Comments on: Child Sponsorship Charity Drive 2006

By: PopTart8

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By: John Bertrand

John Bertrand — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:42:22 +0000

Helping poor children is offering your beauty from inside. If it was to me, all children could eat properly every day, and no more sickness in this world.

By: Thank You! » Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak

Thank You! » Entrepreneur’s Journey - by Yaro Starak — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:56:05 +0000

[...] Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Child Sponsorship Charity Drive 2006. We met our target of $900 (and then some more!) which is a fantastic achievement. [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:23:09 +0000

Thanks for your response. Cool to hear your perspective. Keep up the good work.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:44:18 +0000

Hey Yaro,
Fair play for donating time and money to such a worthy cause. Last year, I was travelling around Thailand for 5 months and some of the poverty was unbelievable. Seeing how the children lived was heartbreaking.

Give me a few days and I’ll see what I can do with some of my communities to get some money together.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:01:01 +0000

Hi Oyeniyi,

Thank you for your kind comments but I think you may be confused as to where is the best place to ask questions like you asked. The topic of this blog post isn’t quite related.

I suggest you head into my forums and ask your questions there -

http://www.BlogTrafficSchool.com/forums/

Back to charity – I have to get the first lot of donations up…

By: Oyeniyi

Oyeniyi — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:58:15 +0000

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By: Yaro

Yaro — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:51:47 +0000

Hi Matt – thanks for giving me the opportunity to clear up any confusion.

These two children have been sponsored for five years now, some years with myself paying all or part of the fee, in more recent years 100% funded by my website communities by people who generously donate.

I personally donate and do other charitable activities outside of this but I don’t consider talking about that appropriate for this blog.

In this case my blog readers help sponsor two children and in exchange they get advertisement exposure on my blog. I think this is a great way to leverage my resources (my blog in this case) to help out two children living in poverty.

You certainly could say I get the “philanthropic benefit” out of this relationship (and the slight tax break too) but I certainly feel I share it with everyone who donates – although people who donate get another benefit too – exposure on my blog. Since I do the work to make exposure on my blog something of value I think it’s a fair deal all round.

I could donate some of my own money to this charity drive – and I certainly will if we do not make the target (in fact I already have since the sponsorship is charged in September) – but that would mean I would be taking money away from other places I donate to. If the full target is met here by other’s donations then I can use my donation money in other places and in that case we collectively donate more and help more.

I subscribe to the rule of tithing, which is important I believe in order to have success both from a business and spiritual standpoint. I really believe you need to give in order to receive and I’m seeing more and more evidence of this every day. Movies like “The Secret” enforce this principle, but that’s a topic for a different blog post.

This charity drive is a way I can give back along with my community of readers but just because in this case I am not putting my own money forward doesn’t mean I am not contributing. It takes me at least three hours to write the post and arrange all the details with the people who donate. If you calculate this time based on an hourly rate of pay I generally get I am contributing more than anyone else. I have also worked hard over the last two years to build an audience at this blog and without doing that this charity drive would not raise any money at all.

I hope that clears up any bad feelings you might have regarding my intentions in this charity drive and do let me know if you have any other comments to bring to my attention.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:14:39 +0000

Hi Yaro,

I enjoy the resources and articles on your website. I haven’t commented before but felt a need to do so after reading this latest post. I have sponsored a child in the past and know it can be rewarding, however, from the article I get the impression that you want other people to pay for the sponsorship and yet you receive the philanthropic reward. I didn’t read anywhere that you are preparing to offer your own personal money for the sponsorship.

If that isn’t the case, perhaps it would be a good idea to make that clear.

If not, the choices you make are yours and I’m sure you have good reasons for them. I just had the urge to point out my perspective.

All the best,

Matt