Stuart W. Shulman, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said Change.org was a "good mechanism for generating fund-raising leads" or "negative publicity campaigns".
"What seems to be a fairly sensible way of generating funds can turn out to be something very different.
Meanwhile a newly launched crowdfunding platform, kriticalmass, lets projects court sponsorship and endorsement from major brands and celebrities, in addition to generating funds and sourcing volunteers.
Intensely controversial at the time, it was implemented flawlessly and appeared to achieve its aims of reducing traffic and generating funds for more buses.
Indeed, financial self-reliance is a hallmark of underdevelopment, which condemns firms to the "drudgery of generating funds internally," as Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago put it.
One way to do that is through yield generating funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
Also, the COWSO chairperson reported that the by-law of water charges aims at generating funds for sustainable groundwater governance in the village.
Meanwhile, Bicoastal would often sell its shares of Cimetrix stock, generating funds for Steffen.
He pointed to a significantly lower debt-to-GDP ratio, in turn generating funds otherwise earmarked for debt servicing, but now designated to much needed social services.
Some Democrats criticized the bill for directing spending cuts at federal employees rather than generating funds by increasing taxes on the wealthy or closing tax loopholes.
Professor Sung-Yoon Lee, a specialist on North Korea at Tufts University, Boston, told me that other – presumably more profitable – money-making activities "include money laundering, smuggling and drug dealing – the restaurants are a new and comparatively benign form of generating funds".
