Anyone seeking funding – whether they're students, businesses, schools, nonprofits or neighbors – now has a platform to ask for help from the Northern Colorado community through a newly established website.

"We have invented a platform that has shape, but is limitless. It is adaptable to the user's needs and offers the education and tools necessary to fund anything that is a good idea," said co-founder McCabe Callahan, who's also the owner of both local Mugs coffee shops in Fort Collins.

The name of this "platform?" CommunityFunded.com.

Callahan discussed his hopes for the site in a recent interview with the Collegian.

Question: How would you sum up CommunityFunded.com in a few sentences?

Answer: CommunityFunded.com is a website designed to help people and organizations with projects find the ideas, funding and resources they need to be successful. Our platform connects the community and all of its resources to people with ideas.

Q: How will you judge its success?
A: Well, I would say for me personally, successfully funded projects that have positive impacts on communities would make me feel Community Funded is a success.

Q: Do you see this reaching