23/05/2018
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The Benefits of Crowd Urbanism

Considering that the 21st century is an urban one, key attributes of our cities should be used as assets to harness urban development scenarios, primarily density and diversity. Crowd urbanism serves as a key bottom-up initiative, which gives tools to all city members to co-steer local development.
30/04/2018

UNDP Global Crowdfunding Academy in Bosnia and Herzegovina Rides on a Great Wave!

UNDP Crowdfunding Academy has the first successful crowdfunding campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the "Talas" magazine team. Let's dive into Talas magazine's story and the first Global UNDP Crowdfunding Academy in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
16/02/2018

Growing argan trees and beekeeping in Morocco – and how can crowdfunding help?

Argan trees are, in many cases, the only income for local indigenous women. However, most of them lack cash for expanding their businesses beyond just simple collecting nuts as conservative funding is not easily assessable for local cooperatives and farmers. Crowdfunding can help in bringing the necessary funds to Argan oil cooperatives and make their business more sustainable.
03/11/2017

Can blockchain help us better assist refugees and migrants in transit?

Displaced people often struggle with identity loss. Having the digital footprint of blockchain can help refugee families in transit and those of us in the humanitarian arena to get a better sense of what displaced people want. This way, we could get better at tailoring our toolkits to assist them.
18/07/2017

10 Steps to Successful Crowdfunding

UNDP Indonesia experiments with innovative and alternative financing models to tackle development challenges effectively. Here are the ten things that helped their crowdfunding campaign raise 350 million rupiahs (nearly $27,000) to build a solar-powered water pump in one of the country's driest region of East Sumba.
18/07/2017

Crowdfunding Academy Ukraine 2017

The following piece was first published on the AltFinLab blog and was originally published on July 18, 2017.   Crowdfunding Academy in Ukraine is a three months […]
21/06/2017

Crowdfunding SMEs for SDGs – and how we do it in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Bosnia and Herzegovina…

This year, our efforts are geared toward seeing to what extent crowdfunding can help small entrepreneurs accessing funding in places where it is prohibitively expensive or difficult in the mainstream finance sector.
04/04/2017

Mašenjka Feels Happy, From A to W, Twelve Campaigns Will Go Out Crowdfunding!

After two months of intensive work with the Crowdfunding Academy team, twelve teams are ready with their campaigns. Check out the teams and their videos, find out the answers to A-W quest, follow when they go out with campaigns, support them, share, tell everyone, be their crowd!
07/12/2016

UNDP Moldova is keeping the doctor away from more than 3000 school-age children

UNDP Moldova explains the challenges and lessons from their mission of increasing children fruit consumption through their first crowdfunding campaign.