Join SteemPact! Empowering Change Together

in #steempact8 years ago

Hey fellow Steemers,
want to do something meaningful? Then read closely!

We are launching SteemPact!

SteemPact

We believe that we steemers can unleash a tremendous power to push things forward. Together with you we want to make the world a better place. Let's empower change together!
@robofox@reggaemuffin

What is SteemPact?

Each week you are given the opportunity to propose a charity that you think changes the world to the better. In addition to that you can vote on other charities. The charity with the most upvotes (in number, not value) will finally be donated the liquid reward of our weekly post. So your upvote will literally do something good.

What does this mean for steemit?

Each donation will be in the name of the steemit community, so we show the world that we can do something good! Furthermore we will encourage charities to join steemit and get donations in steem. For you this means you will get updates on their progress and can support the ones you like most directly.

How to nominate a charity?

In order to nominate a charity please make a comment on our newest weekly post (we will publish it every monday) telling us more about it.
Important:

  • Please make sure that there is a way to contact the charity in order to bring them to steemit.
  • Also include a link to the charity or a page with more information about it.

Rules

  • A charity is anything that you think changes the world to the better.
  • A charity does not necessarily need to be international, your local charity is fine too.
  • In order to prevent fraud we reserve the right to disqualify charities that we believe are not credible. In this case the donation goes to the next charity (second most votes).
  • Donations will only be payed out in steem.
  • Charities need to have a dedicated steemit account to ensure transparency.
  • We will release proof of every donation on the blockchain.
  • Nominating your own charity is allowed but should be disclaimed.
  • The liquid part of the rewards (50 %) of our weekly posts will completely be donated to the winning charity.
  • The vesting part of the rewards (the other 50 %) of our weekly posts will strenghten the @steempact account and thereby allowing us to support future charities by voting them up with more power.
  • The rewards of the comments will go to the persons nominating the respective charities. They are free to donate it.

I want to support this! How?

  • Upvote this post. Now you already have donated.
  • Look in the comments for charities you like and upvote them.
  • Nominate a charity you think is good.
  • Join our steemtrail (see below).

I want to support all posts you ever make! How?

We offer a steemtrail that you can follow. All upvotes from @steempact are for a good cause, so supporting the trail makes you automatically support good causes. We are also partnering with SteemVoter to make a @steempact guild available in the future. In the meantime you can use SteemVoter to autoupvote our project.

I want to throw money at you! How?

Please consider throwing money at one of the charities instead:

  • Send STEEM or SBD to @steempact.
  • In the memo write one of these:
    • The link to one of our posts. We will add it to the donated amount.
    • The link to a comment for a charity. We will donate it to that charity, but we will add it to the post if there are problems (see rules above).
    • Write anything else and we will try to find a suitable charity to donate it to.

Who is behind this?

@robofox and @reggaemuffin are running this account. We are supported and vouched for by witness @thecryptodrive. We will happily answer all your questions!
SteemPact

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @epicdesigns for the epic design of our @steempact brand!
Thanks to @thecryptodrive for supporting us all the way!

SteemPact

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The vesting part of the rewards (the other 50 %) of our weekly posts will strenghten the @steempact account and thereby allowing us to support future charities by voting them up with more power.

I don't think we need that, please give more than 50% to charity.

Thank you for your feedback I feel so too. But that is sadly not possible, because steem automatically vests 50% of the posts rewards. We are considering constant powering down, but we will see about that once it is worth discussing about. In the end, all 100% will go to charity!

Constant powering down is a good solution as the people who'd be contributing already give out their SP to support you. It's like saying we keep 50% of the money you give us to force you to donate forever in the future. (SP compete with SP) I think it's fair that you for you to take out some money for expense from the money raised. Even if some other people would do it for the increased reputation and feel good aspect of it most people wouldn't mind paying for administrative costs if they are transparently reported.
Good luck in your venture.

Yeah you are right. If it was possible that was supposed to work that way. We need to make positive impact out there as the steemit community

Upvoted, thank you for launching this to help making the world better! I will keep an eyes on your posts and the comments continuitely . Good work !

Agree! Love this idea. Solid :)

Thank's a lot, @pakyeechan! We would be glad if you joined our steemtrail in order to support @steempact even more.

just joined! respect!

Thank you! We're really curious what we'll achieve by this together with you :)

This photo is very interesting, I want to join as a member of steempact, I am a new person in steemit world, please support and support, so that I can deepen steemit, and make me a person who always interact with steemit

In this very case we would prefer you supporting us, @miky ;)

Welcome guys! =)

Those are some powerful ideas! I'll get them resteemed if you add the tag "coagorism" to your posts.

Also, if you want to spread your activism and organize with others, you can announce such posts in the Activism_practiced channel on Steemit.chat.

great idea thanks for sharing

The tag has been updated to #cooperative-agorism and the activism channel is now found at https://steemit.chat/channel/Activism =)

I'm intrigued what the coagorism tag means? Can you elaborate? :)

The short version is in this post I made.

It really is something most people can get behind. The idea is to use technology and networking to make government more ethical and society more hospital for everyone. Bitcoin, blockchains, cooperatives, as well as many libertarian (capitalist or socialist) ideals can fit in this category =)

Hi @the-ego-is-you!

Even though I personally like the basic idea of cooperatives and am interested privately in your "coagorism" tag and "Activism_practiced" channel I would prefer to hold @steempact free from any political classifications. Not every steemer who wants to support @steempact may identify with or want to support the ideas behind "coagorism" too. I think we should keep @steempact open to any steemer, independently of his personal political views.

Furthermore I think we should not begin with this kind of "dealing" ;)

That's perfectly understandable. Just remember which social media platform you're posting on ;)

I hope your project does well and I might start to resteem it anyhow :thumbsup:

Of course I do ;) Thanks for your understanding & support! @robofox is following you looking forward to find out what "coagorism" is :)

I have just donated 150.00 Steem, who will match or beat me?

Hey @thecryptodrive I will match or beat you! :)
However I am going to wait to see which charities if I may.
Plus I donated to #steempark this week and sponsored a bench with my name on it. So I have a place to sit when I visit some day. :)

Sweet, that's cool man! Happy bench-warming!

WOW! THAT'S ABSOLUTELY AWESOME! THANKS SO MUCH, @thecryptodrive!

@steemsports is behind you, our team will soon vote and assist. Go team!

Thank you so much! Great to know having the power of @steemsports behind our project!

great idea, thanks for sharing

Thank you! :)

Great idea. I will happily join this movement! Already have charity in mind. Upvoted & Followed! Thanks for good iniciative.

Pleasure to us that you like the idea, @bluudz! Great to have you on board :)

Support your favorite charity by proposing it in a comment on our first weekly post we published today: https://steemit.com/steempact/@steempact/join-steempact-empowering-change-together-week-1

CU :)

This is so wonderful. Right for "our conservation things"!
Hopefully someone nominate us. Thanks for this great opportunity!

Thank you, @kedjom-keku!
We'd like to encourage you to nominate your project as a comment on our first weekly post which we published today: https://steemit.com/steempact/@steempact/join-steempact-empowering-change-together-week-1
Hope to cu there!

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