Well, I looked into Kickstarter and I've been active with Kiva, and there's not much in the way of community currency movements in my area. I went looking for similar ventures and found a few interesting things.
First, there's
Microfundo, which applies the Kickstarter model of microfunding to music specifically. So does
SellaBand.
Spot.us uses a similar approach to fund investigative journalism.
One site I was interested to hear mentioned in the same breath as Kickstarter was
Lotsa Helping Hands, which has to do with organizing communities of support (e.g. for someone recovering from a medical emergency, or for an aging parent). That's not fundraising, but in cases where a significant amount of the cost comes from coordination (hiring someone because that's the most straightforward way to ensure that the work gets done), non-economic coordination can replace economic transactions. The biggest effect of information technology has been the drop in coordination costs, and I'd expect that in 2020, social network technology will be even more effective.
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