Growfunding
Margarita Marin is an experienced cultural project coordinator with a diverse background in arts management and communication. Currently serving as Youth Labo Coordinator and Project Coach & Communication at Growfunding since August 2018, Margarita has previously held roles such as Project Manager for cultural mediation at La Monnaie / De Munt, where involvement in the intercultural music theatre project Orfeo & Majnun marked a significant achievement. Additional experience includes serving as Communication Assistant at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Senior Project Coordinator at Gobierno de Guadalajara focused on cultural initiatives in high-risk communities, and Project Coordinator for the Public and Private Investment in Rural Property Program with PROCURADURÍA AGRARIA. Educational accomplishments include multiple master's degrees in Cultural Management and Performing Arts from Université libre de Bruxelles and a degree in Communication Sciences from ITESO Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara.
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Growfunding
Growfunding is a reward-based/civic crowdfunding platform based in Brussels. Starting in 2013 as research project at the “social work and community development”-department of the HUBrussel (now Odisee University-College). Growfunding was launched in 2016 as a spin-off and operates as the only non-profit crowdfunding platform in Belgium. Over the past years, more than 41.000 unique growfunders (i.e. someone who donated to at least one project) funded over 500 social impact projects in Belgium for a total amount of over 4.200.000 €. Thanks to the participatory rewards, about 87.000 people were directly involved in bottom-up urban projects. Our social impact methodology focuses on creating and enforcing new forms of urban solidarity and citizenship, with crowd building, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing as social network tools.