I love this post @benjojo. I would love to contribute and give back to the community that has treated me so well. Obviously I'm trying to build my account, but you let me know how You would like me contribute. Thank you for making me feel better this morning. Steem On Friend!
Ahhhh bud. I might have known you would visit. It really swells my heart. That you want to help make it burst. As you can see, I'm at the very beginning of something and I'm not sure how it will all pan out. The idea is that it would be the same for everyone who wanted to get involved. Basically, use the Giving Steem logo (like i have on the main image) on posts set to 50/50 and give the SBD reward as a donation to a deserving Steemian (follow the precautionary criteria above.)
When you donate to someone, let them know what it's for in the memo and in a comment on one of their posts. In the comment, drop in this image which will hopefully spread awareness.
If the initiative grows beyond me.....I sincerely hope it does, then my plan is to have multisig account owners for collective sbd donation funds so we can tackle bigger issues plus a lot more curators who will also donate the funds directly. We're a long way from that yet though! I hope this helps :)
I considered accepting SBD into my account from anyone who wanted to contribute.....I don't feel happy doing that yet as this is all untested, I don't believe I've earned enough trust from Steemit community as a whole and there would need to be additional checks put in place in case something happened to me. I don't know where this will lead, all I knew was that I had to do something. Big love bud.
You have a big heart and that beautiful little girl opens your heart even more. How is your little angel? Much love and I'm fine with sending you sbds for now. Too many here could use help and it's too hard for me to decide who is deserving.
She is just amazing. She's in a pavlic harness (like her sister before her) but her prognosis is splendid and it is a small price to pay for stronger hips. She is a real talker, constantly cooing and smiling.....she's constantly making me laugh. She's taken to coo singing if i sing to her which just blows my mind. Don't know wether to laugh or cry when she does that.... How are your wonderful boys?
Ok, lets try it out. Send whatever you want in SBD to my account and it will be part of the very next donation once it's there. All the SBD in my account and everything going in there is for donations currently so there will be absolutely no confusion or concern :) Nice on bud.
It's amazing how we forget about ourselves when we have little ones. They are the reason we live and are the biggest part of of us.
I love my boys so much. Today Or yesterday, they played in the very cold Pacific Ocean and they loved it and also hated it. Lol. I will send you some sbd soon.
Thank you for everything. I'm an emotional guy and you have no idea how much I appreciate you. Your friend from California.
I'm in the same boat, @runridefly. I'll never cash in bitcoins if I can be upvoting and paying-it-forward with steem. If I do have money to cash in, first place I'd spend it is @rhondak's 501(c)3 animal rescue. https://steemit.com/animals/@rhondak/mountains-of-unwanted-pets-animal-rescue-in-appalachia