I’m gonna sound like a financebro saying this but. manifesting (and it’s likely to happen if I take care of myself) a time where I have a bit of money to donate to stuff when it pops up (depending on how vet things go and how worthwhile an investment getting (expensive) support workers is, might be soon. also might lose my job so we’ll see). but anyway when this happens
thinking of going down the very long and terrifying process of setting up a charity fund to cover a bunch of mutual aid stuff on here?? I don’t know how to do it, but ideally, and I’m being optimistic here, it registers as a charity so it can be tax deductible too, because idk about you but when I make donations, I don’t earn heaps and so it’s really felt in my bank acc when I send in my donation receipts and get a bunch back on tax return and I think we should be able to get that for helping each other out idk. It may mean mutual aid has to be vetted a bit harder but as someone who’s a bit old school and unfortunately (though I’d like not to be) can get a bit suspicious of anons asking for money on the internet hopefully it’ll mean a bit more of our hard earned money doesn’t get wasted?? it shouldn’t have to be like this I know but when I’d give my last bit of spare cash to help someone get through its quite easy to go broke doing that—and I’ve got this scenario in my head where multiple of us do that, end up being the recipients of the next mutual aid, meanwhile if we were a system of community economy there’s money lost each time to those who… aren’t who they say they are I guess. and financial strain is obviously stressful we don’t want to go through that unnecessarily? so I’m racking my brain for something that makes it slightly better each time yk.
I know basically no one on here has money and we’re more a class solidarity site than anything but if anyone thinks this is a good idea, idc how much you know about this stuff or if you have any money at all, but we can learn together and work on this long term, you don’t have to know everything straight away. anyway lmk what you think. I know I’m sheltered enough to get a little hopeless when I see mutual aid when I don’t have extra money to donate (or even the spoons to login to PayPal etc) and I know it helps no one to make it about me and my feelings. but I also believe every person has value and deserves to afford to live. and I’ve also got a sneaking suspicion that seeing all of our dash’s filled with aid requests if we’re barely surviving ourselves and so are our followers is not good for our collective mental health—not to say that your aid request isn’t important. I’m just trying to do something that respects both of these things. and I’ve always wanted to create a charity so like. sending out feelers. also let me know if this is a terrible idea and I’m gonna end up like bill gates if I try it too because we need that feedback too








