5 Top Crowdfunding Platforms in Brazil

If you’ve ever walked along the streets of Brazil, you would see all colors of the rainbow left and right. After World War I and after claiming its independence from Portugal, Brazil tried to recover its cultural identity through art. Artists of different genres – painting, sculpting, literature, visual arts, music, and more – have fought critics for decades. It paved the way for what we know today as Brazilian art.

However, in the last years, the decline in the economy has threatened the growth of this sector in Brazil. Thus, many Brazilian artists have resorted to crowdfunding to financially enable their projects and social advocacies. Here are the top crowdfunding platforms where some Brazilian art projects have started.

Kickante

Kickante has been created with the Brazilian community in mind. They provide a platform for projects with social causes that benefit the community. The crowdfunding platform has flexible features to keep the artist at ease while raising funds for the project. It includes flexibility in goal setting, project duration, payment forms, and more. But, do keep in mind that Kickante charges a 6% platform fee on raised funds.

Catarse

Catarse has dedicated its crowdfunding platform to creators from Brazil. Projects related to the arts only are welcome to fundraise via this site. They offer help to up-and-coming artists on how, when, and where they can kick off their projects. Artists will go through a rigorous but worthwhile process to get funding for their creative projects. This process is the reason for the high platform fee of 13% that they charge on raised funds.

Benfeitoria

Benfeitoria is open to projects with cultural, social, economic, and environmental impact. The company prides itself on being the first in Brazil to offer free commission, recurring payments, and fund matching. In its lifetime, a total of $4 million have been raised for all projects mounted on the platform. They also charge a 4.5% fee on raised funds.

GoGetFunding

GoGetFunding gets much of the attention of different artists or creators in Brazil to fund their projects. With its platform open worldwide, there is little chance for projects to stand out with so many artists wanting to get the attention of supporters. Donations received will be charged with a 6.9% platform fee.

Airfunding

Airfunding is a donation-based crowdfunding platform open to supporters worldwide. More than 600,000 individuals have trusted Airfunding to finance their projects. With its free registration and easy project creation, more than 20,000 projects related to the arts have been funded globally, including Brazil. Not only is Airfunding open to artists, but it is available for crowdfunding for medical, disaster relief, education, and more.

Get inspiration by reading success stories from the Airfunding community here. There are more tips you can enjoy via the Airfunding blog.

Kickstart your creative journey in Airfunding today! 

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5 Successful Fundraising Projects in Turkey in 2021-2022

Airfunding: 5 Successful Fundraising Projects in Turkey in 2021-2022

Airfunding is a community of everyday heroes. They are ordinary human beings who have helped strangers worldwide however small their donations are. Today we celebrate them for the success of these fundraising projects in Turkey.

Crowdfunding Projects for Pets

Ulyana’s Cat

While walking along the streets of Turkey, Ulyana found an orphaned cat in 2018. She took it in and took care of it for three years. By the end of 2021, the cat fell sick and was diagnosed with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP). It is a viral disease in cats caused by certain strains of a virus called the feline coronavirus. The disease can be cured if the medicine is taken regularly. With the help of Airfunding heroes worldwide, Ulyana raised $1,262 (₺356.37). The fundraising provided medication for the cat good for more than a month.

Mia, The Warrior Cat

Mia is from Eskisehir, Turkey fighting for her life. Like Ulyana’s cat, Mia was also diagnosed with FIP. Together with her cat mom, they created a fundraising project in Airfunding to raise funds for medical bills, medicines, and more. Airfunding heroes have donated a total of $1,284 (₺362.58). In three months, Mia was able to pay for the medication with the help of the Airfunding community.

Medical Projects

Baby Aybar and the fight against SMA

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited disease that affects nerves and muscles. It causes muscles to become weak. Baby Aybar has Type 1, a very severe case of SMA. Infants with SMA Type 1 have difficulty swallowing and sucking. With the help of his dad, an Airfunding project was created. They needed to fundraise for the gene therapy of Aybar. In three months, the Airfundng community of heroes raised $1,290 (₺364.28) for Aybar’s medication.

Nabil’s Road to Recovery

Nabil needed help to recover from an accident that caused him an injury to his jaw and teeth. His medical insurance could not cover the expenses for the surgery he needed. With a loving community behind him, they created a fundraising project in Airfunding. And less than a month, they received donations with a total amount of $1,530 (₺432.05). Their story is a remarkable accomplishment for the Airfunding community and for the benefit of Nabil.

Community Projects

Kemal’s Family

Kemal Badalov is a guard at the Söğüt District Police Department. While driving a tractor one day, he lost control of the machine and was injured. The first respondents on the scene took him to the hospital where he died despite the medical interventions provided. Due to this unfortunate incident. Kemal left a family behind who needed financial support for their daily needs. The Airfunding community came together to donate $8,810 (₺2,487.83) within one month. This big donation will surely help his wife and kids as they recover from the loss.

There are more stories in Airfunding where our community of heroes donating and sending their help from all over the world helped make a fundraising project successful. You can be one of the heroes to help a family in need in Turkey today. Head over to Airfunding.net and find a project you would like to help out with.

