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Find Boomer organizes in-person crowdfunding for non-profit startups and social innovators in partnership with StartSomeGood. Organizations like Wecyclers and the Definition of Nyce, currently running campaigns on StartSomeGood, are part of Find Boomer’s network of superstars. Find Boomer organizes events so that potential donors can meet start up founders face to face. Find Boomer’s quick campaign needs some support with only a few days left—it is raising funds to hire people to run more events to start even more good.
Sophia Unfolds runs retreats, workshops, screenings, and various gatherings where women are able to come together to deeply connect and learn from one another. Sophia unfolds is running a 2012 Retreat and wants to provide scholarships for three women to attend it for free. To make this possible, the mother-daughter founding team needs to raise $2,000 in funding.
Spend Consciously is building EyeSpend, a website and mobile app that will provide a way for consumers to educate themselves on how they are spending their money. Based on a person’s belief system, it will match him or her with the products and companies that are in alignment with these values. This campaign will help Spend Consciously launch EyeSpend—the $7,500 tipping point goal will allow Spend Consciously to purchase hardware and build the proof-of-concept.
Ferment Collaborate runs in Australia and Sri Lanka, designing culturally appropriate ways of organizing, planning, activating, showcasing, skill sharing, and building on strengths and opportunities locally. Methods can include, but are not limited to, art workshops, mentoring programs, and establishing online communities. This campaign is designed specifically to support three Sri Lankan projects that will enable artists and community facilitators to network, collaborate, build skills, and. most importantly, create change.
The Definition of Nyce (The DON) is a community-oriented clothing brand that dedicates its profits to charity. The premise of The DON is that every company can make a difference with regard to social impact, including companies within the fashion community. The DON has recently created the Keep Love Alive collection to promote solving world problems with love. This campaign will use fashion and outreach to spread love while engaging and empowering communities. The Keep Love Alive campaign will help spread this message.
GalliGalli seeks to put Nepal on the map through the use of technology solutions via people-to-people networks by assisting its citizens and visitors in navigating the city and government services. It is creating a future where citizens within a community work together to build powerful online tools and make information more freely available through open source technology. This campaign will help GalliGalli support operations for four months and help it build on an existing public transportation app in addition to building a wiki on Nepali government practices.
Prop Roots is empowering the children of the Jingpo minority in a remote area of China by raising their self-esteem through creativity building, language education, and intercultural exchange. The slogan, “Empower Jingpo children with their own culture, their own creativity!” speaks volumes. An important step is needed to help this mission flourish—building a brand new project center to lodge more volunteers and house more activities for Jingpo children.
Lenny’s Café is a vegan café and worker’s co-operative in Finsbury Park, London delivering delicious vegan dishes at reasonable prices. The funds raised through this campaign will be utilized to deliver high quality vegan meals in an area overloaded with fast food coices. As a worker’s co-op, Lenny’s Café delivers a second service to society by allowing workers more freedom and autonomy in an enjoyable work environment. This campaign just tipped and still has over a week left to reach its total funding goal. Let’s help this campaign get fully funded!
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Lenny’s Café Brings Delicious Vegan Fare to Finsbury Park, London
Veganism provides a healthy and cruelty free way of life, but a vegan diet is often marginalized in restaurants and misconceived by the general public to consist of ‘weird’ and ‘boring’ food. Establishing Lenny’s Café, a vegan worker’s co-operative café based in North London, will aim to counter these stereotypes while providing delicious and affordable vegan creations for all.
Lenny’s Café is the vision of Carolyn, a vegan chef with 6 years experience making delicious vegan eats. Popular for her cakes, Carolyn has been working toward combining a vegan diet with a business model that is particularly beneficial to its workers, thus devoting the majority of her time and savings into its fruition. Located in Finsbury Park, an area highly concentrated with fast food outlets, Lenny’s Café will bring with it a healthy and delicious range of affordable vegan alternatives.
Alongside affordable meals, Carolyn intends to use her creativity to develop vegan alternatives to popular sweet treats and sell confections and preserves made with simple wholesome ingredients. In addition, with a co-operative model, which is special in the autonomy and freedom it provides its workers, Lenny’s Café has the potential to be a great success.
