Crowdsourcing: Two Considerations, a Cool Suggestion and a Next Step
Crowd-sourcing is a really interesting fundraising strategy made viable because the free, high-volume mass-communication strategies of the Internet Age that turns anonymity into friendliness for a cause. We have two considerations, a suggestion and a next step for those of our beloved community considering crowd-sourced funding: Consideration One: The Source It’s important to retain control ...
Church Gives Away Money to Raise Money
Lead Pastor Scott Stevens noted that the church was doing well financially, after a few years of not being able to meet its needs due to the struggling economy….So on Thanksgiving weekend, he told the congregation that “anything over our plan … we were just going to give away”….The congregation responded. North Way has been ...
How Many Love Thee?: Let Dunbar’s Number Count Your Community
Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. What is Dunbar’s magic number? It’s smaller than you think, in an era when people compete for 1000s of Facebook “friends.” (Are they “friends” if I can have 1000 of them?) Not for mammals, anyway. ...