On the other hand, the Airfunding community is always looking for individuals who need heroes to help them out. If you have a project you want to raise money for, create an Airfunding project here!

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Platforms in Nigeria

Top 5 Crowdfunding Platforms in Nigeria

The Nigerian government defines crowdfunding as raising funds to finance a project or business from the public through an online platform. The word has been synonymous with agriculture for most of the population since 2015. For five years, a boom in agriculture-focused crowdfunding platforms provided citizens to invest in agro-businesses with expected returns.

The trend created an opportunity for many crowdfunding platforms to expand services beyond raising business capital. Now, Nigerians can create a fundraising campaign for diverse reasons – medical, education, business, and more.

Why Crowdfund in Nigeria?

70% of the Nigerian population (Euormonitor, 2021) engages within their communities. People understand the need of helping their friends and family in challenging times. Thus, crowdfunding for your financial needs may be the best way to get the help you need.

Top Crowdfunding Platforms in Nigeria

Equity crowdfunding platforms for businesses have monopolized the market for years. Now, donation-based crowdfunding platforms are available for Nigerians to do fundraising.

Airfunding

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Airfunding has been the go-to platform for Nigerians in fundraising for medical, education, community, business, and COVID-19 relief projects. Airfunding has received donations from more than 130,000 supporters worldwide. These donations have funded many projects in Nigeria and other countries.

NaijaFund

NaijaFund is one of the crowdfunding pioneers in Nigeria. Starting in 2015, it has allowed projects related to the arts to random personal wishes. NaijaFund is only available for Nigerians. It limits the opportunity to open the community outside of the country.

Quickraiz

Quickraiz started in 2018 with the mission to create an efficient way for Nigerians to do fundraising. Backed by Electronic PayPlus Limited, it focuses on making sure donations are secure for both project owners and supporters. Many projects are already available in Quickraiz. But, it has yet to reach out to more supporters to receive donations for project owners.

FundAnEnterprise.Org

FundAnEnterprise.Org claims to be the first crowdfunding website in Nigeria. It operates as a donation-based and reward-based crowdfunding platform. They focus on micro, small, and medium enterprises dreaming to make it big in the industry. The site is still available for viewing, but it seems to be non-operational at the moment.

Kickstarter

Member of the early pioneers in crowdfunding worldwide, Kickstarter has reached the shores of Nigeria. The company has claimed to have funded more than 200,000 projects worldwide since 2009. But, project owners should be aware of how things work on Kickstarter. It is a donation-based crowdfunding platform with an all-or-nothing clause. If you have not achieved your set goal, all donations are refunded to the supporters. (Yes, even if it’s millions of Nairas already!)

Starting a Crowdfunding Project in Airfunding

It’s easy to start a fundraising campaign in Airfunding. Follow this step-by-step guide and start fundraising for your project today! Don’t miss out on fundraising tips by tuning in to new blogs uploaded here.

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Airfunding Ukraine

Airfunding: Interview with Anna-Liza Slabinska, raising fund for Ukraine

Herbert George Wells said: “If we don’t end war, war will end with us”. This is a wise remark, but it seems as if we are not taking this into account and once war has started we can only try to provide help. 

When Russia invaded Ukraine last February starting a war, people from all over the world began to pronounce themselves against this unequal, useless and easy to avoid war. Amongst these people, there have been a lot of people who also started to help the Ukrainian citizens. 

Airfunding is a crowdfunding platform which is available in many countries around the world and also in many languages. This platform is mainly focused on those cases whose aim is to help, as its slogan says “Helping everyone with everyone”. In the Airfunding website you can find projects to help individuals or also you can subscribe to provide help to small ONGs.


As soon as the war in Ukraine started, Airfunding which is part of the Kiheitai company and a lot of people from different places, began to look for a way of helping those who were and still are suffering the consequences of such a terrible event.

Airfunding

One of the most successful cases connected to the Ukrainian war on the Airfunding platform was started by Anna-Liza Slabinska, a Ukrainian woman who works as an external consultant in an international IT company. She stated this project with the initial idea of providing medication and medical supplies for those who were suffering the war consequences, but as the days were passing and the devastating effects of war started to appear she realised that people in Ukraine were experiencing some other shortages.

Anna-Liza kindly accepted to be interviewed by a member of the Airfunding team offering to us her valuable experiences and ideas. She explained to us that with some friends they self-arranged a volunteer group and started doing what they could, at the same time she registered a fund for donations on Airfunding.

We were also interested in knowing some other aspects of Anna-Liza’s project, for instance, if it was her own idea to start this project and why she decided to start it. She told us that as soon as war started she realised that her living conditions were quite better than most people and that she wanted to help in some way. After talking with some friends and colleagues living abroad she decided to open a project in Aifunding because this was a great opportunity to start helping Ukraine.

She also explained to us that at the beginning, she wanted to support people with medication but when they arrived at the hospitals they realised that there was also a food shortage. For this reason, they started buying and delivering food. Then they got the information that many disabled people had been left alone and had no possibility to receive any support or help, so Anna-Liza and her friends started delivering supplies and help to those people. Later, they also got the information that the military medical centres needed different supplies and they provided some help for these centres.

