PROJECT: HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES
This crowdfunding project is an exciting opportunity for people, businesses and organisations to be involved and contribute to making a difference and giving back. This project brings together customers, businesses, organisations and volunteers from both the private and social/community sectors.
As it develops its systems, this project will progressively provide more resources for persons and communities in need and to benefit local economies. As outlined further below, this includes specific systems to provide more financial resources for community and business stakeholder organisations.
COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS CHALLENGES
We all know people and communities in need of further support. However, many social, community and environmental organisations have challenges in delivering their services to them. We know some do not have all the resources they need to have efficient and reliable systems to deliver these important services.
These resourcing challenges also apply to industry and employee organisations and associations. This includes, for example, those providing business support services for employment, new products and services, for innovation and new business activities.
Further project information and diagrams
In addition to the following information, other project information and summary project diagrams are on the website.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE AND GIVING BACK
There are few things more satisfying than helping someone in need or contributing to a worthwhile cause. It is why there are many people that volunteer their time or provide resources to good causes.
This project is developing systems to help resources be available for organisations and groups (“stakeholders”) in the delivery of their services.
These online systems will provide more financial and other resources for them to carry out their social, community, cultural, environmental, charitable and business support services.
Supporting community stakeholders
Project support: customers, community and businesses
Importantly, this project has strong customer, community and business interest and support. Many local and national businesses and organisations want to be registered on the website and are intending to register shortly as they can see the benefits of doing so. Having a high level of support has been important and necessary during the different development stages of the project.
Supporting community facilities and services
PROJECT FUNDING GOAL
Each contribution to the project Funding Goal will become an investment in the project outcomes and will be helping to do more long term good.
As more organisations and businesses become involved to support this project there will be more opportunities for more resources for community and business stakeholders to use. In this way, your contributions will be used to make a difference and give back to communities.
Developing opportunities for employment services
REWARDS
Free promotions and subscriptions for supporters
All campaign contributors will be acknowledged on the website and will obtain rewards they can use for free promotions. These can, for example, be used to acknowledge and promote the important contributions of community and business stakeholders, their programs, volunteers, business supporters and their employees. This is also a way to give back to communities as part of the crowdfunding campaign.
Also, as outlined below rewards include free membership subscriptions. So please take the time to become familiar with the project!
DISCOVER VALUE BUSINESS
The business, Discover Value, is based in Hobart, Tasmania and manages this project. As the project manager it co-ordinates the skills and expertise this project needs as its main business commitment.
The business has both commercial and social/community (not for profit) purposes. A key objective is to continue developing systems for providing financial and other resources for social, community, environmental and business stakeholders to use for their services.
Background to the project and research and development information is set out here
VISION
The vision for this project is for a system to bring together both the private sector and public/community sector so they can use online systems to;
- create financial and other resources for use by community and business stakeholders;
- to add value or highlight existing value of products and services; and
- help deliver long-term positive public interest outcomes for persons and communities in need and for business stakeholders.
The project vision is, therefore, to help people and communities in need, their environments, support local businesses, to stimulate local economies and build more community capability and more resilience when this is needed, for example, in times of natural disasters or extreme events.
It is already creating demands for other type of work and it will provide new employment opportunities.
Resourcing community needs: Tasmanian fires 2013
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Further website development
Given these challenges stakeholders and others face, this project is an opportunity for you, your business or your stakeholder organisation or group to contribute to further development of the website systems to;
- to provide more financial and other resources for important stakeholder services in your community and business environments;
- develop more features to add value to listed business services and products for more benefits with each website transaction;
- include a micropayments system to provide financial resources for stakeholders on a regular basis from small deductions to business website sales (this has strong stakeholder support);
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promote and acknowledge important contributions of volunteers, businesses and stakeholders for making a difference and giving back. It will highlight and promote the positive social and other outcomes and there many good news stories! This promotion also provides many opportunities for value adding and for additional marketing.
Resourcing community organisational needs
PROJECT CONTRIBUTIONS AND COLLABORATION
Contributions are an investment in the project outcomes
This is a collaborative social and business project. Therefore, it will work more effectively if more people, businesses, employees, organisations, groups and their volunteers become involved. This is because everyone involved can collectively make a big difference by generating more activity, more positive impacts and financial and other benefits!
Collaboration
Collaboration is needed because it is a large-scale project given the number of potential;
- businesses from both sectors, customers and others than can be involved; and
- stakeholders that provide social, community, cultural, environmental, charitable and business support services that can be involved.
Crowdfunding and long term development needs
Both this crowdfunding project and the long-term development of the website itself have similar needs for more participation, involvement and resources. Therefore, please contact us if you are interested in contributing in other ways to the project or being involved.
