How much of the donated money goes straight to the women?
About 96%. The other 4% goes to GoFundMe to cover their fees (2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction). These calculations are based on $50 donations, so the exact percentages may change slightly depending on individual donation amounts.
Regardless, all of the money except for GoFundMe fees goes straight to the women. Gustavo and I aren’t keeping any for ourselves.
Will the percentage sent to the women ever go down?
That depends.
At this early stage of the project, Gustavo and I are putting in all of the work on creating the site, writing up the recipes based on what the women send us, editing the video and pictures, etc. for free, as part of our contribution.
We’re also paying for web hosting, domain registration, and all other costs out of pocket.
If this project takes off, which we hope it does, this may no longer be sustainable! After all, we need to work too. 🙂 If we find ourselves spending way too many hours each week on this, we may look into hiring someone to handle some aspects.
We are not here to profit on this. At every stage, our goal is to get as much of your donation as possible straight into the hands of the women sharing their recipes. If we do need to use some of the donated funds to hire someone to do some of the work on the site, we’ll be completely upfront about that.
Can I fund recipes from a specific woman?
No and yes.
As part of this site, all donations will be split among all of the women contributing recipes. Each time donations reach $208, each woman will receive $50 to fund another recipe. We want to keep things fair by offering an equal opportunity to each of the women instead of letting people pick and choose. 🙂
If you’re particularly moved by one of these women and want to work out something with her individually outside of the scope of this site, let us know. We’ll put you in touch with her directly to talk about the details.
Can more women join? / Can I nominate someone I know to be a contributor?
At this point, we don’t have a clear system set up to add new women to the site. We want to make sure that we can adequately fund recipes from all the women already listed instead of spreading the donations so thin that they don’t make much difference.
With that said, if you know of someone you think would be a good fit (or want to be a contributor yourself!), please get in touch and we can discuss the possibility on a case-by-case basis. Email me at [email protected]. 🙂