Watsi is Crowdfunding For Medical Treatment. That’s What I Call Healthy Giving.
I’ve covered a few socially-focused crowdfunding platforms in the last few months – from Chicago startups Benevolent and Regroup to London’s Spacehive – and now Watsi, the crowdfunding platform that gives 100% of donations to medical treatments for patients in the developing world. Chase Adam is the…
Government Crowdsourced Funding? Check Out What’s Going On In NYC
I’m gonna venture a guess that no one wakes up on tax day and is like, “Yes! My favorite day of the year!” Everyone is familiar with that sinking feeling of looking at their paycheck, calculating how much they made before Uncle Sam took his cut and sighing before pushing it back in their wallet. In the abstract parts of our brains we know that the government tithe goes to pay for things like schools and roads and...
Spacehive Is A Crowdfunding Platform That’s Giving Back To Your Community
It seems like there’s a crowdfunding platform for everything now; art, film, music and even old video games have come back from the dead thanks to funds from fans and donations from devotees. But, it’s the platforms that give back to the greater good, like the urban development crowdfunding site Spacehive, that catch my eye. And, hopefully yours too. The journalist turned urban planning startup founder Chris...