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 $10 receives: shout-out on Facebook and Twitter 17 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $20 receives: A copy of the book "Be Well: Messages from Moms on Living Healthier Lives", S/O on FB/Twitter 2 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $25 receives: handwritten thank you note, S/O on FB/Twitter 10 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $40 receives: $10 gift certificate to La Sala restaurant (Inwood, NYC), S/O on FB/Twitter 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $50 receives: custom poem using your name in choice of acrostic or free verse, handwritten thank you note, S/O on FB/Twitter 13 Fuelers!
Any contribution of $100 receives: 30-minute health coaching session with Catarina Rivera, S/O on FB/Twitter 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $200 receives: 1 hour professional photo shoot with Margaux Joffe, S/O on FB/Twitter 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $250 receives: gift certificate for YogaFit Level One Teacher Training ($400 value!), S/O on FB/Twitter 1 Fueler!
Any contribution of $500 receives: customized 6-session health coaching program with Catarina Rivera, S/O on FB/Twitter
Started by Catarina Rivera December 5th, 2011
Brief video explaining the project, why I'm so passionate about it, and the potential impact. (1 minute, 36 seconds)
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UPDATE 1/31: This momentum has been so inspiring. We're at 94% with 3 days left! Your support makes a big difference since we're so close to our goal. Thanks for helping us reach 100%. Let's go!!!
UPDATE 1/27: Thanks to you, we're at 70% with 7 days left! Your generosity has been inspiring. Let's continue to make it happen and reach 100%!!!
UPDATE 1/19: We broke the $1,000 mark today! We've been featured on the RocketHub blog, front page, and newsletter. We've also been featured on blogs like Republica Update and Social Bueno. Let's keep this wonderful momentum going!
PROJECT DETAILS
The Healthy Parents Fellowship empowers parents to become leaders in creating healthier communities. Parents improve their own health and the health of others in their community.
The Big Picture
We need new solutions to the obesity epidemic. Many programs are one-time only and do not create lasting lifestyle changes. Healthy Parents Fellowship will run for 6 months, a period long enough to create lasting healthy habits. We will collect data to demonstrate the results of the program.
Training parents to be peer health educators makes sense. They have the credibility. They understand the needs of other parents. They can develop creative ways to embed public health messages into daily life in their community. And it's a more sustainable approach than using outsiders as health educators.
The program will serve mostly low-income Latino families in Washington Heights, which has the second-highest rate of childhood obesity in the city.Washington Heights, like so many of our nation's communities, needs solutions NOW.
Program Overview
Parents will receive health coaching and entrepreneurship training. Sessions will include meditation, self-reflection, nutrition, cooking, and fitness. Parents will work on reaching their individual health goals and family health goals.
Each parent will design and implement a community action project. Projects must focus on improving the health of their family, friends, and neighbors.
Why do I need your help? Can't I just get a grant?
Since 2008, it's been my dream to start a successful, innovative program to improve health in urban communities. The idea started developing when I taught elementary school in the Bronx as a part of Teach for America. There, I realized the extent of the nutrition and health problems kids were facing.
In June 2011, I decided I was ready to take a leap of faith. I left my job to dedicate myself to my passion: creating healthier communities.
I launched a successful 6-week summer fitness program for kids in Washington Heights called "Healthy Kids in the Heights." This experience led to the idea for Healthy Parents Fellowship.
The reason I need your help is that we are not an official non-profit organization yet and thus need alternative ways of financing the program.
Why aren't we a non-profit yet? I wanted to develop a program that WORKED before creating an entire organization. Testing Healthy Parents Fellowship as a pilot program first is a strategy for long-term organizational success. This program is exciting and definitely has the potential to become the signature program of a larger non-profit organization.
Where will the money go?
$1100- Mini-grants for parent projects
$500- Publicity, program materials, copies
$500- Healthy snacks and supplies for cooking classes
$200- Space/utilities stipend for church
$200- RocketHub fee (4%) + credit card processing fees (4%)
If the project fuels over 100%, additional funds will be used for non-profit incorporation fees, as well as compensation for the program facilitator and interns.
Why fuel this project?
You're supporting a start-up with immediate growth potential. You're supporting a results-oriented leader who wants to create a program with a proven measurable impact.
Your support means the world. It means that parents will get the opportunity to become healthier and to change their communities. When we empower our parents, transformative change is possible!
Let's dream big together.
