May 2013
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Updating Crowdhoster: building accessible,...
A few months ago, we launched Crowdhoster to empower everyone to launch their own free custom crowdfunding page and start collecting funds from the world, without needing to write any code at all. We want inspired creators to be able to raise money for their inventions from passionate fans (and future fans) for any kind of project, cause, or collective objective — as easy as posting the...
Internet creates happy ending for young scientist...
Here’s a happy ending for a young, expelled student.
Until last month, Kiera Wilmot was an exemplary student at Bartow High School in central Florida with good grades and a love for science. But on the morning of April 29, she mixed some chemicals together in a small water bottle and caused a tiny explosion. There was a bang and some smoke, but nobody was close to being hurt.
Kiera, 16,...
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Saving the Blue Angels through the power of...
Our team was amazed when we saw this fundraiser to save the Blue Angels pop up on our radar. Marc McCabe, a local San Franciscoan and Blue Angel fan, created a Crowdtilt fundraiser to raise at least $650,000 for the show, which would take place from Oct. 10-14 during San Francisco’s Fleet Week.
Here’s a list of the news coverage the Blue Angels fundraiser has received so far:
SF...
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Crowdfund Your Bay to Breakers 2013 Party
Dust off your Superman costume and get ready to party with race alongside naked people pink gorillas in Bay to Breakers, the most delirious and unforgettable footrace in the city! It’s on Sunday, May 19th, 2013 this year. We can’t wait to see ya’ll there :)
Don’t make rookie mistakes this year though ― like trying to catch a cab at Fulton and 48th to the afterparty, or...
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What You Need vs. What You Want - The Power of...
Ever feel like you’re asking for too much? Or do you aim too low because you’re afraid of falling short of your goals? Worry no more. Our brand-new targets let you tell your supporters exactly how much you need, while inspiring your supporters to chip in for a home run!
After all, nothing is impossible in the world of crowdfunding! A model of a Tyrannosaurus rex with Christopher...
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We Just Reached 16,000 Facebook Fans!
THANK YOU! We couldn’t have done it without you. To celebrate, here are 16 great happy gifs so you can share our happiness too! :)
“IS THIS REAL LIFE?”
It’s too much to handle…
You’re the BEST. Being with ya’ll is a dream…
No honestly, we can’t believe it! All these fans just, just… dropping out of the sky!!! Where did...
10 Things We Loved About the Fundraiser to Replace...
It was amazing seeing the compassion of ordinary citizens come together to accomplish something unbelievable for this modern American hero.
We loved:
1. The simple hope that Craig Dunlap expressed about why he created his Crowdtilt for David:
2. The reason Jeffrey Griffeth gave for why he started a facebook group that amassed over 1,000 supporters for David:
“I enjoy fishing and being out on...
Last Call: Farewell Gifts for Grads Across the...
Grads across the nation are saying farewell to school and hello to 2013’s freshest-of-fresh supply of unforgettable gifts! As they step out, bright-eyed, into the gray world of morning commute and the terrifying job market, give them something special.
Admit it: the real world can be daunting. These bright and shiny gifts will give your grad some comfort to look forward to :)
1. The Do-It-All...
A crowdfunded tribute for a hero: America bought...
We were humbled and honored last week as we watched an incredible social media wave raise over $50,000 in under 3 days to buy David Henneberry a new boat.
Watertown resident David Henneberry, 66, loved his boat. Those close to him said he was so particular about about it that he refused to use it for fishing, reserving it for pleasure cruising alone.
But on April 19, Henneberry discovered...
April 2013
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The 6 BEST Bachelor / Bachelorette Parties!
Collect money online. Have incredible experiences offline.
Crowdtilt is all about empowering you to do extraordinary things with friends, but with everyday levels of effort. We do this by making organizing and collecting funds easy:
Crowdfund the special party by a deadline!
Make time-sensitive group deposits for trips or getaway homes
Collect funds via credit card online so you can spend...
Crowdfund Your Mission Trip
The Crowdtilt community is full of everyday people doing extraordinary things. There’s the social media wave that raised $50,000 in 5 days to replace David Henneberry’s boat (destroyed during the Boston Bomber’s capture). There’s the community in Illinois that saved their beloved toy store from going out of business. There’s the group of friends that funded their...
How to Give the BEST Wedding Gift!
This year, hundreds of friends used Crowdtilt to crowdfund heartwarming, clever gifts for their wedded friends. We helped them raise money by a deadline, get fixed or minimum contribution from contributors, and make a centralized place for funds that led them to raise an average 34% more than their goal :)
Here are the top 3 wedding gifts on Crowdtilt this year!
The Gift He’ll Love: A...
The 5 Most Amazing Treehouses Ever Built. Happy...
