@bi2green

Are you looking to start a crowdfunding site, or are you looking to get crowdfunding for the solar installations?

If it’s the latter, there are dozens of crowdfunding sites out there, the most popular probably being Kickstarter. 

If it’s the former, I don’t have any experience in starting a site like that up, so I can’t answer that.

@rich-brooks Hi Rcih, our idea is to create a CrowdFunding site for social and green projects.

We had looked for other CrowdFunding site like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and other sites like that. In Kickstarter we need to change our idea a little bit in order to be accepted as a project and we are thinking on do it.
What do you recommend if we change our approach to do it?
Thanks, and all the feedback is grate for our Green Startup

@bi2green

So basically what you need to do is the following:

1- Define the cost that you need to bare for your project and add a margin of 20% if your figures will change more then 20% then your initial planning is not correct.

2- According to the final figure you will be able to assess how much sponsorship you need to cover your expenses.

3- Be open to different sponsorship scenarios not only targeting cash.

4- the topic you are working on is big and is worth tying it up with one of the big names and the big brands. Every big brand now has a budget to be spent on the environmental awareness.

5- prepare 3 to 4 sponsorship packages and allow some serious exposure for the first 2 and go down gradually and the other.

6- Have some decent communication materials printed with recyclable materials or on digital copies but make sure you play the presentation or you present the material yourself. don;t just leave it on their desk. If you don;t have something to communicate with they won;t take you for serious.

7- Make sure you get a clear feedback and follow up accordingly.

Good luck!