Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Charles Wilcox]

Brian H wrote:

Just using Fundable.org seems far from a dynamic fundraising effort. The idea is to make it well known and well-thought of, not obscure, exclusive, and surrounded with barriers to involvement.

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How is it obscure, exclusive, or a barrier to involvement? (Not that I’ve used this service yet.) Yes, it’s online. Yes, it’s a third party system. But so is a donation Paypal account.

Have you looked at the users? The amounts they are looking for are trivial, as are most of the purposes for the money, and few get what they are looking for. Raising two million with that vehicle would be like using a little red wagon to move house. Cute, but very onerous and ultimately doomed.

You assume that current usage of Fundable.org dictate it’s future usage; I don’t see any limits on target collection limits, nor finish-date.

That most people don’t get what their asking for means that they were naive about how much people would donate, or didn’t promote their fund-raising project.

No matter the underlying method used to collect money, be it the current FocusFusion.org Donation system, or a Fundable.org managed collection, it will be “many hand make light work” approach.

I assert simply that many who sympathize with the FocusFusion cause who don’t donate now would be much more likely to donate using the pledge-system used at Fundable.org. I know I would pledge money, and I think you’d easily get double the amount in money.