April 25th is National Arbor Day! At Crowdtilt, we’re hardcore tree-huggers. Our office is chock-full of trees and greenery! On the occasional Tuesday, you’ll even catch our engineer Andy lovingly watering his surprisingly spiky “Herculeaves”… (a story for another time) On Arbor Day you’re encouraged to plant and care for trees. But if you’re a hardcore...
The BEST Grilled Cheese Recipes Out There. Happy...
April is National Grilled Cheese month!!! Celebrate with us by getting some of your friends together to make the most awesome versions of the world’s favorite gooey, crunchy, buttery staple! Because really, the best thing about grilled cheese is that its SO easy to make, even the most kitchen-clumsy** of us can achieve beautiful, gooey deliciousness in a few quick steps.
**Believe us. Some...
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Plan your Cinco de Mayo party in 3 easy steps!...
Magnífico sombreros and bright flowery crowns. Delicioso burritos, tacos, salsa, flan, and margaritas that we can’t get enough of. Cinco de Mayo is full of food, music, and fun that you and your friends will want to celebrate!
Whether it’s a get-together over Mexican goodies and margaritas or a full-on fiesta with tequila, pinatas, tres leches and more, we’ll help you invite your friends,...
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Worry less and tilt more! Set a limit for your...
You might have heard the saying you can never get too much of a good thing. Though we love the biggest parties and our dessert indulgences at the office as much as the next guy, when it comes to limited-seating party buses, events with only so many spots, or special edition T-shirts, sometimes scarcity can be important too. (After all, would Marilyn really have been singing about diamonds, if...
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How We Got 31K Pageviews in A Day By Pretending To...
A week ago, on April Fool’s Day, we launched Crowdfund The Debt: a spoof splash page claiming that the White House was asking everyday Americans to chip in and help pay off our mounting national debt using Crowdtilt. At the end of the day, we had 31k+ pageviews, press mentions in TechCrunch and others, 3,000+ Facebook likes, and countless tweets.
Here’s the story and what we...
February 2013
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Planning a big event? You will love this!
You love hosting successful events: there’s nothing like watching the different pieces you planned come together beautifully, while all of your guests are having a great time too.
For your next event, you already know how to use Crowdtilt to spread the word and pool the money to make it happen. But what about the logistics and specifics once you have the money in the bank? This is where our...
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Real-Time Campaign Updates
If you’ve ever run a campaign on Crowdtilt, you may have noticed that you couldn’t make changes to your campaign after the first person contributed. That restriction is now a thing of the past. Starting today, you can make changes to your campaign at any time. Here’s why this is cool:
[[MORE]]Extend Your Campaign
Do you need more time? You can now easily push your campaign expiration date...
January 2013
4 posts
A Mardi Gras To Remember
What’s up, Tilters? It’s that singular time of year again - time for the beignets, king cake, colored beads, and other accoutrements that mark…Mardi Gras! We hope you have an awesome Fat Tuesday wherever you are, but in case you’re lucky enough to be headed straight to the Big Easy, we’ve got a few tips for you. Let Crowdtilt take the hassle out of organizing your lodgings so that you can...
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What's Your Super Bowl Game Plan?
Super Bowl Sunday is just a few days out. Whether you’ll be watching the afternoon’s broadcast for the commercials (TV advertisers spend serious bucks for spots in this program), the half-time show (will your favorite artist be performing?), or the game itself (you want to see these teams duke it out!), the question is whether to go to someone else’s Super Bowl party or to throw your own.
If...
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New Feature: Easily Contribute From Your Phone
Contributing from your phone is now easier than ever!
We’re excited to announce a new mobile experience on Crowdtilt.
If you’ve ever contributed to a Crowdtilt campaign from the tiny screen on your phone, you may have noticed that the pop-up lightboxes, small-sized fonts, and other features designed to work great on your computer weren’t optimized for your mobile device.
That has all...
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Top 10 Campaigns of 2012
This list is just a small sample of the numerous amazing campaigns we saw on Crowdtilt last year. Many of our campaigns are private and therefore cannot be featured here (If you’d like to share your campaign, because it’s awesome and should belong on this list, please add it to the comments below!!).
Thank you for showing us how many people you could possibly cram into a party bus,...
December 2012
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Do More and Spend Less on NYE with Crowdtilt
We’re big fans of holidays here at Crowdtilt, but we have a special love for New Year’s Eve. New Year’s is a time to celebrate another year past, to do things differently and let loose a little more, and to be with friends and in the company of those you care about most.
[[MORE]]In many cities, New Year’s is one of the most expensive nights of the year and this makes it hard...
November 2012
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Give Amazing Christmas Gifts: Ferrari Rentals,...
