I want to get a medium sized School Bus or Party Bus and convert part of it to an RV (for me and other Homeless Steemians to live in) and have part of it with seating for Fellow Steemians when we go to Meetups and so forth. The bus would be Wrapped with Steemit Promotional Material to help Promote Steemit and drive new members to this amazing community.
Once the Bus is acquired and completely setup and wrapped we would acquire my our Passports and begin traveling around All of the America's (that we can legally drive to) visiting fellow Steemians/Meetups and writing about it. We would post all the travels in the Steemit RV/Bus to Steemit along with tons of Pictures and Videos.
About Me:
I have been an active (for the most part) Steemian for 1+ years now. I absolutely love the platform and recently became homeless. I am no longer capable/willing to work in the Transportation Industry (former truck driver). So now I live in my 1996 Ford Econoline Conversion Van. It is a real piece of crap and will soon die on me completely. Thinking about what I will do next has lead me to this idea.
Why am I doing this?
To be honest and fair, I am asking for donations to acquire the RV/Bus for two reasons:
One I need a place to live (and so do a few other Steemians) and absolutely am determined to make a life for myself outside of the Transportation Industry.
I whole heartedly believe in Steemit and am determined to make Steemit Great Again (okay greater than it already is).
What I will use the donations for!
All donations that are accompanied by a Memo or Note saying: "Crowd Funding" will be held until there is enough to acquire the RV/Bus. Any donations over what is needed to get the RV/Bus will go towards remodeling the RV/Bus, making any needed upgrades and repairs, acquiring the Wrap for the Bus (which I will do a future post near that time to let Steemians Design the Wrap) and acquire my passport. If there are any donations left, after all that, they will be used to travel around meeting other steemians.
What if there aren't enough Donations?
If after 30 days from posting this post there are not enough Donations to acquire the RV/Bus I will Refund them, except those who tell me not to. For that reason I am going to only allow a few donation sources so that I can properly refund them if needed.
How can I donate?
The only donations sources I can/will accept (for reasons stated above) will be:
Steem/SBD donations directly through Steemit, Inc. - You can go to your Wallet and select Transfer. Make sure to use the memo "Crowd Funding" so I can refund the donation if needed! SBD Donations will be converted to Steem!
GoFundMe Campaign - You can donate via GoFundMe here!
Why should I donate?
Well as mentioned I am currently homeless and living in a vehicle that is not long for this world. If that isn't reason enough consider this post my application for "Official Steemit Ambassador" and help Promote Steemit in a new and innovative way while simultaneously helping a homeless Steemian. In fact, I am not the only homeless Steemian so if this campaign is successful I will welcome other Homeless Steemians to join me in traveling around the America's Promoting Steemit, Inc.
How much are you trying to raise?
I believe I can get a descent RV/Bus, get it wrapped, get my passport and get on the road for $25,000 USD or less. With that in mind I have setup the GoFundMe campaign to raise that amount. When Steem/SBD donations come in I will add them to the GoFundMe campaign and once $25,000 is reached I will end the GoFundMe campaign. I will document and post every step of the process of Crowd Funding and Acquiring the RV/Bus so that you will be kept up to date. As you can see I do 3-4 posts a day already so there will be no issues keeping Steemians informed of the progress on this campaign.
79 SBD from Hive account@benjojo (Giving Steem Initiative) (Converted to 60.728 Steem)
Total Donations (to date):
176.02 Steem (approximately $223.54 at current market price)
Thanks for the donations everyone who has donated, thanks for the votes and resteems to everyone else!
Update #1
In order to keep better track of donations any SBD donations I receive I am converting to Steem. That way I do not get donations of SBD confused with Earned SBD from my posts. Those SBD donations I convert will be shown above in both original amounts and converted amounts.
Update #2
Campaign is blowing up on Twitter (will replace image below every so often to show traffic to Tweet)
Update #3
Been thinking a lot about what kind of RV/Bus to get for the Homeless Steemit Ambassador Bus and I think something like this would be perfect. You can pick them up in great condition for $10-15,000 USD and they usually have Water/Power Systems already installed which would make converting it easy to convert to a Home on Wheels for Homeless Steemians.
I am a proud supporter of minnowsupportproject (aka minnowsupport), if you haven't already joined check them out over on their Discord Channel by clicking below:
Disclaimer: I realize this is probably wishful thinking, but you never know if you don't try. With that said here is my attempt. Please read entire post before Flagging/Voting/Commenting/Resteeming. Thanks!
[Crowd Funding] Help Homeless Steemians and Help Promote Steemit at...
(Converted to 7.646 Steem)
(Converted to 7.646 Steem)
(Giving Steem Initiative) (Converted to 60.728 Steem)
