AverPoint: A Place to Share Ideas Backed By Facts

A project in San Francisco, CA by Shouvik Banerjee
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Use the power of the crowd to share ideas backed by facts. Our beta site focuses on the 2016 Presidential Election.
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Backers: 133
Average Pledge Per Backer: $189

Funded: $25,100 of $25,000
Dates: Sep 1st -> Sep 30th (30 days)
Project By: Shouvik Banerjee
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Latest News

The First Debate!

September 26th - via: kickstarter.com
For those of you attending our debate party, please come to the Chapel by 5:30pm! The event is at capacity, and this will ensure you'll have no trouble getting in.  (Read More)

Graphs!

September 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Check out the first op-ed on AverPoint with graphs! The piece is by Ernie Tedeschi, a former US Treasury economist, who specializes in using macroeconomic data to help inform policymakers and business leaders. His nonpartisan work has been presented... (Read More)

Journalism on Kickstarter

September 20th - via: kickstarter.com
We very deliberately chose Kickstarter to jumpstart AverPoint. The Pew Center finds many media projects have turned to crowd-funding to get started, and explores why.  http://www.journalism.org/2016/01/20/crowdfunded-journalism/  (Read More)

First piece on AverPoint

September 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Dear Backers, Thanks for your support! We're almost at 50% and have 72 backers! We also published our first opinion piece on AverPoint. Former Obama Administration official Ari Ratner proposes a radical solution to end the crisis in Syria.  Please... (Read More)

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