Consider Crowdsourcing as an Alternative Fundraising Technique

Then you need the means to capture everyone's thoughts. A number of online solutions have emerged in recent times. Take a look at IdeaStorm; participants can create new ideas and/or vote on existing ones. Similarly, Google Moderator does the same kind of thing and was used to track the 4.7 million votes and ideas cast in one week for the Obama transition plan in 2009. These tools provide some facilities for analysis and ranking of ideas according to their popularity, which is an advantage over using, say, Twitter, where you’d have to read through the responses.