Crowd-Funding Campaign – Video #2 (My Personal Story)
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"Black Girls CODE" Earns $100,000 in Crowdfunding Support For African American, Latina, and Native American Girls to Become Programmers of Tomorrow
San Francisco (PRWEB) July 24, 2013
With four days to spare, a young technology nonprofit broke through their $ 100,000 crowdfunding goal on Indiegogo, thanks to a wave of major support from tech entrepreneurs and companies including: Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Mitch Kapor from The Kapor Center for Social Impact, Rackspace, TripAdvisor, and Zendesk. Other leaders who gave personal contributions to the campaign included Alexis Ohanian (Reddit, Breadpig), Robin Chase (Buzzcar, Zipcar) and Kathryn Finney (digitalundivided).
At 9:10 PM on Monday, July 22nd, the campaign was pushed over its goal by David S. Rose, Founder & CEO of Gust and one of the country’s leading angel investors.
“Gust was delighted to be able to put the ‘Summer of CODE’ campaign over the top with a significant contribution,” said Rose. “Black Girls CODE is showing the world that girls of every color have the skills to become the programmers of tomorrow.”
These leaders have collectively pledged over $ 50,000 to the campaign, joining nearly 900 giving in the range of $ 5-500.
Black Girls CODE Founder Kimberly Bryant said, “The response from both the tech industry and our grassroots supporters has been amazing. Crowdfunding is inspiring, because every gift, be it $ 5 or $ 10,000, really does make a difference when they come together for collective impact. Our campaign shows the growing support we have in the community at large for our work to diversify the tech industry by introducing girls of color to computer programming.”
The funds raised will provide student scholarships, instructor stipends, and laptops. Contributions will also seed funding for Black Girls CODE chapters in eight markets nationwide, which will provide ongoing educational opportunities.
In 2011, Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls CODE to increase the number of women of color in the digital space. Black Girls CODE is the only program targeting African American, Latina, and Native American girls in cities nationwide with training in mobile app development, game and web design. Black Girls CODE has already served more than 1,200 girls in cities across the United States and in South Africa.
Black Girls CODE will host a crowdfunding countdown mixer at tech space Hub Oakland Friday, July 26th 10:00 AM – 8:00 PM located at 1423 Broadway Street Oakland, CA 94612. Community members and techies are highly encouraged to attend the mixer to continue rallying during the last hours of its campaign: http://bgccountdown.eventbrite.com/
The Indiegogo campaign page is available at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-girls-code-summer-of-code-2013-the-remix.
EDITORS NOTE: The following statements may be attributed to significant supporters.
“I figure that everyone should have a fair chance to learn tech, particularly coding. It results in better job opportunities, and can give people a chance to be heard.”
Craig Newmark, founder, craiglist and craigconnects.
“The Kapor Center is excited to invest in Black Girls CODE as a dynamic movement opening the gateways for girls of color into tech. Ultimately the entire nation can benefit from this nurturing of new talent.”
Mitch Kapor, Co-chair, Kapor Center for Social Impact.
“Given Zendesk’s position as a tech company, located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, we have a very personal connection to Black Girls CODE’s mission and are honored to call them a partner and friend.”
Tiffany Apczynski, Director of Public Affairs, Zendesk
“Rackspace supports the work that Black Girls CODE does because we believe that creativity, education, and technology can empower and transform our community.”
Bekki Bolthouse, Project Manager, Rackspace.
Contact information:
Kimberly Bryant, Tel: (415) 860-0637 | Mobile: (415) 860-6387| future(at)blackgirlscode(dot)com
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Ken Wallace Films Partners with Visual Effects Artists to Develop Crowdfunding Campaign for The Amazing Adventures Of Victoria Clarke
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 01, 2013
As movie studios tighten their grip on development, Hollywood producers must search for creative ways to bring their ideas to life, and many see internet crowdfunding as the future of independent story development. Film and Video projects are the most successfully funded category on Kickstarter, with over 25,000 having raised more than $ 107 million dollars to date. Producer Kendrick Wallace is developing one such project, The Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke (http://www.victoriaclarkeadventures.com), as both a feature film and as an original series to be pitched to high-end content providers looking for tent-pole material for their networks.
“The successful crowdfunding of some very high-profile projects has empowered creative people with movie ideas to go directly to the audiences to get their stories told. I feel that ultimately it is more rewarding to interact directly with the people who are interested in your project. By having a dialog with fans of the genre, and by really listening to what they want, my hope is that they will feel invested personally in the success of the project and will be willing to support it by spreading the word in social media, and of course by contributing on funding sites such as Kickstarter,” said Kendrick Wallace, Producer and Creator.
