Partially Funded Rewards

Large rewards which are offered for an exchange of many hours are listed here. The challenge is usually taken up by a variety of volunteers over time. This section let's the community note progress. When the expiration date nears, I envision a flashing notice on AW's home page alerting people that so many hours have already been expended and not to let the offer expire without full acceptance. (Look at the auction sites.) It is a cyber rallying cry to the community.

WL14 = Gym for 16th Street Boys & Girls Club          pe02288_.wmf (30030 bytes)
Needed total of 6,000 hours
Thank you for 4,073 hours
As of 1/19/99 we still need 1,927 hours

The four lines above might be all that appears on the list of partially funded rewards. By activating the link a user would find more details.                                                                   

But suppose instead opportunities were broken down:      bl00261_.wmf (12482 bytes)                              

WL14 roofing supplies for the 16th Street Boys & Girls Club gym                   
WL15 skilled roofers for the 16th Street Boys & Girls Club gym

That's taking just the roof and dividing into two wishes. You can see there would be a dozen WLs to get the gym.
Or how about this?                                                                                         bl00122_.wmf (10146 bytes)

WL14 composite shingles for roof 16th Street Boys & Girls Club gym                 
Need 10,000 shingles
Thank you for 2,700 shingles
As of 1/19/99 need 7,300 shingles one volunteer hour = 100 shingles

The point is to get as many people involved and able to pinpoint the impact their contribution is having on a project.

Risk                                                               pe02097_.wmf (18184 bytes)
The renovation of the gym might be estimated at $30,000. Half is labor cost and roughly half is roofing materials, equipment rentals and supplies. WL14 could be fully funded by one grant maker, but let's assume to date only $12,000 has been funneled through the database: $1,000 by the Friends of Jefferson School, $1,000 by the Police Explorers, $5,000 by Youth Services, $3,000 by Apple Computer Inc., and (5) $2,000 by the local United Way.

Partially funded rewards put the risk on community volunteers. It is possible that more reward hours will be earned than will be funded for WL14. Suppose volunteers have contributed 1,673 hours that have not yet been funded and they intend to get the 1,927 additional hours needed to make the dream come true. The Harry Singer Foundation could probably guarantee that wouldn't happen, but even so the worst that could happen is the project might not go ahead as anticipated and reward hours would be transferred, by the volunteers that earned them, to other projects.                      
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