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.

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!

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

From conducting a successful campaign to setting up Crowdfunding Academy and UNDP Alternative Finance Lab, helping to launch more than 15 campaigns in 10+ countries - crowdfunding has definitely taken a hold on us. Let's take a look at some other benefits of crowdfunding-from enabling broader visibility to catalysing policy-level impact.

Zagreb Crowdfunding Convention comes as a manifestation of the Crowdfunding Academy's goals to contribute to the development of a crowdfunding market in Croatia. It's the one day of the year when all these activities interconnect and fall on one common ground, ready to grow into something bigger and better.

We are travelling around the world and meeting teams and projects of Global Crowdfunding Academy. All of them wish to make a change in their community.

The first Global Crowdfunding Academy organized for and by the UNDP offices around the world had a really strong competition. After a tough selection process, we have chosen 11 teams with most inspiring projects from community green solutions to peacebuilding and poverty reduction.