New backup Bo Scaife is a better option in this sense, though like fellow backup Chase Coffman (a non-contributor through two seasons) Scaife's best asset is his receiving.
His campaign tapped thousands of small contributors through the Internet and then approached them repeatedly for more funding.
Contributors, through a Web site, made donations from a single euro to 40,000 euros ($52,700), with the average about 150 euros ($195).
About 40 percent of Mr. Romney's itemized individual contributors through January gave the maximum $2,500 allowable for the nominating fight, according to a study from the Campaign Finance Institute, the highest proportion of any candidate since 2000.
In Palm Beach, Fla., he walked contributors through a list of the federal agencies he planned to shut down or combine, a level of specificity he had not offered to voters.
"We've recently had two fairly significant scandals in the nonprofit area," said the California attorney general, Bill Lockyer, referring to a fund-raiser who pleaded guilty to defrauding high-profile contributors through Hollywood charity galas and to the collapse of a nonprofit group that used donations intended for other charities to cover its own costs.
I think it will make savings to the welfare bill, because of course if you get people off welfare, that's a huge saving to the taxpayer and they themselves become contributors through the taxes they pay in work so there's a huge benefit in that.
The Huffington Post has done an incredible job engaging its readers to become contributors through comments, blog posts, and social features.
The government reportedly questioned some chat room contributors critical of government officials or policies, or whose postings precipitated criticism, after tracking the contributors through their Internet service provider addresses.
That said, open source communities are generally built from use (i.e. a % of users become contributors), through social or relational networks, exposure from college or a desire to contribute to the greater good.
