Tag: crowdfunding

Charity launches community renewable energy bond on the Triodos Crowdfunding platform

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank UK is launching a £4.7 million community renewable energy bond offer on its crowdfunding platform for Empower Community Foundation. The bond has a term of 16 years paying 4.25% gross interest annually. The interest rate will rise with inflation each year. As with all investments, interest payments and return of capital are not guaranteed. There is a £50 minimum investment, and the bond is eligible to be held in a Triodos Innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) that allows interest to be received tax-free. ISA eligibility does not guarantee returns or…

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Good Around the Globe Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Support Sustainable Small Businesses

Stuart Mitchell

Good Around the Globe, an online video marketplace with a networking collective, helps local businesses with big dreams. The company recently launched a crowdfunding campaign through IFUNDWOMEN (ifw) to connect socially impactful small businesses with a community of loyal customers. Good Around the Globe Founder Nilvia Brinkley said, “Good Around the Globe is a socially responsible business marketplace for creating connection and a chain reaction between social impact and small business success. The company was founded for the specific purpose of helping organizations with big dreams, big hearts, big missions…

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Displaced Due to COVID-19, Former Service Industry Workers Turn Filmmakers Seek to Produce Web Series with Help from Crowdfunding Efforts

Stuart Mitchell

What happens when the people beside you become your support system? For this group of Atlanta-based servers turned filmmakers, the answer is a web series called Gratuity Not Included. Even when the tips stopped the show did not. The cast and crew of Gratuity Not Included has come to provide their own form of relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing. Today, the web series launched its official crowdfunding campaign via Indiegogo. Left to Right: Megs Free, Andrew Klasnic, Chris June Based in Atlanta, Gratuity Not Included is a…

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CDC Foundation Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Extend and Accelerate Public Health Coronavirus Response

Stuart Mitchell

The CDC Foundation has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising hundreds of millions dollars needed to bolster public health response efforts to address the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which now has cases in more than 40 U.S. states and in more than 115 countries. This funding will be used to support the CDC Foundation’s Emergency Response Fund to address a wide variety of in-the-moment, on-the-ground needs from public health responders, at the local, state, national and international level. “This crowdfunding campaign provides an incredible opportunity for…

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Launch Code After School Announces Equity Crowdfunding Campaign to Fund Expansion of Kids’ Coding Education

Stuart Mitchell

Launch Code After School is on a mission to create leaders through computer science education for kids — leaders who will fill the growing programming skills gap and the shortage of trained engineers needed to innovate our changing world. Launch is thrilled to announce that customers and community members can join the mission through an equity crowdfunding campaign. Launch has partnered with SeedInvest, a leading investment platform that only accepts the top 1% of startups. Crowdfunding allows anyone to be an investor, instead of only the wealthiest 2%. “The team…

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