What is Community Support

Community Support is by definition, a broad area of fund raising that involves projects with a focus on helping whole communities, specific groups within communities, as well as individuals living in communities.

What Areas of Community Support are of Interest?

FundaGeek is for projects in all areas of community support – construction projects, facilities support, environmental, health and well-being, recreation, education, transportation, outreach and public awareness, beautification, clean-up and much more.

How Can Crowdfunding Help?

Crowdfunding is an excellent resource for securing much-needed funding for community support projects. As a viable alternative to the municipal, state and federal sources of funding, FundaGeek can help you realize your community support goals. A crowdfunded community support project can engage the public who may benefit from the completion of the project. The power of crowds can deliver real results in helping to achieve community goals. An important side benefit of crowdfunding community support is that your public campaign raises far-reaching awareness of you and your community goals. Crowdfunding is a great PR tool for spreading the word about your community support project.

A community support campaign delivers whatever funding your project attracts at the end of the period since FundaGeek research, community support and non-profit projects do not follow the "all or nothing" model like other crowdfunding sites.

What are Some Examples of Crowdfunding Community Support?

The type of community support projects appropriate for crowdfunding is very broad. Here are some examples:

• Support for local libraries
• Support for local museums
• Education and outreach projects, e.g. star parks for astronomy enthusiasts.
• Construction projects for shared community facilities like a dog park or greenbelt area.
• Assistance to families affected by tragedies such as fires or floods.
• Community protests, e.g. oil drilling, tree removal, etc.

What are Some Typical Organizations that May Benefit from Crowdfunding?

There are a substantial number of organizations that could benefit from running a FundaGeek campaign in order to provide support for a variety of community oriented projects. Here is a small sampling of such organizations: