I'll Match the first 30 $2/month recurring commitments made here.
At $36 apiece.
If you give or pledge a lump sum (paid all up front or in non-monthly installments) or regular monthly payments equal to but not greater than $2/month, and declare it/them intended by you as a recurring-support subscription, and if you have given before but never before as a recurring-support donor, I will match each such donor with a $36 gift subscription.
I believe we can fund a people's blog from it's membership on a voluntary basis. I believe that by the time 1950 out of 2K members have signed up for and are fulfilling recurring pledges, the blog will be banking a $10K/monthly intake, routinely. So I'm looking for all recurring pledges. The only ones who get their own commitment 'gussied up' are $2/m contributors but we feel it is important that everyone who can afford and does afford the blog that basic floor of maintenance be reassured: They aren't starving the blog, and we want every user to be involved at maintenance, equally.
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from a reasonably stable genius.
Okay, you finally got me off my rump. I will send $2 via Paypal
and commit to doing so every month. My money is iffy so I have not pledged recurrent support before, but $2 I can do; it's about what I'm left with this month. I'm not sure what the $36 means (per month? per year? why 36?), but want to find out. Will send more later, of course, irregularly.
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Have gratuitous kitty scoop up those dollars
and send in unmarked bag to c99! Stat!
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elenacarlena, that is great. Thank you for making a 'recurring'
When everybody is donating at least $2/m we'll be well above our threshold target number monthly. Getting everyone signed up to a minimum commitment will take -a few months, a year, perhaps as long as two years. In the mean time, gift subscriptions allow each member who only commits at the basic rate to know that his/her recurring donation is augmented for the following year. We all know we would really like to have $10K/month coming in, not $4K/month. Gift subscriptions help give us room for all that.
It doesn't change the 'augmentation for the following year' nature of the gift subscription if the $2/m recurring pledger finds that he or she must abandon their pledge; the gift subscription augmentation is not really assigned to individuals, it is assigned to the commitment to recurring donations. If thirty members accept my challenge tonight, and twenty-nine of them find out they have to discontinue their pledges next month, I'll still owe and will pay $90/month for the next year.
$36 per $24 commitment is a nice thing for people who need to to leverage their contribution.
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Thanks, David, that's nice of you! So where is everybody else?
Essentially my $2/mo becomes $5/mo with the match. Or $3 even if I have to drop out. Awesome!
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Love the pootie pic, thanks. n/t
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While others might want
the money, I want the Kitty. Money won't crawl into my lap and purr....
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Outstanding generosity, David
I'm away at a corporate function this week, but will follow up next week with my own matching diary. Thank you so much for doing this!
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Backatcha DD, and really looking forward to next week. n/t
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Nicely done. I got a little lost in the math, but I get that a
minimum recurring donation of at least $2 will be matched by you for the year. If the donator/subscriber hasn't got enough some months, your pledge will cover up to $5/month.
Thank you everybody. The first of the month is here, so should we be hearing soon how we are doing?
Nice gentle reminders are so welcome.
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Not quite right. I'm matching 1st time $2/m recurring commitment
What I give is $36 per pledge of $24/year. If the member who is recurring-pledging for the first time donates $2.01/month, my match doesn't cover that recurring sign-up. If only three people sign up a recurring pledge $2/m that is what I'm augmenting with my gift pledge.
My gift pledge doesn't thereafter have specifically to do with any individual contributor. It also cannot be used to cover any part of a contributor's basic pledge. What any gift pledge does is fill up the space between $2/m and $5/m. No part of any gift subscription will 'cover' 'pay' 'guarantee' or in any other way be substituted for the non-transferable right to fund one's own $2/month. So what is my gift 'attached to'? Gifts are given to the blog.
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I'm in.
I may be able to do more later on, but for now . . . this I (and most others around here) can do. Thanks for leveraging it, David!
Thanks, dance you monster. I'm confident you and all of us will
do more, when and as we can. It is our commitment to recurring pledges which will allow the blog to make normal business decisions and choices. Our goal is near-universal voluntary recurring pledge sign-ups, in any amount starting at $2/month and up.
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Is it too late?
I didn't see this last night but can commit to $2/month!
It's not too late, and thanks for your recurring commitment.
Ideally, in this sort of donation drive, donors will pledge a recurring amount but many of those pledges will be for more than $2/m recurring. By matching only the 1st time $2/m recurring pledge, we maximize how many members we get signed up (before running out of what we as individuals have decided is our money limit in each of these drives. Expect any fundraising essay of this sort to be available for a while. This one will run until 27 more people sign up for a 1st time recurring $2/m commitment. I hope we'll have many more recurring commitments made by the time we've signed up the thirty I'm leveraging.
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Excellent!
I work PT and freelance to fill in, so my finances aren't always stable. $2/month is an easy commitment for me, though, and in the future I will increase as finances allow. This is such an important place of independent journalism that I feel duty-bound to support it!
Do I use the donation button at the top? Or are you tracking progress through a specific link? (I'm sure I've missed a bunch of the essays on this front).
Thanks for so generously matching these commitments!
Use the "donate" button for PayPal, use the "Donation Info" link
(at the bottom of the donations area) to pull up what you'll need, to send a check or money order. The link in the final sentence of the essay will provide information to make a contribution through POP Money. Write "recurring" or "ongoing" on the line checks and money orders provide, for what the transaction is for; they can be scanned/read. The recurring nature of a pledge is easy to ascertain in POP Money transfers and PayPal will notify the sender he is paying a recurring commitment.
We want to be able to see the total of recurring-commitment pledges of all denominations, in amount totals and in subscriber totals, month to month. We want it to be as easy to give as possible, for each member individually.
Thank you; you understand what we are building here and you are part of the we. It's worth doing.
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