Holy Dollar Signs Batman.. $10k in one day.. Incredible…
The Future of K5, and the First Ever Kuro5hin Fundraising Drive. It’s almost a cliche at this point that whenever K5 faces adversity, whenever times look darkest, you pull out all the stops and restore my faith in humanity with a force that makes my head spin. And folks, you have done it again. In one day, you all managed to raise ten thousand dollars. I Am Not Making This Up. Individually, out of a simple desire to make sure K5 goes on, each of your few dollars here and few dollars there added up to ten grand. This is not a negligible amount. Over the same time I did a lot of thinking, and a lot of reading your comments and suggestions. I talked the situation over with my wife, and we decided that the right thing to do is take K5 non-profit. So, as of today I’m committed to making K5 a non-profit entity. What this means is that now we really need you. It’s your support, or nothing. From now until June 26th (next Wednesday) we’re having our first ever fundraising drive. The goal is to raise one year’s operating budget: $70,000. It seems enormous, unattainable. But think that yesterday your contributions added up to $10,000. There’s an awful lot of us. We can do this. Read on for a look at the future, and the present. [kuro5hin.org]