Our mission is to help bring creative projects to life.
Kickstarter crusades accomplish thoughts. It's the place where makers share new dreams for innovative work with the networks that will meet up to subsidize them.
A portion of these makers, as Critical Role, TLC, and The Smithsonian Institution previously had enormous fanbases. Be that as it may, many tasks have been just about as limited scale as a restricted run of quiet reflection vinyls or as exceptional as early forms of Issa Rae's Insecure and Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag.
Regardless, makers consistently control how the work meets up—no 100-page award applications, no givers requesting you change your message, no last-minute alters from financial backers. At the point when patrons chip in subsidizing and assist with getting the news out, they too become part of these free works.
"Kickstarter is one of those stages that gives you space to work with individuals who know you, love you, and backing you."
Our people group.
Taking advantage of our local area begins with enacting your own. Best undertakings fabricate a compounding phenomenon, prevailing upon companions and early allies who then, at that point share the thought with their organizations, and sign their help to the more extensive Kickstarter people group. The snowball can get huge. More than 20 million individuals, from each mainland on the planet, have helped store Kickstarter projects.
Our main goal.
Our main goal is to assist with rejuvenating imaginative ventures. We accept that craftsmanship and inventive articulation are vital for a sound and dynamic culture, and the space to make requires assurance.
We don't need craftsmanship world elites and diversion chiefs to characterize our way of life; we need inventive individuals—even those who've never made anything—to jump in the driver's seat. We assist makers with interfacing straightforwardly with their networks, putting power where it should be.
We are so dedicated to our main goal, we composed it into our plan of action. In 2015 we turned into a Public Benefit Corporation—a revenue driven organization that focuses on certain results for society as much as our investors. We refreshed our corporate sanction to spread out explicit objectives and responsibilities to place our qualities into our activities, advance expressions and culture, battle imbalance, and assist imaginative tasks with occurring.
Since our dispatch, on April 28, 2009, 20 million individuals have upheld a task, $6.1 billion has been vowed, and 208,173 undertakings have been effectively subsidized.
Our group.
We're a free organization of around 75 individuals cooperating, a considerable lot of us in an old pencil industrial facility in New York City. We invest our energy planning and building Kickstarter, fashioning local area around inventive ventures, and supporting the imaginative environment around us. We're engineers, creators, support subject matter experts, journalists, performers, painters, artists, gamers, robot-developers—and so on. Throughout the long term, our group has sponsored in excess of 50,000 tasks (and dispatched our very own lot).
Our set of experiences.
Kickstarter dispatched on April 28, 2009. A ton has occurred since.
We turned into a Public Benefit Corporation to focus on our standards as much as our benefits. We dispatched The Creative Independent to share assets and guidance for a wide range of producers. We welcomed the neighborhood local area into our Brooklyn central command with the Creators-in-Residence program.
Undertakings won Grammys and Oscars. London's V&A Museum curated a show about Kickstarter configuration projects. Hank Willis Thomas and For Freedoms' political announcement project across each of the 50 states turned into the biggest imaginative coordinated effort in U.S. history. We praised our 10th birthday celebration. We joined the Global Strike for Climate Change and went Climate Neutral—we're doing all that we can to fabricate a long, sound future for the imaginative culture we developed. This is only the start.
"I was living in New Orleans in late 2001 and I needed to bring a couple of DJs down to play a show during the 2002 Jazz Fest. I tracked down an extraordinary scene and contacted their administration, however in the end the show never occurred—it was simply an excessive amount of money..."
The Creative Independent.
Kickstarter's help for inventive work goes past our foundation. We distribute The Creative Independent (TCI) as an approach to share counsel and enlighten the many, many courses to carrying on with an imaginative life. We've highlighted insight from more than 800 working craftsmen up until now—including David Byrne talking about disappointment, Poet Ocean Vuong on the liberality of perusing and composing, Sufjan Steven dismissing the "tormented craftsman" schtick, and Laurie Anderson on discovering motivation in harsh occasions. We've shared aides on everything from getting press for your innovative work to reexamining yourself. Furthermore, you'll generally discover new voices in our pamphlets and Chrome expansion.
For the press.
In case you're expounding on Kickstarter or covering a Kickstarter project, head this approach to discover foundation material, press contacts, and visual resources.
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