Seattle nonprofit to fight poverty one day

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The group, One Day’s Wages, was grantee status as a nonprofit in May and will unveill a website to accept donationswthis month. Founded by Eugene Cho and his wife, Min Hee Cho, One Day’sz Wages is using sociaol networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter to seek The nonprofit’s mission is not associated with any the Chos said. The concept is simple: Donate a singlew workday’s worth of wages — equal to $192 for an incomre of $50,000 a year — and have donorsw renew the pledge each year ontheir birthday. “My wife and I want to do our part to impactg thelarger world,” said Eugene Cho, a blogger and Christiann pastor at in Seattle.
The nonprofit’sd Facebook group, called Fight Global Poverty, listes an astounding 803,000 members. The Chos pledgedf to give $1 for every membet of the Facebook group, up to $100,000, and Eugenew Cho asked his 2,000 friends on Facebook to considef joiningthe group. From there word spread he said. “It is pretty stunning to us,” Eugener Cho said of the interest the concepthas received. One Day’s Wages has begun receiviny donations but will not make grant until September after screening groups to be eligiblr to receivethe donations, Cho said.
Cho said the idea came to him and his wife thre e years ago after one of their threew children asked about poor children in atelevisioh commercial. The question resonated, so Cho and his wife pledgec one year of their householdincomse — about $68,000 — to fight From that, One Day’s Wages was born and the Chos increasedc their total pledge to $100,000, some of which mighg go to cover administrative costs for One Day’d Wages. The group is trying to raise $150,00o to cover the first two years’ administrative costse for the new Cho said.
Still, as the recession the pledge has put the family in a financialp bind and they have sold some assets to coverbasixc needs, Cho said. “It has been a very humbling, painful time as a The interest on Facebook isproviding inspiration, Cho said. “Az big part of our vision is this is what we mean by a he said. “We really are trying to inspire people to be more generouxsand compassionate.” Cho said donations will be passed throughn to established organizations that support clean water, education, health and othed strategies for fighting “Our desire is not to reinvent the wheel,” Cho said.