After exhausting mainstream therapies, the family of eight-year-old Morgan Allen has turned to crowdfunding to help defray the cost of of brain cancer treatments for their daughter in Mexico as well as travel expenses from their home in Florida....
FITCLUB Foundation Inc., a nonprofit 501(c)(3) that provides after-school physical fitness activities and health education to students in Worcester, Mass., has grown so much that the organization has turned to crowdfunding to continue to expand the p...
To help defray the costs of field studies at one of America's most endangered habitats, the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University sought the assistance of a crowdfunding campaign to raise the $15,000 needed to cover...
Frustrated and concerned about the increasingly shortened wild mushroom foraging season, fans of white truffles got together to start a crowdfunding site to raise awareness about biodiversity and safeguard the natural environment where the prized mus...
Devastated that their dream to compete in the Winter Olympics had seemingly come to a screeching halt back in September, Mica McNeill and Mica Moore, who make up Great Britain’s top female bobsled team, turned to crowdfunding for the finan...
Astronomers are crediting a crowdfunding campaign for helping them rule out alien activity and narrow explanations behind a blinking a star that is larger than the sun and situated more than 1,000 light years from earth,
A crowdfunding campaign hopes to raise enough money to purchase warehouse space for a retired Minnesota teacher who hands out hundreds of thousands of sandwiches, coats, blankets and bus tokens each year to the homeless on the streets of Minneapolis....
Rather than see developers destroy the building, backers have rallied around a crowdfunding campaign to raise more than $1.3 million to save the Chateau de la Mothe-Chandeniers, a 13th-century castle -- complete with turrets, towers and a sizeab...
A team of engineers has taken the mess out of litter boxes by designing a flushable toilet for cats or small dogs -- dubbed Catolet -- that has taken advantage of a crowdfunding campaign to drive capital and gauge interest in the new produc...
All crowdfunding platforms are not created equal. Are you considering raising money for your charity, business, innovation or personal need? How to evaluate which crowdfunding platform will best meet my needs? Have you asked yourself, ...
