16/02/2018
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.
01/10/2017
After seven academies, 40 campaigns, and more than 400 people educated on using new financial technologies and mechanisms, we have decided to share a part of our knowledge through this guidebook. If you are a forward-looking innovator, excited about improving your work and the work of your institution and partners, this guide can help.
18/07/2017
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
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
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
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 explains the challenges and lessons from their mission of increasing children fruit consumption through their first crowdfunding campaign.
11/11/2016
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.
21/10/2016
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.