RE: Introducing #steemfunds and @steemfunder
I know the contest is closed, but I thought I would still comment because I always find it helpful to put my dreams out into the world.
For a while now I have wanted to engage youth and adults who struggle with self-harm, or non-suicidal self injury (NSSI). I am not a therapist, but I feel there is a huge gap in services for things like community engagement, support groups, art, messaging, curation, etc. I have some plans that I am slowly working on, but they always have to take the back-burner because I have a full time job. My dream is to be able to have the funds to sustain that initiative and either quit, or go down to part-time. In the short term, that looks like building up both SP and my following.
Being realistic, at current Steem-to-USD valuation, I would probably need around 10k SP--delegations included--to make some movement. At 300 SP, I'm quite a ways off from that. Haha.
Thank you for commenting even after the shares had been given out. This is an example of what I'm envisioning. There's so much capital on this platform. I believe that your dreams and all of ours are within reach.
I think it will take some out of the box thinking and intentional community building. In a way, I have time to facilitate that. I don't have a full-time job besides raising and unschooling my kids.