Crowdcycle is where
businesses and individuals
come together to support worthy causes.
Crowdcycle allows businesses and individuals
to create a perpetual cycle of giving that benefits them both,
as well as the worthy causes they support.
Worthy Causes
Create Profile
A worthy cause is any activity that is of benefit to your community, to businesses or individuals in your community.
Businesses Pledge
To Worthy Causes
Business owners review the profiles of worthy causes, and choose which one(s) they want to pledge to. This pledge is not in cash, but in 'pledge points', an in-kind contribution from their business.
Individuals Buy
'Pledge Points'
Individuals review the profiles of worthy causes and choose which one(s) to contribute to. Their money goes to the worthy cause, and they receive an equal amount of 'pledge points' in return.
Individuals Spend Them
At Local Businesses
Individuals can spend "Pledge Points" at any participating local business that has made a pledge.
Everyone Benefits!
-Worthy causes get supported.
-Businesses bring in business.
-Individuals give for free*.
*Their contribution is free because they receive an equal number of 'pledge points' in return for their cash contribution, to spend at businesses the would like to shop at.
Read Our Light Paper
Crowdcycle: Funding Good Causes
through Quantified In-Kind Contributions
by Stephen DeMeulenaere
& Prof. Dr. Jem Bendell
In this brief document we outline the Crowdcycle methodology which we use for licensing under a Credit Commons license.
See the Deck Read the Light PaperThe Crowdcycle concept is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ which allows for innovation but not commercialization, by allowing for derivatives of this concept that you may share with others and require you to attribute and/or link to this Crowdcycle website and Light Paper as the source of this concept.