A couple of weeks ago I wrote about why I was winding down my A Dollar A Day daily giving project, and instead moving to a more direct giving programme.
The essence of this new giving project is that each month I will give away a single one-off grant to an individual or charitable cause.
I am launching this project today with an initial test grant of US$50 equivalent to be awarded at the beginning of February.
Assuming this test run goes according to plan then subsequently there will be monthly grants of US$100 equivalent.
The grants will be available to anyone on the steem blockchain - that can be individuals for their own use, individuals representing charitable causes, or charitable causes themselves.
To bid for the grant you must make a post outlining what you want the money for and why you need it from this grant fund.
The post should contain :
Information about you or the charitable organisation you represent.
Details about what you want to do with the money, including some level of budget breakdown.
The timescale and plan of action for what you are going to do with the money.
Details of any additional money you are adding to the project, and other sources you have tried for the project.
Note that any images used in the post must have copyright permission to use and be fully sourced and credited.
The grant funding will be open to all causes and areas, but the giving will likely reflect my personal areas of interest that include :
- alternative and complimentary therapies
- education - particularly around sustainability and self-reliance, and homeschooling
- homesteading and prepping
- rural development - particularly involving renewable energy technologies
- small business entrepreneurship
- wildlife conservation.
Proposals to promote steem and steemit will also be considered.
Applications are open to anyone anywhere in the world, but the application posts must be in English or Spanish.
How to apply
Make a post giving details of what you want the money for - make sure you cover all the points in the list above.
Include a link in the post back to this post (or the latest equivalent post by me).
Make a comment below including a link to your proposal.
Resteem this post to help the project get more visibility.
Make sure you get your proposal in by midnight UTC on Wednesday 31 January 2018.
I will be reviewing all the proposals as they come in.
After 31 January I will review all the proposals and then during the first week of February I will select one proposal to receive the US$50 grant.
The winner will be announced in an announcement post by 7 February 2018.
The grant will be transferred to the winning proposer as the equivalent value of steem at the exchange rate at the time of the winning announcement post.
Alternatively, for most countries, I will be able to send US$50 via PayPal or TransferWise.
The winner should complete the project that the grant is for within 3 months of the grant award.
The winner of the grant will be expected to make at least one post showing how the money was spent. To encourage this will I will give a full upvote to any such post (up to a maximum of five posts).
This first grant giving is very much a test run to develop and refine how this type of direct grant giving works best on the steem blockchain.
I welcome any suggestions or feedback on how to improve the process. I am also looking for a better name for the project.
If this first run works well then from February onwards the monthly grant fund will be increased to US$100 equivalent.
Should the post rewards connected with this project be much greater than the grant fund then the extra rewards will be rolled into additional grants.
If there are no suitable proposals in any given month I reserve the right to roll over the grant fund into the next month's funding round, and double up on the grant for that month.
This project is supported by @GMuxx who also supported the A Dollar A Day daily giving project. @GMuxx is now a witness and would welcome your vote.
If anyone else would like to support this project please let me know.
You might also be interested in some of my other posts :
Go Local to Go Big : Four Stages in Building Steem Backed Local Community Networks
SteemRadio - schedule of all the steemit radio shows - week beginning 15 January 2018
Homesteaders & Preppers on steemit - the We are Sparta edition - 300 reached - v12 [12 Jan '18]
Delivering a 5 week steemit course to promote the platform in Wales - anyone done anything similar?
A Challenge for 2018 - can I sign up 100 new people to steemit in one year? #signup100
Steemit in Wales - heading for 100% growth - first meetup on 10 February
SteemCommerce - Businesses accepting payment in steem (v 2 @ 3 January 2018)
[ money image from pixabay - Creative Commons CC0 ]
This is awesome!! Many thanks my friend
i have a project in mind, as an Agent of Hope Leader, i'm planning to make donations to a children orphanage, i want to give them A food basket, toiletries and notebooks with pencils. Definitly i will make a post as fundraiser because that will not be cheap, so i will edit this comment when i have it ready!
Hi Reny, that will be great. I will look out for the post.
What a great idea! Resteemed!
