• Why are you launching this campaign?: (This is perhaps the most important aspect, people want to know what your needs are, what is your story; they want to support you and your specific cause or need):

Raising funds to order more samples of our soccer ball to send out to soccer clubs. By providing soccer clubs with physical samples of our soccer balls they will be able to see the quality and also recognize the value of the message.

We just need to raise the funds to order more samples from the factory. By supporting this effort each supporter will:

Receive their own KICK OUT RACISM TM soccer ball, and

Know that they provided the support we need to send out more samples to soccer clubs to achieve our long-term goals.

• What service(s) and/or product(s) are you offering in exchange for support to achieve your goal?: (What makes this uniquely you? What unique services, skills, and/or products can you provide?):

We are offering our KICK OUT RACISM TM soccer balls for $65. Our hope is to get these soccer balls into as many soccer clubs and in front of as many people as possible, literally embedding the positive social messages of the soccer ball in practices, training sessions, and games.

• What are your immediate needs and goals?:

Our immediate goal is to raise enough funds to order samples.

Once samples are provided to soccer clubs our hope is that several clubs will want to conduct a collaborative fundraiser with us and place a wholesale order for our soccer balls for their club.

• What are your more long-term goals?:

Our more long-term goals are to connect with as many soccer clubs as possible to provide wholesale soccer ball orders.

This will allow the positive social message our soccer balls to be highly visible and embedded within training sessions and games.

• In what ways are you taking accountability and initiative to achieve those goals?:

I have continued to work on this project over the years despite personal setbacks of health, moves, and limited income. I have chosen to curb other expenses and activities to help generate time and funds to design, Trademark, and order the first samples, and have chosen not to give up.

• In what ways do you need support?:

Anyone who purchases one or more of our KICK OUT RACISM TM soccer balls will also provide us with the ability to order more samples to send out to soccer clubs.

Anyone willing to share our information and this campaign with soccer clubs and players would also provide tremendous support to our efforts.

• Total needed to raise:

$1,400 minimum to order samples from the factory.

• Income per service or product offered:

$65

• Total combined sales of service or products needed to achieve your long-term goal (total needed to raise divided by the income per service or product):

With 22 soccer balls sold we will be able to purchase more samples.

• If you had to divide the above up into achievable phases, how many campaigns do you think it would take to reach your long-term goal?:

This single campaign will provide samples for us to ship to soccer clubs, which should then allow us to collect wholesale orders from soccer clubs to grow with.

• Let’s start with your most immediate needs and goals, and create a campaign specifically for that. What is your immediate financial need and goal?:

$1,400

• What services and or products are you offering, and at which price?:

Listed above.

• What makes your services and or products uniquely you?:

I created (with the help of an * amazing * designer) the design and gained a Trademark for these soccer balls. They carry the positive social message of KICK OUT RACISM TM, along with incorporating a solid black background, a variety of color panels, and images of each continent, all combined to represent the value and necessity of diversity in our world.

• How many services or products do you need to sell to achieve the goals of this first campaign?:

22

• How soon do you hope to raise the funds for this first campaign?:

Mid July, 2025 so that can provide samples to soccer clubs for the Fall, 2025, season.

• After succeeding in this first campaign, consider what the next achievable phase would be (it might be simply repeating what you did before, and building momentum along with expanding upon your community of Social Network TM members that have already supported you):

This first campaign will achieve all the goals needed, the rest is up to me to connect with soccer clubs and schools, and to continue with these efforts.

• In what ways are you demonstrating…

o Perseverance: It has been several years now and have not given up despite setbacks of health (COVID, pleurisy, pneumonia, separated shoulder, ongoing migraines), and despite the requirements of maintaining both a full-time job and a supplemental part-time job.

o Initiative: I dreamed of, designed (with the help of an * amazing * designer), and gained a Trademark for this soccer ball. I also designed the website and wrote all the verbiage for the website and marketing materials.

o Sensible budgeting: I work a full-time job and several side gigs just to get by right now, with limited personal expenses.

o Responsible lifestyle and decision-making: Same as above.