HOW THE WEBSITE CURRENTLY WORKS
The Discover Special Value website business operates as a social business enterprise (shared value system). It brings together customers, businesses and public sector organisations or groups to gain benefits and to make a difference and give back. The website is developing systems that;
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connect private and community sector businesses with customers;
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connect the businesses and their customers with stakeholders;
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add value to business services and products listed on the website;
- provide more benefits to be available from each transaction for customers and stakeholders to make a difference and give back.
Businesses: value adding to each product and service
Systems to deliver benefits with each transaction
Businesses and stakeholders can register their business services for free during the campaign period. After registering they can use the systems to add more value to their services and products, or highlight their existing value.
They can then deliver added benefits to their customers or to stakeholders.
For example, businesses can add an extra service or item, add more quality to services, include savings, customise their services, add free services, include a donation to a charity, or add other benefits for either customers or stakeholders. Find out more here
Customers can gain with each transaction
Customers can also gain more benefits this way or pass on other benefits such as donations to organisations, charities and other stakeholders with their purchases.
Customers: obtaining value added products and services
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
Although much work has already been carried out as you will see from the website, it is only now that it is getting ready with systems to be used, start generating revenue, resources and positive impacts.
It will only be after further development the project will begin delivering its objectives. This is another reason why the campaign Funding Goal needs to be achieved. There is still a long way to go yet!
Crowdfunding is therefore needed for further marketing and website and business development.
(a) Marketing - promoting “doing good”
The website will be developed to promote and highlight the many important contributions made by people, businesses and stakeholders to make a difference and give back to their communities. This will be an important social and collaborative aspect of the website.
When further developed the website will;
- promote the value added services and products and their benefits;
- highlight stakeholder events, causes, programs and achievements;
- feature the people, businesses, employees, stakeholders and others involved in adding value, making a difference and giving back;
- feature new initiatives and innovation that will be beneficial;
- feature areas where more resources are required; and
- feature the potential benefits and positive social and community impacts achieved.
Website will promote 'doing good' contributions
(b) Micropayments system - many more contributions for doing good!
To make more financial resources available to stakeholders it is proposed to develop a payments system that integrates with the existing online services. The payments system will deduct a small amount a business has agreed to deduct from each sale of their listed business services above a minimum amount. The deduction will be in addition to any other extra benefits provided by a business with a transaction.
This will be a transparent, fair and audited process and be managed by a separate (non-commercial) part of the business. It will enable claims for tax deductions to be made for deduction contributions where this option applies.
(c) Business development
With further systems being developed, it will be necessary to develop the social business enterprise structure further, for example, for managing and processing micropayments.
MULTIPLE SOCIAL, COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS IMPACTS AND BENEFITS
There is a strong multiplier effect of each $dollar contributed to social and community needs and other public interest purposes. The website systems and micropayments system both have the potential to generate many positive ongoing long-term impacts (social return on investment).
The small deductions from each micropayment transaction will provide resources for significant social and other impacts well in excess of each small contribution.
Over time with many small payments made this way will make it possible for many positive impacts to be achieved on a reliable sustainable basis. This is because with each completed transaction;
- customers can also provide a small financial payment if they choose;
- registered businesses will provide small payment to stakeholders;
- stakeholders will gain financial or other resources from transactions;
- persons with high needs or disadvantages can gain more support;
- business support stakeholders can gain payments for their services;
- more good and positive measurable impacts can be achieved cumulatively.
More financial and other resources for stakeholders
The combination of the existing systems and proposed systems means there is a lot of scope to provide stakeholders with more resources to make more of a difference and give back. They will have more financial and other benefits to meet important needs and outcomes.
Sustainable systems
These systems will be able to keep generating financial and other resources for stakeholders on a long-term and sustainable basis. This means they will be able to achieve more ongoing positive impacts.
Community benefits from business innovation
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Collaboration for delivering more financial and other resources
Crowdfunding and other contributions are now needed for this project to be effective. It is important for businesses from both sectors to list their business services for customers, employees, stakeholders and volunteers to use. It is important that stakeholders list their services as this is necessary to gain benefits from the website systems.
Free registration and subscription
Businesses and stakeholders participating in this campaign can now include their commercial services or non-commercial services on the website using a free registration process.
The rewards also provide free subscription options as well as outlined further on the website. Other free website tools and resources are available.
Registration of businesses and stakeholders
Businesses and stakeholders need to be registered on the website to use the free promotions the contribution promotional rewards provide.
Free registration to list business services
Help reach the Funding Goal
You can help achieve the project Funding Goal by;
- contributing to the crowdfunding campaign and obtain some great rewards for yourself!
- contributing to the campaign so more systems can be developed to deliver financial and other benefits to stakeholders for their services;
- contributing to the campaign so business supporters or stakeholders can also gain free promotions as well;
- sharing what you have done on social media, email and by word of mouth!
