Dollar a Day looks pretty awesome: allows you to give $1/day to its featured nonprofit. The company promises to always share a list & description of the next 60 nonprofits on their calendar. You can also sign up for their daily emails to get a feel for who they're featuring before committing to donate.
My only concern was whether you'd have 30 $1 charges on your account, but they just bill you $30 every thirty days.
[Edit - looks like it's the product of a few Kickstarter employees]
@stttories This does look great. Thanks for posting.
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@stttories Do you guys track the non-profits after a donation is given? I don't mind giving a dollar a day to non-profits, but part of the experience of giving is also to know that it made some impact or produce some results. It would be great if you worked with the various non-profits to provide updates or feedback to the donor community (in a very "kickstarter update-like" fashion)
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@webjoe agreed! I am not a part of their team though :) @cassmarketos can help you!
Great idea, though. I think it would be pretty interesting to document progress on their blog or maybe send out a monthly or quarterly spotlight on some of the nonprofits. Willing to bet a lot of the "progress" will just be keeping the doors to these organizations open (operating expenses are important too!)
@stttories definitely! we're keeping all of this stuff in mind. part of our mission at dollar a day is to inspire people to learn more + get more engaged with our featured nonprofits, and what we're ultimately hoping for is that they'll learn more, volunteer with, and continue to keep up with the organizations we feature. any way that we can facilitate that, we will. :)
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@stttories Ah, oops. I meant this for @cassmarketos. :) Looks like she gave a great answer below.
Hi guys! I'm Cassie, head of community/support, etc at Dollar a Day. Just wanted to chime in and say hi, and also share Perry's announcement about the project, which provides a little more context about why we do this and who we are. It's here: https://medium.com/perrychen/ann...
Hope you enjoy. :)
@eriktorenberg Hey! There used to be a collection that has now disappeared. Tried searching for "charity" and "non-profit" in collections but couldn't find anything..
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Fun fact: at the time of posting there were only 25 backers - now up to 260!
Love seeing more awareness around cause based projects.
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worthy cause for sure...but how come this is in the first position but it has less votes than Backer News?
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Hunter
@AdrianGrant Because @producthunt loves me ;)
I'm willing to bet their algorithm takes into account submission time + upvote frequency. Algorithms and the like aren't my jam, but that would make sense. This was submitted 4 hours ago with 86 upvotes and Backer News was submitted 12 hours ago with 171.
Perhaps @andreasklinger can drop a little knowledge
Just to reply to myself, the thing that brought philanthroper down was the micro-transactions. For $1, Paypal was taking too much. These days I know Paypal has a micro-transaction option that simplifies this...
I think the way you guys have done it is pretty smart - You charge a bulk $30 payment, then Network For Good takes 4% (seems reasonable), but the kicker is that you give the donator the option to cover the fee. I love this idea - we're actually using the same notion in an e-commerce-ish system where we let the customer optionally cover our fees.
The next question I have is - how much of my $1 goes to the charity? What are your admin/marketing overheads like?
@rossdcurrie hey ross! thanks for your engagement. dollar a day is a nonprofit — we take no fee from any of the donations to our nonprofits. if people opt in to cover the 4% processing fee, 100% of their every dollar goes to the featured nonprofit.
@cassmarketos That's a great model - a lot of non-profits still have admin fees, etc. that they have to take out of donations. How do you guys fund yourselves?
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