HELP US HELP YOU FUND YOUR BURNING MAN PROJECT

We want to help YOU get your Burning Man project funded, and we also want to make sure everybody's getting a fair shot at the potential donor dollars out there. So if you want to help us help you with your fundraising efforts ...

Create a fundraising project on Kickstarter.com. Be sure you mention in your Kickstarter application that yours is a Burning Man project.

Your project must conform to the Kickstarter guidelines (which happen to mirror our own).

Once you have your Kickstarter page up, send an email containing your project's Widget Embed Code (click "GRAB THE WIDGET" on your Kickstarter page, copy the code there, and paste it in the body of the email) to fundraiser(at)burningman(dot)com.

Any questions about how Kickstarter works (and doesn't work) can be found on their Frequently Asked Questions page.

Top 10 Reasons Why We're Using Kickstarter and You Should Too:

1. Kickstarter provides a quality, media-rich format for your fundraising effort.
2. They handle all the payment stuff.
3. Your donors ONLY pay if you reach your funding goal; thus avoiding funding a project that doesn't have enough money to be completed.
4. You can offer shwag for different funding levels.
5. They only do fundraising for projects, which is what we want to facilitate, too.
6. Their commission is just 5% of your funding, only IF you reach your goal.
7. It's a great, standardized way for Burning Man to aggregate all the fundraising efforts out there.
8. Successful projects usually end up receiving 120% of their funding goals.
9. Lots of Burning Man projects are already using it.
10. It's just good sauce.