David Tuller's new crowdfunding campaign (April 1, 2018)

dave30th said:
I sent a note to the crowdfunding manager, and he agreed PayPal would be useful, but they're not set up to do that yet. This is a fairly new experiment for the university, and most of the projects in this round are pretty local--I don't think they really expect much money to come in from overseas--hence the lack of a world map, options other than credit card, etc. It's too bad but that's the way it is for now. My apologies and thanks to those who would like to donate but can't.
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I know you feel uncomfortable taking personal PayPal payments, which I understand, but have you seen this?:

https://fundrazr.com/pages/paypal

If your concern is about transparency, then if the crowdfunding tool shows the total raised, you could donate that to your own UCB fund and get them to issue a receipt for the amount, which you could scan and post online.
 
Sasha said:
I know you feel uncomfortable taking personal PayPal payments, which I understand, but have you seen this?:

https://fundrazr.com/pages/paypal

If your concern is about transparency, then if the crowdfunding tool shows the total raised, you could donate that to your own UCB fund and get them to issue a receipt for the amount, which you could scan and post online.
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Great idea, Sasha!
 
Hi, @Allele, thanks for checking. I posted on Facebook asking that people donate only in their own names or anonymously. The names made me chuckle also when I saw them but it's really best if people don't do that on the crowdfunding page. There haven't been others since then, but maybe it's best to delete just so others don't get any ideas about funny follow-up names. Thanks.
 
A lot of people on that Twitter thread thanked Sharpe for providing the link to the crowdfund page and said they were now going to donate. Including one person who said they were going to donate quite a large amount; I looked at the list of the latest donors on the crowdfund page this morning, and that person had indeed donated the large amount promised, which is wonderful. Sharpe's tweet was a spectacular own goal, ha ha.
 
dave30th said:
I specifically asked for the default lowest donation to be changed from $25 to $10, like I did last year, because I know many people want to give but are living on very little and $10 is all they can afford. Even though it's possible to write in any amount, I really wanted to avoid putting anyone in the position of feeling uncomfortable with having to write in $10 and then feel bad they weren't giving $25. The big donations are of course wonderful but I find the smallest donations to be incredibly moving, and they make me even more determined to push on for those people who are forced to live on next to nothing. I'm pretty sure it will end up ok. I'm assuming some people will pay more attention after the holiday weekend.
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Thank you. I can afford to give a bit more (and have!), but the fact that you actually thought of this means a lot:)
 
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