At the moment of the interview they were also delivering humanitarian aid to Irpin, Bucha, trying to get closer to the Kharkiv region.

When we asked her about the actual situation, she explained to us that the situation was not improving, but it was changing. Russian troops were relocating but not leaving Ukraine. They had witnessed the results of the awful acts of Russian soldiers in Kyiv district territory where the survivors were in extreme need of support (food, medical and psychological support).

Unfortunately, tragedy also touched her and her friends directly, because one of their volunteers died when delivering humanitarian aid to Chernihiv. This was a huge loss for them. 

She also mentioned that the situation was still very dangerous at that moment, in every part of Ukraine.

Regarding the situation of children, she explained that children were one of their biggest pains. Over 300 children had been officially killed and this number would be doubled or tripled when the Ukrainian army could liberate other territories and we would be able to see the full statistics. She also mentioned that many children from 6 to 16 years old were raped, tortured and then killed. The ones who survived this would have huge psychological traumas.

When asked by our team member about how pleased she felt regarding her project on Airfunding. She mentioned that they had not expected such a huge activity in her fund. She thought that she was going to receive 1500-2000 USD, but, fortunately, she received 12.749 USD in 30 days from countries all over the world!! 

She also explained to us that she has already received 2 transfers during the development of the project, and that she will receive the rest, the biggest amount, in about 7-10 days.

When asked about their further needs she said that all the help matters (people sharing their post, and every penny is meaningful!) and the thing they need most is that the Russians leave their country.

As closing remarks, she mentioned many times that she was very happy and completely thankful with all the people that were making this possible.

“People are amazing, supportive! I am very thankful for all the help” Anna-Liza.

Crowdfunding Platforms in Thailand

Top 5 Crowdfunding Platforms in Thailand

Thailand is one of the most digitally advanced among the Southeast Asian nations. 84% of the Thai population (Euromonitor 2021) are tech-savvy. They use technology to improve their day-to-day lives. It is no surprise that low-income Thailand families have resorted to online crowdfunding platforms at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The world has seen economic growth in Thailand in the last decades. But in 2020, the country experienced a high unemployment rate and more underemployed workers. More than 5 million Thai citizens are now under the poverty line. Crowdfunding platforms have been the go-to solutions of a chunk of the Thai population to raise funds for their day-to-day needs.

What is Crowdfunding?

Crowdfunding is the solicitation of money from a large number of people to raise funds. The most popular type of crowdfunding is the donation-based method. In this type, all funds collected go to the organizer with no returns expected.

Why Crowdfund in Thailand?

Thai people see crowdfunding to be easy, fast, and effective when raising money. They can reach out to family and friends and ask for donations remotely via their mobile phones. Donations are convenient for their supporters as well when everything is online.

Crowdfunding Platforms in Thailand

Thailand opened its market in 2016 to many crowdfunding platforms for its consumers. This strategy paved the way for some of the top fundraising platforms within the Thai community.

Airfunding

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Airfunding is a donation-based crowdfunding platform. It is available in Thailand and other select countries around the world. More than 500,000 have trusted Airfunding to finance their daily living expenses or achieve their dreams. Registration is easy and free. You can start fundraising for your goal immediately. The fundraising campaign is open for donations from supporters all around the globe.

Weeboon

Started 2017, Weebon has grown within and beyond the borders of Thailand. There are successful Thai projects on this platform from receiving donations worldwide. But like every other crowdfunding platform, donations received via Weebon are subject to a 5% platform fee by the end of the campaign.

Socialgiver

Socialgiver is a reward-based crowdfunding platform registered in Thailand. Supporters get goods or other consumables in exchange for their donations. Donors are driven by how enticing your products are more than the cause of your campaign. It may be challenging for Thai project owners to join in if they don’t have any products to sell. Additionally, 70% only of the donations received are sent to the project owners.

GoGetFunding

GoGetFunding is known worldwide and has reached the shores of Thailand. It is available for any fundraising campaign – medical, emergency relief, etc. With its global support, it’s an obvious choice for not only the Thai community but for everyone around the world. Same as the others, GoGetFunding deducts a 6.9% fee on the donation fundraised by the project owners.

Tejai

Tejai is available within Thailand only. It limits the donation you expect to receive coming from a small community. The platform is best for campaigns managed by organized teams. It requires criteria to be met before creating a project. If you are 100% sure that your project will make it, this may be a platform for you. Otherwise, donations may be forfeited for transfer and will be donated to another organization after a certain period.

Ready to Crowdfund?

Get started on your campaign on Airfunding and help your community in Thailand.

Free registration. Anyone at any time can create an account for free.

Setting up is easy. All you need is your story and how much you want to raise for your campaign; then, you’re all set! Tips are available along the way to make it even easier for you.

Receive funds worldwide anytime. Your project is open to receiving donations from around the world. Someone somewhere is awake when it is midnight in your timezone.

Excellent customer service. The Airfunding team comprises individuals who have come together to help everyone in need. You can even find their friendly faces here.

Start with Airfunding today

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