CrowdLobby's 1717 Happy Hour

Please join us at Richmond's brand new 1717 Innovation Center for food and drinks to celebrate CrowdLobby's Kickstarter launch! A short presentation about CrowdLobby will be given. Friends, colleagues, and family are more than welcome - the more the merrier! We look forward to seeing you.

What is CrowdLobby?
The American government is beholden to corporate and special interests. Each year, more and more laws fall prey to the will of corporations over those of the American people. Corporations and special interests maintain their grip on our political system through political contributions and lobbying. Lobbying is an enormously effective tool and studies have shown that for each $1 spent on lobbying, corporations can expect an average return of $220! Who wouldn't want that kind of power? We want to give the American people access to lobbying, by pooling together lots of small contributions into bigger piles of money for issues that We the People care about! Through crowdfunding, we can pool our money and power together and have a lobbyist represent us! Because its time that We the People were properly represented. 

Why the Kickstarter?
Last year, CrowdLobby launched a beta website that catered to state-level issues. We quickly realized that in order to showcase CrowdLobby to the country, we would need a new iteration of the website that caters to federal politics and all 50 states! In order to build it, we realized we would need to raise $50,000. We first turned to private investors, but quickly realized how ironic it would be to fund the People's platform with a few people's money - so now we turn to the Crowd! We hope to use the Kickstarter to raise the funds for the next iteration of our website, while also proving that our concept can build a following. We will use the funds from the Kickstarter to build the next iteration of the website over the summer and plan to release it to the public before this year's Midterm elections!