"If you're a homeowner's association, you don't have that revenue source to raise money to fix the dam". he added.
While a provision including the ANWR ― as the Arctic reserve is known ― isn't explicit, environmental groups say government revenue from drilling permits in a portion of the refuge is a likely source to raise such money.
A crowd-sourcing campaign to raise money to send the young Afghan stars of an Oscar-nominated live action short to the Oscar ceremony has worked.
Ms. Feiring used Kickstarter, a so-called crowd-sourcing service, to raise $17,000 in financing for her newsletter before its introduction.
In the first half of 2013, three biohackers affiliated with Biocurious as well as with Genome Compiler captured the public imagination by conducting a crowd-sourcing campaign to raise money for developing bioluminescent plants that would glow in the dark.
Starting on Monday, October 22, Jobrani fans can click on his website and enter a page for the IndieGogo crowd sourcing project to raise money for Jimmy Vestvood: An Amerikan Hero to help bring Vestvood to cinemas across America.
Yet just as refinancing has become more complicated because of the recent credit crunch, so too has it become more difficult for even highly rated public agencies backed by stable sources of revenue to raise money.
Ms. Sexton is part of a team of state officials, business leaders and environmentalists combing through lists of ideas to reduce costs to sawmills or help them find new sources of revenue to raise their chances of getting by and getting through.
With reduced budgets and rising costs, many local councils are turning to alternative sources to try to raise much needed extra money.
Add to that an ultrasecretive company called Blastoff.com, an Idealab! venture that sources say managed to raise $100 million for its business, which has something to do with sending ordinary citizens albeit wealthy ones into space.
