Has there ever been any discussion about setting up something like a legal or medical fund that could help out MetaFilter users unable to afford? Or perhaps a broader MetaFilter hardship fund?
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posted by doublehappy
on Jun 22, 2011 -
96 comments
Attention Metafilter Kiva team and DonorsChoose.org advocates: Groupon is currently offering to "boost your donation" with a groupon purchase to either (or both!) of these sites.
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posted by sarahnade
on Dec 13, 2010 -
6 comments
Updates to
An Honored Mefite In Trouble, Loquacious is out of the hospital and thanks to the generosity of everyone who's donated thus far, he is now in a position to consider new opportunities which weren't available to him before. Things are looking up. The
charity auction is going strong, with the first auction closing today. Many thanks all.
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posted by The Whelk
on May 31, 2010 -
34 comments
Our last podcast of the year was recorded on December 11th and covers the last month or so on the sites including the charity drive/raffle and the favorites kerfuffle. It runs about an hour long, with notes inside.
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posted by mathowie
on Dec 17, 2009 -
31 comments
Paypal update: after two weeks of stalling, it's off to final review. Results should come in a few more days.
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posted by mathowie
on Dec 3, 2009 -
128 comments
We're raffling off usernumber 100000!
For the next week Through Friday, you can buy
$5 raffle tickets (to benefit your choice of five charitable orgs) for a chance to win the big account
and airfare to a meetup of your choice.
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posted by cortex
on Nov 16, 2009 -
720 comments
Behind the scenes, we've been thinking about what the 100,000th user on MeFi would mean, and how we could commemorate it, so I'm floating our idea here...
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posted by mathowie
on Nov 9, 2009 -
237 comments
The Morning News is throwing their annual
Tournament of Books to figure out the best book of 2007. A new twist this year is the
Making Book Tournament where you bet on what the winner will be, with the proceeds going to
First Book, a literacy foundation. MeFi is dollar matching bets up to $1,000 for the contest.
posted by mathowie
on Mar 4, 2008 -
18 comments
Various artists: Feelin' Blue (Metafilter Records, 2006)
Given the response to
cortex's excellent music post, and given the range and quality of music on offer, I have an idea that will make us all rich and famous* [follow me inside...]
posted by nylon
on Apr 16, 2006 -
82 comments
Last week's fundraiser became a sad debacle, and there's certainly no point retreading that ground. But I really like the idea of MeFites raising money for charity, and I think it's fun to make it a competition. I came up with an idea for a new, and hopefully friendlier and less divisive, contest for charity. I'd like to hear what you folks think. [more inside]
posted by Faint of Butt
on Oct 24, 2005 -
55 comments
"
You guys have some sense of outrage over something that was a goof".
O.K., let's play, then, since it's such a funny a goof, apparently. I volunteer for the next MetaSurvivor round -- let's give my many MeFi friends a nice fat chance to vote me off the island. Two requests, though. 500 dollars are bad for my ego, let's make it 1,000. And I don't care enough about CreativeCommons
(sorry!), so if you want to kick me out you have to donate to
these guys. Who wants to play with me?
posted by matteo
on Oct 21, 2005 -
66 comments
Announcing the new
MetaFilter Fundraising for Fun project. dios and rothko/AlexReynolds have agreed to let you guys vote with your dollars, for charity. Throw some cash into the till for the guy you want to take a break for a week, and in the end it all goes to
Creative Commons' fundraiser. Think of it as a charity dunk tank: you put down five bucks to toss a few at the guy you love to hate. It'll run for a week, so let's make the fun last.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 19, 2005 -
185 comments
We used to sponsor a Mefi scholarship. There will be so many displaced students from Katrina - maybe we could reinstitute some Mefi scholarships for kids who need to relocate or change colleges? Just a potential idea for a way we could hep as a community.
posted by madamjujujive
on Sep 3, 2005 -
8 comments
'Filtering for Dollars: Let's ignore the questions about the veracity of the claims of the particular user here. Where is the line when it comes to soliciting money via Metafilter? [more inside]
posted by daveadams
on Feb 28, 2005 -
179 comments
from todays'
dack.com
"What's wrong with this picture? In a few short weeks Andrew Sullivan's weblog has collected almost $3500 in microdonations. By contrast, Metafilter -- a community site where people feel like stakeholders, and presumably have a greater motivation for giving -- has been stuck at about $750 for weeks. Are the musings of a Catholic gay conservative really that popular? Or are Metafilter readers just cheap bastards?"
posted by lagado
on Mar 12, 2001 -
9 comments
