Tag Archives: Solar Crowdfunding
Solar Crowdfunding: The Next Big Thing
Two of today’s most hottest trends — crowd funding and clean energy — collided into a historic launch as Mosaic opened its solar investment doors to New York and California residents as well as accredited investors from around the country. Mosaic’s mission is one few could argue with: Create abundant clean energy for the people [...]
Everybody Solar: Solar Crowdfunding in California
Youness Scally founded Everybody Solar in 2011. Its mission is to help nonprofits go solar, thereby benefitting not only the environment but also the nonprofit’s budget. By reducing its power bills, a nonprofit can focus resources on its programs instead of on operating costs. And that helps the community the nonprofit serves. Everybody Solar focuses [...]
In Focus: Philanthropic Crowdfunding
The earliest known citation of crowdfunding was made in 2006 and since then it has exploded onto the startup scene as the best way for fledgling ideas, products, creative projects, and causes to attain investment when banks, venture capitalists, and angel investors may otherwise reject them. Crowdfunding affords an individual to pursue an interest, hobby [...]
Solar Mosaic Raises $2.5M
Solar Mosaic has raised $2.5 million in its first round of funding for its crowdfunding website that plans to raise money for community solar projects. The Oakland, CA start-up will allow everyone to invest in community solar projects using crowdfunding – an online peer-to-peer lending system that allows individuals to invest – as little as $100 - in solar projects [...]