ARLINGTON — Students at Arlington Memorial Middle School/High School have kickstarted a campaign to raise funds for the school’s music arts programs. The campaign on the online fundraising platform Kickstarter was launched earlier this week and is already a third of the way toward its goal. The funds will be used to purchase additional workstations… Read More
When the weather’s nice enough, students at Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy’s Prep Campus in Washington’s Columbia Heights neighborhood walk single-file up Kenyon Avenue through a narrow alleyway into the Bruce Monroe Community Park — a public park — for recess. … The school recently embarked on a $2.2 million dollar campaign… Read More
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Fundly and Teach For America are recognizing America’s teachers with the launch of their “Here’s To Teachers” campaign in celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week, which begins today. This week, communities across the country take time to honor educators who have made a real difference in our lives and celebrate their hard work and commitment in the… Read More
Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Offerings | Tagged charity, education, fundly, here's to teachers, teach for america
Imagine. Empowering each and every one of Ohio State University’s 63,000+ students—regardless degree, age, or background—to start, and fund, a business. Visiting its University’s crowdfunding ecosystem, ignite.osu.edu, students would find a centralized source of information, mentorship, and even a clear path to funding their ideas and ambitions. The platform wouldn’t guarantee success, of course—but it would guarantee,… Read More
Read more in: Opinion | Tagged education, jonathan sandlund, the crowd cafe
Have you ever considered the fact that your classroom setup was largely the same from when you first entered a classroom as a youngster all the way through college? A bunch of rectangular desks all facing a bigger desk in the front, the teacher’s desk, with white or chalk boards behind it. That’s the question… Read More
Upstart was featured on CNBC recently in a video where founder Paul Gu spoke about the platform and their recent success. A young company called Upstart makes it possible to buy a share of someone’s future income. From the side of the upstart, as the company calls its fund-seeking clients, it’s a way to facilitate… Read More
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An online fundraising site makes it possible for NYC students to catch a Broadway show Forty New York City high school students are going to Alan Cumming’s one-man “Macbeth” on Broadway thanks to the kindness of strangers. English teacher Eric Jordan of Frederick Douglass Academy VII (seven) in Brooklyn was teaching “Macbeth” and wanted to… Read More
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UnCollege is the brainchild of Dale J. Stephens, a young entrepreneur and Thiel Fellowship alumnus whose aim is to debunk the commonly accepted assumption that college is the only way to prosperity. UnCollege has teamed up with crowdfunding platform Pave in order to help their students fund the $13,000 pricetag for the UnCollege experience. You… Read More
Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals | Tagged dale j stephens, education, pave, peter thiel, thiel fellowship, uncollege
One of the most powerful and inspiring innovations of the modern Internet age, crowdfunding creates opportunities for individuals to raise monetary support to achieve their goals. Campus Slice utilizes the crowdfunding model to help current and prospective college students raise tuition money. For Tony Aguilar, ex-poker-pro-turned-entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Campus Slice, the alarming… Read More
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Piggybackr, a crowdfunding site that teaches young people how to raise money for projects, their teams, and schools, and projects, launched today with over 1,500 youth and 10 partners nationwide. The crowdfunding platform focuses on youths (K through college) bringing their fundraising efforts online while applying skills needed to successfully raise money. Piggybackr has already enabled… Read More
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For college hopefuls and college grads alike, the reality of higher education is growing remarkably dim. Tuition rises every year, employment opportunities aren’t improving, and student loan debt has surpassed the $1 trillion mile marker. As owner of NBA team the Dallas Mavericks and successful entrepreneur Mark Cuban noted on his blog, “We freak out… Read More
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SoMoLend CEO and Founder Candace Klein is traveling to several locations across the country this spring to educate small businesses and investors on crowdfunding in response to an increased demand for knowledge. “The demand is escalating for information on alternative access to capital, the ability to increase personal wealth, the state of regulatory affairs and… Read More
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PledgeCents offers a way for schools K-12 to fundraise besides the traditional bake sale A new crowdfunding website dedicated to raising funds for public schools, is launching Saturday, April 13, at the National School Boards Association’s 2013 conference in San Diego. PledgeCents will connect individual investors and corporations with schools seeking alternative ways to offset… Read More
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I attended the University of Akron, a school of 20,000+ undergraduate and graduate students. What if each and every one of these students were given ubiquitous access to a platform that guaranteed them the opportunity to start a business? No arbitrary semester deadlines; no degree pigeon-holes; and no resource constraints. Across all majors, at any given time, students could… Read More
Global wealth distribution today is highly unequal. A United Nations University report states that in 2000, 1% of the world’s adults held 40% of the world’s assets. Given this tough economic situation, access to education is paramount to providing opportunity for advancement. Yet combined with rising costs and decreasing public funds available for education, equal… Read More
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