Thursday, August 16, 2012

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post

Crowd-funding campaigns gaining popularity with Canadians | News | National Post: TORONTO — A burlesque troupe, a film about female Palestinian race car drivers and a bullied American bus monitor — as diverse as those topics are, they all share a common Canadian thread.

All three projects sparked crowd-funding campaigns, an Internet-based trend thrust into the spotlight recently by a Toronto man’s wildly successful fundraising effort for a Rochester, N.Y., grandmother.

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