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This Roy Moore Accuser's Home Burned Down. Then Donors Raised $170,000 So She Can Rebuild

By Kate Samuelson

The Cyclist Who Flipped Off Trump's Motorcade Lost Her Job. A GoFundMe for Her Has Raised More than $100,000

By Jamie Ducharme

We Should Not Use Social Security Numbers to Secure Our Data

By The Aspen Institute

How the Kindness of Strangers Is Helping Hurricane Victims Rebuild Their Lives

By Melissa Chan
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How the Kindness of Strangers Became a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry

Charitable crowdfunding is a digital source of hope for those who need it most - and it’s only going to get bigger

By Melissa Chan

Why We Can't Fire Our Way to Better Education

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Why Everybody Is Furious About This Drink Cooler

The product was supposed to ship a year ago but many backers still haven't received theirs

By Victor Luckerson

Here's How Many Kickstarter Projects End Up Failing

Crowdfunding company sheds light on how many backers fail to receive promised rewards

By Victor Luckerson

Campaign to Buy Back ISIS Sex Slaves Hits Funding Milestone

But detractors say paying ransoms to ISIS will only encourage more abductions

By Joanna Plucinska

These Architects Are Fundraising to Build a Real-Life Lord of the Rings City

They just need a couple of billion to do it

By Melissa Locker

The Most Successful Kickstarter Campaigns of All Time

From smartwatches to exploding kittens

By Ben Taylor / FindTheBest

Five Best Ideas of the Day: April 7

1. It’s time to give up the uniquely American institution of the network anchorman. By Frank Rich in New York magazine 2. On Billie Holiday’s 100th birthday, her “spiritual endowment” endures. By Wynton Marsalis in...

By The Aspen Institute

Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 5

1. Could Blockchain — the secure, encrypted network that powers Bitcoin transactions — be used to build a safer alternate Internet? By Scott Rosenberg in Backchannel, on Medium 2. One NGO is crowdfunding the fight...

By The Aspen Institute

Kickstarter Passed Half a Billion Dollars in Pledges in 2014

More than 3.3 million people pledged $529 million total

By Victor Luckerson

Big Idea 2015: Make This the Year You Finally Launch Your Own Startup

Consider being a social entrepreneur

By Don Tapscott

Julian Assange Is Crowdfunding a Life-Size Statue of Himself Because Of Course He Is

The WikiLeaks founder wants to get his face out of the Ecuadorian embassy

By Sam Frizell

Five Best Ideas of the Day: October 28

1. Income inequality isn’t beyond our control. Smart policymaking could increase the efficiency of the U.S. economy AND narrow the income gap. By Jason Furman in the Milken Institute Review 2. A “Paris Club” making...

By The Aspen Institute

This Smart Cooler is Now the Most Successful Kickstarter Project Ever

Ice bucket meets challenge

By Nolan Feeney

Women Out-Raise Men on Crowdfunding Sites

Call it the funding gap instead of the pay gap

By Tessa Berenson

More Than 4 Million People Visited the Potato Salad Kickstarter

Forget Oculus Rift and the Reading Rainbow reboot—a bowl of potato salad was better able to hold the attention of the Internet this summer. Crowdfunding site Kickstarter today revealed a bevy of stats related to...

By Victor Luckerson
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