Kendrick Wallace has been working in Hollywood feature films for the past 20 years, and has produced visual effects on numerous high-profile movie projects, most recently Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter®. This is his first attempt at developing a project using social media and crowd-sourced funding.
“It is important to me to set up a Kickstarter Campaign that has the greatest chance of success possible. For me, that means creating awareness and excitement with the fan base for this genre of movie. I’ve been spending countless hours on social media spreading the word, but I’m just one person and I can’t do it all.”
In order to create exciting images that will fire up the fans, Ken turned to his peers in the visual effects community, and reached out to artists with an interest in steampunk stories and imagery. One of the first to help was award winning visual effects company Rodeo FX in Montreal, Quebec. (http://www.rodeofx.com)
“It is always hard to ask for favors, but I believe strongly in the potential of the project, and luckily people who see what I’ve done so far immediately ‘get it’ and they are excited to help. That’s how it was with Rodeo FX. I had worked with them on Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter®, and I knew they had some amazing and talented artists there. The timing happened to be good for one of their top artists to do some work on Victoria between bigger projects.”
The result of these collaborations is a series of photos and conceptual art pieces that visually support the scripted material so that investors have a clear picture of Ken’s creative vision for the project. Victoria Clarke tells the story of a female British agent, undercover in 1920s Hollywood as a B-Movie actress. The daughter of wealthy British industrialists, the independent and resourceful Victoria sets out on secret missions to destroy weapons being developed by powerful forces in post WWI Europe. The project has a fun, sexy and retro feel, with strong Steampunk and Dieselpunk influences.
“Victoria is a female cross between Batman® and Sherlock Holmes®, but set in Hollywood during the 1920s. She is playing at being a bad actress because she really has no intention of having a successful career in Hollywood–she’s just hiding out. She has a family fortune and access to this amazing steampunk-style technology, but because of political enemies in Britain she can’t return home. She is waging her own private battle against a brewing evil in Europe,” Ken explains.
As a filmmaker and science fiction fan, the concept of Victoria Clarke grew from Ken’s love of movies from the golden age of Hollywood, as well as his fascination with the steampunk concept of alternative futurism. His goal was to combine the two genres into a classic adventure story that would showcase the best of both worlds. Victoria has a strong female lead, epic scale and Raiders of the Lost Ark® style action.
The next stage in the Victoria Clarke is to prepare an informative and entertaining Kickstarter campaign site.
“While I have been working on growing the social media audience through our website, Facebook and Twitter pages, I’ve also been taking a great amount of care to build a Kickstarter site with the right amount of information, entertainment, and rewards for contributors. It is important that people are excited about being a part of this project.”
The Amazing Adventures of Victoria Clarke Kickstarter campaign is scheduled to go live in May 2013.
If you would like to be notified about the latest Victoria Clarke developments email info(at)victoriaclarkeadventures(dot)com with the subject line KICKSTARTER.
For more information about the Victoria Clarke project visit http://www.victoriaclarkeadventures.com.
Patch of Land to Speak on Raising Capital for Real Estate Through Crowdfunding at Chicago Midwest Crowdfunding Conference
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 15, 2013
Brian Fritton, Co-Founder and COO of Los Angeles-based Patch of Land will discuss the mechanics of utilizing crowdfunding to raise capital for real estate investment projects. Topics will include criteria for a good property investment through crowdfunding, the best way to get your project funded quickly, and how to avoid regulatory compliance issues.
“I am excited to be speaking about the new opportunities available in real estate investment,” says Fritton. “The recent crowdfunding regulations provide unprecedented access to one of the most historically powerful asset classes.”
The event, called the “Midwest CrowdFunding Conference” will give insights into the world of crowdfunding for seasoned professionals and new entrepreneurs alike. Speakers include venture capital managers, securities professionals, marketing gurus and some of the most well known thought leaders in the crowdfunding industry. Held in Chicago, the conference takes place on Friday, November 15th, 2013. Fees range from $ 35 for the morning sessions to $ 140 for a full VIP event pass.
Register online at: http://www.midwestcrowdfunding.com/.
About Patch of Land
Founded in early 2013, Patch of Land is a pioneer in the emerging crowdfunding industry. Focused on identifying highly lucrative real estate investments, Patch of Land provides access to these opportunities through their online portal. Investors can choose individual properties to fund and diversify their funds across many different asset classes and risk profiles.
