1st draft
What's up, how
are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant.
Since I consider
your worldly adventures and benevolent nature particularly valuable
in my current situation (and likely in many others), I've typed you this
little synopsis to my crisis.
Have you heard
of the Live Below the Line thing? You know, the Hugh Jackman poverty challenge.
Well apparently it's my favorite thing and I am now an active participant.
Well..when creating a participant profile my whimsical philanthropy swooped in
and partnered me with the first charity to hold expensive self-congratulating
banquets, feed Sting's hot yoga addiction and organize messy rock concerts
sponsored by evil, bottled-water companies. Have you heard of the Rainforest
Foundation (the US Chapter)? Could you reverse my distrust? Are they an
organization you'd work for? I'm all worked up: is living below the line, more
like living behind the veil, with a pyramid of scheming charities on the other
side? Or am I in the second stage of someone on the verge of elevating of
billions of starving people out of poverty; skepticism? Do I need to
personally refund my two friends, luckily my only two UNlucky donating victims
so fa?
Well I guess
maybe I'm overreacting; rainforestfoundation.org is a pretty website with smart
slogans and their .com counterpart makes a lot of good points when discrediting
them. I've consulted charitynavigator.com and not all the other LBL partners
are listed, like the The Global Poverty Project, which launched the LBL
campaign a few years ago.
My main dilemma
is I have to ask people to support something and I'm not sure if I'm fully in
support of myself, all the while I wasn't even expecting this to be part of the
challenge. Would you feel comfortable recommending any of the other partners
found here on this page: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners
Gran would
probably give me money to buy a loaded Bazooka rocket launcher if I wanted.
When I told her about the challenge even she eluded to the corruptness of such
charities. She has donated to charities for years without drawing attention to
herself and I know you and your side of the family may do so as well. So maybe
that's the only way of avoiding this affliction, but then I can't physically
channel the anguish of malnutrition.
Number 2
What's up, how
are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant.
I wanted to ask
you about charities and stuff. I created a participant profile on the Live
Below the Line fundraising campaign website. You know, Hugh Jackman's poverty
challenge. Anyway how it works is, though maybe you know already, I pledge to
live for five days on a diet of whatever no more than $1.50 per day can afford
me while my supporter's donations are channeled to a charity that helps
alleviate extreme poverty, the crisis afflicting our world population as
represented by the $1.50 a day. I think reading about animal rights and
vegetarianism has made me vulnerable to this idea of sacrificial fundraising. I
didn't realize though that I'd have to select my own partner charity to receive
the donations of my supporters. This kind of made me skeptical of the whole
campaign. I chose the Rainforest Foundation because, get this, I like forests.
I mean I've never even been to a rain forest. So now as my campaign drags on
and I do a little after the fact research I'm finding it difficult to raise
funds for something I can't fully support. I pulled up their wikipedia and
checked out their charitynavigation.com entry. Maybe if I had randomly selected
a different charity I wouldn't be in this dilemma. Part of me is still all
about this. If you even have any idea what I'm talking, a small bit of your
wisdom might help tip my sudden indecision one way or the other. Here's the
list of their other partners on their
website: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners Maybe one of
those charities has a cleaner track record that you can speak to. Ok, enough of
my uneducated ramblings.
Don't feel
obligated come up with an answer for me, especially if you have no idea what
I'm talking about.
Ok. Heard from
Gran you had fun visiting the east coast. Hit me up next time you might be in
town.
Best,
Miles
3rd and final
What's up, how
are you? I guess I have your email address, I hope it's still relevant.
I wanted to ask
you about charities and stuff. I created a participant profile on the Live
Below the Line fundraising campaign website. You know, Hugh Jackman's poverty
challenge. Anyway how it works is, though maybe you know already, I pledge to
live for five days on a diet of whatever no more than $1.50 per day can afford
me. Those who supporter my pledge donate to a charity that helps alleviate
extreme poverty, the category defined by a percentage of the world population
surviving on less than $1.50 a day. Not expecting to have to select a partner I
chose hastily. This kind of made me skeptical of the whole campaign at first,
but now I'm feeling even more unbalanced. I'm faced with convincing friends to
support the Rainforest Foundation. In doing the research I should have done
before this vital partnership began, I've learned of their not so great
history. Could you help reverse my sudden distrust or lead me down a better
path? I'm aware of charitynavigator.com and I've done some other research on
the other charities, but I felt that none of it could amount to what I suspect
you might know already. Or maybe not. Anyway here is the list of the other
partners: https://www.livebelowtheline.com/us-en-partners
Do you see a
better charity? Do you think this whole campaign not so good?
Best,
Miles
Ps - heard about
your trip out east, hit me up if you are ever back in the city!