Bitcoin 100: Developed Specifically for Non-Profits

[Rassah]

Should we continue contributing for each new charity? And how much?
I'm happy to give more as necessary (thinking $10 worth of bitcoins if $1000 dollars is the current amount per charity)

edit: sent 0.2btc to cover these 2 charities: https://blockchain.info/tx/dc49dcbfde9d6b2d60be8d6942582d1a58fd1e0c965f6b520864480e6f792689

Thank you!
Yes, you can keep contributing, and just contribute $10 at a time, but that's not really needed right now. We have about $40,000 to go through, and with bitcoin value going up faster than we can give it away, shortage of funds won't be an issue for some time I don't think.


Also, can someone please review this?

Bitcoin100 is an organization of over 100 bitcoin users, who have pledged to collectively donate $1000 to any charitable organization that agrees to accept Bitcoin donations. Bitcoin100 seeks to entice non-profits to accept bitcoin donations alongside their other donation methods, and encourages anyone to reach out to their choice of charity, pledging to donate regardless of whether the charity’s decision to accept bitcoins was due to Bitcoin100’s activities or due to persuasions of other third parties. On Sunday, Bitcoin100 treasurer Dmitry (Rassah) reported the organization has over 300 bitcoins in assets, ready to be donated.

[edd]

Also, can someone please review this?

Bitcoin100 is an organization of over 100 bitcoin users, who have pledged to collectively donate $1000 to any charitable organization that agrees to accept Bitcoin donations. Bitcoin100 seeks to entice non-profits to accept bitcoin donations alongside their other donation methods, and encourages anyone [change "anyone" to "everyone"] to reach out to their choice of charity ["charity of choice" scans better IMO], pledging to donate regardless of whether the charity’s decision to accept bitcoins was due to Bitcoin100’s activities or due to persuasions of other third parties. On Sunday [June 2nd, 2013], Bitcoin100 treasurer Dmitry (Rassah) reported the organization has over 300 bitcoins in assets, ready to be donated.

Looks good to me. My only suggested edits are in red above but I think it's adequate even without them.

[DBordello]

Generations of Hope has used BitPay to start accepting Bitcoins: http://www.generationsofhope.org/donate/

Let me know if I can provide any more information.  I am sure they would be excited to see some actual Bitcoin donations.

Dan

How did they come to accept it?

I think all of the press about Bitcoin during the rally pushed them over the edge.  The Director heard several pieces on Bitcoin on NPR. 

They used BitPay for the implementation, and put a big logo on the Donate page.  As with most nonprofits, you can get to the donate page from almost anywhere on the site.

Now, hopefully it pays off for them

Dan

$1,000 sent (BTC8.28BTC at the time): https://blockchain.info/tx/1eafe9977ac0954d091475bcead70bd2321672a15d70f4728cc4016f128fa66f

Fantastic!  I know that they appreciate it:

https://www.facebook.com/GenerationsHope

[Rassah]

From: Drew Phillips of BitcoinNotBombs

Rassah,

Thank you for your support of Fr33Aid, The blog post and Press
announcement have been pushed out by Fr33Aid.com and all of us
involved are promoting the news on our various social networks.

I noticed on the forum post that you are willing to extend your offer
to all 3 organizations that BitcoinNotBombs was promoting at the
bitcoin conference. I have been talking with Angela Keaton from
AntiWar.com about how they might add to this effort and give you the
promotional push that your looking for. AntiWar.com has a large
community of readers that we would like to help you reach. I have
included her on this email and we would like to discus how we might
best work together on this.

Thoughts on funding the second and third organizations? Do they qualify? Do you want them to do anything extra to earn the money?

[dancupid]

From: Drew Phillips of BitcoinNotBombs

Rassah,

Thank you for your support of Fr33Aid, The blog post and Press
announcement have been pushed out by Fr33Aid.com and all of us
involved are promoting the news on our various social networks.

I noticed on the forum post that you are willing to extend your offer
to all 3 organizations that BitcoinNotBombs was promoting at the
bitcoin conference. I have been talking with Angela Keaton from
AntiWar.com about how they might add to this effort and give you the
promotional push that your looking for. AntiWar.com has a large
community of readers that we would like to help you reach. I have
included her on this email and we would like to discus how we might
best work together on this.

Thoughts on funding the second and third organizations? Do they qualify? Do you want them to do anything extra to earn the money?

