@fundraisers - Who, What, How, Why and When!
https://steemit.com/fundraisers/@fundraisers/introducing-fundraisers
From day 1 when this idea of having a Steemit page that promotes fundraisers and fundraising here on Steemit my wife @sylviamiller and I @jackmiller have been trying to actively promote efforts by Steemians to use funds raised via upvotes and donations for charity causes and other good will initiatives.
It has been a slow path to getting the word out, yet as time goes on, we do see many more people actively using Steemit to help others. To help out where help is needed.
In no way do we consider ourselves the catalyst for this, as it is in fact the good will of humans out there which gets things going as far as helping others goes.
People can be good and this is what we wish to resteem here on this page.
Hopefully soon there will be an option added where we can add new authors directly to the settings of this page (profile) and where others can participate in the direct promotion of fundraisers here on Steemit.
Til then, we shall be doing it all manually and by using the tag "fundraisers" it makes it a lot easier to find your posts.
Why "fundraisers" and not "fundraiser".
Well the logic is that we need to distinguish between the ICOs out there who use the tag "fundraiser" and the good will and charity efforts that have nothing to do with any businesses or coins or tokens out there.
It can make a difference if we start uniformly and logically applying the appropriate tags, so that people can find the posts that are relevant to what they are looking for.
This page is a non profit page, once the SP gets to a point where the initial base SP delegation can be refunded/returned all the "profits" that this page (profile) may eventually make shall be donated to fundraisers here on Steemit.
Thanks for reading
Hopefully we'll see many more fundraisers resteemed here in 2018.
Fantastic work Jack. I had actually started using that tag without realising that it was you who started it. :)
I'll give this account as much love as I can.
The idea is to get the fundraisers out there using this tag so that people can find them easily.
At the moment many use the tag "fundraiser" and as I wrote above, all the ICOs use that tag, so if anyone wants to see what good will and charity fundraisers are out there via the tag "fundraiser" they are overwhelmed with various posts about coin startups.
Likewise, the idea of this page is to promote by resteeming posts, not to actually do the fundraising, to help raise awareness of peoples efforts here on Steemit.
I guess it's just a small effort in helping Steemit become a better place, not something that shall change the world here, but my philosophy on that is:
"If everyone does a little, it adds up to a lot!"
Thanks for the support.
Yep, I noticed that difference with the tags the other day which is how I came across your fundraisers tag. I'm using it for my fundraising posts for The Smith Family. :)