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Welcome to the official thread for the United States Goon Fund!!! This thread serves as a hub for people to either request money from the fund or help contribute to the fund to help others! In need of help? Click here to submit a request to our google form!! WANT TO DONATE? CLICK HERE FOR DIFFERENT WAYS TO HELP! Please note, effective 6/3/23 - all requests will be capped at $125 due to low funds. This is an attempt to make sure everyone gets money. If your request is over this amount, we WILL keep your request active until we can fulfill it in full at a later date. This cap will be removed when our funds situation improves and any backlog is satisfied. 11/26 - WE ARE LOW ON FUNDS, IMMEDIATE NEEDS MAY NOT BE FULFILLED DUE TO THIS. PLEASE TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION AND DO NOT RELY ON THE FUND FOR THE TIME BEING. 11/29 - Low funds is not an issue at this time, but this is an update in regards to the new 30 day rolling rule. If you request more than $125 over a 30 day period - we will have to limit your request or even deny it. We are not making it a super hard limit. For instance, if you requested $125 - 28 days ago and need more funds - we will accommodate that. This is more to prevent people requesting large sums from the Fund weekly. 4/2 Update: We have gotten our funds issue cleared up, there is a small surplus that exists again and the commitee feels confident to lift the warning for the time being THIS FUND IS NOT ENDORSED BY THE SOMETHING AWFUL FORUMS OR ADMINS. THE ADMINS HAVE NO EXTRA INSIGHT INTO FINANCIALS, DATA COLLECTION, OR HOW THE COMMITTEE WORKS BEYOND WHAT IS PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. CURRENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS OF 11/17/23 KINGCOBWEB SPENG31B REALLY QUEER CHRISTMAS DOCBEARD TILER KIWI We have a Discord if you prefer to contact us this way. CURRENT CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GOON FUND GENERAL Q&A What is the purpose of this thread? When covid first hit, goons in CSPAM were in need of help to pay bills, get emergency payments, or even just get some food. While some goons helped out by giving a couple bucks to people, eventually a fund was created via patreon by Plinkey. Unfortunately, this fund had to be dismantled in late 2022 and that's when goons came together to start a new fund that would not fall victim to the fate of so many other goon projects. What makes this goonfund different from the last, or even from a scam like when that goon raised money to buy pants? During the setup of this fund, it was decided that the best way to organize this to give the most help, with the least amount of trouble caused by bureaucracy, was to set up a nonprofit company and aim to become a federally recognized 501c3 tax-deductible charity. This would also allow the fund to be super transparent in terms of financial presentation, while still allowing the fund to protect the privacy of those who request money. As such, the United States Goon Fund is a true nonprofit corporation headquartered in the state of Washington. 501c3 status is currently in progress as of the time of writing. Why are you not a 501c3 if this was a specific goal of the fund? We are now a 501c3! Can I donate or request money if I'm not in the USA? As we are now a federal 501c3, we can receive funds from foreigners! However, we still cannot give funds to you if you are a foreigner. If you are in the UK, there is a UK goonfund you can request funds from here. Who do I contact if I have issues with a request, donation, just want to complain First off, you can email us at usgoonfund@gmail.com with a guarantee to reach at least one of the committee members. I want to shitpost in this thread and otherwise poo poo on people doing good deeds or not bootstrapping themselves food Yeah, no. This thread is not the place to do any kind of general shitposting, and good faith is expected in every aspect of this project. If you have a problem with how the fund works, upset about not receiving money, wanting a question answered, concerns you have about being a potential donor, or any suggestions you have to improve what we are doing - we welcome all of this! We just again ask, and expect, your post to be in good faith. Do not try to troll this thread. Q&A FOR REQUESTORS Where do I go to request help? Click here! Who can request money? Anyone with a SA account username! We are certainly willing to help out a friend of yours if they need a small amount of money, but the goal of this thread is to help the goons who post on this website (or once posted on this website) with any issues they are currently having. What can I request money for? As of right now, you can request money for anything you feel you need. If you