It's Sunday again, meaning it's time for my weekly Steemit Charity post!
And today it will be a little bit special...
As always, let me start with a quick reminder of what our charity project is and how do we work here on Steemit:
We are a non-profit startup Handmade Charity, based in NYC. We create and organize entertaining events for kids with disabilities.
I am a member of the board of directors of this non-profit, and I am keen on being fully transparent on how we fundraise and how we spend the money.
Steemit is not an exception, so I am doing my best to give you the full picture of what we earn here and how it reaches our accounts - see details in my previous Charity posts
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In my today's charity post I want to speak beyond fundraising on Steemit.
I consider launching the tool STEEMcharity.
And what's the idea?!
Currently in a #charity tag there are posts from different users, asking to upvote for different good causes and promising to transfer all the money to this cause.
I've never seen these posts getting a lot of votes, and I don't think it's because Steemit users don't support social initiatives.
I think it's because of the lack of trust, visibility and traceability of money.
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The concept on my mind is a tool on Steemit, giving you the selection of verified charities or specific social targeted posts, where you can read their content, upvote the causes that you like and BE SURE that the money goes where it's supposed to!
And here's where I REALLY HOPE to get the attention of whales and other Steemit experienced users!
Of course, your generous upvotes would help our charity a lot... But more than that I am hoping to get your expertise and help!!
I know that most of you have been on Steemit since inception and you are thinking long-term and doing your best to improve the platform.
Would you consider giving your inputs on the idea of STEEMcharity???
Do you think it's something tha can bring value to Steemit?
Is the idea of the separate tool too complicated?
Shall I just focus on my Charity posts and try to feature some other authors who collect money for social causes?
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I have more details in my mind on how this ideS should technically work, but what I really need now is to understand whether I'm moving in the right direction...
Just in case - I'm not only looking for comments from the powerful accounts, of course, all inputs are Welcome:)
Sending you the best vibes for the week!
Loving the idea best of luck on this endeavor
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organize entertaining events for kids with disabilities - When I give to charities, Ii want those funds to benefit those most in need. Entertainment just doesn't meet my requirement as priority. As a disabled adult myself, I just don't think entertainment was ever on my I need list.
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I have described our mission in more details in the previous posts, so here I just called it entertaining events.
To me more specific - we do cookinng and creative master classes. And the goal is far beyond having fun - our main idea is to give opportunity for these kids to integrate in the society. All our events are held in restaurants and public places, so we also thrive to make other people more aware of people with disabilities and get rid of prejudices!
Another important goal is help kids interact with each other and with others around them, develop communication skills.
And cooking and creative master classes are designed to improve their motor skills and concentration.
All our events are created to help these kids integrate in the society and find their way in the future!
We've been doing it for 3 years in Moscow and got a lot of positive feedback from the families. That's why we decided it to launch it in NYC.
And we are open for feedback and ideas - of you have some activities in your mind that might be beneficial for the kids with physical and/or menthal disabilities, we will be very thankful for your advice!
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