Intro
This is a new scheme. All visitors to PoC need to do to make money for cat charities is visit the site and write a comment – nothing else. PoC does the rest by donating money earned from advertising.
PoC has a history of giving to cat charities. I would like to build on this. You can see the donations made so far by clicking on this link: PoC Donations.
The Scheme
For every comment made by a visitor, PoC the website will give 5 cents to charity. The visitor visits and comments. PoC gives money to charity. It is a shared process. The idea is to encourage people to visit PoC which allows PoC to make more advertising money. Some of the money earned can be given away by PoC to cat charities. Should be Win Win! If it works.
How much will the scheme raise?
The average number of comments over the past year is 34 per day. At 5 cents that makes $1.70 per day. In a month that makes $52. PoC already gives $25 per month to Texas Maine Coon Rescue together with ad hoc donations.
The 5 cents per comment policy started on 19th June 2013 at 1 pm. At this time, the total number of comments from May 2012 is: 12,809. I will count from that number and make a payment to a cat charity once per month.
Anyone can check because comments are there for all to see.
Donations will be transparent. They will be recorded and published so there is no question of this scheme being anything other than a genuine way of benefiting cat welfare.
How to choose the charities?
The selected charities who benefit should be in countries from which most visitors to PoC come. The top four are USA, UK, European countries, India. I will select a charity from these countries that accept payment through manageable methods. The best is PayPal.
If someone has a preference just tell me. I’ll listen. Promise.
How long will this scheme run?
I don’t know. That is an honest answer. As long as it runs, cat charities benefit. It is up to visitors to PoC to decide how long the scheme runs. There are many reasons why it might stop. I want it to continue permanently.
PoC Membership Scheme
I am still working on a PoC membership scheme.
Ten cents is one thin dime, ten pennies, two nickels–basically one tenth of a dollar, so it would be similar to a tenth of a pound, if you have any coin in that denomination. Except that I think the pound is stronger than the dollar, so ten cents really wouldn’t be much at all. Or do you guys use Euros now? I really don’t know. Do you have nickels in England? Sometimes it’s easy to forget we all live in different parts of the world, so that even our money is different.
I had a dream about Michael last night, that my husband and I were visiting him over in England and we were loading some stuff into his car for some unknown reason and I was saying I could never get used to the steering wheel being on the wrong side of the car. That was weird.
I think no one should feel badly if they can’t donate. There are other ways to help in this world than to give money or things– there is your time and talents as well. Ruth, your posters are so fabulous! That is a huge contribution, and one that not everyone could make. I couldn’t do it.
Sometimes all I have to throw in the donation jar at The Cat Network is spare change. But I still go and put that in, because it all adds up. If you wait until you can give a significant amount, it seems like that day almost never comes (for me anyway) so I just try to give a little here and a little there. I donated some things for the rummage sale The Cat Network is having in June. Nothing earth shattering, but if everybody did just a little and didn’t feel that their small contribution is somehow unworthy, I think it would really help the world to be a better place.
I think you will have to keep a small percentage for roast chicken for Charlie 🙂
Well, I am blessed and stunned and thankful. Sure. I’ll factor your generosity into the calculation.
Even though it is a short month (I started the scheme mid-month), I’ll donate money at the end of June.
I’ll do a post saying how much and why and where it will go to.
Thanks a hell of a lot Marc. You are a special person and cats love you.
With what you added it is perfectly clear now. I love the avatar/icon you worked up for PoC Giving. You’re a good man. Cats of the world can rest easier knowing PoC Giving is doing what it can to help. I think your scheme for picking the organizations to contribute to is a winner. The Smithsonian National Zoo (FONZ Friends of the National Zoo) is my first choice and I see you have already donated several times. Next would be the Big Cat Rescue. They seem to take ANY cat that needs help no matter what. If they don’t have room they find a home. Because of this their enclosures are small, but they make up for it with constant contact and enrichment activities. PoC may have already donated to them before and I missed it on the above reference list (sorry if I did). I look forward to hear how this turns out.
Dan
Thanks – I would feel lost sometimes without everyone on PoC. I am serious about the donation for just one day. I’ll let Michael decide what to do with it, it’s for him really and if donated to rescue it’s on behalf of all of us. It’s just one day so that’s why I made the amount so much higher.
Sorry I didn’t reply I just missed the notification somehow that there was a reply to my comment.