Who, What, and Why is IkeKala?

Create a social media site with a 100 million active followers. Each month the site will pick one project to fund and seek a $1.00 donation from the millions of followers. Even if only 1/10 of 1% of the followers donate only $1.00, that is $100,000 to fund a hyper-focused project – get the money directly to the people who need help, without the layers of bureaucracy, overhead, fact-finding junkets, back-door cronyism, inflated prices, salaries, etc.  The ultimate goal is to achieve a full 1% of 100 million followers donating $1.00 per project – that’s $1,000,000 per month donated to help. It’s a big goal and it will take time to get there, but we’ll certainly be helping a lot of people along the way as we grow. There are many worthy funds, charities, VCs creating programs to help those in need, etc. However, I seek to create a more direct and rapid, more effective donor-to-recipient model. This would be like a quick hit, strike force of help to someone/group in sudden need, to make big and lasting difference.

The goal is to fund 1 project a month. Before that, as we build the site and attract more followers, we will ‘go with the flow’ and see how long it takes to complete the cycle from project selection and vetting, promotion, donations, and finally, delivery of benefits. Tracking results will also be a part of this project. We will want to verify that the donations are being used correctly and that we are achieving the desired results. We will learn as we grow, yes. Right now, this is all being done by 1 person, the site owner. As this grows and this becomes more to handle by 1 person, perhaps we add more people to the operation.  The site owner will post projects for Followers to vote on. The winning project will be funded. After the project has been funded, we’ll move on to the next project.

If you are social media influencer or celebrity or other ‘person of influence’ and want to promote the charitable work you do, we could feature and promote your charity as well. Of course, you would bring to the site your followers by encouraging them to also follow our site. This will help us grow and also create more awareness of your charity by featuring it to our 100,000,000 followers. 

This will start as a simply sole proprietorship dba, then become a LLC.  Why not a non-profit 501(c)3? Flexibility, accountability, efficiency. I am not seeking charitable donations and thus do not need the legal structure of a charity, which costs more money, more paperwork, and often more people to manage. Although it is said that having the 501c3 non-profit structure ensures more accountability and better corporate efficiency, it does not take much searching to find lies, scams, bloated, and self-serving 501c3 organizations, many in which their directors earn 7, 8, or 9 figure salaries. Mission statements, committees, consultants, shareholders, etc.  can be restrictive and limiting when a suitable project arises that can be effectively implemented. Nimble, quick, pivotable. “Sorry, we can’t help you, your need does not fall within our mission statement” will not be a limiter for us to help people in need. Beholden to 1, me. I can’t blame committees, shareholders, the market, quarterly sales, etc. I am the one to go to (for good or bad) when things go well or not so well. My name and reputation are on the line.  

“I don’t know about you, but I am frustrated by the waste and abuse of funds meant to help people - funds that come from direct donations, but mostly funds that are confiscated by my government in the form of taxes on my work. I will build a site with full transparency, virtually no overhead, and direct-to-aid funding. Yes, it can be done. The tools exist, the good will of millions of people can be harnessed. Imagine, for example, one month we see and vet an organization that needs a medical bus (with doctors, nurses, medicine, equipment) to visit refugee camps where no hospitals or supplies exist and BOOM!, we raise $100,000 to fund that bus and operation for a year. No committees, no layers of bureaucracy, no red tape, no delays, no borders, no taxes, fees, etc. Boom! Done! Next month, another project. We will never stop hate, abuse, accidents, misfortunes,  and evil in the world, but through our ripple of goodwill we put in the world, it will grow and connect to other ripples and waves and THAT will make a difference and bring peoples together for the common welfare of the human race, in all our wonderful, special, unique, and celebrated differences AND commonalities.” – D. Michael

We will use established online sites for Followers to gift money to. For now, we will start with XXXX,, as that is established, well known, safe, and trusted. For, legal tax purposes, any money given is a gift. Not tax-deductible and non-taxable. Tax codes are mostly written on how to legally reduce or avoid taxes, not evade taxes. So, gifts to me are non-taxable to me. Result? Much more money to be given by me to those in need.

