Tagged: donation

December 2, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s enough to make you sick. A UK man named James Howells was cleaning house and decided to throw away an old hard drive he hadn’t used in years, figuring any files he needed were already transferred to his new laptop. The problem? The hard… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could crowdfunding help to provide a better way to treat certain forms of cancer? This is the amazing question at the core of a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $500,000 in funding to complete a study aimed at providing a treatment for cancer that… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

KMSP-TV When 11-year-old Amelia Sawalich wanted to help her friend Nevaeh (below, pink hat) and her family in their battle against cancer, she turned to crowdfunding platform Piggybackr to raise funds. She set an initial goal of $5,000 and went to work promoting the campaign. 30… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Central Falls, Rhode Island is “the smallest city in the smallest state” in the United States, but it is a densely populated city; it’s comprised of nearly 20,000 residents in an area of about one square mile. Central Falls fell on hard times in the… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 11:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

99designs is a San Francisco-based crowdsourcing web site for graphic and web design work. The site boasts a community of over 250,000 participating designers. Many of these participating designers are based in the Philippines, which was just ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan. Now the team at… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 10:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Snagger Tool is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo, and although project creator and inventor Luke Geleynse has a long way to go if he hopes to hit his goal of $20,000, the tool looks really interesting and useful. Of course, Luke should know; he is… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdvance is a free crowdfunding platform for non-profit companies, and they’ve announce an initiative slated for #GivingTuesday. Giving Tuesday takes place after Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It is a boon for non-profits around the country, and this year Crowdvance is going to try… Read More

November 1, 2013 @ 11:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After enjoying a night out with friends in Philadelphia , Christmas week 2011, I hailed a taxi to go home. That was my last recollection before suffering an savage attack where I was left for dead in a city alley. Many facts are unknown but… Read More

November 1, 2013 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

VentureBeat | The JOBS Act leaves crowdfunding investors unprotected — the SEC is working with a flawed law According to the article, Jenny Kassan of Cutting Edge Capital filed the original petition to the SEC to create a crowdfunding exemption. In this article, she argues that… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 11:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundRazr has provided the following infographic on “US medical crowdfunding at a glance.” The statistics within provide a great overview of the crowdfunding landscape for medical causes in the last could of years, and provides some sense of what to expect from this sector in… Read More

October 25, 2013 @ 11:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Entrepreneur | Successful Crowdfunding Is About More Than Money It is something we say over and over again: crowdfunding is about more than money. Specifically, entrpereneurs and project creators can and should make use of the feedback they get from the crowd to inform their strategies…. Read More

October 11, 2013 @ 9:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Anyone who pays attention to tech news undoubtedly saw a handful of headlines this week detailing turmoil within Twitter around the time of its founding. (For anyone that hasn’t read about this yet, this was my personal favorite synopsis.) In light of this news, Matthew… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 2:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowd It Forward, a platform that is said to specialize in “random acts of crowdfunding,” has launched a crowdfunding campaign for victims of the recent shootings at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, DC. The campaign will be open until December 31st of this year… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Prizeo is a really interesting take on crowdfunding. The platform is a celebrity-focused charitable donation site. It offers backers the chance to support a cause and earn cool rewards from the celebrities they love, and it also encourages celebrities to use their profiles to raise… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 6:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Facebook has a long-standing policy that rewards hackers with a bounty if they can find a bug in Facebook’s system. Bounties can be as little as $500, but there is no maximum. Facebook makes a judgement call based on the severity of the bug and… Read More

July 25, 2013 @ 9:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Balanced was created to increase the global economy through payments. As we built Balanced, it troubled me that we had adopted the closed-off culture common to the financial services industry, where everything was locked up for the sake of “competitive advantage.” That wasn’t the kind of… Read More

May 11, 2013 @ 8:59 am By Korstiaan Zandvliet  |  

Crowdfunding is not only a solution for entrepreneurs who are looking for seed capital, but also for investors who want to control their portfolio and get some Return on Investment. With the prospect of equity-crowdfunding in the U.S. and the blooming equity crowdfunding market in… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:22 pm By PandoDaily  |  

A few years back, the recession enabled a new kind of capitalism-activism called “cash mobs.” Local consumers would, all at once, mob a business and spend money to show their support for the recession-struck gas station, or clothing store, or deli. But before the existence… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:04 am By LA Times  |  

Even as Zach Braff was taking heat for asking the public to help finance his next movie, the actor and director was contributing to another Kickstarter campaign — to help save a historic theater in Northern California. Braff was among nearly 500 donors who helped raise $65,753… Read More