Chase Adam leads vision at Watsi, a global crowdfunding platform for healthcare that enables anyone to directly fund low-cost, high-impact medical care for people in need. Watsi was launched on a...
Champions of Change: Crowdfunding
The White House honors twelve entrepreneurs who exemplify the promise of crowdfunding to fuel the growth of startups, small businesses, and innovative projects across the nation.
Aurora Anaya-Cerda is the founder of La Casa Azul Bookstore, East Harlem’s only independent bookstore and the only bookstore in New York that features art and writing by Latino writers....
Michele Clark has been the director of the Youth Employment Partnership (YEP)—a high performing job-training organization in Oakland, California, with consistently successful outcomes—for the last...
Max Hodak is the founder of Transcriptic, a scientific infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates a next-generation research platform. Transcriptic was originally funded in part by...
Marcin Jakubowski is a Polish-American who came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his Ph.D. in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin...
Amy Kaherl is the Director of Detroit SOUP. She received her MA in Theology (emphasizing in popular culture) in 2008 from Fuller Theological Seminary. Detroit SOUP is a microgranting dinner that...
Emily Núñez is the CEO and Co-Founder of Sword & Plough, a social enterprise that creates employment opportunities for veterans by repurposing military surplus material into stylish bags and...
Peter Platzer is a high-energy physicist, and co-founder and CEO of NanoSatisfi, a crowdfunded space exploration and education company. NanoSatisfi democratizes access to space exploration, images...
Andrea Seabrook is the host and founder of DecodeDC, a podcast and public radio show that eschews conventional Washington news coverage and instead gives its listeners a fresh, fiercely...
Premal Shah is the President and co-founder of Kiva.org and continues to pioneer the crowdfunding space as a force for social good and a catalyst for revitalizing local economies. His leadership...
Eric Stackpole is co-founder of OpenROV, Inc., and creator of the OpenROV submarine, an open source, low cost "Remotely Operated Vehicle" (or ROV) underwater robot that can be piloted from the...
Noha Waibsnaider is Founder & CEO of Peeled Snacks: organic fruit snacks with no added sugar or preservatives. They are sold in Whole Foods, Hudson News, Starbucks, and Amazon, and have been...