Devin, This is very, very cool. We've been looking for something like this regionally for event fundraising.
I'll be in touch off-list. -Alex /ah indyhall.org coworking in philadelphia On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Devin <devinbalk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <dangerouslyawes...@gmail.com> > 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 <c...@thecreativespace.ca> 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 <c...@thecreativespace.ca> > 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > >> 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > >> . > > >> 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > > > 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 cowork...@googlegroups.com. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > <coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%252bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > > > > . > > > 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. > To post to this group, send email to cowork...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<coworking%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > 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. 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