Pay It Phorward: Difference between revisions

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Pay It Phorward is a monthly peer-to-peer program that aims to provide a small monetary lift to help individuals and businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.

This particular format was inspired by my prior participation in the Awesome Foundation, a micro funding organization with dozens of chapters around the world. I co-founded its Philadelphia chapter 6 years ago, and what I loved most about its donation model was the grassroots, no-strings-attached, no-red-tape method of getting money into people’s hands as quickly as possible. During my tenure, we limited participation to 10 donors, each giving $100 per month, for a total donation of $1000 to each month's recipient

We hope to expand on this model to generate more donations from a greater pool of participants, and under more relaxed giving conditions. Someone can give as little as $5, or a company can decide to give $1000. With help from our steering committee, and your votes, we’ll ensure the donations have maximum impact.

Note: The above descriptive information came from the program's home page and its How It Started page.

In The News

Want to donate to a local person or org in need? Now you can 'Pay It Phorward', Technical.ly Philly, May 8, 2020.

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 {{toplink|url=http://www.payitphorward.org/|name=payitphorward.org}}'''Pay It Phorward''' is a monthly peer-to-peer program that aims '''to provide a small monetary lift to help individuals and businesses during the COVID-19 crisis'''.
-''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the program's [http://www.payitphorward.org home page].
+This particular format was inspired by my prior participation in the Awesome Foundation, a micro funding organization with dozens of chapters around the world. I co-founded its Philadelphia chapter 6 years ago, and what I loved most about its donation model was the grassroots, no-strings-attached, no-red-tape method of getting money into people’s hands as quickly as possible. During my tenure, we limited participation to 10 donors, each giving $100 per month, for a total donation of $1000 to each month's recipient
+We hope to expand on this model to generate more donations from a greater pool of participants, and under more relaxed giving conditions. Someone can give as little as $5, or a company can decide to give $1000. With help from our steering committee, and your votes, we’ll ensure the donations have maximum impact.
+''Note:''&nbsp;&nbsp;The above descriptive information came from the program's [http://www.payitphorward.org home page] and its [http://www.payitphorward.org/about How It Started] page.
 ==In The News==