Give some tangible examples of how money/donations are being put to use

[tansaku]

@weedySeaDragon suggested:

The pattern “10$ a month will help support a developer in to learn while working on a project to ” is very powerful.

I know the infrastructure isn’t there to have donors choose exactly where their funds are allocated. But that pattern — giving them a very specific picture of where their funds do help — is the next best thing and quite related.

[tansaku]

great suggestion @weedySeaDragon

at the moment we do have some support for donors to choose where their funds go, as through the AV website, anyone can choose another individual to sponsor for Premium. And even if they just open a general premium sponsor account I can direct the funds based on their suggestion and give reports on the person who's being supported.

We only have one sponsor at the moment so it's rather small scale and we haven't communicated very much about how this all works, following my model of working with single individuals to get things in place - hopefully we can use that pattern you suggest to get the word out better ...