Fundraiser Website for SE Caravan: Up and Running!

Cory,
Maybe you do not understand the problem. I do not wish to give my password to my personal facebook page to Daniel, just so he can log into Gofundme.com to manage my page.
I provided Daniel Hong an email account to create a GoFundMe account. It is [email protected]

Again, let me restate the issue. I do not wish to give Daniel Hong my password to my prsonal facebook account to log in to gofundme.

We need a solution to that issue.

Regards,
Julia Clark

Hello Julia,

If Daniel will be the one managing the page, he will need to connect his own Facebook account. We require that all users on GoFundMe display their authentic identity. As such the page will need to be tied to him if he is in control of the fundraiser. We do not allow pages to be set up in the name of an organization.

Will Daniel be withdrawing the funds or will you?

Let me know so I can better advise.

Thank you,

Taryn

Taryn,
So the solution is for Daniel to link his personal facebook to the NatGat South East Caravan Gofundme.com page? The SouthEast Caravan, which I am the heading up. Moreover, I am a terribly technical writer, thus one reason Daniel Hong is writing for me and the caravan will be busy navigating across the backwoods of the US.

The funds withdrawal has not been thoroughly discussed because the Facebook issue arrived first. Daniel said there was three ways to withdraw. Considering there are no funds, yet. Such seems a non-issue at this point.

Let me restate what you have told me. You said in so many words, "Gofundme.com is not a good choice." Which of your competitors would be a better choice?

Let me know so I can better decide.

Regards,
Julia

Taryn (GoFundMe Customer Happiness)
Jun 01 10:51 AM

Hello Julia,

In order to protect our donors, we do promote transparency on GoFundMe. If you will not be directly managing the campaign or collecting donations personally, then the campaign would not be set up in your name. Instead, you would want to have Daniel set up everything under his own information. Then he can make it clear on the page who he is and where the funds will really be going.

It is also important to make sure that your payment account is set up properly before receiving donations. We have these policies in place to make sure GoFundMe is a safe place for people to donate, and also to protect you from any chargebacks or disputes if a donor feels mislead.

If you don't feel that this would be a good fit for you, I understand. There are several other crowdfunding sites out there, though I'm not sure of any specific ones that allow multiple administrators or that specialize in the what you are looking to do exactly.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you,

Taryn

We're here to help! I'll try my best to respond within 5 minutes during normal business hours.

Customer Happiness, GoFundMe

Thank you, Taryn. In the spirit of transparency the communication with Gofundme.com was posted on to the loomio thread I mentioned in the first letter.

If we have any questions, I will let you know. It will take longer than 5 minutes for any questions to be decided on.

Regards,
Julia

@danielhong do you have an issue connecting your Facebook profile to the Gofundme page as Taryn described?
Seems kind of logical, if you are managing more than one campaign.

BTW, I did not bold the text above. It C&P that way.

Taryn,
The funds would be going to me. I think he said there was paypal, one other way, and check.

With him managing the updates on the Gofundme page, is there going to be an issue getting the funds to me and the caravan?

Regards,
Julia

Hi Julia,

In order to make sure this is all squared away, could you have Daniel write in to us from the account email with you CC'd on the thread?

We are unable to go into account specifics without communicating through the email on file for the campaign.

That message can be sent to [email protected]. Go ahead and put Attn: Taryn in the subject line and I'll get this all set up for you.

Thanks,

Taryn

Taryn,
Thank you very much. I have CC this and forwarded the last mail to Daniel and he will contact you.

Regards,
Julia

Taryn,
I apologize when I made Daniel's email I included his last name. the correct address is [email protected]
No need to reply, just a correction for reference.
Julia

@juliaclark Thanks for forwarding all of these emails to me.

Right now, I only see three options for us moving forward. One, we continue without Faceobok verification. Two, you and I create an entirely new personal Facebook profile and verify. Three, we drop GoFundMe and look for a competitor.

@danielhong I'll have to address this tomorrow
This is a group project as much as it is the JCO getting temp checks from across the SE.
Ido not like how it alarmingly brands the profile non-verified.
Maybe, we should imitate natgat 's system for fundraising.
Suthoff is going to be on board in two weeks . He might have some valuable input. But I would like to move on the fund raising without delay.
Tomorrow, the cruiser gets installed with the power package. Chris is very excited to be contributing a significant amount of labor for this install. He is shutting down the shop to apply all labor to the cruiser to achive install in under an hour.
This will be a good photo op and time to tell about Natgat and the Occupations. Lots of folks still do not have internet this far back into the woods. Matter fact, I am on 1g network now.
I would like to hit as many municipalities and county admins to see how knowledgeable and thoughts of the Occupy and NATGAT.
I'd like some sort of plan, though yes, this caravan is fluid, I would like some structure.

I am calling it a night.

Looks like the structure is emerging-- video logs and visits to remote areas - gathering concerns and stories and bringing them with you to Sacramento.

Do you have an itinerary?

@jackie see above; Julia wants to get fund-raising up fast

that's what I thought, but didn't someone say to hold up until the funding verification was solid? if it's gonna be changed, we don't want to have folks donate to a site the SE carvan can't access.

that was me, before I saw this @juliaclark @jackie
you two work it out!