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June 19, 2013, 02:34:19 PM |
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Got this in private PM: The non-profit I was talking about is rockzipfel: http://www.rockzipfel-leipzig.de/ . It's definitely non-religious and non-political. The idea is rather unique: They make it possible for parents to stay close to their small children while working and foster community at the same time. You go there and find everything you need in an office and your kids get looked after by volunteers from all over the world. I have been going there with my little daughter for about half a year now. In fact I am working there now They have been featured in quite a lot of national media and won family friendlyness prizes and EU funding. They are a tax-deductible common-good non-profit in Germany and $1000 would make quite an impact there. Do you think they would be eligible? Feedback please? Very interesting idea. It seems almost like intermediary help for families transitioning from dire straits to a more comfortable situation. I say they qualify.
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June 19, 2013, 08:23:25 PM |
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June 19, 2013, 09:01:03 PM |
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I did a quick review of each of organizations above and thought they all looked like they are doing some good and fit the requirements for Bitcoin 100. However, I wasn't able to find any mention of bitcoin acceptance with Hiphopchessfederation. Maybe if I filled out their form and went to the next page...or spent a few more minutes looking for it? It was great to meet both of you, Rassah and Edd, at the conference. Thanks for the time and work you guys put into this.
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June 20, 2013, 02:25:07 PM |
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Updated the Charities page at bitcoin100.org to reflect those under consideration. I did a quick review of each of organizations above and thought they all looked like they are doing some good and fit the requirements for Bitcoin 100. However, I wasn't able to find any mention of bitcoin acceptance with Hiphopchessfederation. Maybe if I filled out their form and went to the next page...or spent a few more minutes looking for it?
I believe Rassah mentioned some are still working at getting the Bitcon donation option on their sites. It was great to meet both of you, Rassah and Edd, at the conference. Thanks for the time and work you guys put into this.
Great to meet you, too! Hopefully, your sons will be able to make the next conference.
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June 20, 2013, 07:16:52 PM |
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However, I wasn't able to find any mention of bitcoin acceptance with Hiphopchessfederation. Maybe if I filled out their form and went to the next page...or spent a few more minutes looking for it?
He said he ran into some problem getting BitPay to work right, and will have it working tomorrow. It was great to meet both of you, Rassah and Edd, at the conference. Thanks for the time and work you guys put into this.
It was great to meet you too. I keep forgetting to order some more of those delicious caramels!
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June 21, 2013, 01:24:52 AM |
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Thank you for considering http://spices.org.my/ as a potential beneficiary. Just to clarify, SPICES was started by a church, but since April 2010, it has been registered as an independent organization in the Registrar of Societies, Malaysia. See certificate. http://imgur.com/FoxQbvB It is currently run by an independent board. We don't have a Donate Bitcoin button yet but already have a text Bitcoin address on our donations page.
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June 21, 2013, 03:25:20 AM |
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http://www.hiphopchessfederation.org/ updated. They stuck their Bitcoin donation option right at the front. If there are no objections to these, I'll send money out tomorrow evening.
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June 21, 2013, 03:27:42 AM |
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So bizarre. I wish I was a member. hehe
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June 21, 2013, 03:32:33 AM |
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So bizarre. I wish I was a member. hehe http://vimeo.com/60800665Kinds bringin' the smack down! On da chessboard!!! Awesome
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June 21, 2013, 03:55:39 AM Last edit: June 21, 2013, 04:42:07 AM by Phinnaeus Gage |
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Per Rassah's request, I'm in the process of vetting them. #7 is a go, as I've seen they've already embedded and Rassah's ready to send. #6 ~ I'm curious as to who suggested this one to you, Rassah. #5 looks okay, for I think I saw a goat. #4 has been accepting bitcoins since 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110924062608/http://spices.org.my/be-involved/donations/#1, #2 & #3 look swell as well. As stated above, spices.org.my has been accepting Bitcoin donation since 2011. Depending on their reach (read exposure on the internet), a consideration of a 1/3 of what's currently being doled out if they upped ante up on giving the Bitcon logo a more prominent location on their site. Again, only if their exposure warrants it, coupled with what others feel about it. Overall, they are a very fine organization. Another way they could earn possibly the fuller amount is if a new press release about their organization is published with Bitcoin mentioned twice (once may not be enough, and three times would be overkill). The news article would have to be some venerable source, oppose to a Yahoo type release. Use thinking outside the box here. Again, I'm curious as to who suggested harvestlots.org to you. Later, bud.
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June 21, 2013, 05:52:44 AM |
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Excellent placement of the banner!
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June 22, 2013, 02:55:11 AM |
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Again, I'm curious as to who suggested harvestlots.org to you.
