A New Twist on Crowdfunding!
I attended the Business Alliance of Local Living Economies (BALLE) Leadership Summit last month and was inspired by people who are doing important work for communities, economies, each other and the environment.
During the event’s Idea Lab, I had exactly 60 seconds to share what TLC is doing, and our current call for new communities to join us. We’re looking for up to ten rural communities to become Demonstration Sites for The Local Crowd’s localized crowdfunding platform. These communities will have the opportunity to test drive their own crowdfunding platform for a year. Applicants can be economic or community development groups such as Main Street programs, SBDCs, Economic Development Councils, Chambers of Commerce, or other groups interested in bringing a new capital tool to their communities.
We held a pre-submission webinar a few weeks ago and here’s a link to the recording and powerpoint slides. Check out the Request for Proposals. Help us spread the word by sharing this! Deadline for your application is February 1. Thank you and Happy New Year to you!
The Local Crowd offers a new twist on crowdfunding…and I’m having way too much fun with my new Giffer App. See the full 60-Second BALLE presentation below.
Go get em Diane. I like the new twist. g
Love this! Been a BALLE supporter for years! A localist before anyone knew what the heck I was talking about! I am in a community of about 15,000 that is regularly talking about crowdfunding to renovate buildings or get incubators up and running or my personal FAVE, starting a co-op of some type. Preferably food based since we lost our only grocery within walking distance to downtown creating a huge desert.
Please get in touch! I would love to know more about what good work you are doing!
THANKS FOR MAKING IT HAPPEN
Thanks, Shannon! Sounds like you are localist mover and shaker! We would love to talk to you! I’ll send you an email so we can set up a time.
At ProjectCrowd our goal is to provide the training, education, and coaching for crowdfunding that drives community-led economic development, and we also want to build a strong local entrepreneurial ecosystem in collaboration with the other players in this space. We are banks not telling people they turn down for loans about crowdfunding as a possible means of raising capital for your local project?