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kickstarters does not actually moderate any of the projects. They have one suggestion that if you are creating something then you could reward the person who pledges money ie. a copy of book you are writing, tickets for an event.

Moulana Shafi and another 5 people did a bungee jump and they raised £15,000 just amongst them. I have many examples of people doing this and raising large amounts.

Kickstarters advises people to just be smart about who they pledge to, the budgets do not have any limitations at all, you simply do a listing [based on the guidelines] and ask for the pledges; if people like your concept then they will pledge. It is as simple as that. There is a project on there that requested $10,000 and got $100,000+ pledges so far.

I think one way around it would be to have 'approved' and 'unapproved' for each posts. Approved is whereby the money is actually deposited with a charity that the originator of the project has liased with to undergo the proposed task, this way the trust is increased for people to pledge. Unapproved is the opposite, a person/group posts the proposal and see's if they can get the pledges from either people they know or do not know via the platform. The risk would be with those who pledge to give money to the cause.

Also to be honest we do it all the time. You have islamic charities asking for money all the time via tv channels, how much do we really know about them? but some raised £100,000+ to send money to a foreign country.

The initial project will cost money to promote and advertise, to get the it publicised out there. But the potential could be so much to see small pockets of dawah projects, books written, events, etc taking place because the funding is available.

Am I just being naive since the responses above seem to be directed to the 'trust' element when it comes to money. Somewhat cynical [rightly so?]

On the flip side I have a gut instinct that I can do this for done for community based projects in the UK and potential get the funding for it. So think of the same concept but for small community projects looking for money, a lot of them have constitutions but may not be registered charities. We have done this many times over and got funding but it has to be held by a registered charity which we did not have a problem with. In one pot we got £5000 to deliver training, a 3rd party held the money and released it each time a payment was made. Make dua this goes well for me.