Matched crowdfunding 2024
My Town Without Television book project has been selected for a matched fundraising opportunity, courtesy of the 2024 ACF Boost grant program. I’m one of just two ACT artists selected for the ACF Boost 2024 fund-matching opportunity (of a total of just 86 projects from around Australia).
2024 matched crowdfunding video
As the video above explains, I have been selected for the rare opportunity to host a government-backed matched crowdfunding project. This means that any donations made to my new campaign page will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the Australian government’s arts ministry.
Importantly, Creative Australia will match contributions that are made from people from all over the world, irrespective of nationality. In addition, this is a tax-deductible donation for Australians, who will be issued a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) receipt to claim as a tax deduction on their ATO income tax return.
This is actually the third time that I’ve run a matched crowdfunding campaign, as shown through my grants and fundraising history page. When I ran my past two matched crowdfunding campaigns in 2016 and 2018, I found the government fund-matching aspect was an important motivator that encouraged people to donate to my campaign.
A very big project: my debut graphic novel
As the video at the top of the page highlights, I am funding my debut graphic novel The Town Without Television. As you can imagine, creating a graphic novel is a very time-consuming process. I’ve got a lot of drawing ahead of me, with at least two years more work to go before The Town Without Television is ready to be published. But I am still very motivated by this project, and think it will be a satisfying and thought-provoking book when published. I bet you’re looking forward to reading it too.
Can you donate to my campaign?
Would you consider donating to my crowdfunding page to help this next phase of The Town Without Television’s creation? If so, please donate through my new crowdfunding page, and enjoy the satisfaction of having your donation doubled by the Australian government.
Comments
Robyn Pender
Stuart, you are amazingly talented, and I’m just thrilled to hear you will be working to complete this wonderful series. I think about the first two volumes a lot when considering the malign impact television has had on our societies. This year, for work I have flown long distances twice - something I do as little as possible, despite loving being up in the air. Flying out of Sarasota on an exquisitely beautiful afternoon, I was the ONLY person looking out of the window rather than the screens. And that includes the children, to my horror. Indeed, I got dirty looks from the people around me for insisting on keeping my blinds up. By contrast, flying out of Tallinn, everybody who could was glued to the window; and those with aisle seats seemed to be reading real books rather than looking at their phones… Just as we increasingly need to work together, we are being pulled apart from each other and from nature by screens and headphones. As an Australian living in Europe, I worry about the setting up of the USA as a model there. It’s more of a grim warning. Rant over, and thank you again for all you are doing! Now I’m off to donate to the Crowdfunder…😸