Thank you - much appreciated.
Happy to support this.
Thank you greatly for your support @gmuxx.
How's it going with the witness program?
Here's my application. This is the first time I've ever done anything like this, so any feedback for future improvement would be most welcome. :)
https://steemit.com/charity/@minismallholding/introducing-the-life-relearnt-project-and-grant-application
Many thanks for the application @minismallholding
Totally supporting this efforts to be a great example of a human and your kindness. Resteemed and upvoted.
Thank you for your kind words and the resteem - much appreciated.
Here's my proposal, thank you, as always!
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@bobydimitrov/a-vision-of-a-communal-forest-garden
Thank you for the application. Just to confirm, the grant in January is only US$50 as we started part way through the month. It will move up to $100 for February.
Let me know if you want to keep your proposal in for January, or whether you would like to hold it over into February to have a chance for the full $100 grant.
Thank you for that clarification! In truth every dollar helps and we have already invested thousands, but we're spread very thin at this point. The purchase of the trees is planned for late February or early March, depending on the weather. So I guess it will be okay to wait another month, even if that means a lesser chance of getting a "Back to the land Grant", as I'd like to call it. OTOH, if you don't get a suitable proposal this month, I'm okay with participating for January just to start the grant series on the right foot and set the pace, so to speak!
And another thing, will I be prohibited from participating in the future grant runs? IMHO it would be great to have a lasting commitment to a project, if that aligns with your idea for the grants.
You are doing great things for this community and I know it is greatly appreciated.
It is a great community to be a part of - thank you for your support.
Great initiative
Thank you.
What a lovely kind generous offer resteemed for you.
Much appreciated for the resteem.
Lovely thing to do. =D
Love what you're doing for the Steemit community @pennsif :)
~ Kevin
Fabulous idea. thumbs up & upvoted
Great concept and initiative. I'm going to share it so it attracts more attention.
This is what is called a noble cause, @pennsif your selfless nature will be repaid 10 to 100 fold
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This looks like a good plan to support cause. You are kind to test such type of projects on steem. I wish all the best to those who are participating. :)
Very generous of my buddy. Hope you get some good causes and get some great work done with your donations. Brilliant idea. Resteemed for such a great idea
This is a wonderful idea will read again when I have more time thank you for sharing.
Amazing initiative @pennsif. This will push people to pursue those areas with a specific plan of action and a deadline to achieve. Well done.
An excellent initiative, my friend. Re-Steemed!
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great job i mine
just re steemit and upvoted dear
carry on
Truly Supportive ⭐️
That's a really great initiative!
When I will be making charitable gestures, I will surely drop by for your support!
Keep Steem'in hard XD
I love how steemit is helping to facilitate this ability to share abundance. Perhaps you should get everyone doing a brain storm on what to call your pot!
I've resteemed this generous offer anyway, but I might try putting a bid forward for my new project @life-relearnt. I'll have to think what would make best use of it though. I don't envy you trying to choose the recipient of this as I expect a lot of deserving causes will come up.
A tough one but I am working rigorously to submit my proposal. Thanks for this opportunity @pennsif
This is the type of thing that could change lives.
Don't mind me. I'm just here to drop off a little note ... and let you get back to work. It sounds like you have important stuff to do. This excellent post was included in our new curation effort The Magnificent Seven -- a collaborative work by @enchantedspirit and @catweasel. You have received a 100% upvote from each of us to show our appreciation for your post. To see your creation showcased here ... and the fine company you keep ... please visit this link.
We appreciate your support both for our work on this project and for the other creators of exceptional content who make it all possible. (Follow @catweasel to catch our future Magnificent Seven posts. He's really not as annoying as you might think. <--- He always makes me say that.)
I like the name "Pennsif's Pot"! LOLYou could always go Celtic though and say "Pennsif's Cauldron." ;)
Resteemed!
May I submit a post of my treatment and go fund or should I do something different to help someone else. I am open to ideas. We help the homeless now and volunteer at the church feeding them twice a week.
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I so appreciate initiatives like this! Excitement generates more excitement!!! Thanks for modeling generosity to our community! :)