RiverDave
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I'm going to go straight to hell for this I already know.. LOL
1st let me qualify what I'm about to say so when you come at me with the torches and pitchforks at least you'll think twice about stringing me up by my nuts.
I have never asked for a donation to run this board.. 100's of people have offered and I have always declined. To be quite honest I can't even afford to pay attention at this point, and to run this place equates to me having another car payment each month. I still won't ask, if nothing else out of sheer pride or stupidity I'm not sure which at this point.
I have always felt that if your going to give money you should get something in return for it.. A t-shirt, whatever.
I'm going to follow this up with another "qualifying" story. My mom wanted to get a memorial bench for my dad. There about a 1000 bucks.. Well then she had to have it in this one particular park that my dad liked by the airport. Well the park is privately owned, and by the time that all shook out it was 7000 bucks. She asked me to put a thing on here to ask for donations because it's a shit pot full of money for what it is. I never did it, because it just didn't seem right to me to ask other people for money for our cause kinda deal. That and I know my dad wouldn't have done it if he was alive. (Granted if he was alive we wouldn't need the fockin bench, but that's a whole different chicken or the egg conversation)
That being said the boating community is a big one, and I've just come to the conclusion that something really shitty is gonna happen to someone about once a month.. Cancer, death, suicide, other terrible shit that I can't even think of right now... It it has all happened, and will continue to happen.
So I'm thinking today, what happens if I donate 100 bucks to the cancer society? It's a multi billion dollar a year industry at this point.. My donation makes such little impact that nobody will ever notice it. I can't say my 100 bucks did "this." All the charity in the world that this board brings in does very little on a larger scale.. So I'd like to change the direction of that to helping smaller causes, a lot more.
This is a grass roots website, and there's only so much generosity to go around. I'm going to ask that from next week on if that if we're going to be asking for donations for anything on here that it goes directly to a local / personal cause. Preferrably a boating / offroad / racing / save the trails / fight the noise laws kinda cause..
Things that would be acceptable on here
I'll expand on that..
A good one would be if you want to help a local cause.. Buying one of the raffle tickets from Firecracker to send them to australia to represent the USA. Every dollar earned goes directly to paying for the trip. 100 bucks will make a huge difference to them.
Another good example, would be hey we're going to put together a race team for the __________ and we're looking for some sponsors (this is applicable to ANYBODY but Squirtin thunder) Something we're every dollar goes directly into the result. A couple hundred bucks can make a huge difference to a small team getting started.
Some boat racer crashes at the drags and they are raising money for ________ (hospital, family, flowers, you name it) and you want to throw them a couple of bones.. Absolutely.
No Butt No Putt's g/f's son Brody had some issues. The money donated went into their gas tank to help offset the cause of driving to pheonix etc.. That would be a another good one.
If you want to have some large cause to donate too.. Then find out whomever it is that is fighting to preserve our rights as boaters or offroaders and donate to that.. Even that would be acceptable to me.
Raising money for huge causes though.. Our pissant donations make little if any difference. Even if you raise 10 grand in the name of breast cancer (which would be my cause.. My mom had it) once you give the check.. about a nickel on each dollar actually goes to research, and again in a billion dollar industry nobody will notice.
I'd rather focus our limited supply of charity, energy, and effort into something that will make a larger scale difference, on a smaller problem.
1st let me qualify what I'm about to say so when you come at me with the torches and pitchforks at least you'll think twice about stringing me up by my nuts.
I have never asked for a donation to run this board.. 100's of people have offered and I have always declined. To be quite honest I can't even afford to pay attention at this point, and to run this place equates to me having another car payment each month. I still won't ask, if nothing else out of sheer pride or stupidity I'm not sure which at this point.
I have always felt that if your going to give money you should get something in return for it.. A t-shirt, whatever.
I'm going to follow this up with another "qualifying" story. My mom wanted to get a memorial bench for my dad. There about a 1000 bucks.. Well then she had to have it in this one particular park that my dad liked by the airport. Well the park is privately owned, and by the time that all shook out it was 7000 bucks. She asked me to put a thing on here to ask for donations because it's a shit pot full of money for what it is. I never did it, because it just didn't seem right to me to ask other people for money for our cause kinda deal. That and I know my dad wouldn't have done it if he was alive. (Granted if he was alive we wouldn't need the fockin bench, but that's a whole different chicken or the egg conversation)
That being said the boating community is a big one, and I've just come to the conclusion that something really shitty is gonna happen to someone about once a month.. Cancer, death, suicide, other terrible shit that I can't even think of right now... It it has all happened, and will continue to happen.
So I'm thinking today, what happens if I donate 100 bucks to the cancer society? It's a multi billion dollar a year industry at this point.. My donation makes such little impact that nobody will ever notice it. I can't say my 100 bucks did "this." All the charity in the world that this board brings in does very little on a larger scale.. So I'd like to change the direction of that to helping smaller causes, a lot more.
This is a grass roots website, and there's only so much generosity to go around. I'm going to ask that from next week on if that if we're going to be asking for donations for anything on here that it goes directly to a local / personal cause. Preferrably a boating / offroad / racing / save the trails / fight the noise laws kinda cause..
Things that would be acceptable on here
I'll expand on that..
A good one would be if you want to help a local cause.. Buying one of the raffle tickets from Firecracker to send them to australia to represent the USA. Every dollar earned goes directly to paying for the trip. 100 bucks will make a huge difference to them.
Another good example, would be hey we're going to put together a race team for the __________ and we're looking for some sponsors (this is applicable to ANYBODY but Squirtin thunder) Something we're every dollar goes directly into the result. A couple hundred bucks can make a huge difference to a small team getting started.
Some boat racer crashes at the drags and they are raising money for ________ (hospital, family, flowers, you name it) and you want to throw them a couple of bones.. Absolutely.
No Butt No Putt's g/f's son Brody had some issues. The money donated went into their gas tank to help offset the cause of driving to pheonix etc.. That would be a another good one.
If you want to have some large cause to donate too.. Then find out whomever it is that is fighting to preserve our rights as boaters or offroaders and donate to that.. Even that would be acceptable to me.
Raising money for huge causes though.. Our pissant donations make little if any difference. Even if you raise 10 grand in the name of breast cancer (which would be my cause.. My mom had it) once you give the check.. about a nickel on each dollar actually goes to research, and again in a billion dollar industry nobody will notice.
I'd rather focus our limited supply of charity, energy, and effort into something that will make a larger scale difference, on a smaller problem.
