A Number for Reflection

Stories are usually comprised solely of words, but often numbers have their own wonderful tales embedded within.  In this case, the number is 25,000 and the story is much larger than these five digits would suggest.

Earlier this week we broke the $25,000 mark on funds raised by ventures on our site.  I’ll be honest, with our heads down, constantly focusing on how we can improve and keep building our site, we have a tendency to be much more forward-looking than reflective.  But when we saw the $25,000 figure, it caused us to take a moment to think about what this means for both our site as well as our ventures.   Admittedly, there’s a fondness for nice, round numbers that’s a bit arbitrary, but the figure symbolizes the desire that people have to support amazing social good initiatives.  This $25,000 is spread across a number of different cause areas and geographies, and emanate from donations as small as $3 and as large as $2,000.  But what they all have in common is their impact in enabling social innovation to take place.  

And so with that allow us to thank you for being a part of our first $25,000.  It’s a testament to the incredible ventures on our site that are doing such inspiring work and that people like you believe in the visions for social good that they present.  We can’t wait to celebrate the next nice, round number with you all — and after all, we’re always looking to the future, and the more numbers there are, the more grand the future stories will be!