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Crowdfunding, Giving Days, and Social Fundraising for Nonprofits
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Social fundraising, peer to peer fundraising -- the use of social and networks to raise money - also curating content on giving days
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Beth Kanter
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The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early 1880s, took up the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor, no matter how small the donation.
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The newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who had purchased a New York City daily, The World, in the early 1880s, took up the cause of the statue’s pedestal. He mounted an energetic fund drive, promising to print the name of each donor, no matter how small the donation. Pulitzer’s audacious plan worked, and millions of people around the country began donating whatever they could. Schoolchildren across America began donated pennies. For instance, a kindergarten class in Iowa sent $1.35 to Pulitzer’s fund drive. Pulitzer and the New York World were finally able to announce, in August 1885, that the final $100,000 for the statue’s pedestal had been raised. Construction work on the stone structure continued, and the next year the Statue of Liberty, which had arrived from France packed in crates, was erected on top. Today the Statue of Liberty is a beloved landmark, and is lovingly cared for by the National Park Service. And the many thousands of visitors who visit Liberty Island each year might never suspect that getting the statue built and assembled in New York was a long slow struggle. 
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