Using Crowdfunding to Build Community and Mutual Sustainable Development in Africa! Please join me at: http://www.gofundme.com/Ecology--Culture Field Trip! 2013 Follow-up Ecological Agricultural and Cultural Visit to Ghana As we look out into the world today, it becomes crystal clear that in order to survive, we must, and can become a part of more than one community. It is a global world. We have entered the Age of Community, as we take on the many challenges of building communities, as strong as corporations. Crowdfunding is a collective financial approach which allows individuals, groups, etc., to pool their financial resources together to support projects. Today as individuals we continue to need community and support. This need is innate. Not only do we need support, but we need to initiate and create our reality collectively, if we are to feel that we are alive, and that we exist. Crowdfunding gained popularity around 2008 in the midst of a global financia