I personally would be happy to support these organizations - i don't think they should have to do anything.
People like this should be unconditionally supported

[edd]

Antiwar.com might qualify but I don't think The Free State Project does. They might be a worthwhile project but, according to their own site:

The Free State Project's purpose is simply to get 20,000 liberty supporting individuals into a single state of the U.S. The Free State Project has no other purpose.

[Rassah]

FYI:

On Jun 5, 2013 3:22 PM, "Stephanie Murphy" <stephanie@fr33aid.com> wrote:

Hi Rassah,
I wanted to thank you again for Bitcoin100's support of Fr33 Aid and share with you some of the things we did to promote it.
The news release is out, many thanks to Teresa for writing it: http://www.fr33aid.com/1236/bitcoin100-supports-fr33-aid/
I also promoted Bitcoin100 on the most recent show of Let's Talk Bitcoin here: http://tmblr.co/ZhSBUsmanWF3
And today or tomorrow I will be releasing the interview that you and I did at the conference on podcast with some more info about Bitcoin100 - I will send you the link when it's available.

Thanks again for your huge support and help!

Stephanie

...


Hey Rassah,
One more email
I forgot to mention that I encouraged the Hundred Nights Shelter (homeless shelter open on the 100 coldest nights of the year in Keene, NH) http://www.hundrednights.org/ to get in touch with you. They wanted to use bitcoin but were having trouble getting started.
Thanks,
Stephanie

[Rassah]

Antiwar.com might qualify but I don't think The Free State Project does. They might be a worthwhile project but, according to their own site:

The Free State Project's purpose is simply to get 20,000 liberty supporting individuals into a single state of the U.S. The Free State Project has no other purpose.

Yeah, I concur. It's a nice idea, but it's not a charity per-se.

[Rassah]

More from Stephanie:

On Jun 5, 2013 3:18 PM, "Stephanie Murphy" <stephanie@fr33aid.com> wrote:

Hi Rassah,
I received this inquiry today and just wanted to make sure you received it - John from Songs of Love would like some help accepting bitcoin and would like to be funded. Songs of Love is a charity which writes songs for terminally ill kids. More information: http://www.songsoflove.org/ And his email is - john@songsoflove.org And here he is on TV on 60 Minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cbkVlA1-zA4

John may have emailed you a few weeks ago but I don't know if Bitcoin100 was up and running then.

Thanks!
Stephanie

I have not received anything from John, and let her know.

Follow-up from a different John, including me in an e-mail to the SoF John

On Jun 5, 2013 3:33 PM, "Jonathan Mohan" <jonathan@bitcoinnyc.org> wrote:

Hey John,

Stephanie is a part of Fr33aid a non profit that just received funding from Bitcoin 100, Rassah is one of the individuals who are in control of the Bitcoin 100 fund and would be the person to talk to about Songs of Love and bitcoins.

 ~Jonathan

I also sent a follow-up e-mail to EquineAngelRescue Inc., since I haven't heard from them after e-mailing them while I was at the Bitcoin 2013 con. They are a charity being sponsored by AnthroCon, which sponsors a different animal=related charity every year and runs a fundraiser for them during the convention. Since I'll be going to the convention, I'm really hoping to get them to accept BTC, and will be talking to them in person once I'm there. BTC is a great thing for artists in general, since it's easy to use a BTC address for donations in the description section of art posts on sites like FurAffinity and DeviantArt.

[Este Nuno]

If I could find a way to get this organization to get bitpay on their site, do you think they could be a part of bitcoin 100?

http://www.santisookdogsandcats.org/en/

How simple is it for someone to get bitpay on there? They have paypal there already, so is setting up bitpay similar?

[edd]

If I could find a way to get this organization to get bitpay on their site, do you think they could be a part of bitcoin 100?

http://www.santisookdogsandcats.org/en/

How simple is it for someone to get bitpay on there? They have paypal there already, so is setting up bitpay similar?

IIRC, BitPay will walk them through it and waive fees for charities.

[Este Nuno]

Does bitpay require it to be a US account? Or are international accounts accepted?

[Rassah]

If I could find a way to get this organization to get bitpay on their site, do you think they could be a part of bitcoin 100?

http://www.santisookdogsandcats.org/en/

How simple is it for someone to get bitpay on there? They have paypal there already, so is setting up bitpay similar?

Probably, yeah.

I don't have experience setting up BitPay, so I don't know, but I've been told it's fairly easy to do. I don't know if they have deposit options for Thailand though. You could ask them I guess?

