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Innovative Micro-Crowdfunding Sites

The Tipping Bucket is a Web Platform for Social Change

— May 6, 2013 — Social Good
The Tipping Bucket is an innovative micro-crowdfunding web platform out to prove that even $1 can make an impactful difference. Founded in 2009, the Tipping Bucket hosts important causes championed by talented social entrepreneurs on its site, each of which can be funded for as low as $1.

The Salt Lake City-based social web platform is a unique combination of social media, crowdfunding, social entrepreneurship, and microfinance, enabling consumers to benefit a variety of pressing social solutions they can support that they may not have been likely to hear about otherwise.

The Tipping Bucket is also an alumnus member of Portland State University’s Social Innovation Incubator.

Contact Information
The Tipping Bucket blog
The Tipping Bucket on Facebook
The Tipping Bucket on Twitter
Trend Themes
1. Micro-crowdfunding for Social Change - Platforms like The Tipping Bucket are showing that $1 can make an impactful difference, creating opportunities for disruptive innovation in microfinance, crowdfunding, and social entrepreneurship.
2. Combining Social Media and Crowdfunding - The Tipping Bucket's unique combination of social media and crowdfunding offers disruptive innovation opportunities in marketing, social entrepreneurship, and cause-based fundraising.
3. Supporting Pressing Social Solutions - Micro-crowdfunding platforms like The Tipping Bucket create opportunities for disruptive innovation in supporting grassroots social solutions, with the potential to impact industries across education, healthcare, and environmental sustainability.
Industry Implications
1. Microfinance - Innovative micro-crowdfunding platforms like The Tipping Bucket have the potential to disrupt traditional microfinance operations by offering greater access to funding for social entrepreneurs and individuals in need.
2. Cause-based Fundraising - Platforms like The Tipping Bucket offer disruptive innovation opportunities in cause-based fundraising, presenting new models for marketing and outreach to non-profit organizations across a range of industries.
3. Social Entrepreneurship - The Tipping Bucket's unique combination of social media and crowdfunding creates opportunities for disruptive innovation in the field of social entrepreneurship, presenting new models for launching and scaling impactful social ventures.
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