Money Making Schemes

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Hiring Gary Glitter to play at the reception.

Nagesh answers:

Well that’s called communism. That is everyone works at a job, goes home, and benefits from everyone else’s work.

Downside of that is simply that no one ever gets past that apartment that they share with 7 other extended families where everyone sleeps in shifts.

Or … They barter. Barter isn’t too fair. After all how many fish can one man pile up unless he’s got someone who wants or needs fish to trade for other things.

How do you measure the value of a fish against a piece of lumber?

What would be fairer. The fisherman who gets 100 fish in an hour and gets a hundred pieces of lumber? Or the sawmill operator who has to spend a whole day making a hundred pieces of lumber out of a tree?

Would a brick mason be worth more per hour than a dog groomer?

How about a doctor? A lawyer? A priest?

How would we ever tally such things in order to determine whether we need to “tax” that production in order to exchange goods with another nation?

Makes it very hard and inconvenient, and tends to isolate communities from each other.

Cash makes it easier to convert fish to lumber or whatever you need or want.

Or … You barter on the black market.

Nagesh answers:

I honestly don’t know, but my friend this year brought her boyfriend a dog chain that said her/his name on it and the date in which they started to go out. She gave the chain with her name to him and kept the chain with his name to herself. She also brought a gift bag filled with food for him; and he liked the gifts very much.

Nagesh answers:

One route you could go is setting up a homepage for your group on a fundraising website. Raising support online is much more simple and tidy than raising funds via cash or check, and it gives your org a place to post information, photos and let people know what you do.

There are plenty of sites these days that help community organizations like yours meet their goals. For a small, community-based group, there are some good options:

First Giving (www.firstgiving.com) is a solid one. They charge 5.5% on donations raised and have a simple structure to set up your page (though you may have to be a certified non-profit to register with them).

If that’s the case, another option is Empowered (www.empowered.org). They process 3.5% on donations raised, offer lots of tools to help organize/fundraise, and I know they support all small groups, regardless of non-profit status.

And you could always try to send up your own PayPal account to link to you directly, but this is a little trickier and a bit inflexible.

Good luck getting your fundraising going, I hope this helps!

Nagesh answers:

Go to an invention site or store and give it to them they will do the rest.