need money to get groceries, please feel free to request. If you don't think you'll be able to afford your phone bill - we are here! Need money for an uber to get home after work? Send in a request! If you have less emergency needs, we are happy to help with those - but please see below about how we plan to handle your request. Do I need to have proof of what I need the money for? No! We do not require any proof of your need of funds. We are going to assume good faith on your part that you truly do need this money. Someone who is normally of means may still request aid if there is a sudden issue, but the hope is you will be willing to give back when you become of means again. Please consider this fund to be a pool of money the community uses to give and take depending on who needs help right now. Today you may be the one giving, and tomorrow the one taking. Both of these things are fine to do! Just operate in good faith, and this can work for us all. Does the reason I need the money matter? If times are good and there is plenty of money in the fund, not really. But, with the assumption that we may not always have funds available, we will go by either: 1. First come, first serve. 2. Timeframe needed. 3. The need of the request. To give an example, if there is only $100 in the fund at the moment and two requests have been submitted - one in need of paying a utility bill in 10 days for $100 - and the second needing $50 for gas money needed by tomorrow. We will likely target the second request as the need is much more present, and the fund should have recuperated the extra money in time to help the utility bill before their deadline. Can the fund cover my rent? While exceptions can be made, the purpose of this fund is more smaller scale. The fund may be able to help cover a portion of rent, but the fund can't be expected to pay people's entire rents. That said, there is no reason to hold back if you are in that desperate a need. If the fund has the availability, the committee will decide after a vote whether to give the full amount of the request, a partial amount, or to deny the request (the latter option would be rare, and likely only done if the requester is abusing the system). It is worth noting during the interim fund system, no requests were denied - even if several only had partial fulfillments. Should I grovel and beg for a morsel of help from the community? Absolutely not. Needing help from people is NOT a flaw of yours and isn't something you should be ashamed of. You do not need to feel bad for asking for help from this fund - you needing help is exactly why this fund is here! Our country has sadly abandoned many people who don't make 6-7 figures a year. Not having resources or family or friends able to help you is not your fault, and the fund is here specifically to be a safety net so that any goon never has to feel like they have no hope. You're not a burden for needing help. Your google form wants a lot of personal information from me. How can I trust you with this? Unfortunately, we do have to require an email address from everyone who requests in case we need to be able to get in contact with you. As some users do not have platinum status - they cannot send or receive privates messages in case anything goes wrong with their request. We also need to know at least one method that you can receive money through (paypal, venmo, etc,). However, any other personal information is not required and NONE OF THIS IS KEPT!! After your request is fulfilled, he request you submit will be deleted so that only the one member who saw your request will know it was you. Nothing personally identifying is kept except for username, date of request, and amount requested. This information are kept for bookkeeping reasons as well as to prevent any potential abuses. If you are keeping usernames, then that could mean that information could be used to shame me at a later date! If any committee member leaks that information, then they will be removed from their position immediately. If you do still feel weary about any potential leak of your information, you can also request money by PMing a particular committee member you trust with the following information: Amount you need Date you need it by Way to receive money (Paypal username, venmo username, etc) However, do be aware you are at the mercy of the member reading their PMs, compared to the google form. What if I want to make a request in the thread? We strongly discourage you from doing this. We can't stop you, but we do prefer to keep your request anonymous to keep your information safe, and also prevent any potential drama that could come up in the future. How do I get money from the fund? Currently, we have the ability to send money via Venmo & cashapp, with the ability to do paypal but it usually