About Brian Fritton
Brian Fritton is a seasoned eCommerce expert who, as Patch of Land‘s VP of Platform & Operations, oversees the development of their in-house real estate crowdfunding platform and assures each Investor has a great experience through the full lifecycle of their involvement in each project. Brian brings together the two worlds of technology and real estate to create a secure, engaging, lucrative place for Investors interested in pre-screened opportunities. Unique to Patch of Land, Brian helps administer an internal fund which selectively pre-funds capital requested by partnered real estate operators, creating a better way for them to obtain capital and ensuring a conservative yet diverse portfolio for investors.
Award-Winning Photographer Brett Simison Launches Crowd-Funding Campaign to Create Exhibition
Vergennes, VT (PRWEB) September 28, 2013
Vermont-based photographer Brett Simison has launched a campaign via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter to create his upcoming photographic exhibition “The Pane in Empty Rooms”, a portfolio of images made in and around poet Robert Frost’s summer cabin in Ripton, Vermont.
“Not only is Kickstarter.com a good way to raise money to get your project off the ground, it’s another avenue to promote your work and have it seen by more people,” said Simison of the popular money-raising website. Typical projects on Kickstarter run for 30 days, and a project must meet its funding goal or else it fails and all pledges are cancelled. Projects offer tiered rewards to backers as a way of thanking them for their support.
Simison’s goal is to create large fine art photographic prints from the portfolio for exhibitions beginning in 2014. “One of the things that makes ‘Pane’ so unique is that it was photographed entirely with film on large and medium format cameras. The image detail and tonality of real black and white film is stunning, and I wanted to make sure the viewer can see it all. Printing large photographs was the obvious choice,” he said.
The project has until October 20 to raise its $ 6,000 goal, and if it succeeds that money will go towards the purchase of equipment and materials to print and mount the exhibition of 20 black and white photographs. Rewards to backers, which include a range of signed fine art archival photographs, are scheduled to ship in December 2013. The first exhibition for “The Pane in Empty Rooms” will open at the Vermont Center for Photography in Brattleboro, Vermont in January 2014.
For more information, please visit http://www.brettsimison.com/kickstarter.
About Brett Simison
Brett Simison is an award-winning editorial, commercial, and fine art photographer based in Vermont. His work has appeared in publications such as Outside Magazine, The New York Times, National Geographic Online, and Backpacker Magazine from assignments throughout the United States and abroad. The native of Citronelle, Alabama now lives with his wife Amy and son Connor in the city of Vergennes, Vermont. His website is http://www.brettsimison.com.
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Crowdfunding Expert Kendall Almerico Comments On Why Detroit Should Use Crowdfunding For Civic Needs
Tampa, FL (PRWEB) September 30, 2013
Crowdfunding expert Kendall Almerico, CEO of crowdfunding website http://www.ClickStartMe.com, commented on why Detroit should harness crowd-funding for civic needs and how crowd finding will revolutionize the “pay it forward” movement. Almerico says that using crowdfunding to do good in a community gives us the avenue to take back community initiatives.
“As members of our communities we are always lobbying to move forward with worthwhile projects and programs that help and grow the communities we live in. With good-deed focused crowdfunding, we make sure those projects happen,” Almerico, the nationally publicized crowdfunding expert says, “We vote for what we believe in, but sometimes that is not enough to get it done.”
Almerico points out that while initiatives like the 10-foot Robocop statue are heavily supported by the community, before crowdfunding, there was no way for the members of the Detroit community to get this icon created for their city.
Communtiy crowdfunding is the collective effort of members of a community to pool their donations through an online crowdfunding portal. At present, most crowdfunding efforts have been used to support new product ideas or artistic creations, but with the help of sites like http://www.ClickStartMe.com individuals in a community can use crowdfunding to ensure that their tax-deductible donations directly fund the community projects they feel most strongly about.
“We, as a community, are already paying for community projects through tax dollars,” Almerico says. “Community crowdfunding just allows us to have more of a say on where some of those dollars go by using tax deductible donations to directly benefit causes.”
Almerico hopes this movement towards community crowdfunding will enhance the “pay it forward” movement. “Helping people that really deserve it is not a new concept.” Almerico adds, “America needs a way to have their small good deed count for something big.”
About Kendall Almerico
Crowdfunding expert Kendall Almerico is the CEO of ClickStartMe, the crowd funding site that provides individuals and businesses with an easy-to-use website to raise funds through online crowd-funding. Almerico is a nationally recognized crowdfunding expert and has been interviewed internationally on the topic, appeared on national talk radio programs discussing crowdfunding, and has been quoted in major news sources including the New York Daily News, Huffington Post and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Almerico is available for interviews and speaking engagements by contacting media at clickstartme.com or by calling 813.410.4658.
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