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They could offer a subscription model, and then make it a monthly "game" of deciding where your money's going to go. Lots of people are willing to become sustai
by nollidge 14y ago
They could offer a subscription model, and then make it a monthly "game" of deciding where your money's going to go. Lots of people are willing to become sustaining members of charities.
Or, I'm a member of a meta-charity called Foundation Beyond Belief, in which my contribution is distributed to various nonreligious charities based on priorities I set (e.g. 25% of funds to environmental causes, 50% human rights, 25% poverty, or whatever). So for Watsi, maybe I could predefine, say, types of medical treatment, country/region, etc. and then the system heuristically determines where to disburse.
And now that I think about it, Kiva optionally does something similar, so that loan repayments don't just sit stagnant in people's accounts because they haven't gotten around to manually distributing them.
- nowarninglabel 14y agoWe (Kiva) are also adding monthly donation subscriptions as well, or at least I'm trying to this week for my innovation iteration project.
- dmix 14y agoIs Kiva still growing? Haven't heard much about them recently.
- giblfiz 14y agoYep, still growing. In fact they have a pretty cool "free trial" program running right now, where you can assign the funds of a single large lender. (It's a little bit like matching, but you don't even need to put up anything to be matched) Check it out: http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/giblfiz http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/giblfiz
- chaseadam17 14y agoYeah! Kiva is rocking and rolling. We love them :)