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RE: Important YouAreHOPE Foundation Announcement - HUGE GROWTH ORIENTED CHANGE OCCURRING
CEO/Director of Operations: @MichaelDavid - TheAlliance Co-founder, Community Builder, Real world experience in charitable operations..
Do you have a CV/career history of the charities that he has been involved in, please?
(as you now, I'm skeptical of charities and their motivations..and my research seems to support my position, unfortunately...)
I want the You are Hope / steemit , charity to be above all that BS..
Transparency is important..
Cheers!
Hi @lucylin.
I'm my opinion you should be skeptical of charity organizations. Most take your money and little goes to the help they advertise. That's the beauty of YAH. Being on the blochchain allows for perfect visibility.
As far as my career history goes with humanitarian work...
Growing up my parents were always taking people in and currently redistribute truck loads of food around the community to those in need which I help with occasionally. My aunt runs a food bank locally that takes and gives some of this supply.
Having squatted in nearly every state in the country, sleeping under bridges and feeding myself from dumpsters, I've had a first hand look at poverty in our country.
From that experience I continued traveling the country gathering food donations, cooking it and serving it in cities across the country to thousands of people in need as we traveled.
Everything my family does and that I've done this far has been on a personal level... Not involving larger organizations (much of dad's work was through his church).
In my personal experience we put our energies into implementation rather than talk. Showing up where we were needed most with tons of food to share. I plan to take a similar approach with @youarehope. To implement sustainable strategies first and talk later. Thus avoiding senseless BS.
Hear, here.
Thanks for the reply!
I've been looking into the 'charity con' somewhat - and it really is a cesspit of financial maneuverings (and very little to do with charity), hence my questions regarding YAH...
From the lack of response from some organizations, and lack of willingness to engage , my antenna are switched on to any kind of obstruction to transparency, in regards to charity...
Yup, been there, and done that to. (in Europe, not the US).
I'm poorer than a mouse who has just been evicted, and had his last bit of cheese taken off him, but I still give a guy with no legs and a skateboard some rice most days...
(I'm in Asia nowadays, not the west..)
And that echoes my own childhood, as my parents were awarded Citizens of the Year by our state for nearly 40 years spent organizing a 12-church wide clothing and food collection and distribution network that served around 100K people a year from multiple "free store" locations in the area.
Among other things.
Dig all you want, this is the future of charity, specifically because you CANT bury anything in it.
I'll let him field that question at his next juncture online, but keep in mind. I had never done this before at ALL, and to my knowledge, in the configuration in which we operate on the chain, no one has ever done this before at all, before me, at this scale or duration or reach. So there's that, regardless.
Story of my life...
😂😂😂
I understand what you mean, so in this 'far from transparent, charity ' con as I see it, it would be great if this is totally dispelled on the steemit side of things..
If you see what I mean.
As any charity should be transparent, that has to include the abliity of background checks of it organizers...
(imagine if Bernie Madrff was an organizer without the ability to check his credentials, for example? lol).
The reason is that after looking at these charities, and the connections, nepotism and 'jobs for the boys' seems to infect a very large proportion of them...
So upfront transparency, and any questions is a good thing, not a bad one..
Are you aware we are steem exclusive, which means all transactions are on the chain, further, we've been operating for nearly 11 months, using thousands in cumulative donations to serve thousands of people in a dozen countries on several continents already?
It's all in the chain. Every last move, and all the heavily documented deliveries during the missions.
I did inquire about this earlier (a few months ago), and you said individual donations couldn't really be tracked...?
(or did i get that wrong..?...sorry if I misunderstood)
Do you have a link to the record of the transactions? A ledger, kind of..?
I would never have said that because we publish them every thursday and have for most of the year.
We dont MAKE donations to cases that only serve individuals 99% of the time. That could be the confusion.
You can find the ledger in the wallet, or in every single chain explorer that exists... steemd, steemdb, all the others that cover the chains transactions...
we also dont track once a donation enters the wallet, through dispensing it. In other words.
10 people donate. We run a mission and spend some. People are still adding donations, we're running missions we can afford. There is no tracking your dollar went to xyz, unless its a special or specific fundraiser, generally marked as such in all the documentation posts.
I appreciate where you are going, but you kinda are asking, does the blockchain do blockchain stuff, here. And it might be best to understand how that works first.
I understand , but it's the accountability I was inquiring about..The destinations etc.
(currency exchanges for example, could be easily abused or misdirected..).
I'm not having a go at your charity, it's the whole 'charity' thing I am looking at, with a very cynical eye.(which is good, not bad, if everything is as it should be of course).
Every 'charity' I have contacted to date, to ask questions about these kinds of things - are nothing but evasive , and not transparent...