Archive for October, 2009

Up Coming Drives


2009
10.27
  • Qard Hasan (Lending) Drive: Promote giving halal loans to your community members
  • Dawah Drive: Support Dawah projects
  • Meetup Drive: House-parties for Sadaqah promotion

From now on, we will follow the pay-it-forward model. Each drive will pay for the next drive. From experience, each drive takes about 200 to 1700 hours of work. We typically budget $500 for each drive.

How do we sustain the project?

Alhamduillah, HalfDaters have bought close to 100 boxes of Kalimaat games (only 7 boxes left). So, that is one type of income.

If you want to help this project, please visit http://halfdate.com/help-us

Some other updates.

We are forming a Shura board and founders donors (basically those who want to contribute in the cost of setting up HalfDate as an official entity). We are looking for Web 2.0 specialists, MBAs, and creative thinkers to join the team.

We are also looking for a limited number of strategic partners, could be business, organizations, or media.

If you have any suggestions or questions, post them as a comment.

May Allah reward you with the sweetest date in Jannah

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Sadaqah Stories Drive


2009
10.13

DateDrive of Shawwal 1430/Oct 2009
Type of DateDrive: Awareness

We have this vision to compile inspirational stories about generosity, kindness, and giving. You can write about others or you can write your own experience. We hope within a month we can publish an ebook (something similar to Chicken Soup for the Soul), which motivate and inspire others to give and act kindly.

Drive Target:

  1. Getting 12 volunteers (got 9 needs 3) to work on Sadaqah book, work include reading, editing, categorizing, etc.
  2. Collecting 36 (got 25 needs 11) Sadaqah stories at http://sadaqahstories.com
  3. “I donated $7.29 because that’s all I could afford without making my bank account empty.” -Sister T

Cost of the Drive

SadaqahStories project, inshaAllah, will be run to support HalfDate on-going expenses. If you want to contribute towards this project. Here are the costs so far.

  • $60+ variation of SadaqahStories.com domain names
  • $75 software
  • $50 paid volunteers from Almaun
  • Unpaid time and expertise by several HalfDaters, may Allah reward them

Drive Sponsors

The following sponsors have either helped HalfDate before with free services or have bought a sponsorship package. To sponsor a drive, please contact us.

Fresh Date Sponsors(Platinum)
baba ali productive muslim

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