Crypto for the homeless - looking back on this year and going forward in 2023!

Hey guys, I'm the guy who runs crypto for the homeless. So far, we've been operating for ~4 years now and I wanted to share some of my experience with the project and our goals for next year/the future.

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First - CFTHL is an organization I started entirely on reddit's support while I was in pharmacy school. The primary goal was to do something interesting with crypto that would also help people that I could do on my own terms/pace. Due to reddit's support, we thrived and became an official 501c3 organization with nearly 10,000 meals DELIEVERED to homeless people all over the world.

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The way we operate is that we crowd fund crypto using our various images/posts and then we reimburse volunteers for buying and handing out goods/foods to the homeless/needy all over the world. Since it's using crypto, we can easily reimburse no matter where the volunteer is located.

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Make no mistake - this is NOT a trust-less system, but I doubt anything with any complexity can truly be. However, we have documented every single food delivery (with receipts) via photos and also have a spreadsheet where we document all donations and spending down to the penny. We have MORE documentation than any other non-profit/charity and I stand by that until proven otherwise (yes we have nearly 4 full years of images on imgur/our site/social media).

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Take a look at some of our best work: https://i.imgur.com/9W9cXjU.jpg

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Each year I try to make it a goal to focus on something good for the project:

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in 2022, I felt like the funding/volunteers were at a decent level and really reached out like crazy to get as many collaborations/sponsorships/interviews etc as possible.

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This year, we had a very well written article made for us on:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/pennsylvania-pharmacist-feeds-thousands-of-homeless-using-crypto

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we also had 2 podcast interviews (misfit heroes and the room of lives podcasts)

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I had an in person interview with alumni relations from my school (Temple University)

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and we received sponsorship from:

dreamhost, keepassium, strongbox, microsoft (via tech soup)

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For 2023, I think that one of the biggest challenges that I would like to tackle is finding volunteers for online work. So far, finding volunteers for the organization has taken a massive effort in general - and having people do it consistently is even harder. Most volunteers choose to participate 1-3 times - but adding actual members to the team for various things we need online is going to be a top priority.

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Our site is cryptoforthehomeless.com (currently up but we are migrating to our new host so it may see some instability in the next 72 hours).

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I'd love to hear any and all criticism/feedback so that we can make this a better project!