Crowdfunding: Trial By Error [David Tuller]: Reporting on ME, ME/CFS, long Covid, and "Medically Unexplained Symptoms", Oct 2022

$44,570, 69% raised, 6 days left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528

 

$49,810, 77% raised, 5 days left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528

 

$54,377 raised, 84% of target.

4 days left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528

 

Done ✅
Hopefully a flurry of donations in the last few days will see the target met.

 

$57,952, 90% funded, 3 days left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528

 

$60,410, 94% funded, 2 days left.

https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/33528

 

I worked it out (bored) yesterday.

Apparently the average donation at the time was approx $123 (skewed higher because of as far as I can tell 3 $5000 donations and one $4000 one).

So in order to reach $64000 with an average donation of $123 then 521 donors would be needed - assuming that the average donation was maintained - which seems a tad unlikely.

But it does look like someone(s) 'looking out' for him/us.

 

$61,809
96%
Raised toward our $64,000 Goal
536 Donors

 

I'm aware of 2 $5000 donations, which stunned me. Was there a third one of those and also a $4000 one that I'm not remembering? I haven't checked back. Maybe I'm losing my memory??

 

All anonymous, with hidden amounts - only spotted coz I check the page sometimes, and sometimes in between checks it was going up by a little over $5000 with only 2 anon donations made - seemed to be a pattern.

But, something I can only spot at the time, due to the low activity, going back through, with what's visible on the donor wall, I couldn't really point to an anonymous donation and say that one was $5k lol

from memory, in case it ties in with your info, there was a $5k around 12,000, another around $17-18k, one, I think, in the mid 40s, and the 4k was in the mid 50's (with another which was just under 1k).

Of course, I could be wrong - it could be one anon donor giving $3k and another giving just over $2k - it just seemed more likely that someone was giving $5k and someone else was giving $25, or whatever.

Sad that I spend enough time, and have nothing else to do, to spot such things

 

$64084
100%
565 donors
21 hours left.

 

It seemed there were a couple times when couple donations of $2000 or $3000 occurred more or less at the same time. The large donations always kind of shock me. But of course it wouldn't work without all the smaller donations of whatever size.

 

Congratulations @dave30th on achieved the funding target.

 

thanks! I'm glad it's almost over.

 

Congratulations.

I think that you asked to be told if more stuff arrived from Berkley.

I had an envelope, from Berkeley, arrive today. it had two stickers of sun flowers on the envelope - perhaps they were stamps?
Inside was a card telling me I am a star (very much appreciated).
Another card appreciating my 5 year loyalty.
A window sticker.
And a strip of three other stickers.

Only saying this as you wanted to know. Personally I think you are fab.

 

Maybe M.S. and S.W. are secret admirers .

 

Me too.
Congratulations on reaching target. And thank you.