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SHL FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE
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(This post was last modified: 03-18-2024, 09:47 AM by luke. Edited 2 times in total.)

Good Morning and Monday SHL,

As some of you may recall, HO asked a question in the previous offseason survey about user donations to the SHL to keep things running. Right now the average monthly server cost that the SHL pays to maintain the Forums, Index, Trading Card and Portal is approximately $50 USD a month or approximately $600 USD per year.

The SHL relies on Donations large and small from members all around the league and that is why we're here. Currently for donations to the SHL you are awarded a special site badge. Donations have been on the lower side lately and HO has decided on some small incentives (Non-TPE based) to try and drum up some capital for the league.

With a total annual donation of $12 (or $1 per month) a site user will be entitled to the following:
  • Permanent Donation Award on your site profile
  • Special “Donator” user group that you can enable for a special forum username color
    -We will potentially vote on this in the future to change the color
  • 10 card packs will be provided for donators on the first of every month (our amazing dev team is working on automating this process)
All of the site expenses and previous donations can be found on this google doc and the current site thread can be found Here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1...edit#gid=0

In addition to donating via PAYPAL, which is preferable due to the lower fees from transferring from another PAYPAL account we have also opened a (higher fee's) Ko-fi (similar to Patreon) page.

Just to be totally transparent, the fees when it comes to this platform are on the higher side as you are sending a credit/debit card payment right to the paypal account. A $5 USD donation through Kofi nets $4.09. A $1 USD donation nets $0.49.

$5 donation on Kofi showing total with fee: https://imgur.com/a/KcBzmIh

Kofi link here: https://ko-fi.com/simulationhockeyleague

Our general thoughts is that if 50 users were to donate a minimum of $12 per year we would have no issue covering the annual server costs. If we got to a point where there was a significant surplus, the plan would be to create a poll on the site for how the excess funds should be spent. Whether we took the advertising for recruiting purposes down the road, or donating to a charity that can be decided by user vote or some other method. 

There is no player based incentive here for donating and we don’t plan on awarding site money or TPE for real money donations to the SHL, this is purely voluntary and will also get some extra card packs in your pocket (trade me a Nash card please and thank you). In the case that the donations are not enough to cover the running costs, Wannabefinn, Jess & myself have pledged to cover any deficits in server costs.

If you choose to donate please ensure that you make a post In this thread here so that I can properly provide you with your benefits package.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out. I am more than happy to answer any questions anyone may have.

Before anyone asks, here is a Nash pic as a bribe.

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What if I donate $20 one time and I do it annually?

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I can get behind that

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(This post was last modified: 03-18-2024, 10:50 AM by Rangerjase. Edited 1 time in total. Edit Reason: I forgot the word "until" )

Then you get annual benefits (12 months) and don't have to remember again until next year

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I will keep my ko-fi subscription active <3

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03-18-2024, 10:15 AMFrenchie Wrote: I will keep my ko-fi subscription active <3

I am proud of u

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#7

Done.

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#8

Donated for 12 months: 18D7479996985573L

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#9

wait! I didn’t get a Nash pic for doing it already! I would like to get reimbursed

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#10

Yeah, do we get a monthly Nash pic?!?

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#11

well I wasn't going to sign up but then jase successfully bribed me with Nash pics.

just started an annual $12 subscription on Ko-fi happy to help this league Smile

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03-18-2024, 12:06 PMMikeLiut Wrote: Yeah, do we get a monthly Nash pic?!?

Valid question, gonna bully Jase into saying yes

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03-18-2024, 03:25 PMJURT Wrote: Valid question, gonna bully Jase into saying yes

Yes, but you can't show JURT

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03-18-2024, 03:25 PMRangerjase Wrote: Yes, but you can't show JURT
done, where do i sign up

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#15

long live SHL

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