It is the time to write about a charity donation funded by the PoC Comment Charity Scheme. Before I address that subject, I’d like to mention the £100 donation made by Marc Poberejsky, a regular and well-regarded contributor to PoC.
Marc’s Donation
Not long ago, Marc made an extremely generous donation of $1000 in memory of his cat Red and this is another donation, this time to the Wear Valley and Darlington Cats Protection branch, which boosts Ruth and Barbara’s donation of £92.11 that was raised through their fundraiser. That makes a highly respectable £192.11 for cat welfare. Wonderful.
I can confirm the donation has been made via PoC for ease of management as Marc lives in Switzerland. Marc donated £100 to my PayPal account and I made the donation via the Cats Protection website using my debit card.
The reason why I am spelling it out is because it is important that everything concerning money is done with a high level of transparency for the sake of engendering trust. Trust through honesty is a feature of PoC and the family of cat caretakers that it has become.
PoC Comment Charity Scheme – August Donation
The total number of comments at this time (11:44 am) on the last day of August is 2351 [17560 (present) less15209 (beginning of month)].
At 5 cents per comment that makes a very healthy $117. Converting to pounds we have £75.50. The final figure will be a fraction higher when I count comments later today.
I hope people are pleased. I want to most sincerely thank everyone who has commented and contributed. It is important as it keeps PoC alive and motivates me. PoC is unique in giving the sums of money that it does to cat charities. We should be proud of that. PoC has been giving to charity since 2008.
Choose a Charity
I would like some suggestions as to which cat charity should receive the £75.50 for August’s donation. There is no need to rush but ideas would be useful to me as it broadens the scope of what can be done with the money.
Update — Made a donation of £76 to Ark on the Edge:
Thanks Rose. I think it is a good sum too. We love to help cats. To really do something rather than talk or write about it.
I believe that there is too much talk and not enough action in the world.
Spectacular suggestion, Ruth.
I think we were all anamored by your story of Dylan.
Marc and Michael, you are incredible human beings.
May your auras always stay pink (Pink Aura people are by nature loving and giving. They love to be loved too).
Karma can be a bitch or a pleasure. No bitch Karma in your lives!
We, people who love cats, love the fact that you love fundraising 😉 You’re damn good at it.
I love fundraising, the hard work comes beforehand but on the day it’s just sheer pleasure (once the boys are in and settled and we know we can both go and do it LOL)I wish I was a lot younger I’d love to do more
Thanks Babz. Marc is a great guy and it makes life worth living to really target cat charity donations; to do something meaningful for cat welfare. To me, to do that, is worth far more than having money. Good for you and Ruth too for fundraising in such a friendly, interesting way and effective way.
lol it’s OK Marc.
He’s fund raising today at ‘Pets at Home’ with Chris and we’d love to have gone and seen them again but we’ve been grounded all day for the BT engineer coming to upgrade our internet. It’s done now and wonderfully fast, hopefully no more frustration.com from now lol