Fundraising at MozFest: Fund Your Project Raise a Community

[Lawrence Kisuuki]

Hello,

Hope we're doing great. We've been working on helping to get communities
and Mozillians the ability to fundraise or make partnerships so as to
further and grow their initiatives.

At the Mozilla Festival we held a session and access to some of those who
want to know what transpired and how to try this out please read the
article below.

http://www.newslibre.com/mozilla/fund-your-project-raise-a-community/

Cheers and Happy holidays to those in the US.



*Regards,*


*Lawrence*

*Community Manager*
*Mozilla Uganda | GenOpen*

[Alifiyah Ganijee]

Hello Lawrence,

Thanks for sharing, I attended the session and it was indeed worth it!

Regards,

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[Regnard Raquedan]

Hi Lawrence,

Nice post on crowdfunding. The tips are very much like what sites like
Indiegogo recommends.

I also want to share my experience with crowdfunding so far. My wife Liza
(who is also a Mozillian) and I started a personal crowdfunding campaign (
http://igg.me/at/pinkbasket/x/8937320) and so far we have raised 17% of our
goal one week after its launch.

Here are some of our insights and what works for us thus far:

- *Take part in Giving Tuesday* (start a campaign by December 2) -
Indiegogo's partners will give you extra tools to promote your campaign,
very helpful
- *Make a list* - We literally made a list of people whom we think will
support us and we won't be shy about asking for help. I think this is key
because as you mentioned, no one wants to support a campaign with zero
backers and there is hesitation on being the first contributor
- *People are not viewing the campaign video *- Interestingly enough, we
created a simple video for our campaign but it is not getting played.
Indiegogo recommends having a video, but I guess having a clear &
well-written story is more important to us right now.

That's it so far. I'd be happy to share what we're learning as we go, just
email me off-list.

Thanks!


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Lawrence Kisuuki <

lawr...@mozilla-uganda.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hope we're doing great. We've been working on helping to get communities
> and Mozillians the ability to fundraise or make partnerships so as to
> further and grow their initiatives.
>
> At the Mozilla Festival we held a session and access to some of those who
> want to know what transpired and how to try this out please read the
> article below.
>
> http://www.newslibre.com/mozilla/fund-your-project-raise-a-community/
>
> Cheers and Happy holidays to those in the US.
>
>
>
> *Regards,*
>
>
> *Lawrence*
>
> *Community Manager*
> *Mozilla Uganda | GenOpen*
>
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