GiveDirectly

Donate to GiveDirectly to help those most affected by COVID-19!


In Pennsylvania alone, there have been over 89,500 cases of COVID-19, and Montgomery County has been the center of the outbreak. Although the pandemic has influenced all members of our community, it is having a disproportionate effect on low-income families who already struggle to afford food and necessary supplies. Governor Wolf has closed down all nonessential businesses to stop the spread of COVID-19, which has unfortunately left many people without a job or a source of reliable income. For families who rely on weekly salaries, the shutdowns have been particularly overwhelming.


Our goal is to help these families by donating to GiveDirectly, an organization that works to aid vulnerable households enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). GiveDirectly targets families living in areas that have been hit hard by the virus, especially single-parent families and older citizens.


As students at Lower Merion High School, we recognize that we are in the perfect position to help this cause. Although we have to stay home, there are still many ways we can help members of our community. For this reason, we encourage community members–students and adults alike–to contribute to our fundraiser and help spread the word. Any amount of money is greatly appreciated!


More information about GiveDirectly’s mission can be found here:

https://www.givedirectly.org/covid-19/

Thank you for your support!

Join us in giving cash directly to families in need of COVID relief. Donate on behalf of your favorite contestants and you’ll get to see more of them!! This is all part of our livestreamed, Zoom-to-Twitch version of ABC’s The Bachelor, starring San Francisco-based investor Sheel.

EVENT DATE: June 6 and June 13, 6-7:30pm PT

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You won’t want to miss Sheel’s search for love on his very own mini-season of The Zoom Bachelor, streamed live from Zoom to Twitch.


You may have seen him try--and almost succeed--to win Katia’s heart on The Zoom Bachelorette .


You may have watched him dancing on his own in Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber’s “Stuck with U” music video.

You won’t want to miss Sheel’s search for love on his very own mini-season of The Zoom Bachelor, streamed live from Zoom to Twitch. Twelve ladies; one Sheel; one engagement?

Based on popular demand, The Zoom Bachelorette team is back to help fan-favorite Sheel find love. Tune in on June 6 and June 13, 6-7:30pm PT, to watch as Sheel livestreams his search for a Zoom fiancee. 

Show your love for your favorite contestants by donating on their behalf! Total amounts and number of donors will impact how much you get to see of them--and maybe more. Read all about our amazing contestants here.

More on GiveDirectly: Whether or not you think it’s important that Sheel finds love, we encourage you to give to GiveDirectly. We chose it because it allows donors to send money directly to households hardest hit by COVID-19, no strings attached. We were excited about the model after reading studies  that giving cash directly can be far more effective than food banks and other similar organizations. We liked GiveDirectly in particular because they are super transparent and effective!


More on the team: Sam Clark, Maria Shen, and Jean Yang got together for The Zoom Bachelorette, a livestreamed Zoom-to-Twitch reality dating show featuring bachelorette Katia and her 12 suitors. The show had over 1000 viewers (despite being private and ticketed!) and raised over $40,000 for Feeding America. It’s been covered here  and here.

Please join us for an exciting performance by the Berkeley-based pianist Geoffrey Lee this upcoming Sunday, May 24 at 2:00PM PT (Click HERE  for the livestream)!  All ticket proceeds will go to GiveDirectly's direct cash transfers to the most vulnerable households impacted by COVID-19. 

Please RSVP by donating to GiveDirectly on this page and then submitting your email address here to receive the livestream link. The link will be sent to your email 48 hours before the performance.

The suggested donation is between $20-$50. Anything at the higher end or more is helpful for us to reach our fundraising goal.  

Lee will be playing Stravinsky's "Three Movements from Petrouchka," an incredibly demanding, wild, and exuberant work that will jolt you out of your quarantine routine. We look forward to seeing you there!

Hi Friends and Family,

As we all know, many people have been negatively affected by COVID-19 in so many different ways.  I'm raising money to benefit GiveDirectly, an organization that rapidly gets cash to families in need, and those that need it most during difficult times.  Over the last 10 years, they have delivered over $150 million to families in need during times of crisis.

Whether it's food, school supplies, medicine, or any other critical need, Give Directly distributes money quickly and efficiently.   They are currently targeting the poorest families in the U.S. in areas most impacted by COVID-19. 

https://www.givedirectly.org/covid-19/

Any donation will help make a HUGE impact.  To provide some extra motivation to give, I will match the amount raised with an equal number of soccer juggles.

I hope you are all staying safe and healthy, and can't wait to see you all soon.

