Crowdfunding sites target civic projects
Call it democracy a la carte: A new breed of civic-minded start-ups wants to let citizens decide directly what improvements they want in their neighborhoods, from new dog parks to park repairs, and...
View ArticleCitizinvestor: Tampa crowdfunding startup funds first project
Tampa-based crowdfunding startup Citizinvestor funded its first project last week and blind students in Boston now have the technology they need in school. Citizinvestor started late this summer on a...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Uses ‘Crowdfunding’ to Complete Civic Projects
City Hall is leveraging an innovative idea to fund community projects and gain citizen involvement. The Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department’s Youth Urban Agriculture Program has a new...
View ArticleCan crowdfunding save city budgets?
There’s a new frontier in this online world of fundraising and it’s within our cities. With shrinking budgets and crumbling infrastructure, some say it’s time to hit the internet to find money to pay...
View ArticleCitizinvestor Finds Small Change Leads To Better Results For Petition Section
Citizinvestor is a crowdfunding platform with a separate section dedicated to ideas and petitions. Project creators can pitch their ideas to the crowd in exchange for “signatures” in the form of a...
View ArticleCentral Falls, Rhode Island Takes To Citizinvestor To Bootstrap Public Works...
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...
View ArticleHow A Rhode Island Town Used Crowdfunding For A Public Works Project
Central Falls, Rhode Island Director of Economic Development Shares Insights For Other Cities Looking To Crowdfund Public Projects In the wake of the financial crisis, budgets at all levels of...
View ArticleWatch: Rodrigo Davies On Why Citizens Back Civic Crowdfunding Projects
Rodrigo Davies writes regularly on the topic of civic crowdfunding at the MIT Center for Civic Media blog, and his most recent post raises an important and interesting question: is crowdfunding...
View ArticleCrowdfunding sites target civic projects
Call it democracy a la carte: A new breed of civic-minded start-ups wants to let citizens decide directly what improvements they want in their neighborhoods, from new dog parks to park repairs, and...
View ArticleCitizinvestor: Tampa crowdfunding startup funds first project
Tampa-based crowdfunding startup Citizinvestor funded its first project last week and blind students in Boston now have the technology they need in school. Citizinvestor started late this summer on a...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Uses ‘Crowdfunding’ to Complete Civic Projects
City Hall is leveraging an innovative idea to fund community projects and gain citizen involvement. The Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Department’s Youth Urban Agriculture Program has a new...
View ArticleCan crowdfunding save city budgets?
There’s a new frontier in this online world of fundraising and it’s within our cities. With shrinking budgets and crumbling infrastructure, some say it’s time to hit the internet to find money to pay...
View ArticleCitizinvestor Finds Small Change Leads To Better Results For Petition Section
Citizinvestor is a crowdfunding platform with a separate section dedicated to ideas and petitions. Project creators can pitch their ideas to the crowd in exchange for “signatures” in the form of a...
View ArticleCentral Falls, Rhode Island Takes To Citizinvestor To Bootstrap Public Works...
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...
View ArticleHow A Rhode Island Town Used Crowdfunding For A Public Works Project
Central Falls, Rhode Island Director of Economic Development Shares Insights For Other Cities Looking To Crowdfund Public Projects In the wake of the financial crisis, budgets at all levels of...
View ArticleWatch: Rodrigo Davies On Why Citizens Back Civic Crowdfunding Projects
Rodrigo Davies writes regularly on the topic of civic crowdfunding at the MIT Center for Civic Media blog, and his most recent post raises an important and interesting question: is crowdfunding...
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