Crowdfunding for research and the SciFund Challenge.
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Do you want to know about alternatives for raising money for research? What about Crowdfunding? This Science on Google+ Hangout will discuss crowdfunding for research and features the SciFund Challenge coordinators Jarrett Byrnes and Anthony Salvagno as well as SciFund 3 participant, Alisa Woods.
Unfortunately the gap between science and society is massive and only growing larger. The SciFund Challenge exists to do something about this problem, by helping to close this gap in three distinct ways.
1. Training and encouraging researchers in their science outreach activities.
2. Helping connect the public directly to science and scientists.
3. Running science crowdfunding drives to help fund research and has just initiated SciFund 4: http://scifundchallenge.org/.
SciFund 3 participant Alisa Woods raised 6K+ to buy analytical software for mass spectrometry and is Crowdfunding again, to support her research on autism protein biomarkers. She will discuss tips for successful Crowdfunding, including setting realistic goals and developing your audience.
Her project is available here and as one of the incentives, she's offering consulting and coaching for Science Crowdfunding: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/367...
Join host Scott Lewis and learn about Science Crowdfunding and Science Outreach!