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 ...
Raising funds to place our first full order from the factory. This will also allow us to build up inventory and stock to then provide online sales without production or shipping delays. KICK OUT RACISM TM soccer balls are designed to raise awareness of important social issues while also providing an effective method to raise funds for youth soccer clubs.
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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?): I am offering our KICK OUT RACISM TM soccer balls for $65. My 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?: My immediate goal is to collect orders for at least 250 soccer balls so that I can bundle in additional orders to build up stock for samples.
What are your more long-term goals?: My long-term goals are to connect with at least 20 soccer clubs and schools across the country and to supply them with wholesale yearly orders of soccer balls as a collaborative fundraiser for their programs.
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?: By simply collecting orders for 250 or more soccer balls I will be able to gain more stock to send as samples to other clubs. Another way I could really use support is connecting with soccer clubs and schools across the country to gain their interest and involvement.
Total needed to raise: $16,250
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): 250 or more
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?: 1
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?: $16,250
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 positive social messages of KICK OUT RACISM TM and "Diversity Makes The World Go 'Round" TM, along with incorporating a solid black background, a variety of color panels, images of each continent, and a rainbow, 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?: 250 or more
How soon do you hope to raise the funds for this first campaign?: 12/13/24
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 Debtwork 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…
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.
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.
Sensible budgeting: I have curbed certain expenses and activities in the effort to save money and time to make this a reality.
Responsible lifestyle and decision-making: Same as above.
