Musicians Wanted for Seeds of Kindness 4: Shine Together
About one more month is left to the release of Shine Together,
our fifth charity album!
Thanks to the tremendous work of the music community, the ongoing
Seeds of Kindness 3
fund-raiser together with our three previous fund-raisers have
raised about $150,000 from online donations alone, supporting
various Your Siblings and Engineers Without Borders projects in
Uganda, Burundi, and Tanzania. We incorporated a few suggestions
and rule changes to make this work even better for the musicians,
and we would like to ask for your help to support the outstanding
work of the Against
Malaria Foundation!
Soft deadline: November 22nd, 2014
Hard deadline: December 10th, 2014
Release date: December 20th, 2014
The Charity. There is no middle man. All the money donated
will go directly to the Against
Malaria Foundation and will only be used to purchase
insecticide-treated nets (LLINs). Donations will be tax-deductible
in the US, Canada, and most of Western Europe. Each donation will
be publicly allocated to a specific program and extensive
tracking, predistribution, and postdistribution reports will be
published online.
Half the world’s population is at risk of malaria. In 2012, about
627,000 people died of the disease, the equivalent of four Boeing
747 crashing every day with no survivors. On average, one person
dies of malaria every minute. (WHO
2013)
LLINs are mosquito nets, usually bed nets, that not only
physically protect against malaria-infected mosquitoes but are
also treated with an insecticide that lasts for several years and
in that time kills any mosquitoes that may otherwise be able to
find possible gaps or tears in the net. At a price of just about
$3, bed nets are a thoroughly
proven, highly effective means of protection against
malaria. Depending on the region they also protect from other
diseases transmitted by the same vector species, such as dengue fever, yellow
fever, and forms of encephalitis.
The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF), founded in 2004, supports
local distributors by funding the hundreds
of thousands of nets that are needed in LLIN distributions.
AMF stands out because of its strong
commitment to transparency and self-evaluation. (From Your
Siblings’ summary of AMF.)
Here is a TEDx
talk by Dr. Toby Ord, the founder of Giving What We Can,
explaining effective altruism and the logic behind our choice to
support a highly effective charity such as the Against Malaria
Foundation.
What changed. This album will operate on a
pay-what-you-want basis and a free download for the album will be
provided, so you may release your song as soon as the album is
out. For the sake of musicians who submit their songs early, there
is a set release date this time around. It does mean that we will
get less breathing room to give feedback and help entries that are
close to making the cut, so we recommend that you submit before
the “soft deadline” to make that still possible.
What you can submit.
If you have any questions, you can email us at smile.bfg@gmail.com or ask in the My Little Remix thread.