crowdfunding

Melbourne couple opens fair trade cafe with asylum seeker staff

Melbourne couple opens fair trade cafe with asylum seeker staff

From the Art is chuffed to announce the opening of a social enterprise cafe and retail shop in just a few short months’ time. In the meantime, owners Crystal Fickers and Trishay Trada are running a crowdfunding campaign to fund the start-up.

Located in Ashwood, in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, From the Art will serve up specialty organic tea and coffee from a sustainable fair trade source. Every cup of coffee will support STREAT, a local organisation working to end youth homelessness.

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(A-Radio) Interview with Radical Theory and Practice about the cooperative and its Emma Goldman project

The Anarchist Radio Berlin made an interview with the Russian-speaking anarchist publishing cooperative Radical Theory and Practice (RTP) about the cooperative, its recent project of translating Emma Goldman's memoires into Russian and a lot more.

You'll find the audio (to listen online or download in different sizes) here: http://aradio.blogsport.de/2015/03/11/a-radio-in-english-rtp-cooperative...

Cutting-edge Technology to bring corporate and personal causes together

A new CrowdFunding website, OzCrowd.com, is aiming to help individuals raise funds for everything from medical treatments to aspiring musicians seeking to fund their first album. 

Crowdfunding is a new craze which is quickly catching on, having raised over $10 billion around the world.  OzCrowd is bringing this online platform to Australia with its first campaigns due to go live from 1 July 2014.

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