The reason that I had suggest the smaller community was that it might be easier to provide outreach to 1000 people instead of 31000.
If you will be attempting to address the needs of people accessing the Community Food Center, it probably makes sense to have the distributions occurs weekly instead of monthly.
Perhaps it would occur like this. Initially the "village" are the people using the Food Center facilities. As people enter the facilities they can be assisted in joining the membership of the steemit community. At the same time their ID's would be entered into the community database.
Meanwhile some specific retailers (including Compudoc) could be approached to accept Steem Dollars against purchases. My suggestion would be to target a few local businesses (convenience store, clothing store, restaurant ... you get the idea) which would be promoted as the place that people could go to to spend their SBD.
Alternatively the recipients could be encouraged and trained on creating their own posts.
As far as funding the account, instead of looking for grants, it might be interesting to get the funding sources to buy steem power and delegate it to the community. If money is granted to an organization the money will absolutely go to zero. If the money is loaned to an organization it might go to zero. If money is converted to STEEM power and delegated ... it might go to zero (anything can happen). It might also descend to $1.00 or remain at whatever the current price is (anything can happen). It might even rise 10 times to its current price (anything can happen) meaning when the delegation period is passed (the project is self sustaining), the "lender" might be able to spawn 10 new projects.
As this project matures, I am sure that additional organizations in the area (special needs, assisted living etc) could be added to the "village". Three years ago I used this site https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Stratford-ON-Canada to calculate cost of living projections for a project I pitched to the Canadian government for request for proposals they had for Ukraine. (I failed to get that proposal accepted ... possibly because I couldn't determine an ethical way to spend all the money that they had allocated for the project).
There are some tax implications in the proposal. Cashing out SBD would be considered capital gains (taxed at roughly 8 percent) but it might be interesting to have a discussion with the Ministry about this project.
These are just a few talking points that you might consider
I get your point about the smaller community.
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No, I just mentioned Shakespeare because it fit a few criteria that I considered (proximity to larger centers for example). I assume there would be a fair number of university students in Guelph, Kitchener and London who could be tricked to coming to an event. However a community could be geographic (my 93 year old father suggested segmenting Stratford into neighbourhoods and approach it that way) or by some other commonality. A food bank might be a good way to go. Even if a you are able to get a single restaurant willing to take SBD could be way to spark a community. Even if a person only gets a single coffee the first month, it might be of interest.
From my own experience, I was one of those who only received 0.001 STEEM POWER for my posts until I cheated and bought steem and powered up. After giving a fair amount away for Christmas gifts I had off with a base amount of roughly 1500 Steem power and have added roughly 50 per month since November.
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Ok good info and good advice from your father.
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Ask yourself a question: Do you think that STEEM will succeed or fail. If it fails, all this activity that we put into it is wasted. If it succeeds how high do you think that it will go? Do you think that it will remain at its current price or return to the price it had around Christmas?
https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/steem/cad
If it returns to that price, ask yourself many investments that you might get into that will double in value in a year?
Ask yourself how much you would invest if in 5 years it goes from $4.27 to $10.00 CAD?
How much would you invest if in 5 years it goes from $4.27 to $100.00 CAD?
How much would you invest if in 5 years it goes from $4.27 to $1000.00 CAD?
How much would you invest if in 5 years it goes from $4.27 to $10,000.00 CAD?
STEEM is where Bitcoin was 5 years ago but it doesn't have the same hurdles to get over that BTC did.
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User onramping improvements and SMTs will make Steem and SBD pump and stay pumped!
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