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.
Jeff Greene is one of the emerging young bassists and composers in the Chicago music scene. Since completing his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Indiana University in 2004, where he studied with David Baker, Bruce Bransby, Pat Harbison, and Steve Houghton, he has been active as a composer and a performer in Chicago and throughout the country. He has performed in such legendary venues as the Green Mill, the Velvet Lounge, the Hungry Brain, the Metro, and the Park West, as well as at the Taste of Chicago, Millennium Music Conference 10, and the 2009 Chicago Jazz Festival. In June of 2004 he was invited to attend the Steans Institute for Young Artists at Ravinia where he studied closely with David Baker, Nathan Davis, James Moody, Rufus Reid, and Danilo Perez, in addition to fourteen of his peers. In April of 2006 he was selected to attend Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. where he studied with Curtis Fuller, George Cables, Winard Harper, and Billy Taylor. Jeff has recorded albums with the James Davis and Greg Duncan quintets, as well as the Nick Fryer and Doug Stone Quartet and Fitted Shards, performing the music of New York saxophonist Greg Ward.
As a composer he has written more than fifty pieces for various ensembles, recorded more than twenty of his own compositions as the leader of Human Motion and Blink, and in 2007 the Illinois Arts Council awarded Jeff an Artists Fellowship in Music Composition to support the creation of new, original works. In 2008 he was commissioned to write “Storylines,” a large ensemble piece for the Ears and Eyes Festival in Chicago. Blink was signed to the world-renowned Thirsty Ear label in the spring of 2008 and is actively touring both nationally and internationally to support their new album, The Epidemic of Ideas. Currently, Jeff is completing his Masters degree in Music Composition at DePaul University where he studies with Juan Campoverde and Kurt Westerberg. The Range of Their Vision, a composition for solo acoustic bass and electronics, received the 2010 ISB/David Walter Composition Competition and it will be premiered at San Francisco State University during the 2011 International Society of Bassists’ convention.
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