NeighborLink Fort Wayne Launches Crowdfunding Tool
We are extremely excited to announce that the crowdfunding tool we’ve been working on is finally done and live. It is currently live on the NeighborLink Fort Wayne’s website. It will be in a testing period on this website for a short time in order to work out any bugs and refine some of the features before rolling out to other NeighborLink Network affiliates and non-affiliates. The project image above is live and could use some funding. So, click on the image and give it a try!
Crowdfunding has had an explosion of success for hundreds of organizations, special projects, and products. Just this week, a project on Kickstarter reached over $5 million dollars in funding through their popular crowdfunding site. I don’t suspect any of our projects will ever hit $5 million in funding, but we do expect to receiving new levels of project specific funding.
We set out to build this tool to continue our effort in creating a web-based environment where recipients and volunteers have as few barriers as possible to getting things done. What this tool does is give the volunteer who’s working with the recipient the ability to tell the full story of the recipient’s challenge and invite both volunteers and funders into the story of transformation with very little administrave challenges from NeighborLink.
Here is a list of features we’re excited about:
Everything is Coach driven. Project details, communication, and project management.
Full circle communication. Making sure we keep all volunteers and funders in the loop throughout the project’s life-cycle matters to us.
100% of Donations go to projects. Any shortfalls will be made-up and any overages will go to our normal NeighborLink project fund. This tool is designed to assist our fundraising efforts to get projects done.
Look forward to regular updates on how this system is working. We believe it’s a pretty revolutionary tool that fits into the NeighborLink model really well and will have a big impact on all NeighborLink partners.
