My Charitable Giving - Farewell A Dollar A Day, Hello Pennsif's Pot

I started my A Dollar A Day daily giving project on 7 November when a SBD was still placidly sitting around the US$1 mark.

Hence the A Dollar A Day name for the project.

Then SBD started to wiggle and waggle and climb in value. Within a month of starting the project SBDs had passed US$5.

I had been joined by @gmuxx and @mother2chicks on the daily giving so 3 SBD was going to the charities each day. Then @HopeHuggs also started giving 7 SBD a week.

SBDs took off - touching 10 SBD one month after the start of the A Dollar A Day project.

Boom days all round for the receiving charities.

Despite the rapidly rising SBD value we managed just about to hold to the end of the year.

In the end the A Dollar A Day project donated over 100 SBD to the various charities in less than two months. That was equivalent on the current value to over US$1000.

Not bad for a quick bit of alliteration.

All good things must come to an end. So after the distribution of the SBDs pledged on my New Years Eve rush for rep 60 extravaganza I have put the A Dollar A Day project on hold for now.

With the current high value of steem and SBDs continuing the daily SBD giving will be a struggle to sustain.

Also that method of giving is a little 'disconnected' and 'disjointed' for where I want to go next.

Although I enjoyed regular contact with most of the charitable causes I was donating to, the random SBDs were being somewhat lost in the whirlpool of donations received by the causes.

I want to explore new ways of charitable giving in 2018. I am keen to explore some more direct 'cause and effect' type of giving.

Pennsif's Pot

Pennsif's Pot is very much the working title of a work in progress at this stage.

I'm considering setting up a monthly fund to allocate to worthy projects.

How much will be in the fund, and how it will be derived, I'm still working on but I'm looking towards a minimum fund of US$100 each month, with the current value of steem.

The plan will be to invite charities, charitable causes and any steemians with good ideas to post proposal bids for the funding.

It 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.

I do not intend to set up any sort of structure for this funding idea. It will be low key and ad-hoc.

I intend to continue supporting through hefty upvotes particularly all the charities I have already been working with. And they will be welcome to put in proposals for the monthly funding grants.

The charities that I currently support include :

@dreamsoftheocean run by @surfermarly
@papilloncharity run by Stephen and Marian in South Africa
@schoolforsdg4 run by @azizbd
@tarc run by @RhondaK
@YouAreHope run by @SirCork

I will be interested in any feedback, suggestions or ideas for this monthly grant giving project.

Once I've seen what people think about this I'll put together a more detailed post of how it might operate and then starting taking proposals.

If it all goes well I would hope to distribute the first funds at the beginning of February.

You might also be interested in some of my other posts :

I am in the market for buying steem directly.

I can pay by BACS, PayPal, or Amazon Gift Cards.

For more details check my post :

I Buy Steem - can we bypass the exchanges?

[ money image from pixabay - Creative Commons CC0 // graphic by @pennsif ]