I thought that the Global Help website idea was a fantastic project. The team brought up many good points about how people struggle with actually donating to charities despite a willingness to do so. From what I understand of their project, Global Help would be a kind of Hotels.com or a Travelocity for those looking to give to charities. I think that the idea has merit, but needs to be expanded further. I wonder if any thought was given to the costs of running such a website. My idea in that regard would be to form the website into a non-profit organization. In order to push their site out into the world so that people could find it, they would need some sort of advertising budget. We only know about other index sites because they advertise all the time. Global Help would need to follow a similar pattern so that anyone with philanthropic interests could find them. My suggestion would be to have a donate option for the site as well. Possibly down the road, they could partner with charities that they promote to get a small percentage of the donations they generate. Such a cooperation would even benefit the charities they promote, because those organizations might not have to worry about their own advertising if Global Help got large enough. My other comment for them would be to expand their categories out beyond what they have. I don't think there is anything wrong with including the countries they covered, but breaking it down into continents first and then into countries would allow them to keep African nations on there as well as the United States without giving a direct comparison that equates a rich nation like the United States to the poorer ones mentioned. I understand why they included the United States, because we do have a large gap between the poor and the rich that should be addressed. There are starving kids in America and many that could use the assistance. I think an index website that connects donors to charities would be incomplete without the United States. The only catch would be that it should be buried amongst other nations and probably not predominantly featured.
It is unfortunate that so much poverty still exists today. You would expect that since the years go buy and we all become more aware of this issue, more people would help. Resulting in a decrease in poverty. But now sadly there is much more important--according to the government-- then worrying about whether others will have food or a place to stay today. It can be as simple as each person donating just one dollar. With the large population we have in the United States these dollars could add up quickly. Also, do you recognize how much food a day we waste? Especially restaurants. Seriously how hard would it be to donate a little bit of that. I dislike how restaurants are so selfish in that situation; they would much rather throw the food away than give it to a good cause.
I like how this website the group created, recognizes this issue and focuses on places around the word instead of focusing on a specific place. I like the way they organized the website especially liked the idea of them including a link tot different organizations that were official and safe for someone to choose to donate to.
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I thought that the Global Help website idea was a fantastic project. The team brought up many good points about how people struggle with actually donating to charities despite a willingness to do so. From what I understand of their project, Global Help would be a kind of Hotels.com or a Travelocity for those looking to give to charities.
I think that the idea has merit, but needs to be expanded further. I wonder if any thought was given to the costs of running such a website. My idea in that regard would be to form the website into a non-profit organization. In order to push their site out into the world so that people could find it, they would need some sort of advertising budget. We only know about other index sites because they advertise all the time. Global Help would need to follow a similar pattern so that anyone with philanthropic interests could find them. My suggestion would be to have a donate option for the site as well. Possibly down the road, they could partner with charities that they promote to get a small percentage of the donations they generate. Such a cooperation would even benefit the charities they promote, because those organizations might not have to worry about their own advertising if Global Help got large enough.
My other comment for them would be to expand their categories out beyond what they have. I don't think there is anything wrong with including the countries they covered, but breaking it down into continents first and then into countries would allow them to keep African nations on there as well as the United States without giving a direct comparison that equates a rich nation like the United States to the poorer ones mentioned. I understand why they included the United States, because we do have a large gap between the poor and the rich that should be addressed. There are starving kids in America and many that could use the assistance. I think an index website that connects donors to charities would be incomplete without the United States. The only catch would be that it should be buried amongst other nations and probably not predominantly featured.
It is unfortunate that so much poverty still exists today. You would expect that since the years go buy and we all become more aware of this issue, more people would help. Resulting in a decrease in poverty. But now sadly there is much more important--according to the government-- then worrying about whether others will have food or a place to stay today. It can be as simple as each person donating just one dollar. With the large population we have in the United States these dollars could add up quickly. Also, do you recognize how much food a day we waste? Especially restaurants. Seriously how hard would it be to donate a little bit of that. I dislike how restaurants are so selfish in that situation; they would much rather throw the food away than give it to a good cause.
I like how this website the group created, recognizes this issue and focuses on places around the word instead of focusing on a specific place. I like the way they organized the website especially liked the idea of them including a link tot different organizations that were official and safe for someone to choose to donate to.
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