doesn't work for us. We will not be able to send money via Zelle for the foreseeable future as our credit union doesn't support Zelle for business accounts. Q&A FOR DONORS How do I see the financials of the fund? After the end of the month, a committee member will post a summary of the the prior month's inflows versus outflows as well as post information like number of unique donors and unique requests. There is currently no set date for when these financials will be posted in the thread. The fund will maintain public facing financials at all times, including a cash amount at the end of the last month and a current count of cash on hand. MARCH 2023 FINANCIALS APRIL 2023 FINANCIALS MAY 2023 FINANCIALS JUNE 2023 FINANCIALS JULY 2023 FINANCIALS AUGUST 2023 FINANCIALS SEPTEMBER 2023 FINANCIALS OCTOBER 2023 FINANCIALS NOVEMBER 2023 FINANCIALS DECEMBER 2023 FINANCIALS JANUARY 2024 FINANCIALS FEBRUARY 2024 FINANCIALS How do I know if you're spending the money I'm giving wisely? Currently, the only overhead expected is the cost of receiving donations via stripe (2.9% of transaction + $.30 a transaction) and the costs of any integrations, or accounting software. There will be no payroll, lavish trips paid for by the fund, or members not doing their due diligence in making sure a request is not legitimate. How can you be sure a request is legitimate if you do not require proof of need? The committee agrees, unanimously, that good faith must be assumed and expected on the part of the requestor. To begin to doubt a requestor who has shown no reason to be doubted is a path to becoming something that is unrecognizable to a mutual aid fund such as this. Anyone abusing this will eventually be found, but it is something that we would rather deal with when it comes up rather than force the vast majority of trustworthy and in need people to jump through hoops to continue their quest of survival and bettering themselves. If you disagree and won't donate because of that, we understand. Can I deduct any donations off my taxes? Maybe sometime in the future after the fund becomes a 501c3, yes! Also, you're likely incredibly rich if you can do this!! 9/19 Edit: YES!!! WE ARE NOW A US FEDERAL 501(c)(3) CHARITY!!! Enough questions, how do I donate? There are several different ways you can donate - if you want to give money monthly, then that has to process through Stripe. The first, is our one time flexible donation link: Here. This link will let you donate how every much you want and only do it once. What if you want to donate a certain amount every month and want to pick the day it comes out of your account? Well then the following links are for you! Each one is already set to do a recurring amount out of your account once a month, the only difference between the links is the amount. Give $5 Monthly Give $10 Monthly Give $20 Monthly Give $50 Monthly Give $75 Monthly Give $100 Monthly Give $250 Monthly Give $500 Monthly Want to give more monthly? Let us know and we can create a special link for you! Can I give via paypal, venmo, or cashapp? While you *can* do this, we'd prefer to get all funds via stripe as the other sources will charge us more to receive cash. 3/28 Update: Actually, sending us pure cash via Venmo/Cashapp costs us the least amount of money. But it has to be with cash from a bank. If you use a card to transfer money, then you will pay to transfer the money AND we will pay a fee to receive it. Cash only transfer will mean we will pay a small 1.9% fee while you pay nothing - which is about a percent less than a stripe card "swipe". 9/30 Update: We have turned on ACH via STRIPE now. Please see the Stripe links in the next post as ACH is the cheapest way to process payments. PLEASE BE WARNED THAT ACH MEANS YOU MUST HAVE CASH IN YOUR ACCOUNT ON THAT TIME YOU SELECT OR BOTH OF US WILL INCUR NSF FEES!!! GIVE VIA PAYPAL: LINK GIVE VIA VENMO: LINK GIVE VIA CASHAPP: LINK What if I have any issues with my transaction, want to cancel my recurring donation, or otherwise need a refund? 9/30 Edit: We managed to bang rocks together until we figured out Stripe has a customer portal. Check it out here. If you are still having trouble or can't access your account through this link... Please email us at usgoonfund@gmail.com with any of these issues. Make sure to label the subject line appropriately so we can know what you are needing from us. Please also be as prompt as you can with your issue, as refunds will be much easier to process the sooner we know, and we may need time to process any recurring donations, so please don't email us 5 minutes before it's supposed to process. really queer Christmas fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I'd recommend taking the thread out of CSPAM and put it somewhere more appropriate. The predecessor to this fund