Just as throwing a rock into a pond will create ripples in all directions, your support for this campaign will have impact in places you can’t even imagine.
Not only will you help to celebrate the success of the ten social causes profiled in my new book,
Crowdfunding for Social Good: Financing Your Mark on the World, you will be helping every future social entrepreneur who reads the book raise the money they need to make the change they want to see in the world.
Like Eight-year-old
Vivienne Harr who decided she would make it her life’s work to end child slavery. Crowdfunding has helped her raise almost half-a-million dollars to do it.
As another example, Martha Griffen wanted to help her son, born with a birthmark on his face, to learn to celebrate what makes him different, so she wrote a book called
Sam’s Birthmark and crowdfunded over $31,000 to publish it.
Jennifer Windrum wants to provide support to those who suffer from cancer, creating her Sock Monkeys Against Cancer—SMAC! Monkeys—financing
her vision with $35,000 she raised through crowdfunding.
Other successful crowdfunders profiled in the book include
Live More Awesome,
Do Good Bus,
TOHL, Kaden Benoit,
Rainbow Summits,
Silicon Valley Education Foundation, and
Habitat for Humanity.
My book began to take shape while writing my
Forbes blog where I started covering
crowdfunding a year ago. My first exposure to crowdfunding came when I wrote the book
Your Mark on the World and included a chapter about Alex Budak, founder of StartSomeGood. I wrote that book while teaching in China. Previously in my career,
I served as a corporate CFO and as an investment banker. Since leaving corporate finance I work full time at championing social good.
By supporting my campaign you’ll help me to finance the publication and promotion of my book so that I can help the helpers. Whether you contribute four dollars or four hundred, I’ll provide you with rewards
and recognition that will bring attention to you, your cause, your business or your brand.
While it won’t take much money to publish my book, it takes real money to promote the book effectively enough that it gets into the hands of those who will benefit from it the most. Please help by supporting
my campaign with at least $4, personally ask one friend to do the same and please help me spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and on every other social media platform.
The rock you throw in this pond, no matter how small, will make ripples that infinitely expand your generosity. You will make a difference.
