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| Apr 1, 2025 | Bootstrapped OneKitty tackles crowdfunding transparency with WhatsApp chatbots | Manny Anyango, a Kenyan digital communications and social media strategist, runs a chama through a WhatsApp group. Chamas are informal micro-savings and lending groups popular in Kenya and East Africa. Like Nigeria’s ajó or South Africa’s s... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Aussie entrepreneur unveils US-based crowdfunding platform | article-article-body
An Australian entrepreneur based in the United States is set to launch StartSomeGood.com, a niche crowdfunding platform aimed exclusively at social enterprises.
Tom Dawkins, co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, is originall... |
| Sep 29, 2021 | HubSpot : The 23 Best Crowdfunding Sites to Launch Your Business or Product | You've put together a business plan, invested all your savings, and have been working on your idea as a side hustle for a few months. Finally, you feel like it's the right time to take the leap and raise some real capital. Does this sound f... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Wireless App Created for Citizens to Help Stop Human Trafficking | Saving the One Society needs to believe in the human spirit and that it must shine even in the darkest places. Rescue and prevention matter, not just for the millions, but for the one.
MENLO PARK, Calif. (PRWEB) July 13, 2021
In February 20... |
| Jul 30, 2018 | Professionally Judgemental – For a Purpose | Pitch nights come and go from the event calendar but passion mixed with purpose – that might just have staying power. Beth reports from the recent Social Impact Festival pitch night … Pitching with Purpose
A sell out event and a highlight o... |
| Mar 6, 2018 | New coworking and incubator leadership blooms | After the departure of Darren Lomman from Bloom, four young leaders have been appointed to run the co-working space and incubator…
The student incubator and co-working space down at Bloom within St Catherine’s College, UWA in Crawley has ne... |
| Aug 21, 2017 | Anne-Marie Elias on why Vibewire is crowdfunding a hackathon to tackle homlessness: “We live in Sydney but it’s all around us like we’re in a third world country” | Vibewire board member Anne-Marie Elias. Source: Supplied.
The tech industry’s world of free beer, ping pong tables, beanbags and alpacas seems a far cry from the realities of sleeping on the streets, homeless and huddled against the winter ... |
| Dec 6, 2016 | 9 websites that help make ideas happen | At Ideas Hoist and Product Hoist, we love everything related to technology, education and innovation. And we know you love it too, that’s why we have grabbed a handful of awesome websites that are sure to excite your ingenious minds. Tools ... |
| Apr 5, 2016 | Ask Me Anything with Tom Dawkins – Entrepreneur and CEO of StartSomeGood | blog twitter StartSomeGood
Tom Dawkins is aptly described as a “serial social entrepreneur”; having founded three non-profits and two companies including the incredibly successful StartSomeGood, a social change crowdfunding platform and Goo... |
| Nov 13, 2015 | StartSomeGood’s Tom Dawkins urges social enterprise investors to not fear risk | Social enterprise startups are launching more frequently but still lack support from investors, StartSomeGood CEO Tom Dawkins says.
Dawkins says his crowdfunding site is seeing more socially conscious ventures seeking financial backing than... |
| Nov 5, 2015 | Joel young – founder of Power Parcel | This is part of a series of interviews with alumni from the School for Social Entrepreneurs Australia which inspires and equips changemakers and social entrepreneurs to establish, scale and sustain social ventures that foster social and eco... |
| Sep 11, 2015 | Civic crowdfunding will challenge governments and charities | The online crowdsourcing of ideas and capital has transformed business tasks such as innovation, technical problem solving and product design. It has also revolutionised startup financing and scaled peer-to-peer lending. What was once in th... |
| Apr 28, 2015 | StartSomeGood raises $400,000 in seed funding | Sydney-based crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood has raised $400,000 in seed funding in order to accelerate product development and expand its global team.
The capital injection comes from Trimantium Capital, an investment firm based in Mel... |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood raises $400,000 investment from Melbourne’s Trimantium Capital | Sydney-based crowdfunding startup StartSomeGood has raised an angel impact investment of $400,000 from Melbourne investment firm Trimantium Capital.
Tom Dawkins, StartSomeGood co-founder and CEO, said the new funding will allow the startup,... |
| Mar 11, 2015 | Kim Pearce – co-founder of The Possibility Project | Kim is a former high school Economics teacher who had a mid-class epiphany that the subject was based entirely on a mindset of ‘scarcity’ – resources are limited, needs and wants are unlimited!
