CivicSponsor is like a Kickstarter for government-backed projects.
When you want bike lanes and your local government says there's no room in the budget, you have two choices: get taxed more, or get no bike lanes. We give you a third option: fund the bike lanes yourself, get a tax-deduction.
We have deals with jurisdictions around the country, starting with Philadelphia, PA and San Jose, CA. We have two outstanding projects ready to be funded: a farmer's market in Philly and athletic fields for middle schools in San Jose. And there are literally
thousands of similar projects out there, shovel-ready and awaiting funding.
We've built out our demo site (demo.civicsponsor.org), and it's ready to launch.
We plan to launch before this campaign ends, and we need your help to get us off the ground.
To help us spread the word about CivicSponsor and fund the great public projects on our agenda, we'll need a lot of folks talking about us, looking at our projects, and sharing the good things their dollars can do on CivicSponsor.
And to demonstrate how powerful crowdfunding can be, we think crowdfunding our own launch is an oustanding opportunity!