Do things differently this Christmas season and go beyond the traditional dress shirt, coffee mug, or engraved pen. Pool money with your group and give a jaw-dropping present instead!
Brand New iPad Mini (Suggested tilt: $329)
Stylish Coach Handbag (Suggested tilt: $274)
Personal Golf Lesson with a PGA Pro (Suggested tilt: $129)
Exciting Skydiving Experience (Suggested tilt: $399)
...
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Throw the Biggest Tailgate for Your Upcoming Bowl...
Overtime wins, last-minute interceptions, and missed field goals… ah, the excitement of college football! As the regular season draws to an end, we hope your team earned enough W’s to claim a spot in one of the upcoming bowl championships.
Check out the latest listing of bowl games on ESPN here
If you were one of the many tailgaters that pooled money for your tailgate on...
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Fundraising on Crowdtilt just went to a...
Starting Today:
You can fundraise on behalf of any registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
Crowdtilt will automatically disburse funds directly to the non-profit organization
And Crowdtilt will now automatically send tax-deductible receipts to donors
This means you can now start a fundraiser for the Red Cross or Salvation Army for you and friends on Crowdtilt without worrying about how...
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Give Better Gifts This Holiday Season
Black Friday is by far the craziest shopping day in the United States, especially for electronics.
Have you been eyeing a particular product and thinking it would make for an amazing present for the upcoming christmas holidays?
If you have used Crowdtilt before, you know how easily and quickly you can collect money from your friends, relatives, or co-workers for this perfect gift. Instead of...
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How to Tilt Thanksgiving This Year
It’s the time of year to reflect and give thanks for the good things in our lives. Let Crowdtilt help you spend the week with friends & family, eat well, relax, and give back to others. Start your campaign to:
Raise money with friends or co-workers for a family in need (Suggested tilt: Any amount helps)
Pool money for a Thanksgiving dinner with friends (Suggested tilt: $350)
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Turn retail on its head. Make your own clothes...
“Wouldn’t it be cool if…?” How often have you heard or thought this when you had a great idea for a custom t-shirt, jersey, or some awesome gear you and your group wanted. We’ve all had this thought at some point.
Sadly, you probably never got around to making them, because you weren’t sure if other people would actually pay for them. Without that...
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Three services that will make sure you don't miss...
This is the second post in our series covering how we think about events at Crowdtilt and providing resources that make it easier for you to discover more awesome stuff to do with your friends! Read the earlier post and subscribe to our blog to find out about the next one.
FlavorPill shows you awesome stuff, from Flugtag to adventures to concerts.
Here at Crowdtilt we want you to be happy and...
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When friends and family come together
Election Day is a day not only to cast our ballot but also to reflect on and appreciate the things that make our vote possible - such as the efforts of our country’s service men and women.
While there are differing opinions on defense, combat, and the armed forces, what is invariant is the sympathy and empathy we feel for those who suffer injury and loss.
Captain Edward Klein was struck...
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How We Think About Events At Crowdtilt
This is the first in a series of posts outlining how we here at Crowdtilt think about events and how the Crowdtilt platform can help you plan more awesome events and outings for you and your friends.
Subscribe to our blog to find out about future parts in this series. We’ve long known that time spent with friends and loved ones is time well spent indeed. Only recently, however, have researchers...
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Fees Waived For Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts
Hurricane Sandy has passed, but not the havoc it wreaked on thousands of people
Fundraising efforts by organizations like the Red Cross, that offer basic shelter, ready-to-eat meals, and other relief supplies to those affected by the storm, have been heartwarmingly successful. However, by their nature, these resources are given out over a broad range and mostly to the people hit the hardest.
...
October 2012
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Get A Head Start for Movember
Use Crowdtilt for your mustache growing, fundraising efforts this month.
November is official “Do Not Shave” month. Here at Crowdtilt we’re getting in the spirit - both to see if we’ll make good looking hipsters, and also to help raise awareness for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer.
So join in the spirit of fun while boosting men’s health through...
Save it... or Shave it?
One thing we love here at Crowdtilt is to see the different ways people use our site. Fundraise for a social or personal cause, pool money for a party bus or baby shower gift, distribute tickets to an event - you can do it all on Crowdtilt.
We also love to see really creative ideas - such as this pair of campaigns by Anna and Carl Gombert:
https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/shave-it...
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Crowdtilt + Beer Pong
Who says beer pong has to be a tacky affair? Not Dan King and Sam Roston, who host a beer pong tournament called El Clasico every few months down in sunny Los Angeles.
This September, they used Crowdtilt to collect payments for El Clasico Tres. Check out their campaign here: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/el-clasico-tres
Check out the last El Clasico event!
Held in a private ballroom...
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New Feature: Easily Invite Friends to your...
We are super excited to announce this (AWESOME) new feature on Crowdtilt!!!
