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Brian Kent
04-05-2014, 2:04 PM
My sister just posted on "kickstarter" for a research project. She needed $7,000 to digitize 20 years of tapes for her research. Because of all of the teaching she has done over those years, she has many people who love and appreciate her and her work. She got the $7,000 in under 24 hours. I am not linking because this is not the place to do that.

But I wondered - has anyone else used crown funding for a project?

Brian Kent
04-06-2014, 5:12 PM
After 48 hours she reached her second tier of funding - $10,000.

Jim Matthews
04-06-2014, 7:40 PM
We have a local Jazz Pianist who turns out to be a gifted arranger and composer in his own right.

He has used GoFundMe to employ local musicians to cut three albums in a little over a year.
I dig the premise of these sites; it makes generosity easy.

He doesn't profit from these, any proceeds have been designated to local non-profits like music in schools.

I even got new music out of the bargain, what's not to like about that?