Welcome! It's a very cool idea. We wish you success. Yosem
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Devon M T Loffreto < devon.loffr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I am a new member to this list, and very enthused to have found you. Thank > you Yosem for the referral. > > I recently built an app that you can see here: > http://www.noizivy.org/kickit > > At this stage it is a basic Kickstarter clone with the caveat that it is > built on PayPal's adaptive payments api and it uses the 501c3 mission of > noizivy.org to allocate tax deductibility to any financial support for > published projects. > > Noiz Ivy's tax exempt mission specifically being *"to increase > entrepreneurial learning through development of products, services and > programs in local communities engaging in technology-enabled peer-to-peer > exchange"*. As every entrepreneurial project is an iterative learning > experience, the outcome of our embedding this mission in this tool is that > it gives funders a "directed giving" opportunity to support projects they > value, and allows project creators to offer tax deductibility to supporters > of their work. > > This app is live in beta (although has not been put to much of a test - > just 1 successfully funded project)... and in current state has been > formatted for prospective use in schools as a fundraising tool... although > this is not a limiting condition, just an initial plan based on my work in > schools to teach robotics, coding skills and entrepreneurship topics. > > The plan moving forward is to get the data model right, integrate > sovereign identity and format this as a tool that lives on personal > clouds... whereby the 5% transaction fee for successfully funded projects > can be shared among hosts. As a not-for-profit, we have a larger objective > than profit-per-transaction, and this app is a way of deploying that > mission. > > I'll leave it at that for now. I look forward to learning more about/from > this community. > > Thanks, > Devon > Founder - NoizIvy.org > > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech >
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