Tagged: education

April 12, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

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… Read More

April 10, 2013 @ 8:22 am By The Crowd Cafe  |  

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… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site Fundly , and Indiana University’s “Little 500”, the country’s largest collegiate bike race, have teamed up to launch the first-ever crowdfunding campaign in the 63-year old annual fundraising event’s history. Modeled after the Indianapolis 500, Little 500 cyclists compete in four-person teams around a quarter-mile cinder… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Eleanor Whitney  |  

I got involved in feminist and social justice organizing, making zines and playing in indie and punk bands as a teenager. As I grew up and became an “adult” in this community I realized the people around me were incredibly motivated and had great ideas… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 9:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

AlumniFunder has launched a crowdfunding platform for the university community.  Alumni, and other interested parties, may fund projects initiated by students on a university campus.  As described on their site; AlumniFunder exists to bolster a deeper relationship between students, alumni, and other alumni, by providing… Read More

March 27, 2013 @ 4:39 pm By GizMag  |  

After looking into the pros and cons of nine methods of electricity production (including coal, geothermal, biomass, and solar), a group of 9 and 10 year-olds from Central Park School for Children in Durham, North Carolina decided that their classroom should be powered using only… Read More

March 23, 2013 @ 7:10 am By TheEnergyCollective  |  

Here’s a small story to warm the heart, via Clean Technica: At the start of March, a group of fourth graders from Central Park School in Durham, North Carolina — along with their teacher, Aaron Sebens — set up a Kickstarter campaign to raise $800… Read More

March 22, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

School pupils are attempting to bring 20 innovative business ideas to life with a series of exciting crowdfunding campaigns using crowdfunding platform BloomVC.  As part of the Bad Idea Youth Enterprise Competition the pupils, from schools across central Scotland, have attended a four day enterprise… Read More

March 18, 2013 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

  Angeldorm has launched the first major one-stop crowdfunding site to connect students with donors who wish to contribute to their education. By sending funds directly to both universities and college 529 savings plans, Angeldorm has created a powerful online global community for worthy students… Read More

March 12, 2013 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Travel crowdfunding site GoAbroad.com  announce one of it’s newest strategic partnerships, with the online platform ViewYou. In collaboration with GoAbroad, ViewYou will assist GoAbroad users when applying for internships and jobs outside of the United States. Additionally, ViewYou will offer GoAbroad users the ability to create… Read More

February 28, 2013 @ 11:15 pm By Houston Business Journal  |  

While the dos and don’ts of crowdfunding are still being hashed out by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at least two new crowdfunding platforms are taking hold in Houston. However, these are not the type of crowdfunds the SEC is worried about — the… Read More

February 27, 2013 @ 7:42 pm By Mohana Ravindranath  |  

Some crowdfunding industry leaders are using the lull before the fundraising practice is publicly viable to develop educational material for people who may soon be making their first investments. The Securities and Exchange Commission is currently drafting rules to allow start-ups to sell stakes in their companies to the… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 6:55 pm By Myriam Raja  |  

Cine Pak Facebook Page So there it was – my idea neatly written out on a blank piece of paper in front of me. It seemed simple enough at the time; to travel over to my native country Pakistan and run a series of free… Read More

February 3, 2013 @ 6:36 am By NYPost  |  

Sure, we all believe that youth must be served, but are you willing to invest in their future — literally? Crowdfunding platform Upstart, which launched in October, lets recent college graduates raise cash from online backers, who in return get a slice of their income… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published an article outlining a ten-fold increase in crowdfunding-related domain names in the past year. The main takeaway was in how many were determined to need further scrutiny… In a year-end trawl of the Internet, the association of securities regulators… Read More

December 12, 2012 @ 7:33 pm By GigaOm  |  

Crowdfunding platforms across the web invite supporters to pledge money to all kinds of projects and businesses, but Pave, a New York startup launching Wednesday, wants its backers to invest in people. As student debt climbs and new crowd investment models proliferate, Pave’s founders say their site… Read More

December 1, 2012 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

With $2.5M Loan Pool and $1M Equity Round, Company Announces Official Beta-Launch at Wharton and Sets Sights on National Expansion in 2013 New York, NY (November 28, 2012) – CommonBond, a student loan crowdfunding platform with a unique vision and plan to fix the broken… Read More

November 14, 2012 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Crowdfunding — the social web strategies that entrepreneurial individuals and companies use to attract large pools of small investors — is driving innovation in areas ranging from high-tech to entertainment. Now, the mainstream venture capital industry is taking… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 2:58 am By JD Alois  |  

  SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — In this age of budget cuts, school fundraising is an ongoing challenge for parents and the community. But now there’s a new tool that matches social media with need.   Have you heard of crowd funding? It is the latest… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 10:57 am By JD Alois  |  

For the past week, Brian Meece was lecturing at college campuses across the country about the power of crowdfunding. He also took some time to give Handshake360° his thoughts on the importance of crowdfunding within higher education. Handshake360°: If you look at the crowdfunding portals… Read More