crowdfunding
Greece
Activist Whose Bicycle Was Stolen In Thessaloniki Raises Money to Replace it
A Dutch activist whose bicycle was stolen in Thessaloniki on March 26 announced recently that he has managed to raise enough money to replace it, along with all the equipment he needs.
Jitse Bouma is raising money for children with...
Hollywood
Meet The Greek American Who Is Indiegogo’s Muse
John T Trigonis, Creative Campaign Strategist, Indiegogo
John T Trigonis became a crowd funding guru early on in the first mass iterations of platforms like Kickstarter or in Trigonis’ case Indiegogo. Trigonis career with the company began when Trigonis ran...
Greece
Varoufakis Helps WikiLeaks Raise 100,000 Euros
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has found another cause to devote himself. He has become a WikiLeaks supporter, helping the international, non-profit, journalistic organization to crowd-source 100,000 euros.
The organization plans to use this amount in order to uncover the...
Greece
Campaign for First Crowdfunded Hotel in Greece
A Greek woman has started the first crowdfunding campaign for a hotel in northern Greece. The campaign is organized through IndieGoGo and aims to raise 1,000,000 dollars in order to help set up a hotel in Greece.
The campaign is in the...
Greece
Residents in Neapoli, Greece Set Up IndieGoGo Campaign After Fire
Laconia in southern Peloponnese, suffered significant damage from the 79 fires that broke out on Friday in Greece. According to reports, more than 40 houses were damaged in the city of Neapoli while around 10,000 olive trees were burned.
Villages in the...
Economy
Indiegogo Greek Bailout Fund Failed, British Businessman Relaunches the Campaign
People from across the world managed to raise the striking amount of 1,930,000 euros in the one week crowdfunding campaign organized by British businessman Thom Feeney. However, the make-it-orbreak-it campaign aimed to raise 1.6 billion euros failed.
The 29-year old...
Business
CampusBus Project Raising Funds to Run Third Series in Greece
CampusBus, the entrepreneurship project run by The Cube Athens, Greece's most successful co-working space and business incubator is running a new crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to run a new series of free training workshops throughout Greece.
The project, launched...
Greece
Greek Documentary Mana Seeks Crowdfunding
Awarded Greek-American director and founder of Exile Films, Valerie Kontakos, has turned to crowdfunding to complete her new documentary of a Greek orphanage different from others. To complete the last months' shootings and be able to promote the documentary...
Hollywood
Greek-American Filmmaker Raised $20,000 for Production of ‘The Foreigner’
Alethea Avramis is a first-generation Greek-American from southern California (her father hails from Koroni, Peloponessos) who grew up traveling to Greece throughout her childhood. Like many Greeks, Alethea strives to use her talents and aspirations as a means to...