BYU-H Students Lead Crowdfunding Campaign for Ghanaian Entrepreneur
Interview with Gabriela Porras, the Project Manager / Student Lead of Pangea Empowerment and Paul Wilson of Brigham Young University-Hawaii.
Gabriela Porras and a team of students at Brigham Young University of Hawaii are raising money to help an entrepreneur in Ghana raise the money she needs to launch a business selling handicrafts via the web to consumers in the developed world.
Crowdfunding page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pangea-empowerment-patience-s-beads/x/17606703#/
What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?
The money raised on this campaign will all be going directly to Patience, a young entrepreneur in Ghana. Patience dreams of growing her small jewelry company but lacks the resources to get her raw materials and get quality pictures. By the end of this campaign she will empowered with not only the funding but the tools to continue her enterprise online. Patience is just one person but by helping her we hope to further empower entrepreneurs in her community.
More about Pangea Empowerment:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pangeaempowerment/?ref=br_rs
All across the world entrepreneurs are diligently working to come up with new ideas, create new products, and build a legacy for the next up and coming generation. In some areas though, issues such as poverty, hunger, crime, war, and violence impede the entrepreneurship dream. These hampered aspirations could do so much more if entrepreneurs had access to the right tools and opportunities. Pangea Empowerment’s purpose is to fuel the creativity and dreams of entrepreneurs everywhere, but particularly in locations where access to funding and specific technology is severely limited. To accomplish this goal, an academic model of research and teaching is being coupled with entrepreneurial principles and application.
Gabriela Porras
Gabriela Porras’s bio:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabyporras/
Gabriela Porras, a senior at BYU-Hawaii and from Colorado, is majoring in Business Management with an emphasis in Marketing. After graduation she plans to pursue a career in public relations and marketing. She is passionate about empowering entrepreneurs to create positive change in their communities. Throughout this project she has lead the team through project management and helped with the research and curriculum development.
What is the purpose of your crowdfunding campaign?
After IndieGoGo and the credit card fees all money is being sent to Patience, the Ghanaian entrepreneur who the crowdfunding project was for. Our first objective of the crowdfunding project was to assist Patience in launching her bead company. Our second objective was to study the struggles of crowdfunding in Africa. We are teaching crowdfunding at an entrepreneurship conference in Congo, Africa December 18-21, 2017 and we wanted to best understand the issues that arise when an African entrepreneur tries to crowdfund.
More about Brigham Young University – Hawaii:
Twitter: @empowerpangea
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pangeaempowerment/
Website: byuh.edu
501(c)3 Nonprofit
Paul Wilson
Paul Wilson’s bio:
Twitter: @paulwilson
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mymarketer
Paul Wilson, the BYU-Hawaii faculty sponsor of Pangea Empowerment, teaches both social entrepreneurship and digital business in the Entrepreneurship Department. For the last 20 years Paul has been a digital technologist, specializing in search, content strategy, and application development. He has managed digital projects for hundreds of small businesses, and has held senior marketing positions for large corporations. Paul recently became full time faculty at BYU – Hawaii and utilizes his industry experience to help the students explore the vast potential of earning a living on the Internet.
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