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.
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Any contribution of $5 receives: Digital download of new EP 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $10 receives: EP CD signed with love and delivered to your doorstep 5 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $20 receives: EP CD signed + Wishes CD signed+ a personal phone-sung song from Wishes just for you 4 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $50 receives: EP CD signed + Wishes CD signed + my personal vegetarian recipes booklet & custom-made healing essential oil spray 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $75 receives: EP CD signed + Wishes CD signed + booklet of my poems also signed
Any contribution of $100 receives: EP CD signed + Wishes CD signed + hand-made inspirational artwork (could be collage or painting - it's a surprise) 4 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $150 receives: EP CD signed + Wishes CD signed + plus a signed high-resolution 8X10 print of photography from my gallery http://www.micheleriganese.com/Michele_Riganese/Gallery/Gallery.html 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $250 receives: In-house lesson in raw dessert making (Tristate area) + recipe booklet to keep. It's magically delicious, seriously! 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $500 receives: Executive credit + in-house concert anywhere in the Tristate area. 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $1,000 receives: A song written just for you!
Any contribution of $5,000 receives: In-house concert anywhere in the US + henna tattoo reading "<Your name> is divine in every way"
Any contribution of $10,000 receives: An entire weekend planned in NYC and spent with me! I will customize a trip that suits your personality. And I wear a t-shirt that says "so&so is the most wonderful human being to ever grace this planet" at the next 3 shows!
Started by Michele Riganese July 16th, 2010
In this video you'll hear me explain where unicorns are in the world and what we can do to bring them to the U.S!!!! ok, well not really, but you'll hear me explain a bit about the EP I'm looking forward to recording...enjoy :)
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For those of you that know me and my music you will note that I'm of the folk/pop/country vein. It was a dream of mine to get my last cd made which was a mindfully folk-sie/pop cd. This magically happened after nearly a decade since my last cd was made, after the death of two grandparents, THROUGH the ending of an 11 year relationship and losing my job & BECAUSE OF the utter graciousness of 5 VIP people and a new outlook on life: Live today fully and with love. The songs largely reflected that period and poof - you have folksie-pop-country. But what you may not know is that I have been all the while playing with and writing lots of other kinds of music.
I have also dreamt about making a collection of the "other" more indie sounding music for many many years and haven't had the opportunity, finance or collaborator to work with. I feel I finally have 2 of the 3 components and am ready to jump off the proverbial cliff with it. A great engineer and collaborator came by way of a mutual friend and actually helped me with the acoustic tracks on my last cd, "Wishes". It was a great working relationship and an immediate kinship that I cherished. Also, having finished the last cd, I'm finding myself with time for the next musical endeavor with 4-5 songs ready. What I don't have is the "ching-ca-ching" to make it all happen. I'm grateful I have GREAT people behind me and supporting me with their time, expertise and equipment so I've been able to budget it affordably, but I'm needing help to push forward financially. Said "ca-ching" will head straight to engineer, studio-time, mastering, promotions and small copy press. This will be mostly a digital download release, but I'll have copies at shows and for some fuelers.
The new indie sound I'll be going for is light, fresh and exciting. I've got this idea of FEIST meets POMPLAMOOSE in my head as a my springboard. I get so excited thinking about it and how it will take shape once we can start getting behind the mic. There is NOTHING like hearing a song go from being written in my hallway to getting in the studio with it to having a final product. I feel like a little kid at Christmas or a birthday EVERY time at every turn; I can't really explain it otherwise.
What I hope this process will do is create community between us. Music is such a healing art, both in the listening and the crafting. So I hope to create some inclusiveness with you through this process. I'm offering some fun rewards to share other parts of myself with you and to give back to show my appreciation. I'm really looking forward to the fun I will have doing that.
If I happen to go BEYOND my $1300(which would be sooo amazingly wonderfully AWESOME people!) I plan to donate 50% of that extra to a wonderful organization for animals: BARC. I'm crazy about animals and they are doing a wonderful job at rescuing animals (NO KILL! YAY!) that it would be such a joy to extend the help you're giving me to to helping them out. The rest will go towards still more promotion of the new EP.
I want to let you know that RocketHub is not an investment or charity. It is an exchange: funds from fans for fantasico rewards from me. And it's all or nothing: if I don't reach my financial goal, you get your money back. Very simple. But so important to reach the goal because if not met you get your funds BACK and I go back to my dungeon, tail between my legs and big big pouty face going on. But let's not try to picture that right now.
So I really hope you will jump off this cliff with me, share my project with others and if you have any questions please reach out and ask. Many, many, MANY hugs and thanks in advance!!!
xoxoxo~m*chele
