All:
I wrote about my experience at AltamontCowork the past five years.
I still believe that coworking is a wonderful concept, but, I also, now, believe that it will still take time to catch on everywhere.
The millenials will make it happen everywhere.....us old folks who can't grasp the open collaborative nature of the new office just need to step aside. 😃
COWORKING in a Small Town: Lessons Learned - http://wp.me/p4w4ad-14L
Hi,
We are about to open a coworking space in a small town in Belgium. +/- 30,000 inhabitants, but the Grand-Duchy of Luxemburg is just 30min drive from here.
Our space isn’t open yet, and luckily enough the city council gave us a place for free for two years.
Our problem is that we need 5000€ to renovate the place.
We started a crowdfunding campaign on Ulule.com[*], but since our target audience is located in a very small radius, the struggle to communicate about who we are, what we want to achieve, and why we need help is a very hard business.
So, the question here is :
- Was it (crowdfunding) a good choice since the target audience is very much limited ?
- Does anyone have a feedback of that kind of funding in that kind of population ?
- How did you manage to pay your own renovations ?
PS : we are a non-profit organisation, that's why external investment is not an option for us
Thanks
Cédric
The millenials will make it happen everywhere.....us old folks who can't grasp the open collaborative nature of the new office just need to step aside.
COWORKING in a Small Town: Lessons Learned - http://wp.me/p4w4ad-14L
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Maria,
Thanks for your answer.
We still have 14 days left to complete our goal, and we have 40% of the goal as of today. We are still waiting for the local television to broadcast the reporting they did about us. And within the next few days, we have two meeting with two potential (quite big) sponsors. There is still hope I guess :)
About press coverage, we have everything we could hope to have : last week, we had a paper in the journal and a radio interview. It did not seem to have the impact we were hoping.
Your suggestion about "school with programs in construction" is really interresting, we did not thought of that.
Anyway, if anyone have anything else to suggest, feel free to give us your feedback !