Today’s the Day
We’re off to great places, we’re off and away: Recurring Crowdfunding is now live!
As we recently shared, we’ve been hard at work on the biggest upgrade to the StartSomeGood platform in several years, the launch of a new approach to crowdfunding and community-building: Recurring Crowdfunding.
We are excited to say that as of an hour ago Recurring Crowdfunding is LIVE
When you hit the “Start A Project” button on StartSomeGood you now have to make a choice of what kind of project, and therefore what kind of crowdfunding campaign, you’d want to start.
Recurring Crowdfunding allows community groups to build dedicated ongoing donor communities, social enterprises to offer subscription products and creative producers and community organizers to be supported longer-term.
It allows you to create a very different type of fundraising campaign, one that is focused on building a long-term community and creating a long-term value, for instance through an ongoing podcast, a membership community, a recurring product or a continuing community project like a community garden or advocacy group.
Whereas if you need to raise a specific sum of money by a set deadline, for example to close a funding gap or raise investment to launch a social enterprise food truck, being able to buy the truck etc, One-Time Crowdfunding is still right for you, and we still have the best model and provide the best support to help you succeed, which is why we have the highest success rate in cause crowdfunding.
We have been thrilled by the number and quality of organizations and projects interested in launching Recurring Crowdfunding campaigns with us and are so proud to be able to share the first group of campaigns going live with us today.
They’re all doing amazing work so please check them out and support them. There’s even a new community offering from us at the bottom :)
Enterprising Stories
Enterprising Stories by Digital Storytellers puts a spotlight on social enterprises making a positive impact in Australia and all over the world. This live online show shares the latest news in the social sector and connects purpose-driven individuals with different experts and with one another.
At this time of COVID-19, they’re utilizing their platform to encourage social entrepreneurs to be a pivotal part of the movement to ‘Build Forward Better’.
Learn more about their ongoing project at https://startsomegood.com/enterprising-stories
Online Tutoring for Indigenous & Remote Children
Need A Tutor is a social enterprise tackling the inequality and inaccessibility of children’s education in Australia.
Through the provision of online tutoring services and regular online learning sessions for children in need, they’re working to close the educational gap in the country and ensure that no child gets left behind.
Learn more about their ongoing efforts at https://startsomegood.com/needatutor
The Burma Fitness Platform
This group of young passionate fitness professionals from Myanmar founded the Burma Fitness Platform in 2019. Since doing so, they’ve made it their mission to promote health and wellness throughout the country by running live fitness events in different cities.
When COVID-19 hit, they pivoted and pursued this goal online by developing and sharing free content that included recorded and live fitness programs, exercise challenges and interviews with different health and nutrition specialists.
Learn more about their recurring fitness offerings at https://startsomegood.com/BFPcrowdfunding-for-myanmar
Empowering young professionals in Madrid
Now that youth unemployment is at an all time high in Spain, more and more need to be done to bolster the nation’s economy and to support the many who are currently seeking work.
Puentes Global is a foundation operating in Madrid that helps young individuals prepare and enter the workforce by providing free mentoring services to microentrepreneurs from Vocational Training (VT) centers and affordable consultancy services to different microbusinesses.
Learn more about their ongoing program at https://startsomegood.com/supporting-young-professionals-in-madrid
Podcast: Mission 2021 Towards A New Dawn
Mission 2021 Towards A New Dawn walks almost side by side with its listeners who’re struggling with the many challenges brought about by COVID-19. This podcast by businessman Jawahar Sen will take on the reality of losing jobs and setting new career goals amid the pandemic; the different career crises people of different ages face and the utilization of a variety of tools for the development of one’s key business units.
Learn more about his monthly set of podcast episodes at https://startsomegood.com/podcast-for-care
Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center
Khye Tyson is a southern queer Black agender femme who enjoys yoga, doula-ing, subverting the gender binary and designing underwear for nonbinary folx.
She founded the Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center in 2018 and has since built a strong supportive community for Black women and LGBTQ+ people, families and communities of color.
Learn more about her and her center’s recurring community efforts at https://startsomegood.com/kulunturjc
Pink Revolution To Build A Better Future
Michele Gennoe of On Purpose Transformation is bringing her 20 years of expertise and experience in globally running transformation projects for corporate, government and NFP clients to the Pink Revolution.
The Pink Revolution is a project that to aims to support women by building fairer and more equitable ecosystems, focusing on those surrounding women’s educational opportunities, mental health/wellbeing and community-building.
Learn more about her and her impact plans at https://startsomegood.com/pink-revolution-to-build-a-better-tomorrow
Friendly Farms
Restoring Australia’s landscape resilience is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Friendly Farms is dedicated to making beautiful stories, hosting events and producing an online show that promotes the work of the pioneers of Regenerative Agriculture and supports farmers in their transition to the practice of which.
Learn more about their work at https://startsomegood.com/friendly-farms
Precious Plastic Melbourne
This husband and wife team behind Precious Plastic Melbourne is now looking to scale and build a community around their plastic bottle cap processing and recycling efforts.
What may come as a surprise to many is the fact that these lids are simply too small and often deemed a “contaminant” by most industrial recycling facilities, thus- they’re often left unprocessed and discarded to landfills wherein they just add to the growing plastic problem.
Learn more about their vision and plans for longer-term impact at https://startsomegood.com/precious-plastic-melbourne
The Starting Good Network
Lastly, we ourselves are crowdfunding to be able to empower and support even more changemakers from all over the world.
The Starting Good Network is our pivot and response to the needs of our community amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Joining our exclusive online space on the world wide web will give you access to the full StartSomeGood ecosystem and provide discounts to relevant products, services, courses and media from our partners. :) Above all these, it will connect to your peers; or, those who like yourself are committed to taking an entrepreneurial approach and using their talents to make a difference.
Learn more about our new community for changemakers at https://startsomegood.com/starting-good
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If you are interested in launching a Recurring (or One-Off!) crowdfunding campaign for your impact project please get in touch! Just hit the “Start A Project” button on our homepage or write to our team, we’d love to help.
