crowdfunding
We are on the cusp of a small donor revolution in politics and civil society. Campaign funding, once the preserve of the state and a handful of wealthy individuals, is now increasingly shaped by grassroots payments — ranging from one-off contributions, equivalent to the price of a coffee, all the way through to regular standing orders in support of policy aims or wider social causes. This shift, sparked by the advent of social media and other digital tools, is widening civic engagement in particular causes or politically-driven campaigns and has the added benefit of providing donor groups with...
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When Elmer van Buuren’s start-up crowdfunder raised €500,000 in 15 minutes, he thought his website was broken. To his delight, it wasn’t - and two and a half years later, his donation pot has grown to €4.5 million. All of this money is going towards Elmer’s night train firm, ‘European Sleeper’, which runs overnight rail journeys across the continent. “I had always dreamt of having my own train company,” Elmer says. “This idea had been boiling inside for 25 years.” “And I think the big difference between us and other train companies is that we are community owned.” “We believed in crowdfunding ...
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