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Give OUT Day is breaking new ground as the first nationwide Giving Day for the LGBTQ community. Anyone in the U.S. states and territories can donate online through GiveOutDay.org, powered by...
A movement to create a national day of giving on November 27, 2012–the Tuesday after Thanksgiving–a day people coast-to-coast are calling #GivingTuesday, launched today. This first of its kind...
In launching givingtuesday.fundly.com, Fundly is partnering with #GivingTuesday™ – a national campaign to create a national day of giving on Tuesday, November 27 to mark the start of the annual...
All funds raised through Skype's first-ever "Skype for Peace" crowd-funding campaign will be used to expand the Peace One Day Global Education Resource to more teachers across the...
ZipGive is a division of Zipstripe. Zipstripe is a Canadian mobile marketing solutions company based in Toronto with rapidly expanding reach encompassing North America. Zipstripe has worked...
Over one million people in total contributed to what is regarded as a pioneering experiment in crowd-sourcing: people across the country were asked to give their observations about their day-to-day...
The Daily Norwalk wants to crowdsource a future Norwalk, too, because these days there's just too much stuff to do. Norwalk 2.0 is part of a growing national movement that leverages...
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies — at least, according to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced encyclopedia for which he serves as an advisor. Shirky is also the author of Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive Surplus (2010), two books examining the results, ramifications and potential of aggregated individual action.
Crowdsourcing.org recently spoke with web guru Clay Shirky about the JOBS Act, which President Obama signed into law on April 5. In the transcript — available after the jump — Shirky explains why he “would love to be able to offer essentially wholehearted support of the crowdfunding law,” but has several reservations about the regulatory relief embedded in the bill. (Spoiler: A lot comes down to the SEC’s interpretation of the law, which is ostensibly scheduled to conclude in the first few days of 2013.) Shirky also discusses Kickstarter’s present dominance in the crowdfunding space, the vagaries of pre-JOBS Act law in relation to crowdfunding, and the effect of the JOBS Act on the current startup ecosystem and traditional venture capital.
Here's every word of our second crowdfunding live chat, this one on what's legal and when under the JOBS Act.
In the early days of crowdfunding, it's not yet clear what demographics the fundraising method appeals to, Mallabone said. "The millennials today are quite jaded when they take a look at...
We look at some of the campaigns that have been set up in the wake of the Boston marathon explosions.
Developed by two idealistic Canadians and two open-minded Americans, the Cloud Labor platform CloudFactory, lauched this week in San Francisco, is an ambitious project based in Kathmandu, Nepal, with an objective to bring new opportunities of work to people in developing countries to help fight poverty.
Crowdsourcing.org had the opportunity to interview Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development of CloudFactory while he was in San Francisco for the launch of the platform at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference. We learned that CloudFactory is following a similar model to established providers such as CrowdFlower, Microtask and others. CloudFactory allows businesses to design virtual assembly lines for all types of digital work such as inputting data from handwritten forms, extracting data from images, flagging bad content and categorizing things. However, “The main difference between CloudFactory and its competitors is its free self-serve toolset that allows users to set-up their own workflows” Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development, informed us.
Candella Software, one of the UK's leading developers and publishers of video games for multiple platforms, has turned to crowdfunding with 8-bit Funding, a platform dedicated to supporting...
An interview with Markus Lampinen talking about the origins of GrowVC and how he is contributing to developing what they refer to as an ‘ecosystem for startups’.
On Monday Crowdsourcing.org hosted our fourth crowdfunding live chat and below is the full transcript of the conversation as promised. The discussion included the official announcement of the creation of the Crowdfunding Professional Association. A detailed statement on CfPA also immediately followed the conclusion of the live chat. CfPA will act as a sister organization to CFIRA, and answers to plenty more questions about the new organization can be found in this full transcript:
Opposite Indiegogo is Kickstarter — a crowdfunding website solely dedicated to creative projects. If you want to raise $20,000 to publish a comic book, Kickstarter wants your business....
Homicide Watch D.C. is a community-oriented news site that covers violent crime in the nation’s capital. The site's editor and founder, Laura Amico, documents cases of homicide and then follows them to uncover the circumstances surrounding each death. We talk to Amico about her work and a recently-successful Kickstarter campaign that will power the site for the upcoming year.
Paul Spinrad is the guy who gave the movement for a crowdfunding exemption in the U.S. its first big shove towards becoming law. In this exclusive series on Crowdsourcing.org, he recalls those early days and the efforts that have since begun to blossom in the form of the JOBS Act. In the second half of the series, he also gives us an inside look at the fanatical devotion of some of crowdfunding's true believers.
Called Give OUT Day, the first of its kind crowdsourcing effort on May 9 is enlisting LGBT nonprofits in all 50 states to take part. More than 300 groups, in rural areas and major cities, have...
Just a few weeks after the release of 2013CF, the phones began ringing again with requests from media looking for insight into the crowdfunding landscape and this powerful new force that is changing the nature of our relationships, not just with capital and cash, but with each other.
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