Founded in 2010, Mosaic enables crowdfunding of loans for solar development projects.

The bill prohibits the crowdfunding of investment funds.

ReelChanges was the first online site to pioneer crowdfunding of high-quality documentary film projects.

Crowdfunding: Nonprofits have already harnessed the power of online fundraising and social media to help meet their mission.

Equity-based crowdfunding - which allows companies to offer shares in return for individual investments - is not allowed under current legislation.

September 15, 2011 - "Crowdfunding: Connecting Investors and Job Creators"

Equity-based crowdfunding is a mechanism that enables broad groups of investors to fund startup companies and small businesses in return for equity.

Symbid currently offers reward-based (pledging) and equity-based crowdfunding.

Symbid is a relatively old player in the field of crowdfunding, especially equity-based crowdfunding.

At that point, First Funder will then offer equity-based crowdfunding as well via its platform for both accredited and unaccredited investors.

In 2012, EarlyShares produced "a nationwide road tour, offering free workshops about exactly what crowdfunding is, how to do it and the ramifications of it".

Under the slogan slow journalism, the pair request donations from the public for the crowdfunding of a project whose timescale is impossible for the mass media.

Crowdfunding, where the players of the video games pay to back the development efforts of a game, has become a popular means of finding alternate investment routes.

"Can Crowdfunding Work for Narrative Non-Fiction?"

Investment crowdfunding can be debt-based or equity-based, or can follow other models, including profit-sharing and hybrid models.

Schwagler, Nathan - Citizinvestor: Crowdfunding Local Projects, Tampa 83 Degrees.

Debt-based crowdfunding allows a group of individual (or institutional) lenders to lend funds to individuals or businesses in return for interest payment on top of capital repayments.

As the article states, for Rock The Post crowdfunding is not about funding your friends artisanal wrapping paper, it is about saving the U.S. economy.

Equity Crowdfunding pertains to equity based fundraising, in which equity ownership in a business is given in exchange for investment capital via an online funding portal.

Dynamics of Crowdfunding: Determinants of Success and Failure by Ethan Mollick, examines what causes individual projects to succeed or fail.

Crowdfunding has its origins in the concept of crowdsourcing, which is the broader concept of an individual reaching a goal by receiving and leveraging small contributions from many parties.

In October 2012, The Crowdfunding Bootcamp and CFPA Convention was held in Las Vegas.

The company provides an online system that helps businesses and organizations manage community giving, employee volunteering, donations, matching, rewarding and cause campaigns ranging from disaster relief to competitive corporate crowdfunding.

Microcredit crowdfunding platforms such as Kiva (organization) and Wokai facilitate crowdfunding of loans managed by microcredit organizations in developing countries.

This act aims to legalize equity-crowdfunding in the U.S. opening up the market to both international crowdfunding as well as creating another financing method for U.S. based companies.