You could give more information how you're actually using the donations .
If I'm not wrong,you're making stories from interviewing random poor struggling people from the streets,making a blog post about it and given them food as part of the gesture.Now,I'm really not sure what you're intentions are
1.You want to make the blog famous
2.Or you wish to help the poor,
3.Mutual profits
In 1 and 3 cases,you don't need donations at all,there is a term for it logically ,"Investors" who need a equity stake in your business.In the 2nd case,you don't need the 1st and 3rd discrepancies at all,that does make it look like a scam you're doing to fulfill your packets while giving biscuit packets for the poor and a name for the donater on your website.Well,that hardly matters,you're not giving any significant benefits afterall and it sounds shady as hell.Make up your mind and decide what exactly you have to do.You can't make a business out of charity ,unless you want to scam people.
A very good question. And we've heard this multiple times from different people.
We don't want to be taking donations forever. We also don't want to make RLB a business.
We want to create something that makes money to be self-sufficient without external funding/donation.
Hence, (1) is true. We want to make the blog famous. That's one way it can become self-sufficient. (2) We definitely want to help the poor. We've only spent money till now, never got any inflow of money. All of that, to help the poor. Our founder has done a whole bunch of odd jobs to make funds available to pursue this. We even teach students in our spare time, as you'll notice in one of the articles on the blog.
We don't wish to scam. And we realise the 'newbie' status is giving us a lot of negative light. But we sure need help. We're looking for any and every suggestion on raising money for this!