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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../part2stratml.xsl"?><StrategicPlan><Name>About CauseVox</Name><Description/><OtherInformation/><StrategicPlanCore><Organization><Name>CauseVox</Name><Acronym>CVX</Acronym><Identifier>_0753d395-4a4b-11e7-b269-5500ff1fc704</Identifier><Description/><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>CauseVox Team</Name><Description>CauseVox's growing team delights in helping good things flourish. As a bootstrapped founder-led company, we're able to move quickly and respond solely to our customer' needs with no outside influence.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Rob Wu</Name><Description>Founder, CEO</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Jeff Chang</Name><Description>Founder, CTO</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Noah Barnett</Name><Description>Marketing</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Candace Cody</Name><Description>Customer Success</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Kat Boogaard</Name><Description>Learning &amp; Education</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Person"><Name>Tina Jepson</Name><Description>Learning &amp; Education</Description></Stakeholder></Organization><Vision><Description>Good things flourish</Description><Identifier>_0753d538-4a4b-11e7-b269-5500ff1fc704</Identifier></Vision><Mission><Description>To raise funds for our volunteer projects</Description><Identifier>_0753d539-4a4b-11e7-b269-5500ff1fc704</Identifier></Mission><Value><Name>Volunteerism</Name><Description>Before we started CauseVox, we found ourselves volunteering at nonprofits to scale their impact. We worked on everything from systems implementations to marketing projects for NGOs in South Africa, Uganda, and India.</Description></Value><Value><Name>Impact</Name><Description>One of the puzzling things that came up was why people, who were making such a profound change in communities, struggled with scaling their social impact. Why did they have to fight in order to make this world a better place for all of us to live?</Description></Value><Value><Name>Fundraising</Name><Description>Back in the States, we dug around for the answer. We talked to hundreds of people -- people that volunteered, people that worked at nonprofits, and founders of nonprofits. We joined an incubator for social good and a community group for social entrepreneurs. We even moved from Washington DC to NYC to be closer to the nonprofits that we knew. We really wanted to figure out why there was a struggle.The one thing we kept on hearing was that raising funds was always a challenge and using technology was always hard; these people were struggling for funding and wrangling with software every day. They always were trying to find new ways to find new donors. Major donors and grants were drying up because of the recession. Galas and events were too costly to organize.That's where CauseVox comes in to fix this broken system.</Description></Value><Value><Name>Usability</Name><Description/></Value><Value><Name>Speed</Name><Description>As a bootstrapped founder-led company, we're able to move quickly and respond solely to our customer' needs with no outside influence.</Description></Value><Value><Name>Customer Needs</Name><Description/></Value><Value><Name>Independence</Name><Description/></Value><Goal><Name>Crowdfunding</Name><Description>Offer a crowdfunding platform for fundraising</Description><Identifier>_0753d53a-4a4b-11e7-b269-5500ff1fc704</Identifier><SequenceIndicator/><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Nonprofits</Name><Description>We wanted to find a way for nonprofits and social good projects to raise funds online that is affordable, easy to use, yet powerful enough for professionals.</Description></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Individuals</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><Stakeholder StakeholderTypeType="Generic_Group"><Name>Fundraising Professionals</Name><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation>After testing the crowdfunding concept on our own volunteer projects -- we built our own crowdfunding platform to raise funds for our volunteer projects -- we launched CauseVox for all nonprofits and individuals to use.</OtherInformation><Objective><Name/><Description/><Identifier>_0753e064-4a4b-11e7-b269-5500ff1fc704</Identifier><SequenceIndicator/><Stakeholder><Name/><Description/></Stakeholder><OtherInformation/></Objective></Goal></StrategicPlanCore><AdministrativeInformation><PublicationDate>2017-06-05</PublicationDate><Source>https://www.causevox.com/about/</Source><Submitter><GivenName>Owen</GivenName><Surname>Ambur</Surname><PhoneNumber/><EmailAddress>Owen.Ambur@verizon.net</EmailAddress></Submitter></AdministrativeInformation></StrategicPlan>
