Crowdfunding for Family Caregiver Entrepreneurs

February 26, 2013  |  Hosted by Dr. Gordon Atherley

Craig Asano is the Founder and Executive Director of the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada, https://ncfacanada.org/. Amy MacFarlane is Founder and CEO of Recreational Respite Inc., http://recrespite.com/. They describe their careers, say what experience they have with family caregiving, and explain the work of the organizations they founded and why they founded them. Amy describes family caregiver entrepreneurs and Craig explains crowdfunding. They discuss how crowdfunding can help family caregiver entrepreneurs overcome funding challenges. Craig suggests questions that entrepreneurial family caregivers should ask about crowdfunding, and says what cautions he has for them. Amy identifies questions that crowdfunders should ask entrepreneurial family caregivers, and says what cautions she has for them. They both say what more they want to do and see done to promote entrepreneurialism among family caregivers. They share their messages for entrepreneurial family caregivers.

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