Game-- stretch the $$$

[tabbycat31]

I had a strange dream last night and it's been on my mind since. Let's see your responses to it.

Suppose you have the opportunity to take 100K without consequences from the GOP Sugar Daddy of your choice (Koch brothers, Sheldon Adleson, etc).

Your goal is to get the 100K into as many hands as possible in the community of your choice. You may not use this money for personal gain, but instead it has to be put into the community (you may use up to $1000 to buy things you normally would from local businesses--- ie buying produce at the farmers' market). All the money must be spent at small businesses (no chains/big box stores) or donated to local charities (no political parties or candidates).

How would you spend it? (you have a year to adjust for seasons-- ie no farmers markets right now)

For me (in my town, most of the small business are food related)-
1K-- myself. Buy produce at the farmer's market, coffee beans from a local coffee shop, etc.
5K-- pay it forward at local coffee shop (over the course of a few days). I'd prepay $X and have the customers understand that by paying it forward, that they should continue to get their coffee here and at least come back another day.
5K-- pay it forward at my local bagel shop (see coffee shop)
5K-- Go to locally owned nurseries and buy seeds/plants for a community garden. Work with local children (schools, scout troops, youth groups, etc) to plant them and maintain them. All produce will be donated to the foodbank
$10K-- Go to locally owned pet food store and make a large purchase of pet food. Donate the pet food to the SPCA's pet food bank (my local SPCA offers free pet food to those who qualify for public assistance)
$14K-- Buy vouchers from the local farmers' market to be distributed to the food bank.
15K-- Pay it forward at locally owned restaurants that are struggling. This includes prepaying staff tips at 20%. A condition is that the people who receive the free meals must come back to that restaurant for another meal to keep them in business
$20K--Pay it forward at local thrift stores to set up low-income people with housing (ie furniture, housewares, etc)
$20K-- Go to low-income medical clinics and anonymously pay off outstanding bills.

[2naSalit]

1. I have actually

thought this out very carefully and have a plan that would create a nonprofit which is designed to grow over time which would create thousands of good paying jobs with housing and benefits for the workers and relieve food desert problems first in the US and elsewhere later. Not sure $100K would be enough for the start up project but it could help a lot. In creating this nonprofit I would be using green materials and alternative power sources as well as instill green practices in its operation and would become self-sustaining almost immediately. With that going from the start, the potential for branching out to benefit other charitable operations is also probable.

Not revealing what it is exactly because I may still be able to get it going.