Ben asked today (ben’s post) if we have considered using Kickstarter to gain some funding. So this evening I searched for spaces who have run kickstarter campaigns. This search yielded some very positive results..
Here’s some of what I found:
Los Angeles Makerspace
Raised $34,000 of $15,000 Goal
A Hackerspace Grows in Brooklyn.
by NYC resistor
Raised $3,000 of $2,000 Goal
Unallocated Space: A New Hackerspace
Raised $5,000 or $3,000 Goal
Mothership HackerMoms: The first women’s hackerspace!
Raised $12,000 of $10,000 goal
Hacker Scouts Oakland Lab
Raised $37,000 of a $35,000 goal.
(Hackerscouts looks like an amazingly fun program!)
These are success stories. Can we do something like this in Mobile? If we run a kickstarter would it get word of our organization out to the right backers?