On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > > > I am mostly ignoring the rest of what others have said in this thread > > because I think it is detracting from your intention of getting money to > > people to work more. Here is one thing that has frustrated me about TPF. > > They are a non-profit organization. Yeah, kind of suprising that would be > > the frustrating thing. The issue is that they can't take money from Bob to > > give to Sue to work on Bob's widget. This is an extreme oversimplification > > but in general, they have to abide by the rules that allow them to keep > > their non-profit status. Where am I going with this? > > This doesn't make any sense to me. There's nothing about being a nonprofit > that prevents TPF from accepting donations targeted to a specific program. > There's a bit of accounting overhead to make it happen, but it's perfectly > legal and in keeping with TPF's 501c3 status and its mission.
I don't know but I think I was told at least once that TPF cannot handle donations targeted to a specific person. That might of course be different then targeting at specific program, I am not familiar what 501c3 means. Personally - and there might be few others - I'd be much more comfortable to give money to a specific target or person than to a general pool. What I was hoping for a long time is to be able to give a modest amount on a monthly basis. Currently AFAIK TPF can only accept stand alone payments. IMHO many people in the community would be ready to give 5-10-20 USD/month but it would be much harder to get them give 100 or 200 USD once a year. How hard would it be to enable (Paypal?) recurring monthly payments to TPF? How hard would it be to allow people to target their money to a specific project/person? TPF can then still focus on raising money from corporations. Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/
