Turkish Protest Supporters Use Indiegogo to Organize & Crowdfund

Ruth McCambridge

June 5, 2013

June 4, 2013; National Journal

Writing for the National Journal, Brian Fung reports that a campaign to fund a full-page ad in the New York Times explaining the goals and dynamics of recent Turkish protests has quickly reached and exceeded its goal on Indiegogo. Those who game were able to look at the ad proposals and vote for the one they liked best. (See below for the frontrunner.) They are also currently voting about what to do with the excess money.

This is a remarkable example of the essence of successful online community building, including fundraising as only one element of the full dynamic.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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