Fundraising is a strange beast, and it can be truly exhausting at times.
When it’s not going well–and, a month out from Traverse City, and two weeks from having to raise about $500 of the $861 to pay the server fees, things are not going well–it makes you feel absolutely worthless, because the days that you’re not raising funds, you feel like your value as a human being and a professional are diminished.
There have been a lot of, “I feel diminished” days lately. We’re about a month away from training camp, and I have absolutely no idea how we’re going to raise almost $5,000 to get both me and my 82-year-old Aunt Annie up there.
It’s been absolutely dead.
I understand that it’s mid-August, and that few people are thinking about prospect tournaments or hockey training camps as the Lions prepare for their preseason tilts, NCAA College Football is gearing up for its season, and baseball’s regular season is rounding 3rd base for its stretch run.
But here at TMR, which is trying to reestablish itself as one of the few places where you’re not going to face a paywall (a paywall is not “like PBS”–being “like the PBS of blogs” means sharing and creating content regardless of whether you pay for it, and then shamelessly asking for money), we’re having about as hard a time as hard gets right now.
Zero is a real number, and while its existence was revelatory for mathematics, it’s also a reality that sucks for TMR over the past two weeks.
So I’m asking, if you’re willing to look past all those political ads flooding your inbox if you’ve ever voted for Candidate X, if you’re willing to lend a hand to this weird little blog run by a 46-year-old caregiver of an 82-year-old just short of the 4-month recovery mark from double hip replacement…
Please consider lending a hand, ’cause we’re in profound need of support right now. Not even to make Traverse City at present–just to pay the fees and costs that will ensure that TMR still exists after August 31st.
So:
We have an official GoFundMe fundraiser page; we have a PayPal option at https://paypal.me/TheMalikReport; there’s Venmo at https://venmo.com/george-malik-2; if you’re into the, “I don’t want to use any of those pages” option, here’s always the Giftly option by using my email, rtxg@yahoo.com, at https://www.giftly.com…
You can contact me via email if you want to send me a paper check, or “Zelle” me via my email, rtxg@yahoo.com. And I’m also on Cash App under “georgeums.”
I’m not sorry for sounding desperate right now, because things are desperate. TMR needs your help to stick around, and then get up to Traverse City. If you can make it happen, we can make almost anything happen. But first, we’ve got to exist.
