Crowd Funded fun

I sat down having no clue on what I was going to write. I haven’t really had anything major happen lately and I have talked about most of the things that have been on my mind. I just didn’t know what I was going write about. So I looked for some inspiration, I got on the internet and was listening to a podcast on photography and it lead me to this site.
The site is set up so you can put a project on there and you can have it crowd funded. I know that it seem kind of like a weird way of doing it but I see the real genius in it. It is kind of like buying stock in someone’s idea. If I have a great idea why can’t I use someone who has the money to fund it to get my project off the ground or pay for it fully?
I started thinking about what I would want to do for a project. I have always known that I want to give back with my photography but I just haven’t had a real clear way for that. I have had one idea that I came up with after watching an episode of “Extreme home makeover”. I want to go into a children’s hospital with about 2 or 3 other photographers, hair and makeup teams, retouchers, and a slew of equipment.
The premise of this project is that unfortunately there are some of the children that are in there that will never get the chance to leave. I want to be able to give those families something to keep forever; I want to give them a professional family portrait. But I don’t want to give them just a family portrait but give them the “Glamour Shot” treatment and give them the experience of being a star for a little while.
I know that I have had this idea for a while but I am not the first. There is a worldwide movement called Help-Portrait. It is a little bit different but it is giving back with photography. My goal now it to see if I can merge my idea into theirs and use their marketing capability to springboard this into motion. If they will have none of it then I might see if I can crowd fund my project.
We will see how well this goes in the next few weeks as I send out some emails. Wish me luck!