Quote from: Soros Shorts on August 23, 2016, 07:47:24 AM

Why so cynical? There are plenty of local charities that get by on a shoe string budget and the efforts of its volunteers. They may not have the staying power of a global charity and may disappear during hard times, but they are there. Even though small charities may waste money, e.g. a local soup kitchen in my area spent a lot of money paying for parking ticket fines for their delivery van, but you can't even compare that to the wastage of the Red Cross.

agreed i prefer funding the actual local place that does the actual face to face helping of people.
for instance Seans outpost. i have donated alot to them because the guy asking for the funds is the exact same guy making the sandwiches for the homeless.

in my country (uk) there are food banks(managed by the trussel trust). i have donated lots of food to the local place and see it getting handed out to the locals in need. but would never donate money to the trussel trust HQ. the funny part is the local food locations actually pay in a fee TO the trust, just to be part of its membership.. this to me is not right.

im not cynical, i am just awake to the real world.
i help when i can either being positive to something genuine or calling out bullshit if not genuine. it better than just being a sheep that hands out funds to wolves just to pretend to have community spirit.

i just dont let funds leave my hand without knowing enough about where its going and how its been used.
and looking at the OP's reply.. they seem to be trying to set themselves up as 'middle men' handling and distributing funds,

Quote from: beneficent on August 23, 2016, 07:24:38 AM

We are just looking for groups that would benefit from a better way of control, management, collection and distribution

for a profit obviously because the OP intends to resign from real life work to get paid by the project.

Quote from: beneficent on August 23, 2016, 07:24:38 AM

I will not be reveling my real identity yet as I still work for a charity and would rather not lose my job (just yet).

in my eyes bitcoin charities dont need management executives dong "control, management, collection and distribution" as a separate task away from the 'front line'.. they just need the 'foot soldiers' doing the work for those in need and simple a method to convert bitcoin into resources that will help those in need, which the foot soldiers should be part of and making each of them accountable to each other.