I'll answer a couple of responses quickly but be more devoted to this in a day or so.
Ex - Your idea about having each individual donating their own amount is fine. In fact, it may even be better to have some people transfer money to your brits and have you donate if your Govt will match a certain % and ours won't (which is the case for us Aussies, I think - not positive though).
NV - If one person donates one dollar because they see a bunch of other posters donating, and they wouldn't have donated that dollar without this thread, then who cares about lacking class if that dollar buys a child in africa textbooks for a year. If it makes you feel better, if we do have some sort of list of donors then we can make the list anonymous. I just feel that being able to quantify the amount of money BTP is giving to charitable foundations and perhaps showing in practical terms what that is doing (ie, food for x people for a year, clean water for x families, x money towards finding a cure for breast cancer, x abuse victims cared for, etc) will help people feel that they're doing something meaningful and therefore make them donate more.
I don't want to get into a huge debate but I don't necessarily agree with the fact the discussing ones charitable donations amongst ones peers is a bad thing.
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