Welcome to Pay It Forward
Pay It Forward is a portfolio or identity dedicated to the facilitation of your good deeds. This portfolio is not represented by any one person but managed by a group of individuals dedicated to the cause of contagious good will. With this portfolio we hope to begin and sustain a healthy movement based on the philosophy and practice of Paying it forward.
What does Pay It Forward mean?
Pay it forward is based on the movie
Pay It Forward where a young social studies student is given an assignment to change the world. Taking this assignment seriously and literally, he derives the Pay It Forward scheme and begins a national movement of
anonymous good deeds. The mechanism of the scheme is this, one person would do something kind and/or helpful for another, but instead of requesting that the individual pay him back he charges him to
pay it forward.
Paying it forward is therefore the most altruistic (if altruism is possible) way we have to give gifts. In giving our gifts and good deeds through the pay it forward scheme, we are not asking for anything in return except the hope that our deed will only multiply and grow. And that’s where we come in.
What is our function?
We offer the services of anonymously facilitating your good deeds through the Pay It Forward cause. That way, your anonymous gift will carry a strong message of reciprocation to the next needy soul in the spirit of our cause.
What is our goal?
Our goal is both lofty and small. We would hope to help each of you build a community of charity, encouragement, and human kindness even greater than is now experienced here at Writing.Com, but we are happy if only to affect one person’s life through this venture.
What can we do?
We currently offer "
Fuzzygrams!"
. "
TeddySignatures Closed Temporarily"
and "
FuzzyFlowers"
.
Please note that if you intend on utilizing Pay It Forward, understand that your donations are not payments for service, but rather, our service is a way of thanking you for your donations.
If you do not have the gift points to donate to our charity, we strongly advise you NOT to use our services. Although integrity is very important to us, we, after all are fluffy over stuffed bears laden with all paws. We make mistakes, and although we try very hard to compensate our patrons when we do, we do not bode well under the scrutiny of high customer services expectations.
What can’t we do?
Any and all gift points received by Pay It Forward is
never used for personal gain by the proprietors of this account.
When you send your gift points to us, you are making a donation to the betterment of the Writing.com Community, to maintain the images and items in this account that are used to send FuzzyGrams, FuzzyFlowers and create TeddySignatures now and then as a way to thank you for your donations.
IMPORTANT UPDATE March 2007: Since the invention of c-notes, sending of the fuzzy messages is automated and doesn't involve us bears. But we do check this account (HopeFULLY) at least Once every two weeks or so for messages. And sometimes, we send out fuzzy messages to people by hand, when we see that it is needed.
One of us bear cubs might log in and send birthday greetings in the form of FuzzyFlowers for that day - you never know. For years we sent birthday greetings to all members but now it is hit and miss as we scamper in the forest and play our days away.
Sometimes, we even open the old fashioned Fuzzyflowers and send them out by hand. We did that at Thanksgiving one year - sending out over 100 Turkey Grams, to authors we saw online on the night before Thanksgiving.
We will always honour your request if we can, unless we feel that you may have expectations one would of a service agency.
If this is the case, we would hate to let you down in any way, so we will totally refund your gift points instead of processing your request assuming you are not interested in donating to our cause.
We are a charity, not a store.
We cannot rate any items or write in any campfires. Since this is not a user account but a community account, it is not for rating and it would be logistically and ethically wrong for us to do so.
One final thought.
Please remember to be kind out there and pay it forward, whatever you do!
The Pay It Forward Bear Cubs
Boo, Sugarbear, Elvis Fuzzley, Pooh Pooh & Fuzzy Wuzzy
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