In a very interesting article from Technology in the Arts, I discovered this week how far Kickstarter has come from its inception, reaching a major milestone in it's operations by securing over $150 million in pledges for 2012.
For those of you that don't know, Fundraiser is a website where anyone with a creative idea can ask the world to help fund it, to see it into fruition. My first experience with Kickstarter was when I was living in Nashville, TN. Some of my roommates went to go see a show that evening at a venue called "The End", and of course, they decided to bring home one of the bands, known as "Ladycop" to spend the night. My roommates were very extroverted.
What I discovered from the Brooklyn natives, is that the reason they even made it to Nashville was through Kickstarter. Through the website, they were able to procure funds to purchase a touring bus, that they lived in every day, and ran on vegetable oil. It was their dream to share their music with the country, till they made it to sunny California, and leave the smallest possible carbon footprint they could behind. Kickstarter made that possible.
Through the utilization of technology, the internet, and philanthropic spirit, Kickstarter has now effected arts communities all across America. In fact, now that they've passed over $150 million in funds donated to the arts, they've also successfully given more than the entire 2012 budget for the NEA. This proves to me that there's just as much capacity to raise money bottom-up then there is top-down.
So thank you Kickstarter, for giving creative people the ability to make their creative aspirations come true.
http://www.technologyinthearts.org/2012/02/kickstarter-reaches-major-milestone/
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