Tagged: politics

May 14, 2014 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In less than two weeks of their self-crowdfunding campaign, MayOne has surpassed the $1 million amount raised by thousands of supporters.  Capitalizing on the profound frustration of many with the endemic problems intrinsic to the US political process, the project has easily raised this amount… Read More

April 16, 2014 @ 2:56 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter made headlines recently for what boils down to a disagreement between Kickstarter’s in-house curators and filmmakers producing a documentary about Dr. Kermit Gosnell. For those seeking more details, we broke down the situation in an earlier article. Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has since rebutted… Read More

April 14, 2014 @ 5:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Bills and Brews is a new web series that aims to humanize American politicians by interviewing them in an interesting scenario, that being over a glass of beer from American craft breweries. It’s been widely-publicized that the craft brewing industry is taking off here in… Read More

April 8, 2014 @ 1:45 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Chinese artist and cultural activist Ai Weiwei is at the center of a currently-running Kickstarter campaign seeking funding for an upcoming sci-fi film. Shot in secret, The Sand Storm has already met a goal of $33,000 and seems set to eclipse that by orders of… Read More

March 14, 2014 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched on FundElevator to raise donations to battle the State of New Jersey’s ban on Tesla sales. Money raised will be designated for a lobbying effort to fight against the odd ban.  The  group behind the campaign has labeled themselves… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The separation of church and state is a contentious topic here in the United States, and a crowdfunding campaign launched by a spokesperson for the Satanic Temple seeks to prove a point by crowdfunding a monument to go alongside an existing Ten Commandments monument in… Read More

October 7, 2013 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Back in June of this year, the protests for Turkish Democracy were heating up.  Prime Minister Recep Erdogen had taken a heavy handed, autocratic approach to a small band of protesters who were against a project to change a public park to a shopping development…. Read More

September 18, 2013 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Menlo Park, California based iLobby has released a beta version of its grassroots-lobbying platform. The site describes their application as a  “Political Persuasion Platform”.   Founded in 2012, the site intends on catering to small businesses and trade associations. It offers an open community debate… Read More

July 29, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A documentary about the interplay of private funds and politics is approaching $150,000 in funding, which would double the original goal of $75,000. We first reported on Citizen Koch earlier this month when the campaign had just surpassed the stated goal. Kickstarter has stepped in as a… Read More

June 20, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bryan Parker has launched a campaign on CrowdTilt, appropriately entitled “Tilting Oakland Forward,” to seek funding for his 2014 campaign for Mayor of the city of Oakland. This may be just the beginning of a long, wonderful relationship between crowdfunding platforms and political campaigns. Parker… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 3:11 am By DelwareOnline  |  

The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas – except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year, the… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:40 am By USA Today  |  

ARMONK, N.Y. — The $100,000 Thiel Foundation fellowship James Schuler just won allows young entrepreneurs to drop out of college to pursue their business ideas — except he never got there in the first place. Before graduating from Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y., last year,… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the pages of Campaigns and Elections is a report regarding Rally.org and their initiative to migrate their political fund raising platform and migrate to a crowdfunding venture.  During the 2012 election cycle, the Rally application was utilized by the national campaigns for Mitt… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 4:53 pm By VentureBeat  |  

Martin Luther King Jr.  had a dream that his children would “one day live in a nation where they would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” While we’ve certainly made great strides towards racial and… Read More

December 30, 2012 @ 10:36 am By Salon  |  

Crowdfunding mechanisms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have revolutionized how artists and creative ventures raise money. By enabling users to pitch an idea online and then hype it relentlessly through social media, the average fundraiser can reach far beyond his personal network. Filmmakers, musicians and even technology… Read More

November 6, 2012 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding is really just another moniker for funding projects. Really. In the Internet era of Social klout and a mobile populace, technology is available to leverage social / mobile into funding for whatever the imagination can capture and sell to the virtual masses. Efficiencies have… Read More