Comments on: Change For Change http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Raegan Bellenger http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-134283 Raegan Bellenger Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:45:52 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-134283 <p>If you want to help the coffee shop, why not just have people put their change in the tip jars and let the homeless use the change to buy coffee from the shop?</p> <p>Thinking of doing this with our family each year. Planning to put all of our spare change in a jar and at the end of the year let the kids help us find a worthy local charity to donate the money to.</p> If you want to help the coffee shop, why not just have people put their change in the tip jars and let the homeless use the change to buy coffee from the shop?

Thinking of doing this with our family each year. Planning to put all of our spare change in a jar and at the end of the year let the kids help us find a worthy local charity to donate the money to.

]]> By: Fahad http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131587 Fahad Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:21:09 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131587 <p>people have been doing this for decades, or more, all over the world.</p> people have been doing this for decades, or more, all over the world.

]]> By: Tanya http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131493 Tanya Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:12:26 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131493 <p>This is exactly what I have been doing to raise money for cancer research! It's been working out wonderfully, and I'm expanding into other businesses.</p> This is exactly what I have been doing to raise money for cancer research! It’s been working out wonderfully, and I’m expanding into other businesses.

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131255 Adam Williamson Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:26:43 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131255 <p>BTW, you can tell from this post that Jono's a geek even if you know nothing else about him:</p> <p>"The good news is that I don’t think it would require a huge amount of work to put a plan such as this in place. It would need a website..."</p> <p>Yup - to a geek, the <em>first</em> thing any project needs is a web site ;)</p> BTW, you can tell from this post that Jono’s a geek even if you know nothing else about him:

“The good news is that I don’t think it would require a huge amount of work to put a plan such as this in place. It would need a website…”

Yup – to a geek, the first thing any project needs is a web site ;)

]]> By: Adam Williamson http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131254 Adam Williamson Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:25:53 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131254 <p>Kingping's objection was the first one that occurred to me, though if memory serves, having tip jars in coffee shops is rather less common in the UK than it is in North America.</p> <p>Am I the only person who still has a piggy bank? This post is making me feel bad about keeping my own spare change...I take anything below a quarter out of my pocket and put it in the piggy bank, and once a year I take it to a bank and cash it up.</p> Kingping’s objection was the first one that occurred to me, though if memory serves, having tip jars in coffee shops is rather less common in the UK than it is in North America.

Am I the only person who still has a piggy bank? This post is making me feel bad about keeping my own spare change…I take anything below a quarter out of my pocket and put it in the piggy bank, and once a year I take it to a bank and cash it up.

]]> By: Beth Lynn Eicher http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131240 Beth Lynn Eicher Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:07:03 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131240 <p>"Make a Change" meters implement 1-3. http://www.wect.com/global/story.asp?s=10771862 They are in a lot of cities. The #4 part isn't done because the charities aren't too technical.</p> “Make a Change” meters implement 1-3. http://www.wect.com/global/story.asp?s=10771862 They are in a lot of cities. The #4 part isn’t done because the charities aren’t too technical.

]]> By: Chris http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131234 Chris Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:58:10 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131234 <p>I don't know (but am interested in hearing) how to justify charity like this to the local area, when there are 25,000 people dying from hunger or hunger-related causes each day in the world. Isn't this another form of -ism, but for nationality and locality? Shouldn't we direct our charity to the people who need it the most? I don't mean to dismiss the problems of homelessness, but homeless people in the UK aren't in much danger of dying of hunger or an easily-treatable disease.</p> <p>(The question of whether to direct charity locally is pretty different to the question you're trying to ask in your post, of how to do it best, so sorry for being somewhat off-topic.)</p> <ul> <li>Chris.</li> </ul> I don’t know (but am interested in hearing) how to justify charity like this to the local area, when there are 25,000 people dying from hunger or hunger-related causes each day in the world. Isn’t this another form of -ism, but for nationality and locality? Shouldn’t we direct our charity to the people who need it the most? I don’t mean to dismiss the problems of homelessness, but homeless people in the UK aren’t in much danger of dying of hunger or an easily-treatable disease.

(The question of whether to direct charity locally is pretty different to the question you’re trying to ask in your post, of how to do it best, so sorry for being somewhat off-topic.)

  • Chris.
]]> By: daniels http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131229 daniels Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:59:41 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131229 <p>Dude, people have been doing this for decades, or more, all over the world.</p> Dude, people have been doing this for decades, or more, all over the world.

]]> By: Peng’s links for Sunday, 2 August « I’m Just an Avatar http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131225 Peng’s links for Sunday, 2 August « I’m Just an Avatar Sun, 02 Aug 2009 21:30:53 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131225 <p>[...] Bacon: Change for Change. Jono’s got a great idea for some of the loose change we keep finding in our pockets and [...]</p> [...] Bacon: Change for Change. Jono’s got a great idea for some of the loose change we keep finding in our pockets and [...]

]]> By: Ahmad Tarek http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/08/01/change-for-change/comment-page-1/#comment-131223 Ahmad Tarek Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:53:16 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1772#comment-131223 <p>We have similar idea in some fast food shops but it is not very popular (in Egypt).</p> <p>I will start convincing people to use these boxes.</p> We have similar idea in some fast food shops but it is not very popular (in Egypt).

I will start convincing people to use these boxes.

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