Nifty Neighbor – Place to Care
Started 24.05.2014
Ended 27.09.2014
Nifty Neighbour is a virtual map, where we can meet each other locally. It releases unused resources for common good. Contemporary neighbourhood is again a little bit like the old time village. A place where nobody is left alone and help is always near.
In Nifty Neighbor you can meet people near you – people you would not otherwise know. You can ask help for taking your dog out, find friends for your children, borrow tools, offer fishing company, help your neighbor, and find someone to appreciate receiving the leftover of their family dinner.
How does it work?
Nifty Neighbor is a map and location based social web service. Social media, but on the map, based on location. In Nifty everyone has their own location, home, on the map. It is close to other homes, and everyone can send messages on the map, and answer to other people’s messages. People can meet each other, with their needs and resources. Communication is positive. People ask and get help, they employ each other, get to meet each other, and create projects together. Neighborhoods become generally nicer places.
Nifty works, safely
In order for the Nifty to work, it needs to be perfect. It needs to be userfriendly for both 8 and 88 year old. It needs to encourage people into random acts of good. It should be beautiful, fun, and safe.
Nifty Neighbor is our joint adventure
When the crowdfunding succeeds and Nifty Neighbor is built and launched, the collective work and adventure will begin. We, the team behind Nifty Neighbor are there with the users every day, following how the service works, developing it to be just as the users like it to be. Together we all make sure that this Nifty media is utilized to enhance wellbeing and to solve problems we all share.
Crowdfunding is a collective accomplishment
Behind Nifty Neighbor stands Yhteismaa, a non-profit association. We are known for, for example, the Siivouspäivä/Cleaning Day recycling carneval, with hundreds of thousands of people having already participated. Our work has grown from volunteer to professional – and accordingly better. We have done many things with no budget. But for building Nifty we need a funding.
When everyone chips in, we can achieve great results fast.
How is the money spent?
Our minimum goal is 20 000. That is enough to build the service: do the programming and graphic design. If we receive more, we can pay ourselves wages. 50 000 will be sufficient for most of the work for one year.
Please fund as soon as possible: we will start building the service as soon as we have the minimum sum. Moreover, every funder will encourage others to join, and the project will be more successful.
Rewards
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email.
- Your name, message and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
Yhteismaa associations support membership. Member’s newsletter, and invitation to an annual event.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email.
- Your name, message and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec 2.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email.
- Your name, message and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec 3.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email.
- Your name, message and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party. avec 5.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email.
- Your name, message and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec.
- Workshop on crowdsourcing by Yhteismaa association for 2.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email. You can use this in all your communications.
- Your name, message, logo/photo and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec 3.
- Workshop on crowdsourcing by Yhteismaa association for 4.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email. You can use this in all your communications.
- Your name, message, logo/photo and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec 9.
- Workshop on crowdsourcing by Yhteismaa association for 10.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email. You can use this in all your communications.
- Your name, message, logo/photo and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
- Invitation to Nifty Neighbor launch party, avec 9.
- Workshop on crowdsourcing by Yhteismaa association for unlimited number of people at your premises or for 25 at Yhteismaa’s location.
- Nifty Neighbor PicBadge sent to you via email. You can use this in all your communications.
- Your name, message, logo/photo and weblink on the Founders page in Nifty Neighbor.
Founders Page:
http://nappinaapurintukijat.tumblr.com/
Help us succeed
Crowdfunding cannot succeed if people don’t find out about the project. Without big capital, the only way there is only one way for them to know: people share the message. It is just as valuable for you to help spread the word than it is for you to be a funder. This is how you can help.
- Tell about this campaign in Facebook. Twitter and other social media that you use. Remember to include the direct link to this campaign page. If you know nice people who might be interested in the project, approach them and invite them along.
- Tell about the campaign to companies or organizations you are involved with; they do have a great opportunity to join people and gain great visibility with very modest costs. Challenge them!
- Distribute Nifty Neighbor campaign flyers. Ask them to be sent to you from pauliina@yhteismaa.fi
Thank you! Whatever it is you do, it helps!
You are all NIFTY!
Best Regards, Tanja Jänicke, Jaakko Blomberg, Marko Tanninen and Pauliina Seppälä
More info: pauliina@yhteismaa.fi / 050 572 7910
Yhteismaa website
For info about rewards in English, or for any other questions, please email pauliina@yhteismaa.fi
Yhteismaa video
