Loomio
Sat 15 Dec 2018 3:06PM

Why and how (if at all) shall we do a crowdfunding campaign?

LF Luke Flegg Public Seen by 149

So we've applied to about 10 grants now
tiny.cc/bestgrants
and only been successful with 1 (upstream ideas / Seedbed)

I think some reasons for this are
• Our applications not as well written as other projects 'competing' for same pot of money
• Us applying for grants that are too large/ for post-launch
• Dignity being classified as 'fundraising activities' which some of the funds don't support (we could maybe make stronger case for our direct social impact connecting neighbours)
• Not having demonstrated enough traction/ impact so far
• Not focusing enough on our beneficiaries being those who are less privileged

Crowdfunding
So I've looked at a bunch of different platforms and there are ones that only charge a payment processing fee (no platform fee) which could be a smart way to try and raise several thousand pounds of unrestricted funds.
Is this a good idea? How would we go about it?
What would we spend it on?

LF

Poll Created Sat 15 Dec 2018 3:21PM

What should be the MAIN goals of this crowdfunding campaign? Closed Tue 18 Dec 2018 3:02PM

We could achieve a number of different objectives by running a crowdfunding campaign.
I'd like to invite your ideas - what you think are the main goals of it to focus on.
Feel free to add your own too.

Results

Results Option % of points Points Mean Voters
Raising (unrestricted) money 35.0% 7 3.5 2
Enable gigfunding on the campaign ('buy' perks as skills) 30.0% 6 3.0 2
Getting general new team members 10.0% 2 1.0 2
Getting team members w/SPECIFIC skill: eg. software dev 10.0% 2 1.0 2
Demonstrate to funders etc the devotion of our community 10.0% 2 1.0 2
Promote Dignity (get sign ups to our mail list) 5.0% 1 0.5 2
Get charities to apply to be next partner 0.0% 0 0.0 2
Undecided 0% 0 0 11

2 of 13 people have participated (15%)

LF

Luke Flegg Sat 15 Dec 2018 3:33PM

4 - Raising (unrestricted) money
3 - Enable gigfunding on the campaign ('buy' perks as skills)
2 - Getting team members w/SPECIFIC skill: eg. software dev
1 - Demonstrate to funders etc the devotion of our community
0 - Promote Dignity (get sign ups to our mail list)
0 - Getting general new team members
0 - Get charities to apply to be next partner

I put mostly raising money, then finding specific skills, because I think it makes it more tempting to share if it's inviting a diversity of ways people can support the campaign (donate money, work in our team, or be a Doer / Hirer who raises money solely for Dignity) that's 3 different ways to give so hopefully people will realise even here, we're fundraising in an innovative way.
I think if we allow gigfunding on this campaign (through adding perks for every skill offer) people will learn how