Golden 2016 Rio Olympics for MAKEACHAMP

With the help of crowdfunding through MAKEACHAMP, 91 athletes from 30 different countries had a chance to achieve their dream of going to the Olympic Games. We’d like to thank everyone who worked on MAKEACHAMP and the 2,585 incredible supporters who made this possible. Check out the campaigns of all the athletes here. Some highlights of the games are: ERIKA WIEBE GETTING GOLD: ERICA WIEBE IS GOLDEN! This evening Erica captured the Gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. We were lucky enough to have Erica visit our office as well as raise funds on MAKEACHAMP to support a...

Getting the First Canadian Olympic Fencer to Medal

Maxime Brinck-Croteau plans to stand on the podium in Rio next month as the winner of Canada’s first Olympic medal in fencing. That’s not just his dream: it’s the reason he trained for four years very, very far from home.Born and raised across the river from Ottawa, Max started fencing at age 10. Beginning a sport at a young age is not unheard of for elite athletes. But it’s not every Olympic hopeful who moves to China for several years for the sole purpose of qualifying for the next games. That’s exactly what Max did: five years ago, he quit...

Lynda Kiejko- Shooting for Rio

Lynda Kiejko is a competitive pistol shooter from Calgary, Canada. She is a 2016 Rio Olympian and is proud and excited to be representing Canada this summer. So far her campaign has reached 57% of her $12,000 total campaign goal with 26 days remaining. Lynda has big shoulders on which to climb because she is the third member of her family to become an Olympian. Lynda began her began her crowdfunding campaign so that she could bring together all her supporters across the country. She wanted to give anyone interested an opportunity to join her journey. This is her first...

Marie-Claude Méthot: Comment réussir dans votre campagne de Socio-Financement

Marie-Claude de Montréal, Québec, Canada est une athlète en Taekwando depuis l'âge de cinq ans et qui vient de réussir sa campagne de crowdfunding (socio-financement) sur MAKEACHAMP. Sa campagne est à 236% de son objectif de campagne, un pourcentage record. Elle a amassé $2,362 en un mois et demi. Nous avons interviewé Marie-Claude pour savoir ce qui a bien marché pour la réussite fulgurante de sa campagne. .Pourqoui une campagne de socio-financement? Marie-Claude a fait une campagne de socio-financement parce qu’elle avait tout simplement besoin de financement pour participer à la coupe du monde. Elle devait tous payer elle-même, donc...