* Marianne has left the team, which takes away the biggest part of the overhead expenditure. My fiance will be joining the team on a volunteering basis after our wedding in October to fill the gap that Marianne’s departure has left.

* Since that post, we’ve gotten enough funding to pay for Okuhle & Mariana for the next year. So the response to that post has been very positive.

* The lack of activity on the blog is my own fault and it’s just due to me compiling a new advisory board (which Brian will be on too) and finalizing our new strategy & direction. We are considering some slight tweaks to the website as well as our model (to be more like Kickstarter + Charity:Water + Kiva).

So feel free to reconsider your offer.

Thanks both to you & Ron, Brian.

With the wide variety of organizations accepting donations for similar causes, a badly kept website and unreasonable overhead definitely push me in other directions. Given your level of commitment to your other projects, I might take this opportunity to encourage you to continue on with GivePress.

Definitely no slight to Adii is intended; the project is a worthy one and I can imagine the time, effort and money he has put into it. But, at the end of the day, the real question on my mind when I give is “how much of this ends up directly aiding the intended recipients?” – given the reasons noted above, I don’t feel confident that the answer would satisfy me where the Rockstar Foundation is concerned.

Cheers for reading and my apology for the too-quick post to begin with!