Okay, this is a little off topic for Regret, but please give us a moment of your time.
Some friends of this site (and its editor) have come up with an idea that combines the power of social networks with charitable giving. It’s something positive, and we hope you’ll consider joining in.
The goal is to collect one million wishes from people around the world in a single blog post. But a wish needs a sponsor before it can go in the post, so each dollar you donate to charity sponsors one wish. And thus it becomes The Million Dollar Blog Post. People express a wish for the world, and charities reap the benefits.
To sponsor some wishes, just note Gifter.org on a donation you make and put an image of the receipt online. Then send along a link to the site. As they say:
All we need is proof of your donation marked with GIFTER.ORG
and your donation will qualify as a sponsorship of wishes. (Remember,
don’t include any personal information in the proof.) Proof can come in
the form of a scanned image/screenshot of a check/receipt — posted
online (on your website, blog or even somewhere like Flickr.)
To let us know about your sponsorship, put the proof on your website
or blog and leave a comment with the URL, or a trackback. Once we
process your sponsorship we will add the link to your proof along with
the amount of your sponsorship to the list of sponsors on the Million
Dollar Blog Post.
Here is the first sponsorship from Project Ojibwe. You can use this as an example.
Here’s our humble offering, a donation to the Khyber Centre For The Arts in Halifax, Nova Scotia and to CanadaHelps.org. We just sponsored 28 of your wishes. So go wish, or join in as a sponsor. Thanks for indulging us with this.
