By improving the system and spending time curating we help people help themselves.
When anyone is "helping" others the first thing I evaluate is whether they are actually helping that Person/Thing/Cause launch or creating a dependency. :)
No matter what you decide, I like the way you are thinking.
This is exactly why I stopped supporting certain Initiatives that’s I believe to have good intentions, but which are indiscriminate about quality or very hierarchical in nature. There are a few of these that I won’t name. I can’t say they haven’t done any good, but they’ve also turned a lot of users into bot addicts and created an image of steemit that causes some users to give up as the whole process is pretty inorganic.
I like your adopt a minnow project. I’m planning to do the same thing.
Why not encourage local NGOs with good social causes behind (that I know personally are honest and well managed) to create their own steemit blog and upvote all their content? So many areas and great causes that could hugely benefit from it like disabled people, cancer research, horphans, environment... I would definitely feel super well seeing my impact on it
I really like this idea. Im taking notes.
i think spend it on minnows who can curate great and insightful articles that help steemit , been a minnow is tough and having someone with much stempower to upvote you boost the morale
Wow, I am really inspired by your reply touched me so much that I so want to be actively helping others.....