And that was never going to help solve the pro... |
| Nov 20, 2014 | Kimi Anderson – founder of Travel Giver | Kimi Anderson is a wife, mother, entrepreneur and founder of TravelGiver, a website for socially conscious travellers. A keen traveller with a passion for philanthropy, Anderson was first bitten by the travel bug when she took off backpacki... |
| Jul 8, 2014 | 10 crowdfunding campaigns you should prioritise over potato salad | An American has crowdfunded more than $30,000 on Kickstarter to make a potato salad, raising some questions as to where people are willing to put their money. While the campaign is seen by many as an ironic gimmick, and initially set out to... |
| May 21, 2014 | Eddy Lee – founder of oneHug | Eddy Lee is the founder of oneHug, a website and app that seeks to support charities by creating a community of minded people who want to help others. He was born in Sydney but raised in the NSW Central West town of Forbes, is married to hi... |
| Feb 13, 2014 | John Hancock – Founder of The Elephant Magazine | Born in 1970 and of Irish descent, John Hancock had an interesting upbringing which included surviving the ferocious Cyclone Tracy in Darwin as a baby, and attending 19 different schools around Australia. He has also lived in Nepal and Sri ... |
| Nov 12, 2013 | Charitable Donation Platform, JustGiving, Launches Yimby, A Crowdfunding Platform For Social Good | The crowdfunding space has just got a little more crowded in the UK, with the official launch today of a platform for crowdsourcing donations aimed at doing social good. Yimby.com — an affirmative play on the phrase nimby (aka ‘not in my ba... |
| Oct 31, 2013 | Brian Loffler – member of the New Internationalist Co-op | Brian Loffler is a member of the New Internationalist Co-op in Adelaide, South Australia, where he’s been involved since 1981. He works mostly on expanding the supporter network in Australia for the New Internationalist’s independent journa... |
| Sep 7, 2013 | 7 #socialgood websites recommended by 8 Australian changemakers to watch | The Mashable Social Good Summit is on later this month in New York City bringing together social entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders from all over the world. To celebrate we’ve put together a list of some great #socialgood websites recomme... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | Lachy & Bridie – founders of Dismantle and HalfGlassFull | In 2011 Lachy and Bridie teamed up to co-found Dismantle, a social enterprise, to empower people to adopt cycling as a part of their everyday lives, for the betterment of the individual, the community, and the planet. The Dismantle concept ... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | Here comes Kick, an ‘inclusive incubator’ where tuition must be paid via crowdfunding | You might say that there’s a bit of incubator overload these days. After all, this marks our third post of the day on the topic of startup incubators — following news from the Nike+ Accelerator in Portland and the announcement of the new co... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | Emily Murray: founder of Rise & Street Smart | Emily Murray is a social entrepreneur from Canberra, which means she dreams up and creates new ways to help people to help themselves. She feels a strong responsibility to use her life to increase freedom around the world, and to empower pe... |
| Dec 19, 2012 | Young & Extraordinary Series – Nathaniel Smith – Founder of Student Minds & Rotarian | Today is the fourth in our series of interviews with this years participants in Young and Extraordinary – a joint initiative of the Foundation for Young Australians and Australian Youth Affairs Coalition celebrating young and extraordinary ... |
| Nov 27, 2012 | GoodCompany Group Investor Day: highlights from the summer accelerator’s pitch day | A staffer from GoodCompany Group startup Wash Cycle Laundry dropped in (working gear in tow) for the event.
It was a night for GoodCompany Group‘s social entrepreneurs to show off their stuff.
Thirteen startups participated in GoodCompany G... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | Jamie Green: Founder of One Night Stand | A passionate self-starter, Jamie Green has been labelled an entrepreneur from the age of 17. Starting with his first venture (a fashion label) to his most recent creation One Night Stand, a social enterprise that will fund organizations tha... |
| Oct 18, 2012 | ‘You’re always selling’: what one entrepreneur learned at GoodCompany Ventures’s summer class | “You’re always selling.”
That’s one lesson Start Some Good cofounder Alex Budak says he learned from GoodCompany Ventures‘ summer social entrepreneurship accelerator.
On the Start Some Good blog, he writes:
You’re always selling. It’s easy ... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Tom Dawkins: Australian Making Ideas Happen | Today we’re excited to launch Ideas Hoist with our first profile of an amazing Australian making ideas happen! Tom Dawkins is a social entrepreneur who has just returned to Sydney after four years living in the United States.
Well-designed ... |
| Jun 11, 2012 | Meet the next 12 startups in the GoodCompany Group summer social entrepreneurship accelerator | Social impact accelerator GoodCompany Ventures, now part of GoodCompany Group, has announced the 12 new companies that will be participating in its three-month program this summer. It opened applications in April.
Some of the companies, inc... |
| Jun 6, 2012 | The Tabula Project Aims To Turn Tablets Into Teaching Tools | A crowdfunded project by tech blogger Noah Kravitz is going to try to turn around the sclerotic business of education software. Dubbed the Tabula Project, the crowdfunded system will allow teachers to create their own lesson plans on almost... |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Hacks/Hackers meetup features Philly.com data-driven project demos from local hackathons [VIDEO] | When journalists talk about data, they do it with the sort of sparkle in their eye that comes from finding a new way to tell a tough story. When civic-oriented programmers talk about journalism the sentiment, oddly, seems roughly the same.
... |
| Jan 9, 2012 | Aussie entrepreneur unveils US-based crowdfunding platform | An Australian entrepreneur based in the United States is set to launch StartSomeGood.com, a niche crowdfunding platform aimed exclusively at social enterprises.
Tom Dawkins, co-founder of StartSomeGood.com, is originally from Sydney but has... |
| Лучшие примеры социально ориентированных онлайн-площадок, использующих принципы краудфандинга | Не так давно на странице Стартап Афиши в Facebook мы с вами обсуждали тему, микрофинансирования стартапов, почему данная модель не идет в России, и рассматривали пример KickStarter. Обсуждение было настолько оживлённым, что мы решили систем... |
