# Crowdfunding – a Web 2.0 twist on what community fundraisers have always done?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/05/15/crowdfunding-web-20-twist-what-community-fundraisers-have-always-done/
- Published: 2009-05-15T08:29:58+01:00
- Author: Bryan Miller

There was quite a bit of talk of Crowdfunding in some of the sessions at this week’s
IFC Online eConference and that reminded me of an article I was asked to write a
while back for Professional Fundraising (the Monthly trade magazine for the sector
in the UK) specifically about how online fundraisers might learn from commercial
crowdfunding initiatives.

 

It was a timely reminder, because the article has just been published on their website
as well as in this month’s printed edition – so you can read the whole thing for
free.

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[Just click here to access it through my Givinginadigitalworld blog.](http://givinginadigitalworld.org/2009/05/15/crowdfunding-a-web-2-0-twist-on-what-community-fundraisers-have-always-done/)

 

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