originated in cspam and came about some time during 2020. The reason why that closed is... uh very complicated. None of the people involved with the current fund have anything to do with that one. If you want to know more about that - the pyf legends thread can give you the full story. Anyway, we hosted the new fund in cspam to help bridge that gap. We have wanted to grow to encompass more of the site, but we've needed to do some work in proving to people we are legitimate after the many horror stories about previous goon charities, much less goon projects. Deki posted:Took a sec to remind myself how much I had going to this monthly and it looks like my last donation only did the initial donation and didn't reoccur. Fixing that. Thank you! I've posted about it a lot in our main thread, but we've actually felt pretty good about making sure people know about the fund in terms of needing help. Less so about getting new donors, so that's why we are trying to branch out now and starting off in the most foot traffic and general forum is the best way to do that. Toxic Mental posted:Yeah I was being serious too, I'm poor but I'm not broke and I can afford to help Thank you as well! Every bit helps! We try to think of the fund as a community pooling resources together. Maybe today you're asking from the pool, and tomorrow you're giving to it. But either way, its about the community at large.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:This is different and it's not a Koala's March situation Nooner so drop it pls If people feel like they need proof that money is going to goons, I don't mind providing that (with redacted info). I don't want people to think this is a closed off operation - we try to be as transparent as we can. Just that most of the information will be redacted to protect requester identities. Also, as mentioned, we do provide monthly financials. I linked the May financials, but March and April are available as well.
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So here were our May financials. We didn't have a lot of money left at the end of the month, and we are a little lower now.     The last image shows off our main dilemma - we don't have a lot of monthly subscribers. So we are mostly at the mercy of hoping our begging posts work. I hate making them, but they have been effective at getting us a bit more funds. Here's what our venmo and cashapp recent history look like   Everything in black are people's names - which I'm not releasing under any circumstances.  Here's a snippet of our bank balance, venmo usually takes a day to come out since those payments are ACH, but cashapp is instant. We have a $200 venmo payment coming out on Monday, which is why I say we only have $99 left. Though stripe is also supposed to deposit $38 on Monday:  We really do have no other expenses besides CC fees and government fees. We are all volunteers - so no payroll, we use google docs for the vast majority of our record keeping... which is far from ideal but it is free.
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If anyone is skeptical and would like to be proven wrong - what more evidence can we provide to prove this is on the up and up? I absolutely know the history of goon gofundmes or goon projects on this website, but we have done what I think we can in terms of providing evidence and financials. Sure, pictures can be faked, but anything I post can be faked as well. Please note - if we were to provide more evidence, usernames, names, and anything of that nature will be blacked out or removed. I know this makes it seem harder to believe in, but I'd rather risk someone walk away thinking this is a scam than compromise our requestor's identities (both forums and real life)
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Because I am worried these questions will come across the wrong way, let me say first Don't worry, your questions are fine! As speng said, it's a mix of first come and urgency. If someone sends in a request but they say they don't need the money till the end of the month, we try to wait a bit to make sure no urgent requests come in and then fulfill it. The size of the request can also play a part, someone requesting $30 for gas is more than likely getting instantly given aid compared to someone requesting $500. The latter is usually put up to a vote in terms of how we want to handle (partial or full fulfillment). I always encourage goons that know they're gonna need funds, to request it early. If something changes for the better- you can always PM or email us and cancel/modify your request. (Several requests have been reduced in the past.) But if it's in early, we can budget for it and make sure we can disburse funds to you while also being able to help people who may have a more sudden and urgent need.
