How many people did your friend raise money from, and what were the average and median donations? Is Shakespeare/acting their primary ambition/means of income/hobby? Does she have significantly wealthier friends? I guess what I'm wondering is how much of that was people contributing $10 and how much was people contributing $500.
While it probably doesn't hurt to put something up and see if it works, I would tend to doubt that you'd be able to raise (assuming selling stuff got you $1000) $3000-6000 unless Ben's parents got interested. Suppose you reached 200 people with the Indiegogo thing, and half of them have spare disposable income. Say half of those have at least a small inclination towards donating. You'd still need to raise $60-120 from every one of them, which seems quite optimistic.
Additionally, this doesn't seem to be your "primary" ambition. Personally, I'd be far more likely to donate $10-20 to send you to a well-regarded writing workshop than to a kung fu workshop. And if people are more likely to donate to a first Indiegogo request than a second one (e.g. you end up doing it again for a writing workshop), you probably want to make sure that the first one is what you want most.
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While it probably doesn't hurt to put something up and see if it works, I would tend to doubt that you'd be able to raise (assuming selling stuff got you $1000) $3000-6000 unless Ben's parents got interested. Suppose you reached 200 people with the Indiegogo thing, and half of them have spare disposable income. Say half of those have at least a small inclination towards donating. You'd still need to raise $60-120 from every one of them, which seems quite optimistic.
Additionally, this doesn't seem to be your "primary" ambition. Personally, I'd be far more likely to donate $10-20 to send you to a well-regarded writing workshop than to a kung fu workshop. And if people are more likely to donate to a first Indiegogo request than a second one (e.g. you end up doing it again for a writing workshop), you probably want to make sure that the first one is what you want most.