December 2025, Little Helpers

[anthonybailey]

Ella has created our organization and campaign on DonorBox. Five people have the admin access required to see those resources at time of writing: Ella, Joep, Maxime, Tom and myself.

The campaign is already public, but not advertised: https://donorbox.org/pauseai-s-little-helpers

Embedding in the website should be easy.

We plan to announce some donation matching. Keeping figures comprehensible and not confusing to the public across that transition will require some finesse but I'm confident I will find a good solution.

We will subscribe to the Pro plan (for $150/month) before taking any significant donation, since the fees are lower: the break-even is at around €30K/year == €2,500/month donated through the platform.

[anthonybailey]

Top-level donation infra doc, since DonorBox now seems likely to persist:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eIazJVdr3_SjFSHrpYx0SN9G17y6Kh9Xco2j-V53zMQ/edit

[anthonybailey]

Top-level donation infra doc, since DonorBox now seems likely to persist:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eIazJVdr3_SjFSHrpYx0SN9G17y6Kh9Xco2j-V53zMQ/edit

[anthonybailey]

In order to support challenge matching, appears we are best to embed the default DonorBox form in our website, since we can then write code to supplement their raised Vs target visualization with matching logic.

The current plan is to launch without matching enabled, and then announce it as a second exposure opportunity. Bit awkward, but I get the rationale.

[anthonybailey]

Since we need to allow navigation to little helpers campaign and also wanted to link sayno, I've spent some time making a campaign nav affordance (without going all the way to how campaigns will generally be handled.) This has also involved some fixes to hero and spacing. The donation form itself remains to embed, but not expecting it to be difficult.

[anthonybailey]

Following meeting today.

Fees on large transfers

Since we encountered a surprise with a 5% fee from PayPal on an unexpected $10 donation recently in another context, Joep was keen to emphasize we should watch for such problems.

Makes sense.

We will encourage large donors to
"for an unusually large donation of the order of 1000 euros, do contact us directly to discuss options to minimize fees - but otherwise use this form directly."

Anthony will cover any remaining fee-basrd losses from taking such a simple solution. They would be expected to be small. Simple and brief for the common case is good and we want to lean into the wide scope platform.

So we will just note it on the public page too in case of random generosity. Ella has/will made it clear when reaching out to those where this is a possibility.

[anthonybailey]

Matching

Our two kind challenge matchers will announce themselves tomorrow, after I have put our form that understands matching live. Until then we will note that matching is coming, and use the regular DonorBox page. This will let us announce the campaign today, but expose the matching tomorrow only just before our sponsors announce, and we thank them for a campaign-specific press. (Our CEO announcement today is most important, but kicking off campaign on December 1st was desired.)

The URL will be pauseai.info/littlehelpers throughout. Imminently, before launch I will point it at DonorBox: https://donorbox.org/pauseai-s-little-helpers

One challenge matching is launched it instead uses a challenge-aware form within our website.

Matchers will act outside DonorBox when campaign wraps to transfer the money, but public figures will present funds as already matched.

[anthonybailey]

DonorBox page language

Some language on the (temporary, non-matching) DonorBox page needs updated.

We don't want a contact form.

We do want to guide extraordinary donors to contact us separately.

We do want to explain matching will occur and be announced soon.

DonorBox Pro account

I am not confident this has been wired yet. We want it. Please act, someone?

[anthonybailey]

Update: Revised launch plan

The /littlehelpers redirect to DonorBox is now live (302 temporary).

However, we have not yet announced the campaign publicly. Tom is unavailable and Pro subscription status unclear.

Revised plan: Rather than launching today without matching and adding it tomorrow, we now expect to launch tomorrow with matching already in place. This gives us time to:

1. Complete the on-site page with DonorBox widget + matching-aware display
2. Have full control of donor experience from day one
3. Coordinate announcement with matchers

Today's news is the Maxime CEO announcement - that's sufficient for December 1st.

The temporary redirect serves as fallback if needed, but goal is to have the full matching-aware experience ready for tomorrow's launch.

[anthonybailey]

We launched the campaign under the https://pauseai.org/littlehelpers URL currently redirecting to the DonorBox page.

Fighting illness, Tom shared the link and a video from Raluca on social media channels only, in hours following Tuesday 2 December 17Z.

I just mended all social media links at foot of our DonorBox page.

[anthonybailey]

We have € 4,219.87 donated (becomes 8439 matched) at time of writing. 3K external IBAN from "Anonymous" (known to us), 1K noted external from Didier (2K given he is majority matcher) plus a few testing and public donations with various visibility.