In response, billions of dollars have been raised for free medication and awareness raising projects.
This, of course, is not what Kickstarter is set up to do, and until recently the company vetted campaigns, looking for rigorous, serious fund-raising projects.
But community projects don't all have to be large-raise projects -- many of the smaller ones are making material and positive impacts.
The newspaper and Gawker declined to buy the video, although Gawker began an online fund-raising project Friday to raise $200,000 for it.
A check of the online auction being held by Fashion for Sandy Relief, a joint fund-raising project by the CFDA and Vogue, indicates that it won't come cheap.
She recalls a cold macaroni casserole of the variety found in most delicatessens, which she sold in 1927 as part of a high school fund raising project.
DUNNING THE REMEMBER PROJECT 10 This 10th anniversary fund-raising project benefits Dancers Responding to AIDS and features more than 400 performers in an all-day event.
New Amsterdam Presents, the feisty alt-classical label and concert-presenting organization that the composers William Brittelle, Judd Greenstein, and Sarah Kirkland Snider started in 2007, is collaborating with the Q2 Music web page on an unusual fund-raising project for the company.
"Somehow when you say to them, 'Will you try a live performance?' they jump at it," said Ms. Goldberg, who provides her artists with outside expertise to help them execute ideas and raises project money from foundations, corporations and individuals.
Vishniac had indeed been sent on a very specific assignment: to document not the fullness of Eastern European Jewish life but its most needy, vulnerable corners for a fund-raising project.
A similar consciousness-raising project can be found in the installations and graphic art of Adriana Corral (b. 1983).
