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Check out: http://civichall.org/civicist/paying-your-own-way/ PAYING YOUR OWN WAY (OR NOT) It’s important to be able to talk honestly about not achieving self-funding because it will stop impactful-but-not-profitable ideas being distorted into impactless-but-possibly-profitable ideas. By: Tom Steinberg Apr 8, 2016 It’s time to be honest about civic tech projects that can pay their own way, and those that can’t. Some civic tech projects are crafted with sustainable income streams lovingly engineered into their DNA. I used to go slightly green with envy when I thought of the sheer elegance of the Change.org business model—charging NGOs to send email to petitioners who are known (thanks to signing a petition) to be highly likely to support those NGOs’ causes. It was obviously a great service, and a great business, and the whole thing grew like a balloon. And their CEO was charismatic and good looking, too. It just wasn’t Fair. Read on: http://civichall.org/civicist/paying-your-own-way/ Discuss: https://www.facebook.com/groups/opengovgroup/permalink/1757189521179303/ P.S. Join Tom's e-newsletter: http://eepurl.com/bvqAT5 Steven Clift - Executive Director, E-Democracy.org cl...@e-democracy.org - +1 612 234 7072 @democracy - http://linkedin.com/in/netclift http://1radionews.com - My radio app -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
