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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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Embracing Next Generation Philanthropy

NTEN

OPF is preparing to convert their model into a web platform where third parties can start their own 1% circles, which will diversify the geographic reach and problem focus of this model. The crowd funding model uses the web to pool financial support for projects from large groups of individuals. Soup groups are listed here.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. 25 These companies are wedded to a model of platform capitalism and do not advance notions of sharing rides or homes in the absence of hefty profit potential.

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