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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. In 2008, I raised money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

The social enterprise model that connects marketing and financing has shown some success in addressing social problems with revenue not solely generated from donors and the government (Artz, Gramlich, & Porter, 2012). However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds.

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