[Seth Otterstad]

Bitpay just does most of the English world, Europe, and South Africa:
https://bitpay.com/bitcoin-direct-deposit

BIPS does 45 countries:
https://bips.me/pricing

[Este Nuno]

Yeah, I guess there are more options than just bitpay.

The whole point of this is to have them accepting bitcoin in general, right?

It could be as simple as them having them put up an address I guess. But I don't know them, and I doubt they will want to take coins and then convert them to baht themselves.

I think it is a worthy cause. And I know that what they are trying to do is quite difficult. Hopefully I can talk to the right person there and help them to understand what bitcoin is and how it can help them get donations.

I think over time they will receive a decent amount of bitcoin if it can be known that they are accepting it. And it should make a huge difference and help them a lot.

[drewdtom]

From: Drew Phillips of BitcoinNotBombs

Rassah,

Thank you for your support of Fr33Aid, The blog post and Press
announcement have been pushed out by Fr33Aid.com and all of us
involved are promoting the news on our various social networks.

I noticed on the forum post that you are willing to extend your offer
to all 3 organizations that BitcoinNotBombs was promoting at the
bitcoin conference. I have been talking with Angela Keaton from
AntiWar.com about how they might add to this effort and give you the
promotional push that your looking for. AntiWar.com has a large
community of readers that we would like to help you reach. I have
included her on this email and we would like to discus how we might
best work together on this.

Thoughts on funding the second and third organizations? Do they qualify? Do you want them to do anything extra to earn the money?

I personally would be happy to support these organizations - i don't think they should have to do anything.
People like this should be unconditionally supported

Thank you all so much for your support of Fr33aid.com! BitcoinNotBombs.com partnered with these 3 great organization at Bitcoin2013 to help push them to people like you who see the value in supporting Bitcoin Nonprofits and charities. No longer can the media say bitcoin is only for drug dealers and "illegal" activity.

Linked is some video I produced from the conference and the full hour long panel talk that the 4 ladies gave Sunday afternoon for any of you who could not attend.

Short and fun video wrap up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsYNVlY73-k

Hour long panel talk: http://vimeo.com/66852081
 
I'm told a video with better sound quality is on it's way from one of the other media producers, will edit when ready.

[Rassah]

So far I got three yes's for AntiWar.com, so unless there are objections, I'll send the donation tomorrow.

Also, another charity has added a Bitcoin donation option with the help of our new friends/partners at Fr33Aid and BitcoinNotBombs: http://www.songsoflove.org/bitcoins/
Please feel free to review this charity. They have been featured on quite a few news shows, and have been around for a while. I also don't expect any objections to them, and will likely send out a donation tomorrow as well.

[edd]

So far I got three yes's for AntiWar.com, so unless there are objections, I'll send the donation tomorrow.

Also, another charity has added a Bitcoin donation option with the help of our new friends/partners at Fr33Aid and BitcoinNotBombs: http://www.songsoflove.org/bitcoins/
Please feel free to review this charity. They have been featured on quite a few news shows, and have been around for a while. I also don't expect any objections to them, and will likely send out a donation tomorrow as well.

Songs of Love seems to fit all the qualifications. I notice that one of the certified child life specialists on the Hospital Staff Advisory Board is from a prominent hospital here in San Antonio. If I ever run into her, I'll be sure to thank her for accepting Bitcoin donations.

[Zyron]

So far I got three yes's for AntiWar.com, so unless there are objections, I'll send the donation tomorrow.

Also, another charity has added a Bitcoin donation option with the help of our new friends/partners at Fr33Aid and BitcoinNotBombs: http://www.songsoflove.org/bitcoins/
Please feel free to review this charity. They have been featured on quite a few news shows, and have been around for a while. I also don't expect any objections to them, and will likely send out a donation tomorrow as well.

I give my Yes for AntiWar.com as well 
"All contributions to Antiwar.com [501(c)3] are 100% tax deductible."

[Este Nuno]

What about having someone trusted like ChaangNoi Goat(if he were willing to do it) put a bitcoin address that he controls on their site so that people can donate, and then he can convert the money to baht and send it to Santisook via bank transfer(which is really quick and easy to do in Thailand). We can ask them to put the bitcoin address right below their paypal link or something.

Reason I bring up this is that I contacted bitpay and they don't service Thailand. And BIPS looks like they take a huge spread on selling bitcoin. And obviously Goat is one of the most trustworthy people on here, so if he wanted to do it for them they could probably get a lot of donations. I also want to see if I can get people from reddit to donate. I have a feeling that people will be willing to donate once they read about what the organization does.

What do you think?