Crowdfunding Connection

[...] and how the world might look if more businesses had such a “double bottom line”. What is a social enterprise? There is some debate over how to define the term. The clearest definition comes from [...]

[...] I’m midway through a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for a social enterprise called ResolutionCare. ResolutionCare was founded to address the lack of end of life care [...]

[...] world. Many cause-based crowdfunding campaigns are launched to raise funds for innovative social enterprises that use crowdfunding very well. I want to elaborate on the idea of social enterprises and [...]

Endless material exists on how to design community projects for success. The use of graphs, diagrams, charts and other techniques is common practice a [...]

JumpStart Africa crowdfunded its own start on IndieGoGo in 2013 and is now positioning itself to be Africa’s continental source for crowdfunding. Ot [...]

[...] raised were to be used for materials, rents, purchasing assets, services, etc. Like many social change organizations, they figured that donors would donate like they always have to keep the program [...]

[...] . This event was necessary at the time, but also traumatizing. As with many social change organizations, personal traumas act as the impetus for action. Hannah’s Homeless’ success is [...]

[...] business or initiating a social change project ,your insides probably rumbled with fear. Successful crowdfunding has a lot to do with breaking through those limitations, being bold and making a stand [...]

[...] so successful in their crowdfunding campaign? They focused on a few key aspects of successful crowdfunding. First, their video is strong. Although not perfect, the video evokes emotional appeal [...]

[...] a typical client experience in story form with an “Empathy Map”. This let’s curious prospective backers understand your project’s offer much better. • Give case studies of other projects [...]

[...] . Also, appealing for program funding in general does not create a sense of urgency for prospective backers. They may think, “Oh, I’ll donate later on”. Projects, on the other hand, have clearly [...]

[...] December 11th, 2014, I had the pleasure of watching the ResolutionCare crowdfunding campaign exceed its $100,000 funding goal by over $37,000. After having the privilege of [...]