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Crowdfunding and Gravitational Waves

More than ever, companies, causes, even the neighborhood corner, are benefitting from the charity of others through crowdfunding. That's the concept where a lot of people chip in to provide money for a startup, a community improvement, maybe a medical bill or cash to cover lost wages. The Internet is making it easier. On the Sound of Ideas, the ways crowdfunding in Northeast Ohio is helping fund the needy and the necessary.

\​ -Jon Fawcett, Kickstarter user

- Beth Philley, GoFundMe user

-Evelyn Burnett, Board Member, IOBY

-Walter Wright, Founder, Cleveland Colectivo

-Dr. Evalyn Gates, Astrophysicist and Executive Director and CEO, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Rachel is the supervising producer for Ideastream Public Media’s morning public affairs show, the “Sound of Ideas.”