Starting TODAY, you can easily invite people to your campaign or create a Facebook Event page through our new invite feature right from your campaign page! This has been one of our most requested features in the few months since our launch, so we’re excited to give it to all users.
Inviting friends to your campaign...
September 2012
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Huckleberry Bicycles + Crowdtilt
You knew that Crowdtilt can be used by friends to pool money for parties, and you knew that it can be used to fundraise for charitable causes - but we bet you didn’t know that it can also be used to distribute tickets.
The owners of Huckleberry Bicycles, a full-service bike shop on Market Street in San Francisco, ran a campaign on Crowdtilt to offer tickets to their August safe-cracking...
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The biggest tip for organizing your football...
IT’S FOOTBALL SEASON!
Which means it’s time to party it up and support your home team by throwing an awesome tailgate party!
However, collecting money from friends, especially from those that never pay on time, is always a hassle and can quickly put a drain on the weekend and create unnecessary tensions.
Simplify the process this year by using Crowdtilt to pool funds online.
With...
August 2012
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Wednesday Night at Crowdtilt
Yesterday was a big day at Crowdtilt.
Groups throughout the country were fundraising, collecting, and pooling money on Crowdtilt as they do on other days; lots of fun campaigns for fantasy football, house parties, and tailgates as people are gearing up for the opening weekend of college football (Go Longhorns!).
There were some great campaigns for some amazing causes yesterday/last night...
A Partnership is Born: Crowdtilt + Reddit
After a couple of months of preparation, we launched a partnership with reddit, an online community where interesting content is shared, commented on, and internet memes are born. reddit is referred to as the front page of the internet and boasts more than 2 billion pageviews a month.
Our goal with this partnership is to offer redditors one unifying group funding platform that can be used for...
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Funding Fun with Friends on the Fourth
It’s August!
As we usher in this last full month of summer, it’s a good time to think back to the inaugurating holiday of the season. Cast your mind back a few weeks: How did you celebrate the 4th this year?
If you threw a party, you’re not the only one!
Check out Claire’s recent Crowdtilt campaign.
We can’t all have friends who were born on or around July 4th,...
July 2012
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Fantasy Football + Crowdtilt
Collecting money from friends was a major hassle before Crowdtilt. It was just… painful.
First you had to email all the friends, remind them all how much they owed, keep track of who had and hadn’t paid up, and nag the ones who hadn’t. The last 2-3 people took 90% of the work - and they never felt the urgency because, well, you were the only one who knew they hadn’t...
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Friends Always Have Your Back - Group Gifting With...
Grad school - for those of us who have never been, there’s a glamor to high education. We picture ourselves deep in discussion at a seminar table in a 300-level course, or at the head of a class of eager, wide-eyed undergrads, or curing cancer in a beautifully stocked genetics lab (hey, we can dream!).
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But even those of us who’ve never...
June 2012
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3 Great Websites for Your Next Beach Trip
Fresh squeezed orange juice. Palm trees waiving in the wind. Warm sand between the toes. What do you want your perfect beach weekend to look like?
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With the hottest summer months yet to come, a nice get-away can be just the needed relaxation and change you need after some hard weeks at work (or school!)
Here are a couple of sites that will help you find...
May 2012
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New Features: 24 Hour Direct Deposit &...
More awesomeness dropping this week @ Crowdtilt - 2 features we’ve added:
1) 24-Hour, Direct Deposits… Yes, 24-hour Next-Day Deposits.
Pooling money online has NEVER EVEN COME CLOSE TO THIS! Until now.
Once your direct deposit is set up, you are guaranteed to get your funds within the next business day (and once your direct deposit is set up, you never have to set it up/configure it...
April 2012
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New Features: Follow & Invite Friends
We are excited to announce two REALLY BIG features coming out today!
Introducing Follow Friends
You can now easily see what your friends are doing on Crowdtilt by following people. Once you click on the “follow” button under your friend’s image in the campaign community or on their profile page, we will let you know when he or she starts a new public campaign. New private...
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Fund Your Open-Source Project on Crowdtilt
Do you currently collaborate on an open-source project or see a clear need for a new one?
Let Crowdtilt help you boost or jumpstart your project.
Turning to the open-source community for funding is not new, but has become a lot easier in recent years. Even just a few weeks ago, this project was posted to Kickstarter to help people install Ruby on Rails on their Mac computers.
While...
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Private Show by Ishi & Booker T. Washington...
This Saturday April 7th, Ishi will be performing a private acoustic show at The Black Swan Saloon in Dallas. The show will be headlined by Spencer Kennedy, a student from Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing and Visual Arts.
Checkout their campaign here: https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/ishi-music
If you are new to the sounds of Ishi, you can get a taste below (just hit play...
