I’d guess plenty are planning to donate after Jan 1st for tax reasons, so perhaps best to keep highlighting the donation drive through the first week of Jan.
Yeah, I’ve been noticing that when talking to donors. It’s a tricky problem because I would like the fundraiser to serve as a forcing function to get people who think LW should obviously be funded, but would like to avoid paying an unfair multiple of their fair share, to go and fund it.
But it seems like half of the donors will really want to donate before the end of this year, and the other half will want to donate after the start of next year.
It’s tricky. My current guess is I might try to add some kind of “pledged funds” section to the thermometer, but it’s not ideal. I’ll think about it in the coming days and weeks.
After many other people have said similar things I am now pretty sure we will either keep the fundraiser open until like the second or third week of January, or add some way of pledging funds to be donated in the next year.
Thank you!
Yeah, I’ve been noticing that when talking to donors. It’s a tricky problem because I would like the fundraiser to serve as a forcing function to get people who think LW should obviously be funded, but would like to avoid paying an unfair multiple of their fair share, to go and fund it.
But it seems like half of the donors will really want to donate before the end of this year, and the other half will want to donate after the start of next year.
It’s tricky. My current guess is I might try to add some kind of “pledged funds” section to the thermometer, but it’s not ideal. I’ll think about it in the coming days and weeks.
I’m planning to donate $1000[1] but not until next year (for tax purposes). If there was a way that pledge that I would.
I’m committing to donating $1000 but it might end up being more when I actually think through all of the donations I plan to do next year.
Thank you!
After many other people have said similar things I am now pretty sure we will either keep the fundraiser open until like the second or third week of January, or add some way of pledging funds to be donated in the next year.