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I've decided that I'm going to walk across America to raise awareness for mental illness. I'll be departing on my journey from Venice Beach, CA and reaching my destination of Daytona Beach, FL. My goal is to crowd fund at least $2000 it's hard to know exactly how much I'll need exactly but having read various trekkers advice it seems anywhere from $1000 to $5000 depending on how much you rough it and I would like to get funded rather than fall short. My plan is to blog my adventure from beginning to end through my cell phone (when I can get service) as well as taking pictures from an actual camera. I could use some advice as to what kind of tiered rewards I can offer that would interest possible donors. I also feel like I need a good project name, right now I've come up with "In My Footsteps" that sounds too personal to me and I'm brainstorming other ideas. I want to incorporate mental illness into it more, since that is what this is all about. I'm walking with or without the crowd funding, but having it would be a huge boost. Tl;dr How do I market myself a worthy crowd funding project. Muerte fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Apr 9, 2015 06:50
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I don't follow kickstarter culture or whatever, but generally when people kickstarter/indiegogo/crowdfund something, it's for something they want. I don't see why people would want yet another blog in an ocean of blogs about a guy who's going to hike to a place far away.
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Apr 9, 2015 07:55
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Kickstarter specifically doesn't allow "fund my lifestyle" campaigns, so the biggest crowdfunding option is right out. Have you considered contacting a few local mental health groups and seeing about organizing through their channels? It sounds like what your doing is much more like the "10k for Alzheimers!" that gets the coffee-can passed around at the office more than something to be crowdfunded.
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Apr 9, 2015 16:04
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Everblight posted:Kickstarter specifically doesn't allow "fund my lifestyle" campaigns, so the biggest crowdfunding option is right out. It's not really a lifestyle but I see your point, I've only just started on my kick starter but I listed it as an art project under blogs. I thought this would work as I would be blogging and taking pictures of America that few get to see. To your other point over the weekend I'll be contacting a few people that I know have foundations for mental health such as Brandon Marshall from the NFL.
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Apr 9, 2015 16:43
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How about "Walking Like Crazy" op As for 'rewards' or publicity you could (depending on your route) visit various mental health hospitals and institutions and maybe get doctors to sign some sort of ledger you'd take with you. So by the time you're done you'd have a big book of inspirational quotes and autographs from doctors in the field. If people won't donate before you leave maybe you can auction it off as a fundraiser for a future project. Good luck OP really sounds fun
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