Let’s help Lenny’s Café happen! The $2,000 tipping goal will enable Carolyn to purchase assets such as a display fridge, a coffee machine, grinder, and ingredients for meals. In addition, the $6,000 total funding goal will be invaluable in purchasing a panini press, take-home packaging, and restaurant signage to feature this new establishment. Funds raised beyond her goal will go toward sustaining the longevity of the business in the form of rent beyond the first 3 months and other various expenditures necessary in sustaining a new business.
Let’s help Lenny’s Café bring healthy, delicious, and ethical food to North London by sharing this campaign and pledging to help make it a success!
Asibi Danjuma
I am a 23-year-old Londoner currently in law school. I have a BA in Politics and International Relations and an LLB in law. I have worked as a Student Facilitator for the British Red Cross, taught at local schools in Berkshire and have done a lot of pro bono legal research for Amnesty International and the Arizona Capital Trials Project. When I finish law school, I hope to start saving the world by working in developmental research and perhaps move to Paris to eat macaroons, dabble in photography and write stories. I’m also an avid reader, white wine drinker and world traveler.
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1864 Academy is a training and capacity building facility in Nigeria for children to develop their skills. The academy will bring together children of various social classes to ensure the sharing of class competencies through music, arts, cinema, writing, and technology. Abiola, founder of 1864 Academy, has been accepted to the Dell Summer Innovation Lab and is running this campaign to help raise the money needed for airfare from Nigeria to Boston.
The Visual Education Project is raising funds to create a long term exhibition of handmade replicas of “History of Engineering” machines. The models are used as hands-on education devices and are part of a mobile exhibit. However, the travel is causing undue stress on the machines. The Visual Education Project seeks funding to create the Centre for Engineering History where it will permanently house the exhibits.
Lenny’s Café is a vegan café and worker’s co-operative in Finsbury Park, London delivering delicious vegan dishes at reasonable prices. The funds raised through this campaign will be utilized to deliver high quality vegan meals in an area overloaded with fast food coices. As a worker’s co-op, Lenny’s Café delivers a second service to society by allowing workers more freedom and autonomy in an enjoyable work environment.
WildTender Ranch Sanctuary seeks funding to construct a Geo-Dome where workers and students can gather in warmth and comfort. WildTender Ranch is a Four Directions Sanctuary that serves the healing interaction between humans, horses, and wildlife. The funds raised will be used to purchase the earth-friendly building supplies needed to begin construction.
Spark* has reached its campaign tipping point! A dollar a year for education is a campaign to support John Taka’s project, ‘Seeds of Hope’ in which villages within Papua New Guinea raise sweet potato farms. The harvest is sold and all proceeds raised go toward paying the school fees for children in the villages. In a place were the average time spent in school is 2.9 years, this self sustaining project will help educate the youth of villages in Papua New Guinea.
Youth Awareness Resource Network (Y.A.R.N) has also tipped! This campaign is asking for funds to establish the Y.A.R.N. website and brand. Created and run by young Australians raising awareness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their culture, this venture utilizes resources like books, articles, and storytelling. With the funds raised, this organization will enhance brand recognition and communication through flyers, t-shirts, an improved website, business cards, and much more.
Shawn D. Ross
Shawn D. Ross is a Northwest Native living in Washington State. A graduate of Washington State University and University of Phoenix with degrees in Architecture and Education he writes about social, cultural, and personal improvement on the StartSomeGood Blog and SDRinspire. He is also a filmmaker and owner of Giraffe and Penguin Productions, a single daddy of two beautiful children, avid reader, writer, and hat wearer (Not in that picture but believe me, he wears ‘em). He is currently at work on his first feature length documentary. Follow him on twitter @shawndross and visit his websites: www.sdrinspire.com and giraffeandpenguinproductions.tumblr.com
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Social entrepreneurs, have all these new and successful campaigns inspired you to start your own good? Do you have a social enterprise, a non-profit, or an amazing idea that needs some momentum to take off? Visit our site to find out how to start your own campaign today. Still have questions? We have answers—check out our FAQ section.
