But the project hit its goal in seven days; it currently has close to $60,000 pledged through the site.
The NFC ring is fast approaching its Kickstarter funding goal of £30,000 — with close to 1,100 backers pledging almost £29,500 so far with 27 days left on the campaign.
Her own advisers say her best hope of getting superdelegates to vote against pledged delegates is if, after the final primaries on June 3, she is close to Mr. Obama in pledged delegates and ahead in the popular vote.
Prosper has several large institutional investors including one who has invested close to $30 million and pledged another $120 million in coming years.
Close to $650,000 was pledged via Kickstarter by almost 5,700 backers — more than 6x more money than the GameStick's creators original goal of $100,000.
UNICEF is profoundly grateful to the donor governments, our National Committees and the World Bank, whose efforts to ease the suffering have generated close to $30 million in pledged and in-pipeline donations over the course of just two months.
Global leaders and individual philanthropists signaled their confidence in the plan by pledging close to three-quarters of the plan's projected US$5.5 billion cost over six years.
President Obama is nowhere close to fulfilling his pledge to win legalization for 11 million immigrants who are languishing in this society without hope of fully joining it.
Swimming across the Hudson River, 65 people -- from 10 to 60 -- raised close to $25,000 in pledges for the Southern New York chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
That sum has since been eclipsed by Pebble, an effort to build an e-paper based watch which has raised close to $7.7m in pledges, smashing its $100,000 goal with more than a fortnight to go before its deadline.