I, D. Michael, am the creator, owner, and manager of this venture. I have formed an LLC in the USA to legally and ethically operate this. (More on that below). As such, I desire to earn some money from this. I need to pay bills as well. My payment will be limited to 1% of each project, not to exceed $125,000 cumulative in each calendar year. I think that is a very low salary for creating, vetting, and operating this and potentially helping millions of people. All monies accepted and used will be listed for followers to see. Full transparency. I could be earning much more as a professional engineer, pilot, or entrepreneur. For example, we would have to give back $12,375,000 for me to earn my compensation of $125,000. I only am compensated when we succeed in helping others. No fixed amount. No guarantees. If you think this is too much, then search for CEO and executive compensations for non-profit charities and organizations where much of your money does not go the end people in need, then get back to me. And yes, I will place minimal and appropriate ads on the site to supplement my income. You work and do legit things to make money to live and play, as shall I.  My past giving work: https://sites.google.com/view/calendars4charity/home

I leveraged a well-known regional media personality/photographer and together we made calendars and postcards of his images. In 5 years, we have donated over $165,000 to regional charities. I create, manage, and operate the annual project. Very low tech, low overhead, which allows us to give a lot to charity.

Each project posted will have listed any costs associated with the project  and will list where the donation money goes. Members and Followers will be able to see this list. Also, as funds are spent in the implementation of the project, those will be listed also. Accountability and transparency. Costs will vary project to project. Some projects may incur operational costs, some may include travel costs, some may include professional fees, etc.

Why should I help someone I don’t know? I can’t answer that for you. For me, if I am helping a fellow human in need, next door or across the world, then that is good and justifies to me my life purpose and blessing of life given to me. It is not the fault of the person in need if they don’t live near me. In fact, isn’t that part of the problem – we don’t see or feel their need (maybe on TV), but it doesn’t affect us personally so we don’t feel the need to act. Whereas if your neighbor, family member, friend, community member is in need you might feel more inclined to act. Hey, if you are helping people in your circle of influence, blessings to you. Thank you and keep at it. We are simply creating a site where you can also help people who are not befitting from being in your immediate circle of influence where you can directly help them. $1 a month. Why should I help that (insert your favorite, divisive self-identifier here - race, tribe, culture, religion, county, etc.)? They hate me. They invaded our country last week, last century, 900 years ago, etc.? They don’t believe the same things I do. They don’t act the way I do or validate me or my life choices. “Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” - Matthew 7:3-5
Sure, people have wronged each other for millennia, personally and culturally.  But, would you deny a fellow human in need who has not personally hurt you, or through no fault of their own that their country has hurt you, or that their dead ancestors wronged your dead ancestors? Search your own heart and see what really matters if we are all to go together forward as a human race.

We will use as much freeware as possibly to keep costs down and where it doesn’t compromise the integrity, security, and transparency of the mission. This is  about the ‘steak’ not the ‘sizzle’. If you want pretty sites and all the bells and whistles to keep you entertained, then that means spending money, which means less for donations. “I need to be entertained”, you say. Well, then go elsewhere. There are many other sites for you to sit hypnotized in an alpha brain wave vegetative state watching videos and pretty things. As we grow, perhaps we will find volunteers to prettify the pages, or add paid staff. This is not an entertainment site. Thus, get in, donate, go on to your daily life. Really, I don’t want to have followers spending a lot of time here. I don’t want to continue their dopamine fixes and training them to ‘keep their eyes on me’. Get in, do good, move on. Life is happening. Get off the screens and enjoy life.

Of course, it will take time to build this, starting with a small track record (see above) and attracting millions of followers. All I ask is that you trust me as we grow. Success and transparency will lead to more and bigger success. Sometimes, it takes a little faith on your part, and on the part of followers, to take the first step. A $1 or more donation is a small risk to vet me and prove that it can be done.

If you are following this site for some benefit to you, well, good luck. You are joining this site to help others. But, as a group we will have great power to affect changes. We’ll maybe add causes and petitions to companies and politicians for change. These, of course, would be by vote of the followers. You’re part of a community. Maybe we add a free way for you to promote yourself,  service or social media site to the members of the community. Yes, we can add things to benefit members, but the main focus and effort on starting and growing this is to help those in need. Maybe someday even you or your family may be in such need. Maybe we offer follower grants of help. It all depends on how successful the site becomes and what funds are available for us to donate. OK, if we have 100,000,000 followers, we can’t feature everyone. We can categorize your social media site if you want and we can let followers find you, and we can also randomly select members each month to feature and expose you to millions in order to build your site, brand, or page.