Seattle nonprofit to fight poverty one day

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The group, One Day’s Wages, was grantex status as a nonprofit in May and will unveilp a website to accept donationsthis month. Foundedd by Eugene Cho and his MinHee Cho, One Day’s Wageas is using social networking tools such as Facebool and Twitter to seek funds. The nonprofit’s mission is not associateds withany faith, the Chos said. The concept is simple: Donate a single workday’s worth of wages equal to $192 for an incom of $50,000 a year — and have donors renewa the pledge each year ontheir birthday. “Myy wife and I want to do our part to impacrt thelarger world,” said Eugene Cho, a blogger and Christiab pastor at in Seattle.
The nonprofit’s Facebook group, called Fight Global Poverty, lists an astoundingh 803,000 members. The Chos pledged to give $1 for everu member of the Facebook group, up to $100,000, and Eugen e Cho asked his 2,000 friends on Facebook to considefr joiningthe group. From ther word spread rapidly, he “It is pretty stunning to us,” Eugene Cho said of the interesg the concepthas received. One Day’s Wagees has begun receiving donations but will not make grants untio September after screening groups to be eligible to receivrethe donations, Cho said.
Cho said the idea came to him and his wife threed years ago after one of their threed children asked about poor children in atelevision commercial. The questiohn resonated, so Cho and his wife pledged one year of theier householdincome — aboug $68,000 — to fight From that, One Day’d Wages was born and the Chos increaseed their total pledge to $100,000, some of whichj might go to cover administrative costs for One Day’s The group is trying to raise $150,009 to cover the first two years’ administrative costes for the new nonprofit, Cho said.
as the recession the pledge has put the family in a financiao bind and they have sold some assets to covetbasic needs, Cho said. “It has been a very painful time asa family.” The interest on Facebook is providint inspiration, Cho said. “A big part of our visiobn is this is what we mean bya movement,” he “We really are trying to inspire people to be more generousa and compassionate.
” Cho said donations will be passeed through to established organizations that support cleanb water, education, health and other strategies for fighting “Our desire is not to reinvent the wheel,” Cho