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The term crowd fund raising has been traditionally associated with generation of funds by non-profit organizations with the main purpose of helping society, especially those in the lower rung of the income group. With changing times, needs and priorities, the concept of crowdfunding is also undergoing a sea change and today it is not just restricted for the purpose of charity to social services. People need money for various occasions and the need for emergency money is not restricted jut to poor and the down trodden people. Even salary earners and office goers are in tight monetary situations sometimes and more often than not, they are on the lookout for a source of fund that is easy to get and with comfortable and easy repayment terms.

Crowdfunding can fit extremely well in this scheme of things and it could be used for funding to people who have special needs. It could be for the purpose of building new businesses or expanding the existing one. It could be for the purpose a medical emergency/crisis in home or a visit to a relatives' place or even for the purpose of birthday or some other party in the house. The purposes are endless. Traditionally sources of crowdfunding was restricted to certain methods such as charitable events, lotteries and other direct modes. With the growth of the internet, today it is within the realms of possibility to generate funds even through the website and this article tries to explore this avenue in a bit more derail. Today, for the first time crowdfunding websites that afford the borrower to seek funds for almost any reason. All that the borrower needs to to is to sign in and become a member of such websites. The moment he or she does it, the person is allotted a unique ID and login password. There are a number of features that are available that makes this source of crowdfunding very interesting and exciting. The user has the advantage and facility to post as many number of projects as he/she wishes. Once the details are available online, donation for such projects can be made online using various payment options like Paypal and other payment gateways. Once a project is posted seeking seeking for funds, further updates and editions are possible, if needed. This can be done online. Another important feature that makes this new form of crowdfunding popular is the fact that it can enable the fund seeker to have a view of fundraising statistical report, graphically represented. It is possible to share the project details on Twitter and Facebook making it easier to have a worldwide viewer-ship.

Several ideas are there that can be utilized by a crowdfunding website to raise money. Consider visiting such websites and get to know how they work. Mention the ways through which a user can communicate with the website and donate money. Fro sure success, it is important to work as a team, if the team lacks enthusiasm, no matter how well-thought-out the website is it becomes difficult to achieve the goal. Carefully planning the process, following the target, assigning responsibilities are some of the steps that will surely ensure  success of crow funding website. Regardless of that the occasion whether it is paying medical bills, eduction fees, wedding expenses, a crowdfunding website should be easily accommodating the demands. People have different needs strategies should be sketched out to meet all the requirements. Here, there are some of the crowdfunding features:


» The website should have friendly enabled URLs

» Unlimited projects permitted to post

» The facility to comment and review on posted projects

» Updates on projects

» Viewing all donations received on projects

» Facility to review entire transactions made on every crowd funding projects

» Full statistical report with the graph on a project page

There are various end users for these crowdfunding projects and many people today use it for travel writing and other purposes. It is also a much sought after source of funds for student scholarships and for even mundane purposes such as emergency medical treatment, or a function in the family etc. To get more information about these sources of crowdfunding the internet is the best place. There are a number of websites which share a lot of articles and postings and which talk more in details about such avenues of online funds generations and project posting.