Get your project funded

[Mega]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone knows a way how to get funds for a specific project.

I found petridish.org, but they only fund professional projects AND only US... Do you know any science charities / foundations where you can present a project and they then decide to give subsidies?


Honestly, a Bill Gates foundation for the advance of (DIY-) science would be great.


regards,

[Bryan Bishop]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Mega <masters...@gmail.com> wrote:

I found petridish.org, but they only fund professional projects AND only US... Do you know any science charities / foundations where you can present a project and they then decide to give subsidies?

How about here? What's your project and why do you need money?

 

Honestly, a Bill Gates foundation for the advance of (DIY-) science would be great.

I know at least two or three people who have grants through the Gates Foundation who are not affiliated with academic institutions. You should just submit your grant proposal.

- Bryan
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[Pieter]

There are a lot of crowdfunding sites out there, for example:

- Microryza

- Kickstarter

- Wefunder

- GeekFunder

- Sciflies

- EurekaFund

- RocketHub / SciFund Challenge

- FundaGeek

etc

Beware though, raising funds on a crowdfunding site is not as easy as you might think...

Most charities / foundations have very specific criteria you must meet. Depending on the amount of money you are looking for, you might not want to start out with the Gates Foundation straight away..

[Mega]

Kickstarter only gives money to people with US bank accounts. So don't work for me.

I read the guidlines from the melinda and bill gates foundation and it is for fighting starvation in africa, making vaccines, ......

I don't think they want to spend around 3000 $ to print out the gene sequence for a glowing plant.

[Lisa Thalheim]

Something else you could try for smallish amounts (up to 1000
Euros/Pounds/Whatevers, depending on the chapter) is the Awesome
Foundation:

"For the Arts and Sciences and the advancement of Awesomeness in the universe.
The Foundation distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to
projects and their creators. The money is pooled together from the
coffers of ten or so self-organizing “micro-trustees” and given
upfront in cash, check, or gold doubloons. The chapters are autonomous
and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of
interest.
The Foundation provides these grants with no strings attached and
claims no ownership over the projects it supports. It is, in the words
of one of our trustees, a micro-genius grant for flashes of
micro-brilliance."

And they definitely have chapters in Europe.

Another option, maybe (since I seem to remember that you are from
Austria?), would be to approach the Ars Electronica Center in Linz
(http://www.aec.at). They have a BioLab and a BrainLab, and they might
either be able to fund small projects directly, or know whom to ask.
See also http://www.aec.at/press/en/tag/biolab/ for some info on the
BioLab at the AEC.

Cheers,
lisa

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[Matthew Anderson]

I've been reading about kickstart.  You have to fund raise your own money through there site but the catch is you have to quote them a price and a time line, if you don't make your quota you lose all the money you raised.

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[Daniel C.]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Anderson
<milacaf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been reading about kickstart.  You have to fund raise your own money
> through there site but the catch is you have to quote them a price and a
> time line, if you don't make your quota you lose all the money you raised.

That's a feature, not a catch. The money at Kickstarter is donated by
individuals, and is guaranteed by Kickstarter not to be "lost" if the
project doesn't get fully funded. This frees people up to donate
money to projects without having to ask themselves whether it's likely
that the project will get funded or not.

-Dan

[Cathal Garvey]

It also creates a very effective relationship between funder and fundee,
where people who've committed to funding a project feel that they should
help raise further funding in order to realise their investment. It
creates a cascade of funding for good projects, sometimes creating
spectacular results. For modest projects, it still offers the
"insurance" Daniel mentioned.

This "insurance" issue is pretty important for ambitious projects which
basically can't even *begin* without reaching a certain funding
threshold. With other platforms like indiegogo, I might fund a guy �20,
only to have him raise �120 of �2000 and be totally unable to do
anything with it. What happens to my �20?

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If you have a plan for a diybio project that may turn a profit, I'd suggest checking out Angel List. 

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[Nathan McCorkle]

Also indiegogo

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[Andreas Sturm]

Indiegogo sounds good, because it allows for non-US programms.

I think it would be worth a try.


It even has a fixed price option, so if you don't reach your goal, the money raised will be given back to the people who gave it.
(the flexible system will give you the money anyway, also if it's only half the sum wanted... This system feels like a kind of hoax to me... What shall I do with 2000$ if I need 3000$ ? If I had 1000 $  to contribute easily, I wouldn't have applied for the funding... )

[Srdjan Gavrilovic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_crowd_funding_services