TCD students launch Crowdfunding Campaigns!

The TCD Fundraising Class has been hard at work preparing their crowdfunding campaigns… and they are now LIVE! Join them as they carry out some fantastic research or work with partner institutions to advance their conservation and development goals.

9 graduate students in the TCD launched their GoFundMe campaigns to support their summer research or professional activities. These campaigns are part of a “learn-by-doing” professional skills course that contributes to achieving a graduate certificate in Tropical Conservation and Development at the University of Florida. Students will be conducting research on whale-boating conflicts in Mexico, community-based and ecotourism in the Amazon, Andean-Amazon indigenous peoples exchange in Peru, bringing Kenyan chorale group to University of Florida for a special event in 2020, butterfly research and capacity building in Madagascar, monitoring forest climates from ground to canopy treetops in Madagascar, home gardens and Cuban culture, building schools in Guatemala, and labeling carbon footprint on products that we buy.

Check out the crowdfunding campaigns:

• Emily Khazan: Discovering and Monitoring Butterflies in Madagascar
• Fernando Noriega: Boating, local communities, and whale conservation in México
• Andia Akifuma: Kenya’s ‘Almasi Choral’ empowers girls through music
• Pabasara Bandara: Food packaging provides nutritional data. Should it also tell us our food’s carbon footprint?
• Igor Vianna Sousa: Support Communities in the Amazon through Tourism
• Vanessa Luna: Indigenous empowerment for Amazonian youth
• Andrew Gallup: Turning trash into schools in Guatemala with the non-profit Long Way Home
• David Klinges: Building and deploying sensors to study climate change in Madagascar’s forests
• Marcos Ramos: The cultural importance of ‘Home Gardens’ in Cuba

Please support our students – give if you can, share with friends and family, and check back often for updates!

Source: http://brunalab.org/las6291/2020/02/25/crowdfunding-2020/