James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
Once upon on a time a group of children arrived from Cape Verde Island, loaded of dreams and illusions that we all bring from our mother land that did not give us many opportunities. The group finished for involving in gangs and with disastrous consequences...
The history of the CV BOYS band could start the same way, as it has happened in the last page of the history of our immigration.
NOT! This is not the history of t he CV BOYS band, an example for our community. The brothers Filipe, Domingos, sister Filomena and her boyfriend, António Darosa. The other elements of the group equally are known as head of the family and professionals.
Self-taughts of music
The CV BOYS band, all of the same village in the Mosteiros Fogo, had traced its route in music and project their life professionally out of the stage.
Everything started with a keyboard. A magical instrument, for whom, as many boys of our country had started improvising their drum and guitar of cans, their clarinet of bamboo etc.
They were three playing with one hand each, in the related keyboard, at home.
Jose Darosa had thicker fingers and stepped on two keyboard keys at the same time. Make the others go for other instruments. And thus started the formation of the CV BOYS band that, after learning without a master, debut for the first time at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School in Boston where they all graduated.
Already 8 years have gone but they have not stopped since, even so do not appear many times in the stage. Slow will go far is the mentality of the group that arrived to offer their talent to entertain the nights of the Bar Di Nôs in Brockton and other centers of leisure of the community.
To record an album is the dream of any artist or band. CV BOYS band was not an exception. It took about 7 years so that dream became a reality. After successive denies of walking studios by studios, appeared Frantz Rolling that gave a hand to them. The Haitian producer that was honored in the day of the release party in the past 19 of November 2005 in Brockton.
Djoy Delgado and Grace Évora of the Splash had been in charge of the mixing in Holland and the mastering in France. Here it where CV BOYS band release “Un So Korasaun” album.
The group plan to do many shows in different places. The leader of the band is ambitious. Filipe dreams of one tour world-wide and to make with the group comes to live exclusively of music.
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