Arlo Gilbert’s Blog

Mitzvot dot com is my new project… no it’s not live, in fact it’s not even in development yet, I bought the domain for a few thousand dollars recently (what a steal), but after having a few conversations with my wife about problems that day schools and other small/non-technically savvy organizations have, I decided that me owning mitzvot dot com must be more than a chance… it’s an opportunity to perform a mitzvah!

Not only does the name define exactly what we will do, but it’s a really cool way to help! I’m not 60 with 10 billion dollars (yet) but I am pretty sharp and I do know more about billing credit cards online than pretty much anybody else on the planet… not patting myself on the back, it’s just something I’m exceptionally good at.

So since it’s not exactly a top secret business plan, I envision mitzvot dot com as being a one stop shop for jewish fundraising activities online. We will provide organizations with a single link that they can send to potential donors to collect from $5 to $5000 at a time… we’ll help them manage their silent auctions and charity fund raisers for almost nothing… and the fact is that what we do charge will surely be meaningless when they increase their fundraise significantly.

Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks this is a cool idea, one of the richest and most successful guys on the planet today told me that he thought it was interesting as well. Who could it be? Eh… name dropping is so 2007… but it was definitely my biggest brush with fame.

I’ll try to keep blogging more regularly, when life gets busy sometimes things like blogging fall by the wayside.

-Arlo Gilbert