Regarding http://harvestlots.org, June 7th wasn't that long ago. It could be that fr33aid convinced them to start accepting Bitcoin, and took some time to contact us once they got the Bitcoin option working. I can ask Teresa how well she knows the charity and if she can vouch for them.

I don't remember if I posted this before:

Again, not meaning to influence a decision or diss the noble cause. Just presenting facts.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jnlSpkQEu6EJ:www.meetup.com/Harvest-Lots-Concord-Community-Garden/members/1844715/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


I just now found the following after pasting the above quote: http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bitcoin-Meetup-Group/members/?offset=100&desc=1&sort=chapter_member.atime


From 2011: http://web.archive.org/web/20110831091542/http://freedomcam.net/car_blackbox_dashcam.html

I'll have to negate what I penned at the beginning of this post and state that unfortunately Harvest Lots may not qualify.

Hopefully, there's some way we can make it up to them, for what I've seen, August puts in one helluva lotta effort into his cause.

We have installed a donation button on our main page, but last week it got lost through some glitch while updating. We have re-installed the button. Thank you for your support and feedback!

Will be meeting up with that equine charity this weekend, and pumping Bitcoin to all the artists around the con in Pittsburgh. Hope I don't make too much of an ass of myself :/

Hi Rassah,

I was writing to you from your contact's page of Bitcoin100.org as a follow up because SPICES EIP was listed in the charities page with Status="Accepted" and Donation="Pending" as in the screen shot below. Just wanted to let you know what we've done in response to some of the comments in this forum and what else we may need to do to receive the donation.


I am surprised to hear that spices has not been accepted because of "numerous concerns about spices being too much of a religious organization from our donors". Going by the public discussions on this board, all comments have been positive:-

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2515997#msg2515997
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2537776#msg2537776
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2539420#msg2539420
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2546429#msg2546429
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2546614#msg2546614
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2547171#msg2547171
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2550271#msg2550271

I assume that the numerous objections might have come through private messages. I fully respect the donors' concern and am not pushing the case, just to clarify any misunderstandings.

In addition, I'm sorry to suggest this charity as I was not aware that your donation drive was to convince new charities to start accepting Bitcoins because the clarification was posted on your website and on this forum only after the spices case was discussed.
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/52543.msg2550271#msg2550271

When I saw the positive comments and the publishing of the "Accepted" status on your website, I jumped the gun and alerted the committee that their FIRST Bitcoin donation since 2011 (besides a test transaction) was on the way! I was hoping that this might convince the committee that Bitcoin donations actually worked after all these years of waiting.

So I'd just like to clarify the whole situation and move on from here as I'm aware your hands are full pursuing this noble cause. If this decision is final, kindly update your Charities page accordingly.

Thanks.

Yes, some of the objections were through email directly to me, and the rest from this forum. I have a way to resolve this issue though. Those donors who did not want to donate, I will cover their donation myself. It's only about 1.5 btc at this point anyway. If there are no issues with this, I'll add my 1.5 btc (you'll see it in the BTC100 address history), and send the money out Monday.

Hello Rassah (and everyone else on this forum!),

My name is Cary Kelly, and I am the outreach campaign manager for ASI Conserva Chile. ASI Conserva Chile is the only association of conservation initiatives in private and indigenous land reserves in Chile, and one of few such organizations in Latin America. Recently, we launched an Indiegogo campaign to sponsor scholarships for indigenous leaders to attend our biodiversity conservation congress this summer. Indigenous communities in many Latin American nations struggle to gather the financial or technical resources to participate in growing conservation initiatives, and we want to change that by bringing key indigenous leaders into the dialogue.

As you can probably assume by my simple presence on this forum, we have decided to open up our campaign to bitcoin donations. Indiegogo does not formally integrate bitcoins into their campaign platform, but we're independently accepting bitcoins which we will then re-donate into the campaign fund, acknowledging the donor and their preferred bitcoin donation method.

We would be honored to be recipients of a Bitcoin 100 donation of any amount, and we have plans for future bitcoin incorporation soon! Though our small, mostly volunteer team in hectically busy in anticipation of our conference in Congress, we're currently discussing how and when to integrate donations into our own organization (www.asiconservachile.org). Bitcoin awareness is fairly nonexistent here in Chile, but people are slowly catching on.

Here you can learn more about our campaign:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/indigenous-leader-scholarships-latin-american-conservation-congress/x/1273897

And here is our address where we're accepting donations for the campaign: 1H8Sdng8dQwk7CmT7frs6GGLmfzs2gFwXH

If donating, we would still like to recognize you on our platform and offer you the listed perks, so please shoot me an email at cary @ asiconservachile.org

Please let me know your comments and questions!

Best Wishes,

Cary Kelly
ASI Conserva Chile

equineangelsrescue.com representatives were very receptive to my proposal, and I'll discuss this with their head tomorrow. She's out shoveling horse pies today. There is also a charity/nonprofit panel at this convention on Sunday, where I plan to represent a bit.