IN CASE YOU CAN HELP, ROBERT BIDINOTTO IS NOT ONLY AN EXCELLENT WRITER, HE’S ALSO A FRIEND AND A GENUINELY NICE MAN. MORE IMPORTANTLY A GOOD ONE: Consider donating to the fundraiser to help him care for his wife: Please Care for Cindy: the love of my life.
As you know, writers, particularly indie ones, have no safety net. And those on the right don’t have philanthropists with deep pockets to fund them either. All we have is each other. We have to be enough.
ROBERT BECAME AWARE OF THE CHANGES IN GOFUNDME, AND HAS ARRANGED FOR ALTERNATE MEANS OF DONATING. THIS IS FROM HIS FACEBOOK PAGE:
GoFundMe has unfortunately gone politically “woke,” and they’ve been de-platforming or promoting various fundraisers accordingly. They also charge transaction fees on donations. So, despite the platform’s huge visibility and effectiveness, some prospective donors understandably won’t contribute through them. But there are options:
1. ZELLE or VENMO: These money-transfer apps will send your donation quickly and directly into Cyn’s bank account. If you don’t yet use them, just go to their respective websites and sign up for free to use either of them. You can then transfer money from your linked bank account to Cyn’s in seconds, for free! All you need is her email address:CSGracenote @ AtlanticBB (dot) net2. PAYPAL: This popular money-transfer service took me a bit of time to set up after some initial glitches, but now it’s also ready to use for person-to-person donations. You sign up on their website, just like Zelle or Venmo, then similarly use Cindy’s email address (above) to transfer money from your account to hers.3. WRITE A CHECK: Low-tech and slow, but cheap and reliable. Just make out your check to “Cynthia Bidinotto-Slate.” Then mail it to:“Care for Cindy”c/o Robert BidinottoP.O. Box 555Chester, MD 21619Any of those methods can be used as an alternative to GoFundMe. But if you do prefer to contribute through that platform, just go to the GoFundMe website, then use the “search” tab at the top of the page to search on the words: Care for Cindy. That will take you to her page.
Once more, a big THANK YOU goes out to the scores of you who have donated so generously. Besides helping to fund Cyn’s care in a nurturing environment, you are buying me months of precious time — time that I am now using to get back to WRITING. The more of that work I can do, the less I’ll have to worry about raising money to pay the bills. And the more BOOKS you’ll get out of me. You are giving BOTH of us our lives back, my friends . . . and I’ll never forget you for it.
