On October 10th, 2011 – the $10,000 in 3 hours system was born…
Fast forward to October 2011. We have been working on making it possible for anyone to raise $10,000 to build a school. And it is launch time. My friend Elton puts a list of 49 friends together. He makes personal 15 second intro videos for each of his friends. We set him up a website called pocketchangeschool.com (still live, check it out). And at 2pm on a Monday, we send out the emails to his friends with the video in it that asks them to give $3.33 a day for 3 months.
By 2pm Tuesday, $10,000 has come in. It worked.
That Wednesday I am driving to the ferry for Vancouver, and it hits me. It is October 12th. Without planning, or even thinking about it, we had launched Elton’s campaign on the exact anniversary of the idea first popping into my head (I have no idea why it came into my head and am just stoked it did). I am speechless.
The reason I was headed to Vancouver was to attend an event. We Day 2011.
As I sat at We Day, WAY at the back row again, I reminisced about the idea that started all this,and my phone rings. It’s Elton. “Hey man, guess where we are at” he says. “What are you talking about, you hit the goal two days ago, $10,000 – what are you talking about” I ask. “Taylor, that video spread man! It is all over facebook. We just hit two schools… $20,000!”. I am speechless again.
Overall, Elton had over 80 people sign up to give $3.33 a day for 3 months, and raised over $25,000.
And that campaign is just the start…
T
So glad you posted an encouraging Win after the Fail
A little disappointed with myself though that I didn’t apply to be one of the ten people in the beta-testing of teninthree.
Just wanted to let you know, if you even remember me with so much going on right now, that I’ve moved to Kenya since our last e-mail exchange. I’m attending a Swedish boarding school in Nairobi until June 2012. I think that makes things easier for building the school next year, for me at least
Best wishes ’til next time
Amazing! Your such an inspiration!