We know. This is all a little mad. Get cash for kindness by sharing your idea with us. That's it, really. But also head to our community page to see a bunch of other ways to get involved. Some will work, some won't, probably. Oh, and please bare with us when we get things wrong. Because we will. Hell we'll even tell you every mistake we make on our socials because this is all part of the experiment.

Yeah there's always a catch. Ours is that if you get the $500 then we ask that you come back and tell us what happened. We would love to hear how you got on and to pass your story onto others via our blog and socials. Because kindness creates kindness, even when people hear about it.

You don't have to, though. So I suppose it's not a catch. But yeah, it'd be cool if you did.

Every 2 weeks we'll gather a bunch of people and spend the day reading all the new ideas shared with us. We'll fund about 20 every cycle and choose the most standout Drop Dead Generous ones.
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We'd like to get to a point pretty quickly where we are not the ones choosing who gets funding and who doesn't. So once we've curated a vibe and built a community we'll probably start testing ways we can put this job into your hands.

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We've had a stab at explaining everything on our About page. Anything that's not there will be said eventually on our Instagram, we're sure.

Honestly, not really. We're doing this project because we think people are awesome. We'll open up on our socials about things that don't quite go to plan and who knows, maybe mass ghosting will be one of them. We don't think so though.

No, we’re not a registered charity - we’re a social enterprise registered in the UK and our funding comes from philanthropically minded individuals who believe in our mission. If we ever get to a point where we start raising money (rather than giving it away), then maybe we'll spin out a registered charity arm then.

It starts with sharing your idea, silly. So click anywhere it says 'Share your idea', fill out our form and click submit. It takes about 5 minutes. If we can fund you then you'll get an email within a few weeks with a Revolut payout link for you to collect your $500 (or equivalent in your local currency). You won't need to give us your bank details directly and you also don't need a Revolut account.

It's up to you because we trust. Just use the money to cover the cost of making your idea happen. We try to encourage people not to just gift the money onto the recipient of your idea because, well, we reckon you can be more creative than that.

We'll let you know by email. But here's the thing....

Assuming we get heaps of idea submissions we've realised that we'll probably be not funding way more than the 1,000 we do. Which sucks. So we're going to explore as many ways as possible to support people we don't fund in order to help them make their idea happen regardless of snagging the cash. As far as this experiment goes we think this is both our biggest challenge and our biggest opportunity for goodness.

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We believe in people and that trust is the number one most glorious contract there is between us all. In the spirit of this trust we ask for as little as our lawyer tells us we can get away with. So, by submitting your idea, we ask that you acknowledge and agree to the following few things

- Whilst we are flexible on timeframes for fulfilling your idea , you agree you will only use monies received from us in-line with the submission you have made and that you will accept the money in good faith of seeking to fulfill the idea within a reasonable period of time.

- We want to share the good work you do and by submitting an idea  you agree we can use the details of the idea  and the content you generate and provide us with for our internal and external purposes, including using for our own content, marketing, social media and all other uses related to spreading your and our good work. We will never share personal data without your permission but may share details of the proposal and its fulfillment on a first name only basis as part of our content.

- If for whatever reason you become no longer in a position to fulfill the idea  we ask that you contact us and return the money so that we can use it for another proposal.

- By making a submission you are granting us permission to contact you and store your personal information for the extent necessary to fulfill donating the money to you and following up with regards to receiving content and understanding the good effects of fulfilling your proposal.

- You have permission to include any personal, sensitive or other information you include in the proposal you may send us, acknowledging that we may publish details of it (on an anonymised basis at a later date).

- Whilst we review and approve proposals, please do not take this as an endorsement or recommendation of what you propose to do. You remain responsible for all acts and omissions, injury, damages or otherwise that may be caused during the fulfillment of the proposal. Please be careful.

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We're all ears. By now you've probably got why we think this community piece is important to us so drop john@dropdeadgenerous.org an email - he'd love to hear from you.