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Teachers Turn to Crowdfunding to Open Preschools

posted Jul 20, 2014, 11:02 PM by Siamak Ebarhimi

In Chicago, VOCEL – a small education non-profit for children from under-resourced communities – is behind one of the first initiatives to use crowdfunding to open a preschool, the AFP reports.CrowdFunding advertizing

“Many for-profit organizations have used crowdsourcing in the past several years to get off the ground, to spread their ideas among a wide crowd, and we thought why couldn’t we do this for a

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non-profit?” Jesse Ilhardt, director of education for VOCEL, told AFP.CrowdFunding marketing

VOCEL started a $70,000 campaign online, asking the public to contribute funds for a preschool center in Chicago. To learn more about crowdfunding in education, watch the video above.Kickstarter Marketing

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Posted from: http://time.com/3009460/crowdfunding-schools/

By David Khorram  www.CrowdFundingPlanning.com