Welcome to the month of love and to the latest edition of the Thundafund newsletter. As 2016 gains momentum and we gear up for a stellar year ahead, we have our first round of workshops in Cape Town taking place, great projects with social causes and some crowdfunding news from around the world.
It was an overcast Friday morning in Gauteng as two brave crowdfunding enthusiasts were gearing up to present a crowdfunding talk to the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC). As the audience of DAC employees gathered, Patrick Schofield led the charge for the morning by setting the tone of the presentation with an overview of what crowdfunding is...read about what happened next here
When Project Creators come on board Thundafund and immerse themselves in their crowdfunding campaigns, reach their Tipping Point and gain more support than even they envisioned, we have no choice but to pick their brain!
Ginny Stone, the creative force behind the "Sibo" series of educational children's books, was eager to have us interview her for our blog.
We are excited about our upcoming workshops in Cape Town. Join us to learn more about the state of crowdfunding in Africa, what the different types of crowdfunding are and how you can become an expert crowdfunder.
There are 2274 rural primary school learners in KwaZulu-Natal who lack the basic stationery supplies for effective learning.
Edupeg has launched a crowdfunding campaign with an aim to satisfy every child’s basic stationery needs in Kwa-Zulu Natal. They have chosen crowdfunding as a way to raise funds because they believe that together we can address one of the inequalities that perpetuates poor performance across our schools in South Africa: lack of quality resources and learning materials in classrooms.
Get involved! Buy their rewards and let's invest in a thinking generation of happy learners!
To read more and to shop their rewards, click on this link
Because we support innovative South African ideas that are crowdfunding, irrespective of the platform they are on, check out the Lea Bike Rack Reimagined campaign on Kickstarter.
We have until Wednesday 17th February to get this campaign to its $70 000 goal.
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As the year progresses, the team are working on developing more crowdfunding education tools to spread the gospel of crowdfunding far and wide. Look out for our monthly Rainmaker Tuesday email, which features our top performing campaigns for that particular month.
Happy crowdfunding and don't forget to #MakeItRain!
