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180 people donating $50 dollars is all it takes to see OurSay Australia ramp up into the social enterprise stratosphere - via Unreasonable Institute! OurSay connects you to the leaders in your community. Raising funds will arm the team with the mentorship, capital, and network to make it happen.

OurSay, a website that connects you to the people in charge, was born in CSL in 2009. Alumni Eyal Halamish, Matthew Gordon and Linh Do have since worked tirelessly between the hours of 5pm and midnight to deliver projects with ABC’s Q&A, the Sunday Age and Crikey. Right now OurSay is planning 'The Citizens Agenda' with University of Melbourne to have political candidates respond to public questions in every marginal electorate before the next Australian federal election. The aim of The Citizens Agenda is to make sure the next election is an election about something!

To kick-off this year, OurSay has been the only Australian project to be short-listed for the Unreasonable Institute, a US-based social enterprise accelerator program seeking the best projects in the world which deliver social good. The program aims to take projects like OurSay and scale them up so they can impact more than a million people. This is OurSay's ticket to grow from a few major cities in Australia to being available all over the world.

To get into the Unreasonable Institute, OurSay needs to prove it has thousands of people who believe in its vision and are willing to vote for the company by donating money. The first 25 finalists to raise $10,000 to fund their place at the Institute, will get in to the program. To make it even more challenging, there is a maximum donation cap each week. In the first week donations were capped at $10. This week you can donate up to $50, next week $100, and so on.

OurSay needs your help to spread the word and to help raise the $10,000 needed to fund our spot. In the first week we received 70+ donations, but now we need heaps more. We need 180 people to donate $50 to make it all the way to Unreasonable Institute.

See the website for more details