The University of Florida should tip their hats to these two fellows, but for now, Joey Sasvari and Cameron MacMillan are the ones doing the praising. The University of Florida Entrepreneurship program helped them make the decision towards starting their business. All it took was one social entrepreneurship class for these guys to come together and create New Charity Era, a low-profit, limited liability corporation (L3C), that strives to reinvent the way people work together towards a social cause. How can they possibly do that? New Charity Era just released an iPhone app that’s called Raise the Village. It is the first of a series of products they plan on releasing. Raise the Village is seriously revolutionary. I can’t get over how unbelievable this idea is and how much potential it has. Joey and Cameron know this and have indescribable passion for it.

What is Raise the Village? Glad you asked. I’m going to let Joey and Cameron do most of the explaining in the video interview, but here is a brief overview. Raise the Village is based on everyone’s favorite, “Farmville”. What makes them different though, is the fact that you’re building a village and for every virtual item you purchase towards your village, an actual good will be donated to a village in Uganda. Uganda, according to the International Monetary Fund and the CIA World Factbook, is the 20th poorest country in the world.

Without further adieu, allow me to introduce you to Joey and Cameron. Here is the video breakdown. Enjoy, and don’t forget to DOWNLOAD Raise the Village and start building your own village!

0:30 – Background
1:25 – What is Raise the Village?
2:37 – Competition and TOMS Shoes
4:10 – How’d they think of the idea?
6:04 – Biggest obstacles faced?
7:34 – Incorporating as an L3C…wait what?! Not a Non Profit?
9:08 – Characteristics of being an entrepreneur

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