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Donate To Make Donklephant Bigger & Better

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Blogging, Money

Hi all,

As many of you may have guessed by the title, I’m putting on a fundraiser that’s about making your experience here richer. See, I feel that we’re a community here at Donklephant and as such we have to work together to help make it grow. That’s why all the money donated will be used to make the site bigger and better. All of it goes back in. That’s a promise.

So then, our goal is to raise $3,000 for the site, and while that may seem like a lot all it would take is for the 150 people who subscribe through Feedburner to each donate $20. That’s roughly $1.75 a month or just 5 cents a day for subscribing. But whether it’s $200 or $20 or $2, we’ll be happy with anything you decide to give.

So what will that $3,000 be used for? Here’s the plan:

  1. A significant redesign that will look better, have more community features and enable us to offer you more content from sources like news feeds, video feeds and more.

  2. Change our hosting plan so the site is more secure and loads faster.

  3. Hire an admin to keep tabs on the site so we experience virtually no downtime.

  4. Expand the site to include subdomains about technology, business, entertainment and more. This way you can get more of the news that’s important to you all in one place.

  5. Hire bloggers to help bring you more original content.

So that’s the plan. Hit the Make A Donation button in the top right hand corner today to contribute securely through PayPal or you can email me personally at justinpgardner at yahoo dot com to make other arrangements. I’ll be posting about this every few days throughout December with updates on how we’re doing.

Thanks again for reading!

UPDATE: Dec 10, 10:30 p.m.:
We’ve raised $30 so far today. That’s 1% down, 99% to go. :-)

Seriously, every little bit helps.

UPDATE: Dec 11, 1:45 p.m.:
We’ve had another $15 donation, so that brings us to $45. Remember, all of this money goes to make the site better. Nothing goes into my pocket. That has to be worth at least $10 to 100 of you, right?

UPDATE: Dec 12:
Now you can use this handy widget to donate.

Thanks again for all your support!


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7 Responses to “Donate To Make Donklephant Bigger & Better”

  1. DM Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    $10 down. Give ‘er hell Justin :)

  2. Jim S Says:
    December 10th, 2007 at 10:52 pm

    That was really weird. I went to make a donation and instead of logging me on to my Paypal account it asked what account I wanted to change the password on. I’ll try again later.

  3. Dos Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    Have you ever thought about making Donklephant a non-for-profit? Of course, there are some governance requirements, but without question it would facilitate $-raisin’. In fact, having a board composed of two Rep & two Dems and an independent might keep you “intellectually honest” in terms of the whole “centrist/moderate”-marketing things you’ve got going on. No more of these idiots that call you & the site out as liberals. Just an idea.

  4. Justin Gardner Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 12:40 pm

    Good idea. I’ll look into it.

  5. Terence Carolan Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 8:41 am

    How do I subscribe / donate.

    tpc

  6. Justin Gardner Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    I sent an email to you personally describing the process, but the easiest way is to click the PayPal “Make A Donation” button in the top right hand corner above. You can also send money through PayPal to me a justinpgardner [at] yahoo dot com.

    Thanks in advance for your support!

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    December 16th, 2007 at 3:12 am

    [...] have been revamped this year. Now Donklephant is doing a fundrive to take it to the next level which is explained HERE. THE AMAZON KINDLE: What is IT? And what’s it like? Ann Althouse explains via videos [...]

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