Donating to Mudcat

Subject: Donating to Mudcat
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 10:52 AM

This is the time of year for charity, and I donate to the web pages which I use all year - wikipedia, IMSLP, abcnotation, Mudcat.

Ya know, it ought to be easier to donate to the Mudcat. I had to go to six pages before I found out how. And the page did not say whether my contribution is tax deductible.

So Max, Joe... How about putting a link for donating right on the Mudcat homepage?

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 11:28 AM

From Max, in another thread:

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It's costing us $1,600. I'm willing to pay it, but the mods are encouraging me to start a fundraiser to help. Just a few dollars is a-ok.

Best ways to go is Paypal:

More options and info here: Support the Mudcat

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: JHW
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 11:46 AM

I remember this cartoon in an Edinburgh Fringe Programme.
Queue of two persons. Q. "Is this the queue for the Becket in Japanese?"
A. "No, its the queue to give money to the Festival Fringe Society".

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Richard Mellish
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 03:43 PM

The UK: http://amazonUK.mudcat.org link on the https://mudcat.org/support.cfm page isn't working. Ages ago I started using http://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=mudcatorg-21 and I am still doing so, but I don't know whether it actually results in money going to Mudcat.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: JHW
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 05:40 PM

Wikipedia sends an email recommending a donation, hopefully once a year. Only trouble with that is it views different email addresses as different people so you get repeats. Must be a way round that though.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 Dec 17 - 06:26 PM

That catfish at the top center of the Forum Menu has always been a link to our donation page. Sometimes is has said something about donating, and sometimes it has just been a picture of the catfish ("mudcat"). It says something about donating now - I think maybe Max changed it in answer to this or the other thread.
The current catfish is playing a fiddle. The other one jumps out of a banjo.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: leeneia
Date: 10 Dec 17 - 09:42 PM

Yes, there it is. How nice!

It is also possible to support the Mudcat by using the right link to buy from Amazon.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: GUEST,Observer
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 03:39 AM

Used to support by regular donation - no longer - too much interference with free speech.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 03:46 AM

I use the Amazon link and have in the past used the PayPal link Joe gives, every little helps.
RtS

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: GUEST,akenaton
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 07:48 AM

Do you have to be a member to donate?

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe_F
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 06:32 PM

The form will not allow me to enter the amount of the donation. It stays at USD 000 no matter what I do.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 08:45 PM

Yeah, it is kind of a strange form, Joe. Your cursor should be at the final zero of the "0.00," and then you just type in the amount. It apparently allows only donations in US dollars.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Jeri
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 09:14 PM

In case anybody needs to know what their money looks like in USD: Universal Currency Converter

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: RTim
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 10:22 PM

It will not accept my British Debit card...................

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 10:30 PM

Hi, Tim - have you used that card successfully on PayPal before?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 05:40 AM

PayPal - no problem. Got a thankyou.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Snuffy
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 07:04 AM

Is the UK "Friends of the Mudcat" still channeling our donations through? I've lost the contact details.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 08:48 AM

PayPal works fine.

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe_F
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 08:52 PM

Thank you, Joe_O. That did the job. Who would have guessed?

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 09:04 PM

Hi, Joe -
PayPal provides HTML stuff that nonprofits can paste into their Web pages for donations, and we have little control over what appears. The PayPal donation stuff used work a little better, but I was never able to get it to generate a receipt email for another nonprofit (Max did the PayPal stuff for us). I think it's sending receipts now, but now it has other idiosyncrasies like the one you encountered.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Donating to Mudcat
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 17 - 01:10 PM

Obligation is in the eye of the beholder. I am obligated for using BS as a blog and search for research. Thanks for the tolerance and to the teachers.