Teresa@fr33aid.comJun 14 (7 days ago) to me, awagele Hi Rassah, I'd like to introduce you to August Wagele, copied on this email. He manages a non-profit organization called Harvest Lots that accepts bitcoin. Here is their donation page: http://harvestlots.org/donate/ august wagele Jun 17 (4 days ago)
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Hello Rassah, This is a great project that you have in spreading the word and use of Bitcoin!
We believe Bitcoin is an excellent alternative to the existing monetary/banking system. Which is why our non-profit Harvest Lots has partnered with Bitpay to start receiving Bitcoin donations.
Our mission is to help communities transform their vacant lots into productive community gardens. We have started with our first garden here in Concord, CA. We have over 150 flourishing fruits and vegetables many of which will be donated to local charities to get them in the hands of those who need it most.
We would be most appreciative if Bitcoin100 could donate Bitcoins to us to help us expand this garden and expand our operation to other vacant lots.
We would surely reciprocate the gesture as far as doing our best to promote Bitcoin100 to our network of community garden charities and to those who are involved in this industry!
Please let me know if you have any other questions or the status of our request.
Thank you!
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June 22, 2013, 03:02:28 AM |
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#4 has been accepting bitcoins since 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110924062608/http://spices.org.my/be-involved/donations/As stated above, spices.org.my has been accepting Bitcoin donation since 2011. Depending on their reach (read exposure on the internet), a consideration of a 1/3 of what's currently being doled out if they upped ante up on giving the Bitcon logo a more prominent location on their site. Again, only if their exposure warrants it, coupled with what others feel about it. Overall, they are a very fine organization. Another way they could earn possibly the fuller amount is if a new press release about their organization is published with Bitcoin mentioned twice (once may not be enough, and three times would be overkill). The news article would have to be some venerable source, oppose to a Yahoo type release. Use thinking outside the box here. I guess I'll have to be the asshole to tell them that our charity fundraiser is to convince new charities to start accepting, and to ask them for promoting bitcoin on their front page, or to ask them to put out a press release? I'm not sure that would be good for Bitcoin's reputation though, us extorting a charity that caters to mentally challenged kids (double-whammy). Edd, conidering we've had, ahem, issues, is it possible to put some wording on the bitcoin100.org site that specifies some Bitcoin100 guidelines, like "donates to non-political, secular charities" and "exists specifically to convince new charities to start accepting bitcoin?" Maybe we can consider those as the "established rules" going forward, and let #4 slide this time, too?
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June 22, 2013, 03:51:51 AM |
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June 22, 2013, 04:29:22 AM |
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Had to refill the wallet from "Contributed" to "Ready to Donate" pool twice for these five charities. At this point, the only people who have any contributed amounts outstanding are: AnonEyFi ฿94.00000000 CIYAM Pty. Ltd. ฿3.00000000 Crypto X Change ฿42.00000000 Kluge ฿2.85903267 MemoryDealers ฿47.00000000 coderrr ฿4.00000000 gsan ฿2.00000000 qxzn ฿2.00000000 teukon ฿5.00000000 zhoutong ฿29.00000000
We also are still having small anonymous donations trickle in, which get added to the "ready to donate" fund right away, so thank you, whoever you all are. Balances are currently as follows: ฿255.63098838 Assets ฿201.63098838 BTCWallet ฿2.00000000 Gsan_Wallet ฿47.00000000 MemDeal_Wallet ฿5.00000000 Teukon_Wallet ฿532.45058698 Expense ฿532.44408698 Contributed_to_Charity ฿0.00650000 Transaction_Fee ฿-557.22254269 Income:Available_for_Charity ฿-230.85903267 Liabilities ฿-176.85903267 Contributed_Pledges ฿-2.00000000 Gsan_Contributed ฿-47.00000000 MemDeal_Contributed ฿-5.00000000 Teukon_Contributed -------------------- 0
The entire ledger is available here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwLArulDe_Albnp1anVpQUF3S2s/edit?usp=sharingI am using the Ledger accounting program from here http://www.ledger-cli.org/Every transaction is matched to the transaction number on the blockchain, so you can check to make sure there hasn't been any funny business. If anyone has any questions, let me know.
