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Extra Credits
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James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
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Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
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James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.

AFIA
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Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
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Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
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Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.

Aram Bajakian
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Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
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Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
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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.

Here and There
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Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
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Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
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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
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When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
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Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
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Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.

Through the Looking Glass
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Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
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Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
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RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.

Paris in HDR
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Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
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Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
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Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.

NONVIOLENCE
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Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
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Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
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Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.

Paul Davis Collection
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Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
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Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
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Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.

Big Puzzle, One Piece
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Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
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Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
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Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.

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I would like to receive a status report in a year or so. Fred Hapgood

By Fred Hapgood Dec 6th, 2011 at 12:36 PM EST

Thanks, Fred, both for your fuel and for being the first to actually comment here. We plan to build our project entirely in the open, so there is no need to wait for a year, and you are welcome to have a look whenever you would like to. We do not know exactly what the best place will be to follow the developments, but my blog (linked from above), this blog as well as our Wikiversity page at http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Open_grant_writing_-_Encyclopaedia_of_original_research would certainly be good starting points that will have pointers to the actual location.

By Daniel Mietchen Dec 6th, 2011 at 02:29 PM EST

I would like to have the option to have status reports pushed to my email account. The problem with blogs is that it is all too easy to subscribe to a zillion of them which means they have a tendency to crowd each other out.

By Fred Hapgood Dec 7th, 2011 at 10:27 AM EST

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