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# 6482 Aid by award

I have no idea if this would work, but let's imagine you get some wealthy-enough family from a developed country to buy into this and donate 1000 dollars.

- You find a poor community. (The poorest. The kind that even microcredit can't really help.)
- Register everyone who's interested and charge an extremely low in fee (like a nickel). Just to get some initial commitment.
- Find leaders or have community select a panel.
- Have leaders select a timeline and a few competitions that would reward model citizens of that community (like: most neighborly, hardest worker, most athletic, most improved house or whatever the community values that is acceptable to the organizers and donors.)
- Also let the donors pick 1 or 2 categories based on a range of acceptable ones from the organizers.
- Also have at least one "people's choice" award.
- Run the competition for a day, week or month or whatever's appropriate.
- Have judges or whatever was decided choose winners.
- Have an award show where everyone gets at least something worth more than their initial nickel and the winners get sizable prizes. Have a lot of winners. Like half the people as winners.
- Live stream the event to the donors, or let them fly out and attend (this might make things messy, but could work if handled properly).

Why this could work:

- There's a concept now for disaster aid of just giving people who need it some money and let them decide what to spend it on. Identifying the people and choosing how to allocate are difficult, but otherwise this seems to work.
- It can be seen as a greener way to help since goods don't have to be shipped.
- It could jumpstart some families.
- The award model has worked before for things like crossing the atlantic in an airplane.
- It wouldn't try to be anything sustainable, but would be getting money into the hands of the actual poor.

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