Linda Wittbrodt was perusing Michigan Technological University’s website when she stumbled across a faculty project seeking funds to teach senior citizens online skills.
Wittbrodt thought that was cool, so she donated $25 through a new approach the Upper Peninsula university is using: pitching of an idea online and asking people to make a donation, a strategy known as crowdfunding.
Image: Crowdfunding is being used to back Michigan State professor Richard Neubig's scleroderma research. (Dale G. Young / The Detroit News) From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140808/SCHOOLS/308080032#ixzz39pMycA9g
