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.
Hi I think what you are doing is a very AWWWWesome thing. I have rescue cats 5 and just love them,if I could have more I would,lol.God Bless You for all the things you are doing for cats & Kittens.You have a very BIG HEART & I admire that.Good Luck in all you do for Cats or animals in general.Tami & all her animals.
Thanks Ruth, that’s made me feel better:) I enjoy making posters.
We have a money box we drop our copper (1p and 2p coins) into and it takes a while but eventually it adds up to £5 which buys 12 big tins of cat food for our local Kays Hill Cattery or Cats Protection.
As our late mother would say Every little helps said the woman as she peed in the sea 😉
Thanks Babz. Also if by some chance PoC grows the 5 cents rate can be adjusted so there is some flexibility in the scheme.
I think Michael’s intention to donate according to the number of comments is really kind, I think the way he had it worked out was spot on, I’m not going to worry about contributing anything extra because we all have our own ways of helping cats and we all know that no matter how much we want to we can’t do more than our best, so I say to anyone who wants to contribute extra – good on you, especially the huge one off contribution that Marc is planning, but the main thing is that Michael has his own scheme worked out to steadily contribute, maybe coppers at a time but yes it will mount up and will make a difference to a lot of cats over time.
I don’t know how that happened, Michael! I usually dream about Monty.
My husband dreamed about fireworks, if he slept at all. At quarter to five he woke me up, shoved his iPhone screen in my face and said, “This is a picture from space of the summer camp where we shoot that show in August! See, here’s where we had our firing line last year, but this year we will be putting it over here by the hill. We will still have line of sight to our ground displays, but we can’t shoot where we did last year because they built on to this building to put on a new kitchen…” This went on for like five whole minutes. I finally just got up and fed Monty his breakfast.
If Monty has been dreaming it has to be about chipmunks. Right as I had to leave for work yesterday, there was a chipmunk on the patio outside. Monty could see it through the screen door and instead of letting him out to chase it I had to close and lock the glass door. Monty gave me a look that clearly said if I were the size of a rabbit instead of a big old human I would be really sorry that I had done that.
People should not feel bad. All they have to do it write a comment. Your comment earned 5 cents for a cat in need. PoC does the rest. 5 cents is 5% of a dollar (USD) and 5 pence is 5% of a pound (GBP). 5 cents is about 3.3 pence. It all adds up over time. And it all counts. I believe that you can arrive at a goal in small steps over a long time. You just have to keep going.
The more successful PoC is the more money we can make for cats under this scheme. I am keen to keep PoC successful against increasingly tough competition.
Thanks for dreaming about me 😉