Well I just had this brainstorm over the weekend. I got really pissed off because I make a nice salary and I can barely afford to eat half the time because of my student loan payments. I went online to search for answers, and it seemed a lot of people were out there griping but there wasn’t a lot of actual help to be found.
So I decided… if I can get people to join up to a site, and donate even a few dollars we can start helping each other out. Imagine if we get 10,000 people signed up and they each donate 5 dollars a month – that could save a student per month from 10 years of interest payments!
So I am trying this idea out to see if we can get it to work.
If you come to the website, you can share your story and become eligible to receive donations. Right now, I am working on collecting the stories of students on the website and getting people signed up to the cause on Facebook. I am working right now on starting the non-profit organization to collect the funds for distribution with the IRS.
Once I have that in place, I am going to start asking for donations from people in large amounts (and once we have large numbers of people in the Cause).
So what do you think? I think its good for Karma…..and its utilizing my skills (computers, the internet, programming, and being a social butterfly) in the best way possible!
I really need to start getting the word out to everyone to join the Cause and to share their stories.
Mike
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