GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Meet Catchafire!

Hey Creatives!  Do you have experience with crowdfunding or social media campaign development? Are you interested in using your skills to give back in a meaningful way? Give what you're good at by signing up for a Crowdfunding project through Catchafire! Our organization provides creative professionals like yourselves with opportunities to work on causes you are passionate about. IndieGoGo and Catchafire have partnered up to help these organizations use crowdfunding to fundraise and build capacity. 

Here's how it works!

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Why are Catchafire projects ideal for busy, creative professionals?

  • Customized projects – Catchafire delivers handpicked opportunities tailored to your professional skills and the causes you are passionate about
  • Flexibility – Give your skills manageably. Plan around your busy schedule on a project that requires 3-5 hours a week over 3 months or less
  • Professional development – You'll guide your organization through unfamiliar territory in your area of expertise and Catchafire projects make ideal case studies to build your professional portfolio
  • Networking opportunities – Meet professionals like you who excel at their jobs and are passionate about giving back

The best part? Your efforts will put in motion the Butterfly Effect – the philosophy that small actions can have much larger, reverberating effects for years to come. When you complete a project through Catchafire, you are only giving 3-5 hours of your time per week to an organization, but this contribution will have a massive impact on their ability to achieve their mission. You are not just developing a crowdfunding campaign - you're helping to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS, or develop youth leadership programs, or empower grassroots movements in Africa. In celebration of the Butterfly Effects created every day by their professionals, Catchafire began a Butterfly Effect blog series, featuring 60 organizations over 60 days and the impacts they have had, with the help of their pro bono professionals. Check out how creative professionals in your industry got involved.

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Ready to start finding your own butterfly effect? Check out some Catchafire projects and social good organizations that really need your help!

- by Alex Hsiao

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Kat Popiel
London-born, New York-based Kat Popiel runs Content & Community at Indiegogo. Having traveled to over 35 countries across the globe, she continues to meet and eat with incredible minds. She has produced over 200 events that have mixed the worlds of fashion, music and design targeted towards lifestyle brands such as Diesel and KSwiss. Instrumental in the development of the infamous Deal Real Records in London, she has built a specialty in bridging grassroots culture with global brands for start-ups such as Vladivar, Whyte & Mackay and Creative London. She spearheaded the creative development of DeKalb Market in Brooklyn utilizing shipping containers as retail space for emerging entrepreneurs. A contributor to PSFK.com and countless cultural publications, she recently co-founded On Plate, Still Hungry a new online food magazine geared towards creatives. She also created Something I Ate, a seasonal food+art event series in New York. @mamakitten
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