Krasnodar, 18 January – Yug Times. The Yug Times has studied the local experience of crowdfunding — the practice of funding a social project or business venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, usually via Internet, and has learnt where to ask money for personal goals.
Presently there are more than 30 platforms of collective financing in Russia. According to Planeta.ru, the total amount of the crowdfunded money grows by more than 200% every year. The platform users have become more generous: if in 2012 - 2013 the average sum spent to support a project was 500 to 700 rubles, now it has grown to 1,500 rubles.
Although there are no regional crowdfunding platforms, some successful cases from the Kuban region have become known throughout the country. In November 2015, Svetlana Chernikova, a user of one of the social networks, launched the charity action “House for Uncle Misha.” Uncle Misha is a 68-year-old Mikhail Gariyan that came to Kuban from Baku in 1989 but did not have a house of his own and lived at his acquaintances, helping them with household work or taking odd jobs to survive.
Over three months, the activists managed to raise nearly 800,000 rubles. Then they got lawyers to help Uncle Misha restore his documents.
Another case was completed last May. Runet users raised 47,800 rubles for the organization of the premiere of the documentary film The War and Peace of Private Litvin. The film demonstration in Krasnodar became a gift presented to a WWII veteran and his friends on the Victory Day.
Sadly, but regional business crowdfunding projects look much less successful — many of them simply fail to get any money collected at all.
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