With love,
Taylor

We've all been affected by COVID-19, but with the majority of non-essential businesses shuttered and U.S. unemployment rates skyrocketing, the lowest-paid workers and the most economically-disadvantaged communities will be hit the hardest. Low-wage earners are the most at-risk of food insecurity, homelessness, and other health issues. While the government approved a stimulus that sends cash payments to this segment of the population, we know that it will not  be enough to keep everyone afloat for the duration of this crisis.

From our homes across the globe, a few BU MBA Class of 2011 alumni decided we wanted to help. Even though it may be small, we needed to do something. And we hope you will join us and share this with all of those in our extended BU family. 

So, what are we doing? We are setting up this fundraiser to support GiveDirectly, a non-profit delivering cash to families impacted by COVID-19 in the U.S.  GiveDirectly is targeting their cash payments to vulnerable households enrolled in SNAP, living in the areas hardest hit by COVID-19.  The organization expects 95% of funding to go directly to recipients, with the remaining 5% covering overhead, salaries, and fees. Please see more about GiveDirectly here: https://www.givedirectly.org/.  GiveDirectly is a top-rated charity on GiveWell  and Charity Navigator .

Each one of us has seen businesses around us that have been devastated by the pandemic and individuals losing their jobs due to the economic fallout. Let's give what we can to put cash in the hands of those who need it most at this time - and make sure we all get through this together. 

GiveDirectly is a registered 501(c)(3) and your donation is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Hi! 

I'm performing in a solo piano benefit concert over Zoom (click HERE to join) this Thursday, April 2 at 6:30PM PT to help raise money for GiveDirectly's cash transfers to vulnerable households, most of them single mothers, impacted by COVID-19.

I'd love for you and any friends you think would be interested to attend! Please RSVP by donating to GiveDirectly on this page. The suggested donation is between $20-$50; anything at the higher end or more is extra helpful for us to reach the goal of raising $1000 in total.

I'll be performing Chopin's Ballade No.1, quite possibly my favorite musical work of all time. In just under ten minutes, Chopin creates a musical world that encompasses the emotions of an entire lifetime. It's also notoriously difficult to play, so I've been working hard on it for some time now. I can't wait to share it with you :) 

Performance Time and Location:

6:30PM PT this Thursday, April 2 on Zoom (click HERE to join).  I'll introduce the piece I'm playing, Chopin's Ballade No. 1, as well as GiveDirectly, for a few minutes before performing the piece. I'll do a little bit of informal Q&A after, and we will wrap up around 7:00PM PT. 

Ticket Price: 

$20-$50 suggested donation to GiveDirectly, which is distributing direct cash transfers  to vulnerable households in this time. GiveDirectly is one of the most cost efficient and effective charities today. 

Other Logistics:

Feel free to dress casually, formally, or however you'd like! And also feel free to sip on your beverage of choice :) 

See you there!

I care about the poor. I think they're capable of amazing things & deserve a chance to prove it. I think we're missing out on a billion brilliant scientists, engineers, & other problem-solvers by turning our backs on their suffering. It's time to stop playing dramatic video games that let us pretend to be heroes & start saving real lives.

I invented hundreds of products that I put on social media to help tech companies build services that they could sell for profit & use the money to help the poor. I can promise you this: you do not want to know what they did to me instead.
http://twitter.com/remixerator
https://medium.com/@insighterator/

Tech companies, the government, celebrities, & other rich & powerful people used their power to molest & abuse me when they found out I existed, instead of investing in my time to build my inventions, so I could make money to save the poor.  They stole my inventions & didn't use the profits to end poverty. I offered them my help in ending poverty & they used it to make profits & score compliments for themselves.

They think you're stupid & evil & that you don't care about the poor - that you'll be happy I was abused for being smarter than them. They think you like easy more than you like hard work to help the poor, and that you'd rather live an easy life, content to watch others suffer, than lift a finger to help good people who have never had enough food or medicine, let alone a real shot at success.

I think you're smart & good, that you would be nauseated by their actions rather than impressed, & that you would help the poor if the goal was finite & therefore solvable.

Luckily, it is - it would only take $654,000,000,000 to end poverty. If every person with food & water contributed $100, every poor person would have food & water.

This amount involves food, water, medicine, & a smartphone for every one of the 1 billion poorest people who have been abandoned by the tech companies, governments, celebrities, & other rich & powerful people.

