Sisters of the North LiveVoucher funds allocated

In the words of organiser Susan Dowling, a large portion of the $1.1m raised has now been given out.

"We started off calling it the 'ping of hope' because the message to say money was available would ping on receivers' mobile phones when they came into range," she said.

"It was always our goal to make most of the money raised available to the small business community, via property owners and their workers.

"For the workers, this is a way of acknowledging what they had to do to dispose of hundreds of dead cattle."

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She said the LiveVoucher money drop became a reality after the work of tallying applications from the six eligible shires was completed.

"We expect this money to be used for small ticket items, the types of things that get dropped in hard times - it won't buy a new tank or pump or anything," she said.

When applications closed, Sisters of the North had received a 55 per cent response rate across the six shires, which Ms Dowling said was a great outcome, considering the form-filling fatigue affecting people.

"We sent out 725 application forms across the region at the start," she said.

"In hindsight, some corporate stations didn't have people on them but they've been taken out of the equation.

"Now, the money's available and it's up to the recipient to activate.

"If people are not in mobile range, they should have received an email to let them know."

Ms Dowling said they understood that SMS messages didn't appeal to all but it was the way SOTN could best manage the money distribution cost effectively.

"We are working with a couple in special circumstances," she said. "We've tried to be flexible within our boundaries."

She said the timing for the disbursement was perfect, with the weather getting hotter and Christmas demands just round the corner.

While financial donations still occasionally come in - most recently one from a US Brahman group in acknowledgement of the genetics lost in the monsoon disaster - Ms Dowling said that at this stage, they had completed their fund-raising aims.

"We are a charity that responded to the flooding," she said. "We'll head back to our social and emotional beginnings now, what we were before the floods."

She said they had built up a strong brand over the year and were now interested in hearing from groups with ideas they could work with.

"We don't have the capacity to run big events but we can put things on in conjunction with others, to keep people connected as the social season winds down."