Alex: my company beex.org is a challenge and project-based fundraising platform. People use it to say what they'll do if a certain amount of money if raised for the nonprofit of their choice. For example, you could use it to say something like 'We will purchase coworking.com if $6000 is raised for (nonprofit org)." The system allows anyone with a paypal address to receive funds but so far we've only let nonprofits register.
I LOVE coworking and am starting a cafe/coworking space with some friends in Brooklyn this spring so we'd be honored if our tools could power this community's fundraising efforts. Everything is free: no startup charges, no transaction fees. We're getting sponsors to pay for everything. :) We have two options to adapt BEEx to the needs of this community: 1. We can get a nonprofit to fiscally sponsor our projects. This would make all donations to these projects tax-deductible because the money would flow through a nonprofit whose mission is aligned with the coworking movement. I know a number of organizations who would be interested in fiscally sponsoring these projects. With just a little coordination we could be collecting tax-deductible donations by the end of the week. 2. We could also create a custom solution for coworking that alerts users that their donations aren't tax deductible but I'd much prefer to do option 1. Let's discuss more off list. Folks: If you guys have favorite nonprofits please email me their names and my genuinely charming partner will reach out to them after our next site update (javascript registration and improved formatting!) this week. Exciting stuff. On Feb 19, 11:32 am, Alex Hillman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll reiterate the next steps I'd like to tackle: > > *I'd really like the next discussion on this list* to help find a more > sustainable mechanism for allowing people to contribute to the website fund > without raising money that we simply don't need. Right now the fund raise is > spread out over ~20 people. That de-risked the initial purchase, and let > this happen at all. In the next phase, I think the objective should be to > spread the fund wider and, as Chris Messina said, put the focus on > individual supporters instead of business supporters, giving everyone more > equal access to the resources that come with having the domain. > > /ah > indyhall.org > coworking in philadelphia > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:23 AM, TCS <[email protected]> wrote: > > yes - all done! What's next on coworking.com? > > > On 2010-02-19, at 11:08 AM, Tony Bacigalupo wrote: > > > Alex, thanks for rocking this and documenting it as you go. This is a good > > start and I look forward to this evolving in a healthy way. > > > Let's move the discussion on w/Drupal vs WP vs Emacs vs Yahoo Store vs > > Zombo.com off-list, yes? > > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:48 AM, TCS <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Yep. Both platforms have come a long way. We are impressed with each and > >> try to fit the framework with the clint needs. Thus far for CMS we're > >> about > >> 80/20 between Drupal instals and WP. > >> http://www.symfony-project.org/looksgood too. > >> peace, > >> Chad > > >> On 2010-02-19, at 10:25 AM, Mike Schinkel wrote: > > >> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:25 AM, TCS wrote: > > >> We realize there's more users - I wasn't counting users, rather > >> considering the overall expandability and multifunctional use of a website > >> tool. It's not the easiest to use as a developer, but once you get it, it > >> is robust! Just thinking if you want to create a community environment and > >> build on a more robust tool, Drupal's great. We love Wordpress too! > > >> On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Patrick wrote: > > >> Wordpress is a blog platform that can be used as a CMS, not an actual > >> CMS ;) > > >> Just teasing. > > >> Yes mine was some as light hearted teasing as well. Glad you took it as as > >> such. :) > > >> Still, "many a truth said in jest" as they say. I really have seen people > >> have a lot more difficulty getting Drupal projects completed vs. WordPress > >> projects and then training users to understand Drupal is yet another > >> complication where it's pretty easy for users to get WordPress. As way to > >> explain and a rule of thumb I tell prospective users that the minimum > >> WordPress project cost they'd pay a local consultant for a professional > >> design and a bit of custom functionality developed in PHP and/or jQuery is > >> about $2500 vs. the minimum Drupal is around $10k. Drupal typically makes > >> the first 85% easy but the last 15% can be very difficult (and hence time > >> consuming/expensive.) > > >> FWIW a year ago WordPress didn't have the feature set needed in > >> core+plugins but does now. A partner and I are actually launching a > >> conference in Atlanta called "The Business of WordPress" to highlight how > >> to > >> use it for local businesses in part because I want them to see how > >> effective > >> it is now. > > >> -Mike Schinkel > >> Ignition Alley Atlanta Coworking > >>http://ignitionalley.com > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Coworking" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > >> <tcs-sign-1.png> > >> * > > >> * > >> Chad Ballantyne > >> Creative Director > >>www.thecreativespace.ca > >> 705.252.2423 > > >> ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Coworking" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > * > > > * > > Chad Ballantyne > > Creative Director > >www.thecreativespace.ca > > 705.252.2423 > > > ü Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Coworking" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > > > > tcs-sign-1.png > 25KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. 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