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Elviscat posted:Has this thread been successful so far? As in are your finances looking up, at least for the month? Just curious about that. Sorry, I wasn't ignoring this - I wanted to put financials together to show off. And then it took me an hour because venmo's reports are godawful and then I messed with a formula which caused me to be off and may have led to more hair falling out.. anyway, enough about my hair:    We are back in the green again, which is good! The main problem though, is we still have $1,386 in outstanding requests as of right now. The good news is that about $200 of that is due by middle of next week, and the rest is due by month end. We are planning to fulfill $200 through venmo today - I have sent an email to confirm the payment info with the requestee as their venmo name brings up multiple people, and I always try to confirm with them even when I'm 99% sure I know which one is the correct one. Chasing down wrongfully sent money will be much harder than just being patient, IMO. As to your question... honestly the thread was somewhat a net 0. It brought in as much in requests as it did people donating. Net 0 isn't bad though, it's not like we want to sit on money if people need it. The biggest success for the fund was from PYF over the weekend thanks to... drama, is all I will say. From the financials, you should be able to see that large balance in the "Due From Stripe" row, that's supposed to hit Wednesday, and is when we plan to fulfill the oldest requests and hopefully get caught up. Though, I assume we will likely have at least 2 - 3 more requests by then as our normal rate is about 1 to 1.5 per day (1 per day in april, 1.5 per day in May).
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For whatever reason, the venmo link only works on phone. Desktop venmo doesn't let you do anything except personal stuff. We can't even access the fund's venmo from desktop outside of reporting (which isn't available on mobile lol) I hate it but thems the breaks. If the link isn't working for you on your phone, try this one: https://www.paypal.com/qrcodes/venmocs/09b9a52c-58a5-4d43-940d-547639cd7c1b?created=1687376305 Its the same link you'd get if you scanned a qr code so it should work. If not, try our username - @usgoonfund
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.random posted:Got it! The link doesn’t like me but I decided to go for it anyway with the ol’ username. To expand on this a bit, here's a donation we got via venmo earlier today:  so essentially, we lost $1.05 on that $50, but the person sending only had to send $50 (if via debit card). I assume if its credit card, they may charge us the full 3% - in which case you may as well use stripe since we get cash - which can be used for venmo, cashapp, or paypal - rather than just venmo. Though yeah - if you want to do cash transfer - venmo is definitely the way to do it. (and a serious thank you to whoever just donated through venmo!)
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Spaghett posted:What's the balance now? How we doing? Did a bunch of money come in? Sorry for delay, very busy day for me. I posted this in the CSPAM thread over the weekend: really queer Christmas posted:Late June Financials Update: We had a discussion of what to do about our large dollar requests (we got another one in today) and the pretty universal consensus was - helping everyone with something should take priority over helping some with everything. So for now we are going to do what we can to help large requests, but we can't save people fully, sadly. But to answer your question directly, we aren't as hard up as before! Expanding to GBS and the ads have helped get us to a decent spot, but we still are in a minor deficit.
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Crossposting the financials update from the CSPAM thread over here, for those allergic to CSPAM:quote:END OF JUNE FINANCIALS: Elviscat posted:I had a thought that's probably stupid and won't work. It's something that would have to be done informally, not affiliated with the fund itself. A business (which this officially is) is open to a massive amount of liability when people are doing home repair, home visits, or mutual aid in the form of deliveries or real life activities. If we were to organize something like that and someone gets hurt doing it, we'd be liable to cover their medical bills or get sued or even just have the state government fine us for not having the proper licensing, insurance, forms, etc. We'd also have to register in every state we do something like that, and pay/file the proper annual paperwork every year. It'd be a nightmare logistically and administratively for something a couple of goons are doing in our spare time. really queer Christmas fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jul 8, 2023 |
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ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD posted:Edit: You should get a Zelle account. It might help donations Our bank doesn't do Zelle, unfortunately. We also had very little people use Zelle during the interim so it hasn't been a big loss.
