Boon Social Giving

Helping hungry kids in Africa or rescuing dogs from animal shelter is great. But when your neighbor in your town is hurting financially, let’s try to help them first to keep our communities and families strong. We all work hard but still, in 2023, 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and over 40% of hard-working Americans do not have enough saving to cope with unexpected expenses, which pushes them off the financial disaster cliff. Joe, a single father of two children, blew his tires out on his Chevy truck recently. He doesn’t have the money to replace his tires to go do his plumbing jobs. Joe loses couple of days of work, his monthly income gets reduced, and he can’t pay his rent. Late fees accrue on his rent, and Joe ultimately gets evicted because he can’t catch up. Or, like millions of Americans do, Joe applies for a pay-day loan with high interest rates and fees, which makes the fat cats even fatter but leaves Joe in more debt and rolling interest payments and fees that he cannot dig himself out of. Either way, chances are, Joe will get evicted with his two children. They might move into a motel somewhere and pay expensive daily rates, which will make it even harder for Joe to save enough money to afford an apartment. This is a very common string of events that happens to millions of hard-working Americans every day when the United States of America is one of the richest nations in the world.

Boon was created to see if we, as in all of us, can help people like Joe. If you have some extra money laying around that you could’ve wasted on buying items on online games or on the extra large fries you shouldn’t have eaten, read Joe’s story or other people’s struggles posted on Boon and help them out. It will definitely make you feel good about yourself that you actually made a change in someone’s life and that you are helping build a stronger and healthier bond in your community. Let’s watch out for each other.

How it Works

If you have some extra cash laying around and you want to help: Sign up with Boon and browse through various postings seeking assistance. You can search by location, assistant type, and ethnicity. Each postings will have minimum ask of $5 to maximum ask of $300. Since it is not Boon’s purpose to be a free for all platform, annual transaction limits are set at $2,000 per user for both those who wants to help and users seeking help. Boon, through various social media platforms, will highlight your generosity, unless you want to remain anonymous.

If you are in need of assistance: Sign up with Boon and post your story. There are several categories which you can pick such as rent assistance, medical, grocery, car problems, utility bills, addiction problems, and so on. Each posting you can request minimum $5 to maximum $300 for assistance with annual limit of $2,000.

If you are an organization or a company who wants to help: You can sign up with Boon and set up your organization or company username to start helping. Or, you can reach us directly and we can set up a corporate account on behalf of your organization/company and start helping through Boon on behalf of your organization/company. The $2,000 annual transaction limit does not apply to organization/company. Boon, through various social media platform, will highlight your organization/company’s contribution through Boon for effective marketing campaign.