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<center><h6>I'll like to start off by stating a quote from Kathy Calvin which says "Fundraising is not just about making a donation, it's also about making a difference". - Kathy Calvin.</h6></center>

The art of fundraising is not a medium where individuals or group of persons use to extract funds from the public, rather it's a means used by agencies to promote the target and relevant information of a specific project. Moreover, the failure of a fundraising agency to accurately state their objectives and project goals to members of the public will of course add no dime to the project.

If your organization’s goal is a clear and sincere one, then fundraising shouldn't be scary… but necessary to support the goal of the project available. Without the financial assistance needed to carry out your programs and vision, the organization will not succeed.


**THE UTOPIAN COLONY**

The Utopian Colony is known as the world's first decentralized platform that has succeeded in bridging open source projects and contributors from all over the world.  There are no restrictions in the Utopian Colony platform, as individuals are welcome to design, blog, build their personalized projects and also getting involved in community-oriented projects through donation, tips, bounties and open contribution of great innovative ideas all in open source space.

According to the official website of the platform, the Utopian Colony is still in the business of rewarding innovative ideas, knowledge, opinions and also sharing cryptograph or codes. The intention of Utopian Colony is to help support the Steem blockchain in every way they can, by encouraging users to freely share their blog posts, designs, tutorials and other relevant content which will promote the advancement of the Steem blockchain. In order to realize this objective, the platform is allowing a medium upon which contributors will be rewarded for their outstanding inputs.

Open source software is accessible on every smartphone, computer, tablet and website. This software is essential for technological advancement in today's society. It is no more news that the hard work of most independent open source innovators has gone unrewarded overtime. But the Utopian platform was created to change that, by introducing the first wholly inclusive participation platform for open source innovation that allows project owners to create and incentivize contributions from communities.


**THE SUPPORTER BADGES**

The Utopian platform leverages on the STEEM blockchain, which is why the Utopian platform has offered to share Love to the community by rewarding user's participation by distributing the STEEM tokens to active users. Note that, this benefit is wholly for the Steem community users.

However, there is a limited amount of bonus; a small number of 100 available, this bonus will give access to the rewards offered by Utopian and their supporters like SteemPress, Quasar, Steem Monsters, Steemhunt, Actifit and others.

UTOPY is seen as the good-luck (juju) charm of the Utopian platform which represents all Utopian early adopters.


**THE UTOPIAN BADGES**

The Utopian platform has made some badges to be offered to early adopters, these badges will serve as a channel for which users reputation will be displayed on the open source project, the reputation will show how active a user has been on the platform.

According to the platform, We want to offer our Indiegogo supporters campaign restricted badges to display on every user's Utopian profile and this will also show your early support for the Utopian platform. These exclusive badges will be limited in number. Every badge features the unique signature of the designer or programmer on the Steem blockchain.


**In conclusion**

The announcement of the Utopian Colony erupted the entire Steem blockchain, I have no doubt that the Utopian Colony will record a huge success. It is Utopian's intention to have every user's projects featured on their platform. Not just that, but to make the dreams of users come through. The platform also promises users a high level of exposure on their projects, by promoting it on the Utopian's feeds and homepage as soon as it is approved.

Utopian will be launching in Q3 2019, but those with the perks will be opportune to have access to the platform before the public launching date. There are so many bundles user can benefit from, I’ll be talking about it in my next post. It is important to let you know that Steemians are entitled to extra benefits as regards the sales of these bundles.

<center><h6>For more information and resources, visit the links below;</h6></center><center><h6>[1](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/utopian-empowering-open-source-innovation?secret_perk_token=dd8422f3/),[2](https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@utopian-io/utopian-colony-is-now-on-fundition-as-you-requested), [3](https://steemit.com/utopiancolony/@ulqu3/gwjhgtw-don-t-miss-out-on-utopians-seecreet-steemian-bundle), [4](https://steemit.com/utopiancolony/@yohan2on/txyuhzn-back-up-utopian-on-indiegogo-by-purchasing-some-of-its-steem-secret-bundles-17days-left)</h6></center>