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How do I see Goodwill's current trash bill and pay part of all of it on a donation site? This is where we need a slider and push notification support "People

How do I see Goodwill's current trash bill and pay part of all of it on a donation site? This is where we need a slider and push notification support "People gave us a million dollars of trash this year. We could use your support paying for that." Or to put that in lazyweb construct — Patreon + Goodwill + #accounting/garbage + Donate.me^ If any of you know a 501c3 org that can handle this and make it happen for them, I'd sure welcome Goodwill and Roden Crater and like five hundred MOMAs on a list of "here's what I can afford to donate right now, let me pick my favorites from a list^^". It would normalize the distribution from the hockey tail it gets right now of Goodwill the Stuff Acceptors. ^ or whatever the typical 501(c)3 white-labels / intermediates are in the donation-routing finance space. But I made up that domain, so I assume it's real. Let's see. Yes! It is! I've never heard of it before. It's totally niche. Thanks, brain. ^^ The real fun part is classifying foundations by their purposes, so that "Making up for human process failures" (which needs a marketing pass) is something I can filter for or just bulk donate to at a site category level and let you batch it.

platinum1 5y ago
Goodwill is already a 501(c)3, why not just donate to them directly and let them decide how to best use the funds?
- floatingatoll 5y ago
  Why not consider a different way, in addition to that?
  - Pfhreak 5y ago
    This is a big problem with charities and other donation driven organizations. People want to say where their donations go, and will often leave gifts for flashy things that can't be used for general purposes. General donations can fill in any gaps and are therefore some of the highest value donations. No one donates and says, please restrict this donation to the purchase of basic janitorial supplies. But that doesn't change the fact they still need those supplies.
    - floatingatoll 5y ago
      No one sets up a site begging for funding specifically for janitorial supplies, either. It’s fine to choose not to open that door if retaining the control of general pool is preferred. But it leaves human heartstrings untugged and opportunity for “crowdfund energy” donations uncollected. I hope that tradeoff pays off for them!

platinum1 5y ago

Goodwill is already a 501(c)3, why not just donate to them directly and let them decide how to best use the funds?

floatingatoll 5y ago
Why not consider a different way, in addition to that?
- Pfhreak 5y ago
  This is a big problem with charities and other donation driven organizations. People want to say where their donations go, and will often leave gifts for flashy things that can't be used for general purposes. General donations can fill in any gaps and are therefore some of the highest value donations. No one donates and says, please restrict this donation to the purchase of basic janitorial supplies. But that doesn't change the fact they still need those supplies.
  - floatingatoll 5y ago
    No one sets up a site begging for funding specifically for janitorial supplies, either. It’s fine to choose not to open that door if retaining the control of general pool is preferred. But it leaves human heartstrings untugged and opportunity for “crowdfund energy” donations uncollected. I hope that tradeoff pays off for them!