Please support Dandavats
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Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Dandavats is an established web site in the service of the global community of vaisnavas with the mission to inform, unify and hopefully inspire.
As Srila Prabhupada’s Iskcon has spread out worldwide, Dandavats tries to keep everyone updated and connected, publishing interesting and inspiring reports, from the preaching activities of thousands of vaisnavas around the world.
Perhaps the most important contribution Dandavats makes is to serve as a direct channel of communication between the leadership of Iskcon and Iskcon’s devotees, a link that is always open, present and visible.
Dandavats also tries to counter-balance misinformation, ignorance and other manifestations of the illusory energy on the web that often attempt to dishearten and divide the well wishers of Lord Caitanya’s movement.
Dandavats serves also as a medium for vaisnava announcements and ads that are sure to reach a vast number of interested parties.
As with most other Iskcon projects, the up keep of the site is a result of the voluntary service of unpaid devotees sustained exclusively by donations.
Living and operating in this complicated western society, as all of you know, is costly, even if maintaining a simple brahminical standard of life.
So if you find the site useful and helpful, please consider sending us a donation to help us to keep it functioning. For more details please go to this page.
Thanking you in advance.
Yours in the service of His Divine Grace,
The Dandavats Staff
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Prabhus,
Some recommendations:
1. CHARGE A FEE. People using Dandavats for any type of selling, should pay a fee. After all, when using it for such purpose, the idea is to make a monetary gain; it is only fair that they pay a fee. I would say that the fee should cover the “fixed and variable expenses” of running the ad as well as a “mark-up” percentage of say 10% of the fixed expenses. For example, if running an ad cost you US $5.00 in fixed expenses (set-up time, computer usage, electricity, rent, or depreciation of building, amortizatio of equipment, etc.) and $2.00 of variable expense (programmer’s time; clerk’s time), the fee would amount to including US$7.70. You could run the ad for, say, a week, at that price. If they want it run longer than that, they should be charged accordingly.
2. TAX CONSIDERATIONS. People who make donations to charitable organizations (at least in the West) oftentimes require a “tax-deductible” receipt from the organization. In the case of Dandavats, are you able to provide that? If not, then a possible solution would be to work it out with temples, in such a way, that whenever I want to make a donation to Dandavats, I should be able to approach my temple (Alachua, FL) so that I give the funds to them, they issue me a tax-deductible receipt, and forward the funds to you.
Anyway, these are two possible ideas in which you could raise funds to maintain this very important service that you are doing.
Yours in the service of Srila Prabhupada.
Yugala Kishor dasa
Gainesville, FL