Jacques Phillips lives in Australia and wants to go to Europe. In order to get there and to let people who simply have to work hard and can't go to Europe enjoy his tour, Jacques has turned to crowdfunding. If you donate an amount, you can give Jacques an assignment , which he then films and puts online. The bigger your amount, the bigger assignments you can give him. For example, you can ask Jacques to stand in front of Buckingham Palace in his bare ass, for 50 dollars. Funny detail, if the campaign raises $2,147,483,647 326 times, he will buy Greece to solve the Greek crisis. Funders can then choose the new name of the country.
Crowdfunding is usually used for a personal project, but sometimes also for charity. Karen Huff, a list to data school bus supervisor in New York, experienced it herself. A video appeared on YouTube in which she was being cursed at, bullied, and belittled by 12-year-old schoolchildren on the school bus. She was called fat, ugly, and more nasty. Max Sidorov decided that the schoolchildren had gone too far, and set up a crowdfunding page to give Karen a well-deserved vacation. His target amount was $5,000. The video and the campaign were picked up by the American media and within a day (!) $330,000 had already been raised. The campaign eventually raised $703,123, an unprecedentedly high amount.
That crowdfunding connects people is evident from the campaign that was set up for Max Sidorov . Yes, the Max who set up a campaign for Karen Huff. Max had to deal with international attention, thousands of questions and phone calls, faxes, emails, mail, etc. Fellow crowdfunder Case Prince also thought that Max deserved a small reward for his charity and for his good-doing , and raised $7,465 for Max via Indiegogo. The goal was to raise a much lower amount ($2,500) to buy a laptop for Max. Conclusion: charity pays off.