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Pinball posted:This is such a wonderful idea. Chipped in a recurring donation. Hope it can help make the world a kinder place! Average amount requested is about $130, this doesn't include the couple of extremely large requests that are over $500 that we have only been able to partially fulfill. We don't really keep the comments around after requests are filled, but based on my memory I'd say the top 4 are 1. food 2. medicine/doc visits 3. gas 4. dental If I had to take a stab at 5th, it'd be help with rent. During the interim fund (when we entirely a donor - requestor based community group and not a formal business) we actually had a request to be able to pay someone's rent which was obviously undoable for us... but a donor actually did step up and take care of it.
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Is anyone a Euro who's followed the thread who would be interested in helping another Euro? We got in a EU request so we can't send them funds. Current request is 100 EUR, if you are willing to help - please PM me or email usgoonfund AT gmail DOT com
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Argyle posted:Came into an unexpected windfall and donated a chunk. Big thanks to RQC and the board for organizing. a genuine holy poo poo and thank you 
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Leon Sumbitches posted:Hi fund folks, I submitted a request earlier this week and haven't heard back. Any way to check the status? 125 would help get me closer to rent this month. You had put your deadline as 8/14, so we usually wait until the deadline nears to make sure we can take care of people with either more immediate needs or people who requested before you. We will very likely take care of it sometime before Sunday. As for being able to check requests yourselves, it's actually something we discussed implementing. But, as you can expect, projects take longer to plan out when everyone's a volunteer working at their own pace.
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Copy pasting this announcement and financials section from CSPAM for those allergic to that forum - JULY 2023 FINANCIALS UPDATE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS:     July was a lot more laid back than June was for us, were it not for a huge influx of requests in the final couple days of the month, we would have likely limped into August with very little funds. But, we did have a lot of requests and many goons answered our call for help uh quite handsomely! So handsomely, we were able to pay a large expense that had been looming over the fund for a while - which I will get into momentarily. *I don't want to beat around the bush since we do have some bad news that I have been hoping and praying was resolved much sooner. About 2 weeks ago, we received a message from stripe that they could no longer verify our website and were doing an audit of our account. We never set up a website, however Stripe allowed us to create a twitter account and use that as our website with no issues. However... thanks to new X.com policies, you can no longer find that twitter account without being logged in - which is what triggered the automatic flagging on Stripe's end. We have complied with everything Stripe has requested of us - detailing out our business model, breaking down what we 'sell' (charitable services), how open we are to our 'customers' (I hope you all know that you are giving to a charity, if not then please read the OP lol), and how we conduct business. They were still not satisfied with our answers and wanted a website to view that details out all of this... and thanks to speng We now have a very barebones website that is essentially just the OP. We thought that would be the end of it, however, Stripe is now in week 3 of their 1-2 day review and has now paused all payouts to us. We currently have about $1K sitting with Stripe that they won't give to us until they are satisfied with their review. I reached out yesterday to ask if they require more of us or if they could push back the payout stoppage until their review has completed, but all I got back was "We understand this is an issue for you, but we need more time to complete our review." *I do want to stress that we are not hardup for money right now. We currently have about $1k in the bank, and a couple hundred with venmo, so the small day to day stuff can still be handled. But requests with deadlines in a couple weeks are being put on hold until that time comes to make sure we have funds for anything immediate. We have contemplated moving to a different payment processor, but we are divided on whether stripe is just dragging their feet or planning to cut us off. We are hoping the issue gets resolved very quickly. *Some good news that came out of this, was to prove that we are an actual charity and because we finally had the funds for it - WE HAVE FILED TO BECOME A 501C3 STATUS CHARITY!! So you may be asking, well why did it take you so long to do so? Well, you see, the fund originally was a small thing that we were expecting to have a max of about $3k a month in revenue - which would mean we could file an amended form 1023 - which is about 6 pages, asks simple questions, and only costs $275. Unfortunately we are, as they say, suffering from success and averaging about $6542 a month in revenue... putting us over the $50K expected threshold for annual income. This means we are disqualified from filing amended form 1023 and had to file the regular form 1023... which is 40 pages long and took me 5 hours to fill out - not including the hours of research I had to do to figure out exactly how to file, what category of charity would be best to be classified as, how a mutual fund should qualify itself to the IRS, etc. Oh also, it costs $600 to file the regular form instead of $275. *A big requirement of filing, or at least one that made it a LOT easier to file - was to make sure that no officer of the fund is operating with the expectation to receive money back. Meaning the money Speng, KCW, and I fronted the fund has been officially reclassed to member donations as of 6/30/23. Any money we spend on the fund going forward will be treated this way, and we cannot give $100 to cover an expense for the fund one day and expect it back when the fund is able. *Also as a misc announcement - for repeat requestors - PLEASE don't request via Cashapp, Paypal, or Venmo for funds. I know this can seem really easy but it is incredibly difficult to track the trail of the request days or weeks later. I know it can be an inconvenience to fill out the same information again, but you are saving a lot of manhours on our end by going through the google form instead of the apps. A lot of announcements this time! Who knew a little fund on a dying gay website would have so much to say lol.
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Devils Affricate posted:I tried signing up with one of the monthly donation links in the OP but it's telling me my phone number is invalid (even though the credit card info was accepted) If that icon before your number is right, you're not a US resident. We are only able to operate inside the USA in order to maintain tax law compliance.
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Elviscat posted:Came into a bit of money and forwarded some of it on. Yes, so what you sent helps greatly!!
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OMGVBFLOL posted:the donate link for the various apps each just take me to the app store. what's the @ Venmo:  Cashapp: 
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McSpanky posted:What's the rules on repeat requests? Once a month or less? I just had another drat emergency pop up and might could use some help real soon. You can make as many as you need, but once you hit our current cap ($125 every four weeks) we are unlikely to give out more unless its a food emergency.
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Crossposting for the people allergic to CSPAMkingcobweb posted:Got a letter from the IRS that we are an official 501c3, effective March 8 2023!!! mods, please update the title to say now federally approved
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cross postinreally queer Christmas posted:AUGUST 2023 FINANCIALS
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OFFICIAL 501(c)(3) APPROVAL!!!
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I put a call out for support in CSPAM yesterday and I'd like to do the same in GBS. We have about $400 in our bank account, and I just emptied our venmo account on a request. Any aid you can give to us through Stripe, venmo, cashapp, or paypal would be greatly appreciated!! Remember, if you make enough money its even tax deductible now!!! 
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Sep 24, 2023 19:54
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im assuming gbs is to thank for the $500, and if so - big big thanks! We just took care of 4 people and have $150 left over!
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Sep 25, 2023 00:43
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omg chael crash posted:I put in a request just now to help with utilities because it’s been a rough few weeks but I worry that I might have received an error. Just wanted to check, if possible. Your request is in with no issues. for the future, you can also email us if you have any issues with requests so you don't have to post publicly.
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Sep 28, 2023 20:38
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Kibayasu posted:Does being federally approved change anything about being able to receive non-American dollary-doos? The reason we didnt take non-american dollars was because we were going for federal approval. Getting federal approval means we absolutely cannot take non-american money without setting up a specific non-american version.
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Sep 29, 2023 00:07
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DeadlyMuffin posted:I know you're joking, and maybe I'm being paranoid, but it is probably better to not even joke about this.
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Sep 29, 2023 03:22
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I just made two edits to the OP based on information we have gathered this morning in the CSPAM thread. Those are:quote:
The first link will take you to the CSPAM thread that lists all the Stripe methods (It's also in the OP for this thread). The second link allows you to manage your stripe subscription if you set one up via email. Previously, you had to go through us to manage it. But stripe apparently had this feature all along and just... didn't enable it???? Anyway, cheapest and now preferred method is ACH via stripe as the fee is 0.8% compared to venmo's 1.75%. Though like venmo, if you do not have cash on the date of the bank debit, you will incur NSF fees (we will as well). So if you are doing recurring donations and are more likely to be cash poor, we suggest you stick with a card.
