Hey Meth. Can we organize a fundraiser for this?

[thorrocksjs]

Originally Posted by Method Man

nike talk shirts or hats with the niketalk in african colors? id cop

For the sake of efficiency, we'd greatly prefer to encourage direct donations.  
Physical products take too long to produce and the money spent creating and shipping those products would be put to better use by the charity itself. 

We'll do caps because people want caps and then donate the proceeds to charity, but if people WANT to help others in the event of a disaster they should do exactly that.  It shouldn't require treating oneself to a physical product as incentive. 

As I said during the Japan donation drive:  don't buy a shirt to look like you care.  Act like you care instead.  


A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ARRIVED.

 I remember we discussed this a while back about Supreme's shirts.I def can understand where your coming from now.

 

[degenerate423]

Originally Posted by Method Man


I did some digging (they decided to hide it pretty well on the website) and it seems that MSF does have a group fundraising program available:  http://www.firstgiving.com/1185

The catch there is that, no matter how much you raise, they don't target the donations, so it all goes to their general fund.  Now, it's usually the case that when you make an individual donation below a certain threshold, you don't have much of an opportunity to target your donation anyway - so in most instances this is a wash - but it's still important to understand the distinction.  You'd be raising money to support the general operations of an organization whose immediate priorities include disaster relief to Somalia. 

So long as people are okay with that, I should be able to get a fundraising page going for MSF/Doctors Without Borders up within the week. 

I noticed that on the UK site (http://www.msf.org.uk/somalia_appeal.aspx ) you can make a direct donation to their Somalia program and under their fundraising FAQs (http://www.msf.org.uk/fundraisingfaq.aspx ) they have a representative you can contact to setup a fundraiser for a specific relief effort.  Although Doctors Without Borders doesn't have a specific program for Somalia, I wonder if there's someone we could e-mail to setup a fundraiser specific to Somalia.  I know It would be a bit of a hassle to set it up, if at all possible, so I'm fine with just setting up a general fundraiser with Doctors Without Borders knowing their currently providing aid in Somalia.