Successful crowdfunding takes more than just filling out a profile on a platform – it requires a great deal of thought, commitment and social media know-how. Check out these five questions that organisations need to ask themselves before embarking on a crowdfunding campaign.

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Creative Europe supported projects are expected to contribute resources in the form of 'match-funding' and account for all of the project costs and income generated across the partnership.

There is a bit 'of confusion on the numbers that revolve around Crowdfunding in Italy. Although below the average in other developed countries, the domestic market is experiencing a good momentum of growth , with the proliferation of platforms and a renewed interest in large companies and institutions . Read more below.

In this video, Will Dallimore talkes about the Royal Academy of Arts’ use of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to bring Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s Tree sculptures to London in autumn 2015. The campaign raised more than £120,000 in less than six weeks to become Europe’s most successful arts crowdfunding initiative.