About Charity For Debt

Overview:
Charity For Debt (CFD) is a brand new project that hopes to provide a valuable service to students / alumni with debt, local non profits, and giving individuals / businesses. We saw three major problems that CFD could address:

• 1. Many students and alumni have considerable student loan debt that causes financial strain
• 2. Non profits do not have enough consistent, reliable, and motivated volunteers. They spend many hours managing and training volunteers that leave and turn over is always very high.
• 3. Local businesses and giving individuals usually can not see the results of their giving and do not feel in touch with how their money is being used.

So, CFD hopes to solve these problems by using donations from business and individuals to pay volunteers student loan debt for providing time and energy to local non profits needs.

History:
Jonathon was talking to his best friend (Brandon) one day about the burden of student loan debt. Brandon and his wife have over $60,000 in debt and it is preventing them from being able to purchase a house. Brandon always thought he would have a house before he turned 30, but the debt they owe just will not allow this dream to happen. Brandon volunteers at his local church when he can, but really wished he could find more time to volunteer for other charities while alleviating some of his debt. Jonathon suggested that his father could "sponsor" Brandon to volunteer for a charity in exchange for money given to pay off Brandon's student loan. Genius! Jonathon and Brandon thought about this and decided that many other students and charities could benefit from this unique model. Charity for Debt was born.....

Who is behind Charity for Debt:

Jonathon Lunardi - Executive Director and Founder Jonathon is an Internet entrepreneur and Senior product strategist at a large corporation during the day. In Jonathon's spare time he in charge of the overall mission and vision of Charity for Debt, all fundraising efforts, and leading the Charity for Debt volunteer team to build Charity for Debt into an International reaching non profit. Jonathon brings skills in team management, marketing, sales, public relations, business development, social media integration, and all things Internet related. Jonathon lives in Washington DC and is from Oklahoma City where he graduated from the University of Oklahoma.

Brandon Turman - Senior Vice President and Founder Brandon is a sales guru and expert during the day and worked with Jonathon on a number of Internet related ventures in the past. Brandon is in charge of general marketing efforts with a specific focus on recruiting volunteers and non profits to Charity for Debt. Brandon brings extensive sales knowledge and marketing expertise to the table, as well as general strategic thinking to help Jonathon guide the direction of future Charity for Debt operations. Brandon lives in Carrollton TX and is from Sapulpa, Oklahoma where he graduated from the University of Oklahoma.

Christian Kessler - Strategy Advisor Christian is a man of many talents and connections. Christian has important non profit expertise working with the Institute of Philanthropy in the UK while studying at the University of London. Christian helps with the strategy of the volunteer tracking model to refine the model to be efficient and accountable. Christian also helps with fundraising connections and general ideas on how to improve Charity for Debt. Christian lives in Washington DC and graduated from the University of Oklahoma.

Micheal Pettibone - Web Development Advisor Micheal joins the team as our native technical expert. Micheal knows how to code just about anything including PHP, which runs Charity for Debt, and works for Oracle during the day. Micheal will assist Jonathon and Christian in technical strategy to determine the best way to architect the online processes to keep track of volunteer activities. Micheal will get his hands dirty with the Charity for Debt PHP code when needed, but mostly will be involved in technical strategy and a few technical operations.

Chad Ingram - Graphic Artist Advisor Chad is known as Mr. Design to many people. Chad works for a promotional marketing agency during the day working with such clients as Gatorade, Propel and Wal-Mart just to name a few. Chad is an expert in all things associated with brochures and ad design. Chad will be developing the first Charity for Debt brochure once the pilot program has begun. This brochure will then be sent out to hundreds of individuals and businesses promoting the Charity for Debt model. Chad lives in Chicago and is also from the University of Oklahoma.

If you want to contact Jonathon and/or Brandon, simply write to us at charityfordebt@gmail.com or you can find us on Facebook through the CFD Facebook group.



Vision, Mission & Goals:
Our vision is to have 10,000 CFD local "franchises" serving their local community constituents, which are volunteers with student loan debt, non profits who need motivated volunteers, and donors. We hope to someday have over 1 million volunteers serving hundreds of thousands of non profits.

Our mission is to provide innovative and positive services for our three constituent groups.

Our main goal right now is to fund two pilot programs of our concept in Washington DC and Dallas TX (possibly Oklahoma City as well). We need a total of $10,000 to have a real impact and have a large enough sample to learn from and show meaningful results. We are very results oriented and intend to make a real difference.

Media Resources:
If you are the media, we need your help. You might be an influential blogger, a newspaper writer, have a podcast or even on television. If so, we are here to tell our story on how we are going to change the United States! We will be posting official press releases here sometime soon, but in the mean time if you would like an interview about the project, please email us. Charity For Debt is a great story to tell!

For more information, visit our Media Resources page.