Education is undergoing radical changes due to funding cuts; faith in traditional funding mechanisms is dying. Crowdfunding is already enormously successful in displacing antiquated forms of fundraising across many sectors and Sponsorcraft’s solution is highly innovative with great potential for scale and take up within universities. Sponsorcraft is a highly innovative tech venture that white-labels websites for universities allowing them … Continue reading
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“Milestones” – a better crowdfunding model?
“Think carefully about which crowdfunding platform to use.” This is a common piece of advice, but it isn’t quite right. If your project is relatively small, your success is entirely down to how you utilise your networks, so the platform is pretty irrelevant. Many platforms have had successful projects raising hundreds of thousands of dollars. Again, it’s down to you … Continue reading
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Sponsorcraft Success – Cine Pak
By Myriam Raja, Film Production student at the Arts University College at Bournemouth. Cine Pak Facebook Page So there it was – my idea neatly written out on a blank piece of paper in front of me. It seemed simple enough at the time; to travel over to my native country Pakistan and run a series of free filmmaking workshops for … Continue reading
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How I turned an idea into a project with £1200 of funding
Last March, I received my Raspberry Pi in the post after waiting months and spending all day trying to pre-order one when the site went down due to the huge popularity of the little device. And when I finally got hold of this swanky new piece of tech I thought to myself, as many of us do – “What do … Continue reading
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“So, I guess you’re screwed now Kickstarter’s here…”
At Sponsorcraft, we meet a lot of people and talk to a lot of people about crowdfunding. We pitch to investors, education departments, student unions. And we have been explaining crowdfunding to the UK market now for over a year. In that time, we have been asked countless times why the education-sector needs its own platform, and why our projects … Continue reading
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Crowdfunding Tips – Crafting your project – Titles and descriptions. How time spent tidying up your project could win you more donations
What do I mean by “crafting”? Here I am referring to all of the information you will be asked to provide in your project’s title, tagline and description. If things like videos and rewards are the salt, pepper and spice, your description is the real meat of your project. This is what people who like the feel of your video … Continue reading
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Crowdfunding Tips – Making a video – Part IV: How about some examples? Here are 4. Lots of love, Sponsorcraft
Need a little inspiration? Everything works better with examples. Here are 4 videos we’ve had on Sponsorcraft so far, the things I like about them, and some ways in which they might be improved: 1. FOURH4ND. https://sponsorcraft.com/p/FOURH4ND/ A little on the longer side but has a really nice friendly feel to it. It begins with an introduction to some quiet … Continue reading