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RippleCrowd is creating ‘waves of change’ by giving viral exposure to corporates in exchange for nonprofit funding. The goal is for nonprofits and corporations to work together, in cooperation, to achieve both their goals. Twitter and Facebook users can donate a tweet or status update so that corporations gain viral exposure and they, in turn, help to fund nonprofits who need money to carry out their good. This campaign will help RippleCrowd launch a beta platform for its site.

A Voice For The Innocent is a website where victims of sexual abuse and/or rape can share their stories and find resources for the help they need. Too many people suffer silently with their stories—this is a platform for sharing while remaining as anonymous as they’d like. Help A Voice For The Innocent help victims of sexual abuse and rape—this campaign is raising funds to officially launch its organization and website. 

Events For A Purpose strengthens smaller charity organizations so that they can more easily live out their missions by providing them with a business consultant. Cutting For A Purpose has two missions—employ and teach skills to homeless teens and adults while also helping to grow small local charities. The idea is simple—send in your old jeans, along with $10, and hired cutters will take worn out jeans and make them into fashionably destroyed jeans. The campaign’s $600 tipping point goal will help formally set up Events For A Purpose and the total funding goal will help hire employees for Cutting For A Purpose.

Corners2cornerstones Social Enterprise Incubator, a for-profit social enterprise, is designing and building a flexible use office space and classroom to house a social enterprise incubator operated by formerly incarcerated men and women. The c2c incubator will support mentorships and demonstrate that for-profit enterprises have a social responsibility to pay-it-forward. Campaign funds will be used for general renovation and outfitting of a space. With a week left, c2c’s campaign has surpassed its tipping point, raising $5,745 and is now striving to completely fund the project with $10,000. 

Arundel Physical Therapy is a program focused on rehab for cancer survivors. Survivors will go through this program in order to improve their lives and restore function to their bodies. To start, Arundel Physical Therapy wants to put two physical therapists through the STAR (Survivorship Training and Rehab) Program certification so that they can start the first Oncology Rehab Program in the Anne Arundel County, Maryland community. This training program costs $2,000 per person and Arundel Physical Therapy seeks funding to cover the training for both therapists. 

Pick Up America is the first coast-to-coast roadside trash pickup, using these efforts in conjunction with coordinated outreach to draw attention to our disposable culture and encourage a transition to zero waste. In addition to picking up tons of trash, the Pick Up America team will speak at schools, universities, summer camps, churches, and community centers, organize volunteer groups, create recycled art, and coordinate large public awareness events. The goal is to inform and then empower communities to transition to zero waste. This is Pick Up America’s second campaign on StartSomeGood. Last year, the team raised funds to pay for its trip from Ohio to Colorado. This new campaign,Save Due West, will literally help save Due West, the team’s on-the-road home and office that needs a new engine. So far, Pick Up America has reached its tipping point raising $2,446 to pay for the repairs for Due West.

Educación Plus de Nicaragua educates, feeds, and takes care of extremely marginalized children in the Panatal barrio in Granada, Nicaragua. This community development organization is looking to transform the Panatal barrio from the inside out so that the children living there have promising futures. This campaign is raising $485 for a new compostable latrine for the school that Educación de Nicaragua works out of because the old one has currently been deemed inoperable.  

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