A Penny A Day
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1Subscribe to A Penny A Day and watch your spare change help change the world.
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Team Information:
Chong Ni (T’12), Gloria Ahn (T’12), Yanyun Xiao (T’13), and Adam Vojdany (T’13)
The Idea:
A Penny A Day
The problem is twofold: social entrepreneurs with great ideas need money to get their ideas off the ground, while those with the means to contribute to world-changing innovations don’t know how they can help.
A Penny A Day is a subscription-based micro-giving website, where users will be able to contribute one cent per day towards social entrepreneurship initiatives around the world. What can you do with a penny a day? Well, not much. But what can we do with it? We can fund pioneers with world-changing innovations who lack the resources to make their idea a reality. While your subscription will make only a tiny dent on your wallet ($3.65 a year!!), it will add up to a meaningful aggregate of funds that can make remarkable ideas come true. Now who gets these grants? You decide. By voting online, subscribers have the voice to choose.
Imagine if a million people like you decided to give one penny everyday, that’s $10,000 for a clean-water initiative in Malawi on Monday, $10,000 for computer education on Tuesday, $10,000 towards a fair-trade clothing company in New York in Wednesday…you get the idea. A penny a day funds 365 changes a year.