The Event: Bar Philanthropy

This week’s Featured Event is Dream Now‘s Bar Philanthropy.  Don’t miss it – they’re piloting crowdsourced fundraising offline and in the flesh.  2.0 meets real life.  Here’s the premise…

Step One:

Register at the door, pay $30 ($25 event token + $5 donation to the Millennium Network), and receive a $25 token and a token worth 3 hours of your time.

Step Two:

Have a drink and talk to people while you find, create or pitch an idea.

Step Three:

Give tokens to ideas you like and collect tokens from people who like your idea.

Step Four:

At the end of the night, cash out and leave with money and a list of volunteers to support your idea.

Step Five:

Do it.

Sad that I’ll be in Vancouver and won’t be able to see it happen.  I’m excited to learn about the projects that are presented, and who raised how much money.  If its a success, hopefully it’ll be happening in a town near you soon!  Also, wonder what kind of follow up there’ll be to see if the money got spent where it was supposed to (rather than at the Bar Philanthropy after party )