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June 22, 2013, 05:57:24 AM |
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#4 has been accepting bitcoins since 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110924062608/http://spices.org.my/be-involved/donations/As stated above, spices.org.my has been accepting Bitcoin donation since 2011. Depending on their reach (read exposure on the internet), a consideration of a 1/3 of what's currently being doled out if they upped ante up on giving the Bitcon logo a more prominent location on their site. Again, only if their exposure warrants it, coupled with what others feel about it. Overall, they are a very fine organization. Another way they could earn possibly the fuller amount is if a new press release about their organization is published with Bitcoin mentioned twice (once may not be enough, and three times would be overkill). The news article would have to be some venerable source, oppose to a Yahoo type release. Use thinking outside the box here. I guess I'll have to be the asshole to tell them that our charity fundraiser is to convince new charities to start accepting, and to ask them for promoting bitcoin on their front page, or to ask them to put out a press release? I'm not sure that would be good for Bitcoin's reputation though, us extorting a charity that caters to mentally challenged kids (double-whammy). Edd, conidering we've had, ahem, issues, is it possible to put some wording on the bitcoin100.org site that specifies some Bitcoin100 guidelines, like "donates to non-political, secular charities" and "exists specifically to convince new charities to start accepting bitcoin?" Maybe we can consider those as the "established rules" going forward, and let #4 slide this time, too? I didn't consider it extortion, but your assessment is correct, for somebody could easily construe it as such. I was just offering up a unique solution to do something for this venerable cause. Maybe a little fund drive for them, using their Bitcoin address for the donations. Thinking further outside the box, we could do such as a case study as to how such an event could/would work, learning from the experience, sharing the results with other NPO/NGOs. The worse that could happen is that Spices would receive some coinage of which they wouldn't have received otherwise.
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June 22, 2013, 06:23:14 AM |
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Again, I'm curious as to who suggested harvestlots.org to you.
Teresa@fr33aid.comJun 14 (7 days ago) to me, awagele Hi Rassah, I'd like to introduce you to August Wagele, copied on this email. He manages a non-profit organization called Harvest Lots that accepts bitcoin. Here is their donation page: http://harvestlots.org/donate/ august wagele Jun 17 (4 days ago)
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Hello Rassah, This is a great project that you have in spreading the word and use of Bitcoin!
We believe Bitcoin is an excellent alternative to the existing monetary/banking system. Which is why our non-profit Harvest Lots has partnered with Bitpay to start receiving Bitcoin donations.
Our mission is to help communities transform their vacant lots into productive community gardens. We have started with our first garden here in Concord, CA. We have over 150 flourishing fruits and vegetables many of which will be donated to local charities to get them in the hands of those who need it most.
We would be most appreciative if Bitcoin100 could donate Bitcoins to us to help us expand this garden and expand our operation to other vacant lots.
We would surely reciprocate the gesture as far as doing our best to promote Bitcoin100 to our network of community garden charities and to those who are involved in this industry!
Please let me know if you have any other questions or the status of our request.
Thank you!
The reason I asked is because I discovered a new user account on this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=129100Also, the cause is rather new: http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=harvestlots.org&prog_id=GoDaddyDomain ID:D166985046-LROR Domain Name:HARVESTLOTS.ORG Created On:29-Oct-2012 20:42:06 UTC Last Updated On:29-Dec-2012 03:45:50 UTC Expiration Date:29-Oct-2013 20:42:06 UTC They, too, have been accepting bitcoins for a while: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DDIed1QUybIJ:harvestlots.org/donate/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=usThis is Google's cache of http://harvestlots.org/donate/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Jun 7, 2013 18:51:00 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘-F (Mac) and use the find bar. According to TWBM, the site wasn't even indexed last year: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://harvestlots.org/ I don't want to question the integrity of their cause or any other aspects of this endeavor, but a few minor issues accumulate to me having to express that this one may be a no go. Perhaps a separate fund raising drive could work as well. Another option comes to mind: Since August has already registered, he can get easily get whitelisted to start interacting with the community, whereupon he can set up a thread to solicit funds for his cause, thus allowing members to ask questions that may alleviate any concerns they may have. To bullet points MY concerns, but to not take away from their noble cause: - They already accept Bitcoin (for a while now)
- Fairly new
- Their About Me page is missing info
- Their Reach (the site indexed only recently)
None of the above is meant to diss HarvestLots in any way or fashion. The information is provided to aid Bitcoin 100 in making an informed decision as to if donating to them is warranted.
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June 22, 2013, 07:33:40 AM |
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Many thanks for the "Sternenhof.eu" bitcoin donation - we will prepare some media information within next week!
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June 22, 2013, 03:52:11 PM |
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Edd, conidering we've had, ahem, issues, is it possible to put some wording on the bitcoin100.org site that specifies some Bitcoin100 guidelines, like "donates to non-political, secular charities" and "exists specifically to convince new charities to start accepting bitcoin?" Maybe we can consider those as the "established rules" going forward, and let #4 slide this time, too?
I've added the following: Bitcoin100 Guidelines
Bitcoin100 exists specifically to convince new charities to start accepting bitcoin donations. Many Bitcoin enthusiasts of various backgrounds from around the world have supported this project with time, effort and/or bitcoins. In order to use donated funds in a manner consistent with donor expectations, Bitcoin100 donates the Bitcoin equivalent of $1000 to non-political, secular charities that prominently display an option for supporters to contribute via Bitcoin on their website. I'm all for donating an equal amount to http://spices.org.my/ without any additional conditions. We can still ask politely for a press release or some other advertising, however.
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