Updates on the 7 Cups Foundation 10/10/19
The 7 Cups Foundation is our non-profit arm that we have been growing to help solve the global mental health crisis. We have several projects we are working on through our Foundation, which you can explore here. One initiative Glen announced last April is the collaboration with Global Mental Health at Harvard: Empower.
Empower will allow community health workers to get clinical skills and competencies training in mental health topics, bringing more access and support to those living in remote or underdeveloped areas. Watch the video or read Glens original post here for more details.
So how do we do this? Like with all non-profit programming, we need funding to get it started. We have had meetings with several organizations and philanthropists, which are ongoing. Because 7 Cups is a community, we want everyone to know about this amazing project and to be involved in helping the world have access to mental health care. We are excited to launch a crowdfunding campaign in November to raise both funding and awareness about Empower. We realize not everyone may be in a place to donate, but hope most of the community is interested in helping us decide on some of the details and promote the campaign (and if you want to donate that is also great).
The 7 Cups Foundation has partnered with Alex, a filmmaker (who made the Empower video linked above) who will be leading the crowdfunding campaign, they are also a listener! Say hello to @Fancifularrow55 !! You will see Alex posting in this subforum about the campaign and updates on Empower.
Please stay tuned for more info and for ways you can help us make this campaign amazing.
@Jill7Cups
its really exciting thing n i hope that it will bw a sucessful :)
@Jill7Cups
This is great and very exiting. I am proud of being part of 7cups.
Hi everyone! Hope everybody had a good weekend. I also just wanted to explain why we're doing a crowdfunder and I think it could be a good fit for the platform.
Like Jill mentioned above, crowdfunders massively help to raise awareness for a platform which will be great for 7 Cups and help more and more people to see what we're doing and hopefully become part of the platform too. For me, I also think it's a way to make the community feel like they're involved and part of a really big project that can make some tremendous difference in the world.
Since a crowdfunder has to be about a specific thing that is being built - in this case the Empower platform - its much more concrete than the way you might normally donate to something. I know personally as a listener I have really valued being part of 7 Cups and have often felt as though I'd like to take it to the next level since after a really good chat with somebody I have had a sense of - wow, this really works!
So for me that's what the crowdfunder means. I'd be interested to know how you guys think about it too though. Let me know what you think!
