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This is brilliant idea and one that is perfectly executed. I would love to contribute whichever way I can and the way it brings down the barrier to contribute is remarkable. I would love to contribute in a personalized way than to donate to an organization where I don't have any clue what happened to the money. Wish you all the success!
> 100% of your donation directly funds treatment! ITYM 98.6% - 96.6% - £0.20 GBP of your donation directly funds treatment! Or is there some awesome charitable PayPal fee structure that you are using?
I think PayPal does take a cut. Look at their transparency doc: https://docs.google.com/a/cordys.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Ah...
All in all this is a really great idea! Keep going and keep improving!
Any way you could add a brief synopsis of your organization to your "site unavailable" page? I (and I'm sure others) would be much more likely to keep the tab open/check back soon if that were the case.
You guys are fantastic! Thank you for finding a way to save those that are sometimes overlooked!
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I really like that you brought up third-party verification. We think that's the most efficient and responsible way to scale our due-diligence process. Currently, in addition to being verified by us, all of our partners have been verified by multiple third parties (Partners in Health, Givewell, CNN, ABC, HBO, etc.) and they are all 501(c)(3) organizations which means that they are also overseen by the US Gov. I agree…
Can you tell me more about the GiveWell verification?
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We are definitely considering experimenting with a donation "tip" feature. Based on our research, the average tip on peer-to-peer giving and lending platforms is about 5% of the total donation amount for a first time donation, and virtually nothing for recurring donations (people usually only tip once). It's not enough to run an organization on, but it's a great potential source of revenue to help cover some overhead…
Don't discount it. Your numbers are about right, but that can definitely be enough to run an organization. Kiva has about 80 full time staff and about 3/4s of their funding comes from lender tips.
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You could even make a slider with an animation that displays the percent which goes to each part of your business - so 10% or 15% of the donation could goto administration. This is a great idea. Check the Humble Bundle's ( http://www.humblebundle.com/ ) sliders at the bottom of the page to see how they handle their "Humble Tip", maybe you guys can do something similar.
I also strongly suggest this humblebundle ui on 'Question 2' on the bottom. This would be ideal... HOWEVER, there also is the possibility you end up having not enough for the patients and plenty for the salaries. Maybe make it 'what is the max percent you want to see spent on admin cost'. that way you are allowed to use as much as you'd like to for the patient.
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Great points. Transparency is huge, and we have done everything possible to put as much info on our site as we can. We love the app idea, and building an app for the MP's to document the entire process (patient work up, waiver, profile info, provide updates, track recovery, etc.) as easily as possible is one of our next steps. We definitely need to make some money to keep this thing going. But right now we are still…
I have experience running a website that made running costs + more from donations, let me know if you want to have a chat about what worked and what didn't!
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We (Kiva) are also adding monthly donation subscriptions as well, or at least I'm trying to this week for my innovation iteration project.
Is Kiva still growing? Haven't heard much about them recently.