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Hi all,  I've been thrown a curveball this morning about how to take a pledge when the donor doesn't really know the what the total amount of the pledge will be. 
Think of a a scenario where I am going to walk a long distance, and you pledge $1 per mile I walk.You don't know how far I'll walk but later I'll come back and tell you and collect on your pledge. If I walk 100 miles, then your pledge became $100.

Has anyone set something like this up before? I can see how this would work going door to door with a clipboard, but for online forms, and given our firm operational rules about what we need to document a pledge, I am thinking this really not an adviseable thing.
Thoughts?

Susan

Hi all,  I've been thrown a curveball this morning about how to take a pledge when the donor doesn't really know the what the total amount of the pledge will be. 
Think of a a scenario where I am going to walk a long distance, and you pledge $1 per mile I walk.You don't know how far I'll walk but later I'll come back and tell you and collect on your pledge. If I walk 100 miles, then your pledge became $100.

Has anyone set something like this up before? I can see how this would work going door to door with a clipboard, but for online forms, and given our firm operational rules about what we need to document a pledge, I am thinking this really not an adviseable thing.
Thoughts?

Susan

Hi all,  I've been thrown a curveball this morning about how to take a pledge when the donor doesn't really know the what the total amount of the pledge will be. 
Think of a a scenario where I am going to walk a long distance, and you pledge $1 per mile I walk.You don't know how far I'll walk but later I'll come back and tell you and collect on your pledge. If I walk 100 miles, then your pledge became $100.

Has anyone set something like this up before? I can see how this would work going door to door with a clipboard, but for online forms, and given our firm operational rules about what we need to document a pledge, I am thinking this really not an adviseable thing.
Thoughts?

Susan