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Sep 30, 2023 20:09
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VplDyln posted:Sorry for posting. I submitted one a few days ago, but I am very unsure if I did it correctly. I do not have plat. We sent you an email yesterday, please respond to it when you get a chance!
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Oct 8, 2023 03:12
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Crossposting this - If you are interested in joining the debates or votes/nominations, please keep the dates and head to the main CSPAM thread. I will try to make an announcement here as well, when they go live. But again, debates for the constitution amendments are already ongoing... and pretty much everyone has said yeah im good with it lol.really queer Christmas posted:SEPTEMBER 2023 FINANCIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Oct 19, 2023 02:48
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2020 is more than suitable enough to be a "goon" for the funds purpose. Hell, the amendments we are wanting to pass want people to be at least 6 months past their reg date or to get vouched by someone in thr community - and you've passed both markers.
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Oct 19, 2023 17:12
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Tube posted:Donated once again, but would like to see a picture of something (corporate logo or whatever) as your profile picture on Venmo for next time. I feel like I'm sending money into the void, otherwise... Yes, it's on the list and something we probably should have discussed in the meeting. I hope to have that taken care of by year end.
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Oct 21, 2023 03:10
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Space Kablooey posted:OP, any word on receiving international donations now that you guys are an actual charity? Or is it still too much hassle. We got asked this question in CSPAM at the same time, and here was my reply - quote:
So if you're foreign, I guess you can donate to our stripe account? Just understand, we can't provide services unless we begin operating in a foreign country. And I'm afraid of the paperwork that will take. Also, voting is open for the amendments, though since there's been no objections - I've called for a unanimous consent. Nominations for becoming a committee member is still set for Nov 8th.
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Nov 3, 2023 03:32
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Space Kablooey posted:Thanks for the reply! It would be fine for me to just be able to donate now and then. If you are truly foreign, the bigger help would be letting me know via PM that you're willing to help because semi-regularly I get requests from non-americans and I can forward their paypal info to you (and others) to help them. I'd much prefer that since it's a bit easier to have some people I can count on because the foreign requests happen randomly and its harder to find people on a moments notice (for instance, getting a message like 30 minutes ago lol).
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Nov 5, 2023 00:27
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Updated the request form... Can't believe it's been like that for all this time 
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Nov 5, 2023 02:23
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If you are interested in becoming a member of the working committee (or just having a voice in the shaping of the Goonfund), please come over to the CSPAM thread and read what I wrote about nominations and elections. If nothing else, participating is good to show the general faith you have in what we are doing.
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Nov 8, 2023 05:33
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I have forgotten to update this thread in the last month!! I am incredibly sorry. There's been a lot of changes since then, we have a new committee member - It's docbeard! He has already been trained up and starting to fulfill requests without the training wheels on! We also had a huge cash crunch issue after black friday. We got hit hard and we were down to about $100 when some incredibly generous goons following the cspam thread dropped $1K each! Those funds were highly needed as we have received 17 requests since thanksgiving!! (I just posted in the cspam thread about two hours ago it was 16, we already got another one!). So please, if you are in the giving mood and want to help your fellow goons - I promise you, our overhead is tiny as hell for a charity. Once we have received money from the payment processor - 95% of it goes to Goons, and the other 5% went to state and federal governments for fees! But for every dollar you give going forward, .97 cents makes its way directly into a goons hand to become crusted over with cheetos! Even more makes it over if you send us money via venmo! Thank you all for your help and support, and for those of you who did bravely step in CSPAM to vote or voice confidence in the committee itself. You make our jobs easier to carry out!
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Nov 30, 2023 02:23
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Please see below for October Financials as well, so people can see where their funds are going and how much money we are getting in (and spending) each month.really queer Christmas posted:OCTOBER 2023 FINANCIALS
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really queer Christmas posted:NOVEMBER 2023 FINANCIALS
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