Red money, blue money: The making of the 2012 campaign. "More than 80 percent of giving to Super PACs so far has come from just 58 donors, according to the Center for Responsive Politics analysis of the latest data, which covers the first half of 2011." This Salon piece details who the (surprisingly small) number of large donors are, and the SuperPACs they donate to.
posted by jaduncan
on Dec 14, 2011 -
18 comments
Philosophy fundraiser mountain walk-a-thon. Prominent philosophy professor Crispin Wright will walk the length of the
Pennine Way, a 250+ mile mountaintop trail in the UK, to raise funds to support his philosophy students. (The link on the Pennine Way is worth reading.) Along the way he'll stop each day to answer a philosophical question voted on by the people who contribute to the fund.
posted by LobsterMitten
on Jun 25, 2011 -
17 comments
"In April 2010, Ashley Rawlings and I used community fundraising to raise nearly $24,000 to breathe new life into our book,
Art Space Tokyo. My goal [
in this blog post] is to outline what we did and why we did it, with the hope of inspiring anyone with an itch, gumption and a good narrative, to do the same. To bring beautiful, well-considered things into the world."
posted by dobbs
on Aug 8, 2010 -
9 comments
Mefi's own
Jason Scott (
jscott) wants to
raise $25,000 using waxy's
Kickstarter to work full-time on computer history. He made
BBS documentary (
previously), founded
the Archive Team, and owns
textfiles.com (
previously) and, yes,
sockington. So far, 237 people have pledged $20,340. On Nov. 4, Jason did a 5-hours, non-stop
Scottathon. Apparently,
fundraising ain't easy.
[more inside]
posted by Monday, stony Monday
on Nov 8, 2009 -
38 comments
ROSA LOVES is a non-profit t-shirt company. Their limited edition t-shirts are specifically designed to raise money for individuals in need. Each individual's story is told through a unique design on the front and also by actual text that appears on the inverse of the shirt, directly in line with the heart. They have been
featured in GOOD Magazine, and AOL
named them one of the top 12 businesses that could be the next big thing. Recently, they
introduced a t-shirt to "support the reinforcement and perseverance of a home that nurtures the culture of music in New Orleans".
[more inside]
posted by Houyhnhnm
on Mar 28, 2009 -
8 comments
8 Against 8 Last weekend, a ragtag group of 8 lesbian bloggers slapped together an idea - join forces to raise $8,000 in 8 days to defeat Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry in the State of California. They set up a donation page and launched 48 hours later (midnight this past Monday). None of them were expecting the immediate and passionate response. Within 24 hours, they had raised $2,500. In 2 days, over $5,000. Yesterday, before day 3 out of 8 ended, they had already shattered their goal of $8,000.
Blogs and
the media started buzzing with 4 days to go. Moral of the story: it doesn't take months and a huge budget to run a successful fundraiser, just a crazy idea and a few laptops.
posted by notoriousbhc
on Oct 23, 2008 -
44 comments
Fifty Thousand Shirts. Creative guy Steve Paterson has teamed up with a number of other partners (and is still looking for more) to sell 50,000 t-shirts in memory of the more than 50,000 people who died in China's recent 7.9 magnitude earthquake in order to raise $1,000,000.
posted by djspicerack
on May 24, 2008 -
11 comments
AutismTown? Autism is a puzzling and disastrous disorder which has recently spread to affect 1 in 150, according to new government data; now there is a new non-profit "pixel-based" site to organize the community and fund research and services. A bit of a "who's who" in the field...
posted by oberleit
on Feb 17, 2007 -
21 comments
Tom DeLay thinks of the children. The GOP House Leader is attempting to create a charity fund for abused and neglected children. Oh, the fund also pays for "late-night convention parties, a luxury suite during President Bush's speech at Madison Square Garden and yacht cruises" during the 2004 GOP convention. Unlike election funds now restricted by Campaign Finance law, donations to DeLay's semi-charity will be tax-exempt, and of course completely unreported to election officials.
(NYT Link)
posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Nov 14, 2003 -
10 comments
Make That Difference. A portal to many 'free clicks for charity' sites covering various causes, and easy and convenient to browse too.
posted by plep
on Mar 1, 2003 -
6 comments
"I've done my part, now I need you to do yours. I believe that this world is a good place, and if someone needs help, then they should ask for it.
SO I'M ASKING...
Please help me pay my debt. "
Karyn's done her part, people, by racking up $20 000 in credit card debt, buying Prada, and fancy coffee, and designer clothing.
Isn't it time you did yours, by paying that debt off for her?
(link from
Erika, via
3WA.)
posted by kristin
on Jul 9, 2002 -
46 comments
A New Year's Idea: Pay For Some So, slashdot says A Great New Year's Idea is to Pay For Some Freedom, eg.
BSD,
EFF or
MozillaZine to name just a few, but what else can we do?
Metafilter,
OddTodd,
IMDB [Aren't they already owned by Amazon?], lots of good places to spread the holiday cheer.
Seems like there is no
shortage of Folks who
are looking for something.
I like the idea of
Getting Something In Return, not sure if that makes me greedy, or scroogey.
Seems like the web has really given us a new list of worthy causes...
posted by Blake
on Dec 27, 2001 -
5 comments
The Red Cross has a decade-long pattern of using local crises to raise funds, and then to spend those funds on other things. The donors had thought their money would go to help specific victims, and sometimes up to 80% would be diverted to other causes. I think this is wrong.
posted by Steven Den Beste
on Nov 19, 2001 -
39 comments
Fucked Company is raising money for the victims at Edgewater Technology, "our fellow Internet workers [who] went to work and were murdered." Seems a tad insincere, given that his original reaction to the incident was "Booyah." Then again, there's now a menorah in the FC logo. Perhaps Pud has found God.
posted by luke
on Dec 27, 2000 -
23 comments
Why? Story talks about stupid dot-com ideas who are having trouble getting funding. But somehow
this ugly site burns through $50,000/month. How? Why can't someone give
me some of that cash?
posted by owillis
on Oct 9, 2000 -
7 comments
