AN INNOVATIVE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FOR NGOS,CSOS, SOCIAL CAUSES ETC
BEN USANG
WHAT IS CROWDPOL ALL ABOUT?
Hello Active Citizens, the easiest way to describe crowdpol would be,the fastest and easiest way to start raising money for political and social campaign online.
YOU WANT A MORE SWAG-ISH DEFINITION?
Okay here it is, Crowdpol is an innovative digital crowdfunding enterprise, whose fundamental objective is to help political first timers and persons involved in social impact projects, raise funds faster and easier to help bring about inclusion and transparency in governance. How was that?
CROWDPOL COMMON GOAL
Our common goal is to seek for ways to promote people inclusion and transparency in governance by helping more people participate in the political process through running for office, funding candidates and social impact projects they believe in.
CROWDPOL INSIGHT.
Why did we decide to take on a task such as these? well,For us to fix politics and electoral democracy in Africa, part of what we need to fix is fundraising.
Money underpins a huge proportion of what’s wrong with
politics or social development. The need to raise money, whether its
huge amounts of money,
as is needed in Nigeria and Africa to run for federal office, or even
small amounts at the state level you’ve got to raise money to do your
campaign. And typically, that forces you to do things and say things and
take positions that are not actually what you believe. The goal of
Crowdpol is to help citizens raise money faster and easier to run for
office or take part in social good bringing more diverse voices to
governance in Nigeria and Africa.
WHAT WE DO
As a new startup, we currently focus on:
Decentralized funding:
Our platform, connects Political first timers, Social impact project
initiators with supporters and citizens’ who believe in their campaign
to help them raise money they need to run their campaign and bring their
projects to life.
Simplifying data on politics, governance and citizens’ need:
We help the citizens understand political data better about Aspirants, candidates and parties to help the citizen make informed choices on who governs them.We hope to grow to a point of :
We working with government to provide data that helps them understand the need assessments of her citizens at all levels of government so as to make the right developmental choices for citizens.
And also provide periodic data on governance to help citizens engage government rightly.
OUR BELIEVE IS
As Active citizens of Nigeria,we believe that with the
right tools, citizens working together can recreate Nigeria and Africa’s
democracy to be more representative and transparent. The majority of
campaign contributions should be small donations and financial barriers
of entry should be lowered for first time politicians and citizens
should take part in community development. For us to achieve this, it
means crowdfunding Africa’s politics and democracy,in place of the
corrupt funding we have today to
make political engagement as accessible as possible.
OUR FOCUS
We focus on Politics and Social Good which are key tools to build a stronger and better institution in Nigeria and Africa.
OBJECTIVES
Our Objective is to:
1. Give politics back to people — to make it easier for citizens to learn about politicians, run for office, and to find and support political candidates that match their priorities and beliefs.
2. We want to help end the stronghold of big money donors
and special self-Interests on Africa and particularly Nigeria political
system. While we play
an independent and non-partisan role.
3. Increase Citizen Interest and participation in the political process of their country.
4. Increase citizen engagement and commitment to social and political development in their country.
FUTURE IMPACT
1. It would increase participation and lower the barrier to entry in the political space, creating opportunity for young persons and first timers to run for offices at all level of government.
2. It will provide alternative source of funding for political aspirants/candidates other than big money bags and stealing public funds for those in office.
3. Increase awareness and engagement between the public and political aspirants/candidates.
4. Promote accountability in public office.
5. It will promote citizen participation in community
development.
6. Tackle corruption in election funding.
7. Transparency in governance as the public are not just part of the voting process but funding of
elections.
8. Create a culture of community-sponsored projects From the public as a means of social good for the public to develop their community
We are the new kid on the block or your new partner to birth the new Nigeria of our dreams and we are stronger together working as a team to make Nigeria better for us all. Please join us.
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