$100/person for 5 LifeStraws to give clean water for 5 years
https://www.lifestraw.com/products/lifestraw

$4/person for a smart phone
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/18/467220085/-world-s-cheapest-smartphone-goes-on-sale-for-4-in-india

$450/person for a year of food

$50/person for seeds to grow their own harvest

$50/person for vaccines

1 billion people ($654 per person), even though the number is probably less than a billion, more like 800 million, let's round up to be safe.

This will buy clean water for 5 years, a smart phone, vaccines, and food

$654 billion to end poverty - once they're not starving anymore, we'll have 1 billion more employees - if companies collaborate to provide free wi-fi & if we all work to build markets to hire these people to build new projects like cheap housing, clean electricity generators, infrastructure, web tools, medicine, & robots to do manual labor, as well as conducting scientific research to solve future problems & make existing solutions more efficient.

If you're one of the celebrities, bloggers, tech employees, government officials, or another powerful or rich person who abused me, here's your big chance to redeem yourself.

I'm offering redemption at a small price - if you committed one of the following sins, here is the pricing scheme for redemption. If you pay this to the poor for each of your sins, you should forgive yourself & society should move on from the past.

The following amounts are in US dollars, equivalent currency, or valuable labor, and are assessed per incident.


To all the "clever devils" out there who think it's clever to be evil instead of the truth, which is that it's pathetically easy, if you:
- molested me or anyone else: $1 million dollars
- tried to infect me or anyone else with anything: $1 million dollars
- spied on me or any of my private information without my consent or did the same to anyone else: $10,000
- stole any of my work (including insights, strategies, & inventions) & failed to implement it in a profitable way and/or use it to help the poor, which is the whole point of why I shared my work at all instead of keeping it all in my head
- severely abused or terrorized me or anyone else in any way: $10,000
- tried to get me to kill myself so no one would find out about any of the above: $every last penny you have, and if you're lucky & if you made any real friends in your life, someone will take pity on you & give you some clothes & shoes to go panhandle in, because if you did this, you absolutely should be a beggar & you should have to start from scratch.


For all the morally neutral people, let's also assign a cost to more minor & more understandable sins, so we can move on as a society.

- if you're an asshole: $100 every time you were an asshole
- if you're a minor weirdo: $100 every time you leered at someone or did something equally weird at work or school or the gym where your victims were forced to interact with you
- if you're a troll: $100 for every post including hate speech
- if you disrespected a good person who didn't deserve it: $100 per incident
- if you lied about someone who didn't deserve it to get something you didn't deserve: $100 per incident
- if you were a drunk asshole: $100 per incident
- if you did something extremely annoying like listen to music without headphones on the metro or smugly corrected someone's use of language on social media or even smiled smugly (how could you, do you even have a soul): $100 per incident
- if you made bad music like that one Sushi song from Post Malone, I can't even deal with you right now, please go to your room & think about what you did: $100 per incident
- if you were mean to a guy who asked you out just to feel good & not because he did anything wrong, let's be honest, this is terrible & hurts society: $100 per incident
- if you were mean to a rival just because they had a quality you didn't, the move there was self-improvement: $100 per incident
- blamed your farts on the dog or blamed an equivalent crime on an innocent being: $100

For all the angels out there who do crazy minor things:
- if you tried to guilt someone into charity for the poor, how could you: $10
- if you snapped at an annoying person in annoyance & then felt a wave of guilt because you're a god damn saint: $5
- if you swore & regretted it because you're an angel: $5
- if you told a bad joke: $5, you absolute angel
- if you didn't give money to a homeless person because you didn't have cash on you & you felt awful about it & wanted to die: $5, you saint, are you even real?
- if someone got jealous of you because you're wonderful & suffered at your beauty & tried to hurt you: $5, just because you refuse to let your history of being abused by jealous people make you a bad person
- if you made something wonderful with all of your love & it made a profit: $5 to show the world that not every successful person is evil

For accountability, I'm applying this same pricing scheme to myself.

I was a true asshole maybe a grand total of 10 times in my life, and so I will pay $1000 to start with.

Then I'll add another $500 because I tried to guilt people into charity during my life quite a few times.

Then I'll add another $500 for all the other minor things I did.

If you think this is a fair pricing schema, feel free to share this with other people. If you think it's totally unfair, tell me why in the comments and I will correct it.

Since the limit for GoFundMe is a billion dollars - I'll make more campaigns to get this up to $654 billion if this succeeds, unless they want to increase their limit.

https://medium.com/@insighterator/the-cost-of-a-sin-a150cabecafc