Hundreds of Hundreds

What Hundreds of Hundreds does

Hundreds of Hundreds is a personal WordPress blog created and operated by Jill Ginsberg, a Portland, Oregon-based physician. The project was launched in September 2010 and is documented as active through November 2012. Its core activity is the 'Month of Hundreds' initiative and subsequent weekly giving practice, in which Ginsberg gives $100 bills to strangers encountered in daily life and publishes a photograph and narrative account of each encounter. The blog's underlying technology is a standard WordPress installation using the PlatformPro theme, with social sharing integration (Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Digg), an email newsletter subscription option, and an inspiration blogroll linking to related philanthropy projects such as 1000 Mitzvahs, Year of Giving, Bolder Giving, and Living Philanthropic. There is no app, no API, and no proprietary technology components.

The business model is non-commercial. The source data explicitly states: 'No commercial products or services offered. This is a personal blog documenting the founder's journey of giving away $100 bills to strangers.' There is no pricing model, no advertising, no sponsorships, and no revenue-generating activity of any kind. The project is funded by Ginsberg's personal funds, derived from an inheritance from her mother (a Holocaust survivor), and was inspired by the Jewish concept of tzedakah. Over its documented active period, Ginsberg recorded giving to more than 150 individual recipients, with encounters occurring primarily in Portland and extending to Vancouver, BC and the San Francisco Bay Area. Ginsberg also co-founded NxNE Health Center, a separate nonprofit providing free care to uninsured adults in North Portland, but this is an affiliated initiative rather than a product or service line of the blog. The blog appears to have become inactive after November 2012, with the founder herself noting in a later post that she had gone a full month without making a gift.

Name

Hundreds of Hundreds

Legal name

Hundreds of Hundreds

Website

https://hundredsofhundreds.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Hundreds of Hundreds is a personal WordPress blog by Portland physician Jill Ginsberg, documenting her practice of giving $100 bills to strangers and publishing each encounter as a photographed story. It has no commercial products, services, or revenue model, and functions as a personal philanthropy journal rather than a business.

Ownership category

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Product category

Personal Philanthropy Blog

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Consumer Lifestyle & Fashion Magazines (MPAJAEAA)

Keywords

• Personal philanthropy blog
• Charitable giving storytelling
• Personal narrative journal
• Random acts of kindness
• Tzedakah giving practice

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hundreds of Hundreds is a personal WordPress blog that documents, with photographs and narrative descriptions, founder Jill Ginsberg's ongoing practice of giving $100 bills to strangers she encounters in daily life. The blog originally started as the "Month of Hundreds" in October 2010 (giving daily for 31 days), expanded into a commitment of 100 hundred-dollar bills throughout 2011, and continued as a weekly giving practice into 2012. There are no commercial products or services sold through the site.

Product overview

Hundreds of Hundreds is a personal WordPress blog documenting the philanthropic journey of Jill Ginsberg, who embarked on a project to give away $100 bills to strangers. The website serves as a content platform for storytelling about acts of generosity and human connection, rather than a commercial product or service offering.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hundreds of Hundreds Blog Personal WordPress blog publishing ongoing stories (with photographs) of encounters in which the founder gives a $100 bill to a stranger; intended for general readers interested in personal philanthropy and human connection, not sold as a commercial product.
• Month of Hundreds Giving Project A 31-day personal commitment (October 2010) to give away $100 bills to a different stranger each day, documented via the blog. Not a commercial product.

Quantifiable outcome

• Documented over 150 individual giving stories from October 2010 to 2012

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NxNE Health CenterminorOthersCo-founded by Jill Ginsberg and Pastor Mary Overstreet, this community health center provides care at no cost to uninsured neighborhood adults in North Portland.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• GiveDirectly: A large-scale nonprofit enabling direct cash transfers to people in extreme poverty. Comparable as a technology-enabled, direct-cash-giving model but operating at vastly larger institutional scale.
• GoFundMe: The leading online crowdfunding platform for personal causes and charitable giving. Comparable as an enabling infrastructure for peer-to-peer generosity at internet scale, though operating as a general-purpose platform rather than a personal-narrative project.

Emerging players

• Random Acts of Kindness Foundation: A nonprofit dedicated to inspiring kind acts through stories, education, and community programs. Comparable as a kindness/generosity content and community organization overlapping thematically with Hundreds of Hundreds.

Direct peers

• Bolder Giving: A blog/community focused on inspiring more and bolder giving, particularly among high-net-worth donors. Comparable as a philanthropy-content platform that overlaps with Hundreds of Hundreds' audience and is explicitly cross-linked.
• 1000 Mitzvahs: A personal project documenting the completion of 1,000 acts of kindness/community service. Comparable as a long-form, person-of-faith-driven philanthropy blog explicitly cross-linked from the subject site.
• Year of Giving: A personal blog/project by Reed Sandridge documenting giving $10/day to strangers for a year. Directly comparable as a solo-operator personal philanthropy storytelling blog with similar format, cadence, and mission.
• Living Philanthropic: A blog encouraging everyday generosity and giving. Comparable as a personal-philanthropy storytelling platform cross-linked from the subject site.

Others

• Patreon: A creator monetization platform enabling recurring fan support. Comparable as a potential monetization infrastructure option for a creator-driven philanthropy blog, though not a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks2 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/hundredsofhundreds

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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