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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Started by Laura Mills January 30th, 2012
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The purpose of this project is to gather empirical evidence to support the notion that 13-15 month old infants, when attending to a social event (e.g. a smiling face), are better able to assign novel labels to novel objects. In this project, infants will hear single syllable nonsense words (CVC) that only differ in first consonant with the intention of pushing the infants' to the limits of their cognitive resources (i.e. the task is hard). The infants will complete the task twice, once with the "assistance" of a face and once without. If our hypothesis is correct, the infants will be better able to associate the labels and objects in the condition when they can see the face, too. This project has IRB approval.
For a long time, research examining infants' language acquisition was done in a relative isolated fashion. That is, the tasks did not occur within a social context of any kind, and so were less like how infants really learn language. How infants (and big people, too) benefit from social contexts, how infants learn language and these topics combined have been a driving force for me through out my higher education and in each of my past fields of study (Anthropology, English and Psychology). This project is basic but is a good illustration of one of the lenses through which I see the world.
All funds collected will be used to advertise this study in my community, as recruitment is the most difficulty part of this project. Infants can't volunteer themselves, so visibilty in the community is essential for the success of this project. Any remaining funds will continue to be used beyond this project to promote recruitment for our laboratory and future projects.