If you had $1,000 to actually DO something good for a community or city, how would you use it?
There’s something very powerful about collective community impact. You will often hear that finding community or giving back can be really difficult and that the price of community can sometimes be inconvenience, but what if we removed the inconvenience?
Here’s the deal: I have a thousand dollars to spend on any social good or community benefit project in New York City, and I want to use the power of community to decide where it goes. What speaks to you? Is it filling potholes? Picking up trash in Central Park? Taking shelter dogs out for walks? Contributing to a food bank?
The point of this project is just to see what good people can do when the PEOPLE decide what they’d like to see and, most importantly, it gets done.
My guarantee: over the next 72 hours, I will share this page with as many people as I can possibly think of who’d like to see something in New York get done. You can submit an idea by typing into the little icon and/or you can vote on the idea you think should get the most attention. At the end of the 72 hour period, we will see which idea wins, I’ll document the process, and share it with the community.
I will be 100% clear: this is my own money that I am pledging to a cause of the community’s choosing. I love this city and there have been so many times where I’ve said, “Wow, it’d be great if someone did that thing” and just moved on. I imagine that’s what a lot of people must feel like when they love their city and want the best for the people living in it.
So I’m removing the friction. Your suggestions, your votes, you decide where the money goes and I’ll make it happen.