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H.E.L.P. Project

H.E.L.P. Fund

Humanitarian Enrichment Life & Progress Fund

GOAL: HELP END WORLD HUNGER, HOMELESSNESS, & DISEASE
ADVANCE THE EDUCATION SCIENCE & KNOWLEDGE OF HUMANITY

Concept Idea: Turn corporate and human greed into helping those in need.

Provide incentive for large U.S. based corporations and small businesses in America (the world) to contribute just .01 (1 cent) for each product they sell.

Over a billion individual consumer products are purchased each day/year in the world. Most of those products are consumed, go to waste, and never do anyone any good ever again. More products need to be created, more resources used, and it’s an ever increasing system of waste. One that can be capitalized on to HELP those in need.

Imagine if 1 Cent from each of those products were donated to an organization like HELP. We could feed the hungry, house the homeless, cure the sick, educate the illiterate, and advance science and human progress exponentially.

$3.65 Billion Dollars Per Year &

All it takes is a penny!

So, how do you get all the corporations in the USA to pledge to donate to the cause? Easy, help them sell more products.

Give them positive association exposure. When they pledge to donate 1 Cent for every product they sell they accomplish many things, not the least of which is saving money on taxes. It then becomes a no brainer.

1) They receive a tax break

2) They increase their company’s visibility

3) Creates interest in their products and services

4) Investment in the betterment of humanity, education, lifestyle, and progress

5) Enhancement of business image

6) Increased advertising opportunity

7) Demonstrates concern for community issues

Incentives for Consumers: People are more likely to purchase a product, and spend more money on a product if they know that a percentage of the proceeds from that product go to help those in need.

100% of donated funds go to providing food, shelter, and services to those who need it.

Operational and Administrative Revenue – Operations would be funded entirely by advertising/partnership revenue. HELP would be generated through corporate and company advertising and sponsorship.

This means that 100% of the contributed funds would go to people in need and none would be taken away or lost through high paid executive salaries. No operational costs or salaries would be used from the donor contributions. 100% of that funding would go to the people who need it, directly through the fund, grants, programs, scholarships, homeless shelters, and scientific/educational institutions.

Advertising: Corporate and small business sponsors would get national and international coverage, through product labeling, (i.e. This product supports H.E.L.P.)

 

This increases exposure for the sponsor and provides national and international media coverage. This advertising exposure helps sponsors sell more products, which contributes even more to the system.

Incentives:

  • Incentive for consumers to purchase – Helping a good cause with every product purchased
  • Incentive for businesses to sponsor HELP – Advertising increases sponsor exposure
  • Incentive to donate to HELP – Tax deductible contributions

Self Sustaining & Perpetual: The system would grow itself through an automatic incentive to contribute and grow. The more products are sold, the more money is generated into the fund, the more positive exposure the small businesses and corporations receive, the more people can be helped.

What to do With the Money?

  • Create: Community HELP programs and projects, provide educational scholarships,
  • Start: scientific research and educational institutions
  • Build: Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, organic food farms,

Growth of HELP: 100% of donations go to help people in need. Traditional charities which do not allow advertising, have a major drawback because operational costs and salaries must be taken from the overall pool of donations thereby removing funding from those in need. H.E.L.P operates differently by creating a model which removes the constraints of any operational costs by using advertising revenue and corporate sponsorship and partners’ advertising monies for operational costs.

A True WIN-WIN-WIN all around for everyone.

HELP will be formed as a 501(c) 3 non-profit public charity. Meaning all the contributions/donations to H.E.L.P. are tax deductible.