Tagged: education

February 19, 2014 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

DonorsChoose is quickly gaining steam in the crowdfunding space. FastCompany just named DonorsChoose to their list of the most innovative companies in 2014, and it wasn’t buried toward the bottom either. It made the top ten alongside the likes of Google and Nike. Now Huffington… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google, Bloomberg, Xiaomi, Dropbox, Netflix, Airbnb, Nike, Zipdial… DonorsChoose.org? You read that right. DonorsChoose has become a staple among the annual list of most innovative companies compiled by Fast Company, and this year the site has muscled into the top 10. DonorsChoose.org is a donation-based… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Watch Me Go is a new organization giving girls living in urban slums around the world the opportunity to go to high school. It recently launched the first crowdfunding platform dedicated entirely to girls’ secondary education in developing countries, and is currently raising funds to… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 10:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We caught wind of a proposed crowdfunding exemption in the State of Alabama in the fall of 2013. As any regular reader of Crowdfund Insider knows, intrastate crowdfunding exemptions are popping up left and right as of late. Just this week we reported on proposed legislation… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Earwig Academic Raises 128% of Goal at £180,000. Investors quickly backed Earwig software raising equity on the Crowdcube platform. The company had set a goal of raising £140,o00 but 71 investors have participated to push that amount higher.  This represented an 18% stake in the… Read More

January 11, 2014 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Project Brings Brilliant Children Together to Focus on Education.  Seeks $75,000 in funding. Spotlighting some of the worlds most innovative young minds, ‘Magic Makers’ — a new pilot show has announced the start of its crowdfunding program through the beta platform Memeni. Created and hosted by social… Read More

January 2, 2014 @ 10:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

If you have to watch a five minute video explaining the absolute basics of crowdfunding, please… stop what you’re doing and watch this. George Takei of Star Trek fame takes on crowdfunding basics in this episode of Takei’s Take, a YouTube video series created in partnership with… Read More

January 1, 2014 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter Has Raised an Incredible $81,000  – 8 Times Goal. Opera singer, teacher and author Gabriel Wyner set out to raise a mere $10,000 on Kickstarter. He crushed that goal in just over 2 days.  His crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter which ends… Read More

December 29, 2013 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

TinyWorld, the social e-learning platform that wants to innovate the process of learning a second language beat their $50,000 goal on Monday, December 23, 2013.  With less than three days in the campaign on Indiegogo the project has set their stretch goal of hurdling $75,000…. Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:18 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pave is encouraging everyone to chase their dreams in 2014, and they have launched an initiative called Moonshot to help encourage people to do just that. Pave is encouraging people to tweet a message including what they hope to accomplish in 2014. By including @pave in… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Arizona State University’s new, official crowdfunding platform is helping faculty and student researchers find support for unique and socially beneficial studies.  Crowdfunding is a growing method to incubate ideas, capture feedback and generate support and ASU has launched their site with diverse campaigns. BullyBlocker is… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

SavingsFund, developed by the National Financial Educators Council (NFEC), is a crowdfunding platform for education finance.  The goal is to give families a way to raise funds for their child’s future with the help of their family and friends.  As part of the Holiday season… Read More

December 8, 2013 @ 11:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Education is an area ripe for disruption.  Even the  godfather of the concept of “disruptive innovation”, Clayton Christensen, has written a book on how the way we learn does not always fit with the way we are taught.  The team at Tinyworld wants to change… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CNN Money | How IBM bypasses bureaucratic purgatory IBM has an in-house crowdfunding platform that they use to allow employees to vet and evaluate their colleagues’ ideas. It’s an effort to “improve the way we do things internally” according to the head of IBM’s CIO… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter to bring a new PC kit to market. The kit is touted as a “computer and coding kit for all ages, all over the world,” and the campaign to fund it has already crossed $1 million in funding with… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 9:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding campaign for Play-i is in its final hours. The campaign launched seeking $250,000 to fund and prove a market for an interactive, cost-effective set of robots – named Bo and Yana – that would aid in teaching young children the basics of programming…. Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Launching today, Skoolwerx aims to help schools and teachers crowdfund for projects in a more efficient and effective manner than traditional fundraising campaigns.   With so many budgetary constraints existing in schools today SkoolWerx has taken the popular and proven crowdfunding model and adapted it… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 2:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Three DC charter schools have turned to Edbacker,  a funding platform for all educators, to drive additional funding for school programs, field trips, and supplies through crowdfunding platform. The Crowdfund DC Schools initiative is focused on returning power back to educators and bringing the influence and… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

At this year’s One Spark Festival in Jacksonville, Florida, a section of the grounds will focus on innovation in education, giving teachers and students alike the chance to compete for a slice of the $300,000 slated to be awarded to participants. One Spark is a… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 10:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

DonorsChoose is a crowdfunding platform focused on closing a funding gap for teachers and their classrooms in the United States. MakerBot has now teamed with DonorsChoose in order to afford teachers the opportunity to request a crowdfunded “MakerBot Academy Bundle,” which includes a MakerBot Replicator… Read More