people, goals, funding, projects
May. 10th, 2011 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexr_rwxAt the checkout counter at the pet supplies store, I'm given the option: would you like to donate to animal cancer research? I would! Here's a dollar for cancer research!
I wonder out loud: "Huh! Maybe I could get people to donate a dollar to fund my research..."
This leads to a discussion about "well, what's your research?" with the girl at the pet store. She told me about how she's just now finished up her biology degree, and how she really loves animals, is considering vet school, and volunteers at the wild animal rescue center, and about how they take care of baby wild animals (and rehabilitate injured ones) and then re-introduce them into the wild, and the funding problems that they face at that organization. She'd tried to get the pet store to do a fundraiser for the wild animal rescue center, but it hasn't worked out yet.
People are neat: I need more opportunities for them to tell me about their interests and goals and projects.
Would you donate a dollar to machine translation research, during your next purchase at the store? What if you could pick from a few different projects? Say, every month, there was one from the humanities, something art-flavored, and some science (or something)? ...
How to get businesses on board with this?
I wonder out loud: "Huh! Maybe I could get people to donate a dollar to fund my research..."
This leads to a discussion about "well, what's your research?" with the girl at the pet store. She told me about how she's just now finished up her biology degree, and how she really loves animals, is considering vet school, and volunteers at the wild animal rescue center, and about how they take care of baby wild animals (and rehabilitate injured ones) and then re-introduce them into the wild, and the funding problems that they face at that organization. She'd tried to get the pet store to do a fundraiser for the wild animal rescue center, but it hasn't worked out yet.
People are neat: I need more opportunities for them to tell me about their interests and goals and projects.
Would you donate a dollar to machine translation research, during your next purchase at the store? What if you could pick from a few different projects? Say, every month, there was one from the humanities, something art-flavored, and some science (or something)? ...
How to get businesses on board with this?
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Date: 2011-05-10 05:49 am (UTC)