A quick heads up to our wonderful #GazaVerified donors: I have been receiving many calls from our friends in Gaza in the past few days that donations are slowing down and they often don’t see a single donation for a 5-7 days.

While I understand that the requests for support can be quite overwhelming (especially now that we have almost 90 registered accounts, and not many regular donors), I also believe that maybe we can solve this all together.

When I look at how much is being collectively donated I actually don’t see that amount going down. The same goes for the avergage daily per-campaign amount.

But that amount isn’t fairly distributed throughout all the campaigns.

As I speak, the mean daily value raised by a campaign is around $80. Which would actually be quite helpful to cover many of a family’s necessities (it’s $560/week).

But as I speak only 13 campaigns are at or above that mean value.

The remaining 75 are all below - and way below in some cases, the tail of the histogram is very long.

With 50 campaigns right now below the $200/week threshold, and 25 collecting less than $100, of course many of our friends are right to say that they are not getting enough support.

I know that it’s hard to try and sustain so many people in desperate need, I know that adding more campaigns over the past few days has probably made some donors feel more overwhelmed. And of course it’s entirely up to you to decide who you donate to.

But when I look at the numbers, I see the potential for us to give most of our friends a good $500/week baseline to go through this hardship. All together we’re already donating more than $3000/day: that’s wonderful, and that’s a great show of humanity and the power of mutual aid grassroot campaigns!

Maybe we just need to try and distribute that amount more fairly. Or more and more of our friends in need may start feeling left behind.

As a reminder, you can use the archive campaigns dashboard to check the campaigns that are not receiving enough funding (simplified version made by @aral here), or follow @gaza_verified_campaigns to get notified 3 times a day of which campaigns aren’t raising enough funding.

(p.s. The notebook I used to generate these statistics is freely available here)