Great discussion here @johnesmithiii. It might be worth exploring more of the potential behind SMTs or Smart Media Tokens. Towards the end of this year, non-profit based websites (of all types) will be able to "tokenize" their native content... through the Steem blockchain.

Boiling it down - you can earn cryptocurrency for content without ever having to visit or engage the Steemit.com audience. And that's pretty exciting, because it opens up the conversation / potential to empower content and existing networks.

https://smt.steem.io/