Sunday
October 20, 2024
Wow. Well!
Today we did a bunch of shuffling things around to see what resources we could re-allocate / move around to make sure we are able to:
#1) get as many of the products on our outstanding campaigns tested at the lab as possible and
#2) to bring as many other campaigns close to funding as possible.
So here’s what we did (we are going to post this as an update on ALL of the campaigns mentioned, so if you contributed to more than one of the campaigns mentioned below you will get this update more than once!)
- First: The Plantation Black Strap Molasses had only raised $100 since we launched the campaign – so we converted it to be one of our “pro bono” campaigns for the month of October (we really want to test this because we have heard molasses can test positive for a high level of Lead – but have not yet quantified that!) We then put the $100.00 that campaign had raised in the “pot” to be allocated towards other campaigns.
- Of the $100 above we allocated $29 to the SunButter campaign (lowering the goal visible on the campaign by $29) – which meant that campaign has reached it goal, so we closed that campaign! This left $71 remaining.
- Of the $71 remaining we applied $47 to the MCormick Organic Saigon Cinnamon Sticks – so that campaign met its goal (lowering the goal of the campaign by that amount and closing the campaign!) This left $24 to allocate… somewhere
- A Garden of Life prenatal vitamin funded today with $5 over, and the Goldfish crackers funded today with $2 extra – bringing our credit that we can allocate to something else up to $31.
- Since the Fruity Flavored Magic Spoon cereal has not funded in forever (only having raised $187 since the campaign launched), we converted that campaign to one of our “pro-bonos” for the month of October and added that amount ($187) to the $31 above = leaving us $218 to allocate to other campaigns,
- We applied $45.00 of that $218 to the Apple Cherry That’s It bar (since that was close to funding but not quite there), closing out that campaign by helping it meet its goal. Leaving $173 to allocate to other campaigns.
- We then allocated $45 of the remaining $173 to the Parm Crisp (cheese snack) to help that product meet the campaign goal, and closed out THAT campaign… bringing the amount we had left to allocate down to $128.
- We then applied $65 of the $128 remaining to the Kendamil Toddler Goat formula that was close to funding, bringing that campaign to its goal – leaving us with $63.00 left to allocate
- Since the Now Kelp supplement had not yet funded (and since we are VERY curious about the results for this product in light of the sheet seaweed testing we did) we closed out the Now Kelp campaign (converting it to one of our pro-bonos for the month of October) putting the $145.00 that the kelp campaign had raised “back into the pot” of funds to be reallocated, bringing us up to $208 that we needed to reallocate.
- Since the Hu Chocolate campaign had never funded – we allocated $133 of that $208 to close out the Hu campaign, leaving us with $75,00 still left to allocate.
- One of our oldest campaigns (the Chocolate Chip Clif Bar) had still not funded, so we took the $210 raised from that campaign and put that into the pot – adding it to the $75 above (bringing our funds to reallocate up to $285) – and we converted the Clif Bar to being one of our pro-bono campaigns for October.
- We allocated $195 of the $285 remaining to bring the One Degree Brown Rice Cereal to its goal and we closed out that campaign so that we can test it this month. This left $90 to allocate towards other campaigns.
- As we are testing SunButter and as Sunflowers are notoriously contaminated we really wanted to expedite the testing of the Sunflower Lecithin (which had not yet funded) so we closed out that campaign, making it another one of our pro-bonos for October and reallocating the funds raised ($240) to other campaigns, bringing our amount to reallocate up to $330.
- We then applied $300 of that $330 to the Once Upon A Farm Organic Fruit And Veggie Blend campaign to bring that campaign to its goal, closing it out so we can test it this month. This left $30 left to allocate.
- We then applied that remaining $30 to the Navitas Strawberry campaign (lowering the goal by that amount, so it will hopefully fund more quickly!
And that’s how we came up with several of the products we will be testing this month using our probono credits contributed by Simple Lab!
Thanks for reading this silly update.
I cannot imagine that anyone else out there wanted to follow the details! But it is important to us to publish this so that there is a paper trail for transparency and accountability.
By moving things around a bit, the things you wanted tested will be tested more quickly! And things others wanted tested (but that had not yet funded!) will also be tested more quickly (by using our 8 pro-bono credits from Simple Lab in this way!)
Tamara
Sue Paasch says
Thank you for all the work you’re doing!! It is unbelievable how unhealthy and unsafe are world is.