Purchases Support A Good Cause

i'd just like to mention that i kind of find that self serving. now if you were funding for cancer or something like that it would be better. not someone who doesn't like public school and thinks a private school would be better. i don't know how many would buy your art just to send your kid to a private school. where other children may be sick or starving. i think if she really wants to go to that private school, she should get a job and earn the money herself. its sort of a first world problem thing. going to doctor school will cost way more btw. she would be better off staying in a public school, and earning money for college. that's my view.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I'd also just like to mention that 100% proceeds from all purchases through my portofolio will be going toward a good cause. To Help a poor artist feed his family.
Because of the economic crisis the last 4 years in Greece my earnings as freelance photographer hardly can pay the bills, food, shoes etc. for my two children who are going in a public school.

I'd also just like to mention that about 80% of all the artist on FAA are poor and have a hard time to get along financialy so they also can post a "sale for good cause"

I find your responses to my post unnecessarily hostile. If you took the time to read the post, you may have learned that my daughter is working toward a career in pediatric oncology and has volunteered to help children with cancer. Anyone who tries to support their family solely with their art is being selfishly unrealistic. I work two jobs as a single parent and have no problem taking house cleaning gigs to supplement my income. There are a number of reasons why public school will not work for my daughter but I don't want to get on my soapbox about the state of public education in this forum. We have had very negative experiences with it. Suffice to say she would be underserved and unchallenged. I don't think there is anything wrong with letting people know what their purchases are helping to finance. Perhaps it may make them feel better about it. I don't know why either of you are on the attack, but you come off as very bitter. I am not competing with either one of you. Peace and good luck.

its a pet peeve. thing is, many people work to get into a better school. they aren't handed out like a charity. there are so many other places people can toss money at. and this new way to get money always just bugged me... i want a better camera. i want to go to a private school. it just bugs me mostly. when you say its a good cause, i was really assume the money was going to help a child in real need. i'm not putting you down or anything, so don't take it personally or anything like that. but if she has a school to go to, then she should be going to that and saving for the doctor school.

she will learn all she needs to from college. the highschool stuff is just there to get into the college. whether she goes to a private one or a public, they teach the same things. i'm not attacking at all, just a view point from when you say - its for a good cause. not bitter at all, i'm sweet as a daisy.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I am really sorry if my respond upset you.
But one more think. I try to support my family any way I can. You work in two jobs and this is very good for you. But here in Greece with 30% unemployment it's hard to find even a part time jod as a garbage man or whatever.

Mike..you don't know my daughter's circumstances so I don't think your qualified to make assumptions about her needs. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head to purchase my artwork but if knowing where the proceeds are going helps them feel better about it, so be it. It's no different than wanting a box of Thin Mints and feeling better about the extra calories and $4.00 because you're helping the Girl Scouts. My daughter's education is a good cause, because it has put her on a much better path for college than public school would have.

thing is, since buyers don't really come to the forum, and artists don't often buy from other artists, i assume you wanted a conversation about the topic. i think if you just worded it better - it's not for a good cause, but for say a child's education, at least it would be up front. how will she get enough money for doctor college? 8 years - will be way more than the 20 grand your asking for. just curious.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

WoW $4 for a box of cookies. I don't spend full price for my snacks.

i don't support the girl scouts for many reasons. and that is one of them, their rip off cookies.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Mike..I don't buy them either. It was just an example. Maybe artists don't buy from other artists - whatever. Maybe some do. Hang me high for doing whatever I can for my kid. I'm a mom...that's all I know how to do. We all work our butts off in this family - I have a masters and can't get a job in my field so I work 10-11 hours a day at other things that don't pay as well. My son moved to China because there were better opportunities..he studied hard and became fluent in Mandarin. I've put a lot of my own money into this. I drive an 11 year old car. I just want to give my kid what she's worked hard for. Sue me.

you don't have to get all angry. i'm just saying that if i saw the cause and i was about to buy because of it, i would probably look for a more needy cause - like getting a wheel chair for a crippled child. or something in that league. (i look at things from the point of view of a buyer).

your car isn't that old. we drive them until they are dust. mine is 8 years old, i have no plans on changing it. going to a private school might help her, but i think she should really working at it too. i don't know what she's doing to get money, but it just seems like putting out hand is well, kind of lame. if the site didn't exist, what would you normally have done? that's really the question. i'm all for people bettering themselves, but if what they have will technically do, then use that and figure it out from there. otherwise you'll be doing this needy cause for the next 10 years or so.

like i knew someone that was working her way through college to be an engineer, she worked a full time job and went to school at night. that's how it's usually done.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I think Alice has every right to come off angry

I'm angry also on her behalf. We are all artists here trying to earn for different reasons and no, I can't buy at present BUT your reaction to this post was appalling!

This is not my reaction as a mod only but also as a fellow mum and artist!

You are not interested in the topic? FINE! Don't respond to it!

It's not like Alice came here and demanded people to even look at her work. She purely informed anyone who was interested that this was happening.

I truly think, AS a mod, that an apology is in order in this thread and thank you Grigorios for attempting to give one

This is not the reaction I want members to receive when they come in here with their art and/or stories

i'm sorry i didn't mean anything bad by it. but when i see for a good cause, and it's just because she doesn't like her school, and it's not a fund to give a child a new limb, it would bug me as a customer. and that's the view point i'm trying to express.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

OK Isabella. I understand.
I apologize and leaving this post.

Thanks for your support, Isabella!

Abbie, I think giving the topic a good airing would actually help Alice more then hurt.

When I first read the OP I had the same reaction that Mike had. I just moved on and didn't post anything. Then I came back and seen what Mike said and I agreed 100%.

Then I read your reaction and then went back and read Mike again.

I think Mike hit the nail on the head when he said " i assume you wanted a conversation about the topic. i think if you just worded it better".

That made me think that ya, if this was worded differently I could support this 100%. I am not saying I am going to buy 20 prints from Alice, but I do see that if the concept was re written and presented differently, I don't think it would have gotten the neg reaction that it first got from me and the others.

I think that allowing a full discussion, the good with that bad, would actually be a good thing for Alice. Of course you run the risk of some one getting crazy, but I would say that has been significantly minimized by your last post.

If nothing else, giving it a good airing it will get Alice a lot more exposure.