Charity should not be a business.
Apologies to the creationists.
A network for people to sponsor individuals and families to do local projects.
No money needed, just your clicks! Support people improving their lives.
A revolutionary hosting service to support our charity projects with its profits.
A faucet site and lottery to advertise our projects and maybe make a bit of money too.
This introduction may appear harsh. Its intention is to make things very clear, right from the start, what we are and what we are not. This is fair to all and fairness is more important than growing our membership.
The people who work to improve and maintain the society's projects are ALL volunteers.
READ MY LIPS! IF YOU NEED TO BE PAID THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU!
Why? Because as soon as we have even one staff working and getting paid, the thin end of the wedge has been inserted and we're on the slippery slope. Before we know it, we will be wasting money on a bloated board of spoilt directors with political agendas to impose and mansions to buy themselves. We've all seen it happen; one by one, well-intentioned initiatives become sickened and weakened by inappropriate corporate structures which spread like a virulent disease and cripple the ability to prioritize the intended beneficiaries.
There's no trough here, by design. 100 percent of money gained across all of our network is going to our recipients and there are absolutely no paid positions and there never will be. If you're getting paid then it's not charity. The volunteers working here want to work for the benefit of the recipients, and this society's ONLY purpose is to support that.
OK, great, now for everyone still reading, welcome to the Direct Sponsor Society. Below you will see our Articles Of Association.
Direct Charity Society is a Society under Irish common law. It exists to provide online tools which people can use to make charitable contributions to their chosen recipients directly. You do not have to be a Member of the Society to join and use the websites. These articles do not apply to the Beneficiaries of the Society’s work. Users of the facilities provided by the Society are neither affected nor bound by any of these items.
1. Description
Direct Charity Society provides online communication and interaction tools to be used by anyone freely. In order to be completely free of financial burdens into the future, the tools must be provided at zero cost, so that no money goes into or through the Society, and the Society has no expenses. Thus the Society has no paid officers, no expenses and the only accounting necessary is the provision of records to each individual user of that user’s transactions.
1.a. Beneficiaries
1.b. Members
2. Funding
3. Accounting
4. Responsibilities
5. Rights
6. Officers
7. Disputes
Direct Charity Society
4 The Cove
Achadh Tiobraid
Cuan Dor
An Sciobairín
Co. Chorcaí
P81 AD77
Eireann
(+353) 2833956
https://directsponsor.org/