Week 3 saw a nice jump in SP (roughly 50% gain). First, @fulltimegeek gave his #stewardsofgondor a huge boost by fully upvoting last weeks post (again), and that along with the other votes, provided money to lease even more SP for the account. It is significant in my opinion that FTG is increasing the earnings of this account since its purpose is to provide more support to the #stewardsofgondor members. While the vote values have dropped across the board, this account is still casting at least a $0.07 on each and every post and that doesn't include the votes joining us on our curation trail.

Our SP has reached the 2300 SP level which is yielding a $0.30 total upvote (up $0.04 depite the massive drop in STEEM for the week). So each SOG member will get 22% of that on each post ($0.07). (see chart 1) That doesn't include the curation trail upvotes from steemauto which is now at 27 followers (+1) but slipped to #92 in the top rankings. (see chart 2)

Tell your friends about what we are doing for the #stewardsofgondor, we want the program to continue to grow and support the many things the SOG members are doing.

Also I want to point out that the donations have continued to be amazing, we have had steady contributions from SOG members themselves and from newbies/minnows that are showing their support for you. This week topped over $10 sbds again as @howtostartablog @lynncoyle1 @amariespeaks @smylie2005 @abh12345 all donated generously (ps in the last 4 cases they are all repeat donors). This has enabled us to lease SP to be able to give you the upvotes and support while @fulltimegeek is taking care of protecting the system against greed.

Finally in addition to the generous donations, three "friends of gondor" also contributed by delegating their own SP to the account. @simplymike re-delegated her 100SP delegation. Also @ironshield donated 51 SP to the cause to show his support. And @em3 owner of the @healthy-home curation account has stepped up and delegated 175 SP to help everyone for 10 days, plus he wants to show his support by also giving the account a long term 12 week lease (at below market rates no less) to show his approval for what @fulltimegeek is doing!

Chart 1 Dashboard On Steemworld.org

Chart 2 Rankings On Steemauto.com

This Weeks Payment On Posts Today (~$18 sbd)

Today we will receive the 3rd weekly payout since the launch of this program. The payout should be $18 sbd to the account tonight and it will be used to lease even more SP.

Now that we hit the 1000 SP mark we are leasing the SP for a longer period of time. Instead of the initial 4 weeks, we are now increasing the total duration of the portfolio by adding in longer dated leases. This will have a stabilizaton effect and provide for less fall off once the early leases expire. The goal is to give the SOG members a real benefit and with your continued efforts to support us, we will continue to build the SP and curation trail.

Friends That Have Generously Donated SBD

Total 59.575 sbd and 3 STEEM

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@abh12345 donated 1.0 STEEM (repeat donor)

@smylie2005 donated 0.50 sbd (repeat donor)

@amariespeaks donated 5.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@lynncoyle1 donated 1.0 sbd (repeat donor)

@howtostartablog donated 4.0 sbd

@abh12345 donated 2.0 STEEM

@theuxyeti donated 2.0 sbd (helping out his fellow SOG members!)

@profanereviews donated 1.0 sbd (SP total is 4 SP... yes that's right 4 SP)

@beeyou donated 1.075 sbd (her SP total is 41 SP)

@gracefavour donated 1.0 sbd (her SP total is 1 SP... yes that's right 1 SP)

@abh12345 donated 2.0 sbd (@lynncoyle1 @davemccoy donated in his name)

@simplymike donated 8.0 sbd (plus her 100 SP delegation)

@bashadow donated 1.0 sbd

@beeyou donated 1.0 sbd (her SP total is 40SP)

@smylie2005 donated 2.0 sbd (her SP total 19 SP)

@spiritualmax donated 2.5 sbd

@ricia donated 5 sbd

@lynncoyle1 donated 1 sbd

@mikepm74 donated 15 sbd

@abh12345 donated 1.5 sbd

@davemccoy donated 5 sbd

Thank you all for your generous support!

As mentioned earlier these new donations and earnings of sbd from posts will be reinvested to grow the SP so that the SOG members get a bigger hit to their upvote. We are now lengthening the leases from 4 weeks to 8 to 13 depending on market opportunities.

What you can do if you want to support this project to help @fulltimegeek and his #stewardsofgondor

#1 You can follow what we are doing and tell your followers and friends through various methods

#2 You can upvote our posts to increase the amount of earnings we have to lease more SP

#3 You can follow our curation trail (84th place already) on steemauto and have your upvote show moral support (even 2 or 3% is something that matters because it all adds up)

#4 You can donate directly like the wonderful people above

#5 You can delegate any of your own SP for any period of time that suits you while this Quest is ongoing

#6 Last but not least, you can thank the individual "friends" that are supporting this effort directly. Sometimes just a stop by and a small note saying you appreciate their help will make a big difference to a donor's day!

If you can't do any of the other 5 and you support what we are doing, then #6 is a very very effective way to help us. It encourage them to spread the word and rewards their efforts with "respect"