Dear April,
Please see my responses in Blue:
Hi Rob and Alex, thanks for helping hash this out so we could come to an understanding. We have the same goals, just very different ways of achieving them as we all have different expertise and experience in serving the children. There's bound to be growing pains both ways:
1)
Regarding links for children:
"**Give me a couple days to work with the volunteer who does our website and with our Sponsorships Director. I think it's do-able, but I'm not a website guru "
-> Thanks, awesome.
If you can do it, we will make sure its clickable so our investors have faith in us as we sponsor more children.2) I would like an address where we can mail physical letters to - one concentrated address
". Can your online system dump to an email address? If so,
[email protected] and she will forward those to our orphanage partners. " Alternative:
Jennifer Borsh
PO Box 319
Villa Rica, GA 30180
-> Yes, I think this SMTP option is doable. We can modify the letter sender to send to an e-mail address.Thanks for working on that feature.
"Just to make sure on expectations though, how often do you need letters back? Usually we can get them once a month for Uganda, sometimes twice a month for Sierra Leone."
-> We dont have specific requirements, but 30 days would be nice. I currently run the job once per month on the 3rd friday of the month. This job sents outgoing letters and pays a reward to the users who wrote the letters.
4) April will handle the liquidation of the BBP from her organization, and spend it for us, Rob will not need to convert BBP -> BTC for BLOOM
.
**Sounds like I'll need to create BLOOM a c-cex account and then a coinbase account to then convert to $$? Give me a few days to look into that as well, or let me know if you know of an easier way?
-> Praise God, today we are now on SouthXChange also. Since CCEX is not accepting new users, you could now create and sell from there.
https://www.southxchange.com/Balance/Index/BBP
**Adding another few thoughts that I just had after posting this initially:
1. What happens if BBP tanks (knock on wood) and we end up with a huge gap in the cost for sponsorship in the middle of when the proposal was requested or funded, or before I could transfer the funds out of BBP and into USD$? Maybe you guys have addressed this before, but if so, would you please briefly re-explain what we would do in that case? Would the proposal amount be reconsidered?
-> If it tanks, I suppose it is OK if you add a follow up proposal for the difference one month later. Since you had received some to get started, it should not be a problem to vote in the remaining balance.As for other numbers, here's a brief summary of our impact from 2017:
--We served orphans 53,655 meals among all the sponsorships programs
--76 sets of school supplies were provided to kids in Uganda and Sierra Leone
--76 children received schooling in Uganda and Sierra Leone
--89 children's lives were changed through the orphan hosting program[/li][/list]
-> Praise Jesus, Amen.3. Rob, it just occurred to me that we could do a PR plug for you if BBP sponsors such a large chunk of orphans. We always give a shoutout in our newsletter and social media to sponsors who are OK with being recognized. I am happy to give a shout out to BBP as well. But, could I just please talk to you separately about some of the verbiage used on the site first? I really think just some rephrasing of a few things will come across better to several audiences.
-> Thats great! Actually Tom (zthomasz) is working on a new website for us (beta.biblepay.org) using the more modern bootstrap site. I think you could PM him with the changes and he will accomodate.
Thanks a lot for being flexible and I look forward to an extremely bright future with more concurrent children around the globe!
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