back.

[farl4web]

I've send a small donation.

Transaction ID: 9708476107013719237

[lucky88888]

+1999nxt sent! (donated by 7017504655955743955 to me, i thought these kids needed more than i do. )

Transaction id: 14838262749888270700

This feels good! 

EDIT:

It's taking some time to getting confirmations tonight..
Will send again if it bounces back.

Okay it did bounce back, sent again transaction id: 7502412964956233604
This time success!

[ebereon]

10000 NXT sent.

Transaction id: 2320565906040445437

Best wishes,
eb

[Mario123]

Great, ebereon.

66%!

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

You guys did an AMAZING job! Amazing!!

We've raised over $6k for the charity, here's what John had to say:

"** Songs of Love **

Alright, I just head back from John at Songs of Love. Be proud everyone, we raised over (drum roll) $6k for the kids!!

"... The Nxt community is the most compassionate group
that we have so far come across in the cryptocurrency world. We are eternally grateful to you John for spearheading this most amazing campaign. We will be delighted to bring Nxt in at the 5,000 sponsorship level and we will be giving you the full back page of our event program as well as top billing on our event web site at www.songsoflove.org/LA. Please provide us with the logo you would like to see displayed on our site and event program. I addition, I was so moved by your effort that I still want to come up with the Nxt theme song. I would like to work with you on the various elements you'd like included in the lyrics of the song. You can reach out to me for a discussion about this.


I will be back from LA on March 14 and can get on with creating the Nxt theme song at that time." - John Beltzer, Songs of Love


We updated the details on the front page.

[CoinTropolis_JustaBitTime]

We are now gold sponsors at the LA benefit:

https://www.songsoflove.org/LA/

[bitfromit]

We are now gold sponsors at the LA benefit:

https://www.songsoflove.org/LA/

great progress!