- like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter;
- telling others about this project;
- sending us some feedback;
- tell us who else could be interested in the campaign and where it could be forwarded to;
- use the sharing tools.
So with more contributions to reach the Funding Goal of the project the better!
PROMOTIONS AND REWARDS
Reaching the Funding Goal
The crowdfunding Funding Goal is $4000. This amount will give the campaign an opportunity to meet its goal. As mentioned, it will be used for further marketing and website development and actions referred to in the Funding Goal list. With the further development, it will develop systems for providing long-term resources for persons and communities in need and for business development. In this way it will stimulate local economies and build more community capability and more resilience.
Not reaching the Funding Goal
This Funding Goal is an amount needed for the development actions listed here. If the goal is not met, then the funding received will be applied to the actions as they are listed. Importantly, if the goal is not met more crowdfunding administration costs will be deducted and this will affect the amount available by reducing it further (ie; 9% of funds will be deducted instead of 4%).
Also, if the goal is not reached it is likely to mean there is less participation occurring than is needed for the systems to be developed to provide the additional resources.
Exceeding the Funding Goal
If the contributions meet the Funding Goal, then other contributions can still be made because other development work is still required. These further actions or ‘stretch goals’ will then be undertaken (ie; actions listed in Stage 2). This will be great because with more crowdfunding and more actions undertaken will mean more positive impacts, and more return for stakeholders and their communities.
More rewards and more free promotions
If the Funding Goal is exceeded there will be more rewards and therefore more free promotions available.
TYPES OF REWARDS AND FURTHER REWARDS INFORMATION
All individual supporters, business supporters, and stakeholders can obtain rewards for contributing to the crowdfunding project. The contribution promotional rewards also provide free promotional opportunities to promote people, businesses, stakeholders, programs and activities that make a positive difference.
Rewards
The two types of rewards are;
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contribution reward: for contributions of $10.00 or $20.00; and
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contribution promotional reward: for contributions of $40.00 or over to the campaign. Each contribution promotional reward has different promotions available.
Rewards can be used to promote volunteer contributions
Further information
The website has more information about the rewards available and the free promotions they provide and how they can be used. There is also, information about display promotion periods; how promotions are featured; campaigns; upgrading contribution rewards; gaining more promotions from rewards; transferring and sharing promotions; and gaining other value from the rewards.
Rewards can be used to promote causes and programs
For example: Tasmanian devil program
REWARDS LIST
List of rewards
The rewards list has information about each reward and how they can be used and how to forward promotional information for inclusion.
How individual supporters can use contribution promotional rewards
If you are an individual supporter you can use your contribution promotional reward to promote;
- a stakeholder or their supporters;
- a business that is a stakeholder supporter;
- a business or organisation that adds value to their products and services;
- something else that makes a difference and gives back to communities. See some promotional examples here.
How registered businesses can use contribution promotional rewards
If you are a registered business your business can use its contribution promotional reward to promote;
- the support it provides to stakeholders or their supporters;
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value added by the business to its products or services;
- something else that makes a difference and gives back to communities. See some promotional examples here.
Note: promotional rewards are not for general business advertising or marketing.
How registered stakeholders can use contribution promotional rewards
If you are a stakeholder you can use your contribution promotional reward to promote;
- your causes, programs, employees or volunteers;
- people and businesses supporting your organisation;
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value added by your organisation or by a business to its products or services;
- something else that makes a difference and gives back to communities. See some promotional examples here.
Rewards can be used to acknowledge stakeholder services
FURTHER COLLABORATION AND INVOLVEMENT
More participation, involvement and resources
Both this crowdfunding project and long-term development of the website have similar needs for more participation, involvement and resources.
As this project is now moving to other development stages further involvement and resources are needed.
Therefore, please contact us if you are interested in contributing in other ways to the project. Further information is set out here.
MEETING THE FUNDING GOAL
Contributions can continue after the goal is reached so other actions can be undertaken as well.
This is an opportunity for you, your business or organisation to make a difference and be acknowledged for giving back. Therefore, please provide your support and your enthusiasm to help reach the Funding Goal by;
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contributing to the crowdfunding campaign and obtain some great rewards for yourself!
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contributing to the campaign so more systems can be developed to deliver benefits to stakeholders for their services;
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contributing to the campaign so business supporters or stakeholders can also gain free promotions as well;
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sharing what you have done on social media, email and by word of mouth!
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like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter;
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telling others about this project;
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sending us some feedback;
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tell us who else could be interested in the campaign and where it could be forwarded to;
- using the sharing tools.
Inquiries and further information
If you have any questions about contributing to the project, providing project assistance or about the rewards please contact us.
www.discoverspecialvalue.com.au