Sometimes they gathered donations from their villages and neighborhoods.
The deaths of protesters have become an opportunity to rally support and gather donations.
They've tracked down surviving Nationalist veterans, gathered donations to help with their living costs and searched for abandoned graveyards.
In recent years have come the "bundlers," or wealthy individuals who gather donations from other rich donors.
They held fund-raisers, auctioned art and gathered donations for their quest, which they called "Our Journey Home," and the tribe contributed $55,000.
Reyes, who is one year younger than her brother, set up an online fundraiser to gather donations for his funeral, raising more than $2,500.
He had spent a week tracking down the parents of the accused and had emptied his bank account and gathered donations in the hope of securing their bail.
That evening, in New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gathered donations at the Upper West Side home of Matthew Mallow, a vice chairman of the investment giant BlackRock.
As part of Mr. Zimmerman's online presence now, Mr. O'Mara, working with Shawn Vincent, a digital marketing consultant from Orlando, Fla., has also set up a legal defense fund site to gather donations.
Thousands of tiny fund-raisers to gather donations for Haiti are taking place in bars, schools and stores across the country, collecting small pots of money that are beginning to add up.
We've read about bundlers — people who gather donations from many people to provide candidates with much more than the $2,300 maximum an individual can contribute directly to a campaign.
