[OK] A Crowdfunding Manual for Social Change!
Suresh Fernando
Remember that our research and ideas will be open sourced and will become a part of the public domain. We would greatly appreciate your support!
http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-a-crowdfunding-manual-for-social-change
It is time to solve a fundamental problem that plagues progressives everywhere – the lack of seed money to get innovative projects off the ground and the absence of workable funding models to sustain ongoing efforts to create systemic cultural, economic, and political change.
In our latest collaborative project (also funded by the crowd), the Progressive Strategy Handbook, we suggest that it is time for us to embrace `… our role as social innovators and change agents who create the new and better world.` We assert that it is time to `… unleash our entrepreneurial creativity and cultivate our institutions of tomorrow.`
In short what we must do is identify the infrastructure and models that show us how to bypass the constraints of the existing political process as well as the entrenched corporate power structures that stand in the way of progress. We believe that it is now possible for the grassroots to mobilize and align forces in a way that wasn’t possible before, using the new tools of social media and digital communication. If we are to take advantage of these tools (as protesters have done in Egypt and Tunisa), we must figure out:
- What are the most promising funding models and how do we start to use them?
- Why aren’t more effective models available for funding social innovation?
- What crowdsourcing and mass collaboration infrastructure is available to coordinate the activity of literally thousands of social innovators and activists that are working on similar problems?
- What success stories can we point to?
- What do we need to do in order to start building the infrastructure and funding models to mobilize thousands of social innovators and activists?
If we are able to reach our fundraising goal, we will deliver a handbook that provides:
- An overview fo how crowdsourcing leads to breakthroughs in funding social movements;
- A framework of open collaboration to engage change agents in the funding and building of movements;
- Concrete first steps for financing and developing infrastructure to support these new models and high-impact projects.
If we reach our goal of $5000 we will pull together a team of experts on innovative financing models, collaboration platforms, and social movements to draft a crowdfunding handbook. Everyone who pledges money to the project will be invited to provide comments and feedback to improve the handbook before it is published.
Upon completion, the handbook will be made freely available to everyone under a Creative Commons license. If the crowd pays for it, the crowd will own it.
Will you help us make this crowdfunding guide a reality?
Notes:
- It's all-or-nothing, so please help us reach our goal.
- You can pledge any amount. We'd rather have 1000 people each give $5 than 5 people each giving 1000. The power of people is our measure of success!
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Suresh Fernando
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Suresh Fernando
http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-a-crowdfunding-manual-for-social-change
What is really exciting is that 71 people have pledged in support of this project. Many people are frustrated with the lack of resources for those that have truly innovative ideas and would like to see new and innovative models developed that bypass traditional institutions... that put power back in the hands of the people!
We want to research and develop this strategy and put this in your hands! We encourage you to support this via a contribution that you can manage.
We will not only make this available to you via an open source share-alike license, but we will also build an Open Project infrastructure that will enable you to collaborate with us as we role out some of the ideas that we develop!
Here are the project details!: http://rockethub.com/projects/1068-a-crowdfunding-manual-for-social-change.
Suresh