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First and most obvious question: "What is TGRS?" I'm going to guess something like The Goon Rescue Society or something, but come on, spit it out. Who are TGRS posters and what does 'good standing' entail? e: Oh, I see, "The Great Space Race"?
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Overall this does seem like something that would be relatively easy if you had a few hundred thousand dollars (found a credit union, offer zero-interest emergency loans and other minor financial services), annoying but not terrible with a few tens of thousands of dollars (set up a nonprofit or something like a donor-advised fund), barely worthwhile with a few thousand dollars (a very simple trust, maybe), and "way, way more trouble than it's worth" with a few hundred. My best suggestion would be a locked sticky "main thread" that people can subscribe to. Each "campaign"/help-request gets its own thread, with a little mod introduction and the poster's request for help, and the OP there gets copied into the sticky with a link). After the campaign is over, the version in the sticky can be changed into a report on how it went, and a feel-good after-action report if everything works out as planned. That way, the main tracking thread doesn't get cluttered up with pledges and stuff, but people can still see what happened in each case if they want details. It might be worth seeing if you can turn on the old E/N-style "no edits" rule for those threads.
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Foma posted:Why are you planning on holding money if the idea is just to give it to someone when they need it? I think you need at least a little centralization, someone to do a first-pass filter for requests (at least "hey, is this person actually part of our community?"), because otherwise the subforum just floods with random Internet people begging for money.
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