Hi all - Petridish.org is looking for another round of projects to put up on their site (still in beta), and are particularly interested in good ecology projects. (Disclaimer: a friend of mine started the site.) They've gotten over $100k in pledges in just over 2 months, which is impressive. Seems like it could be particularly useful to grad students or postdocs looking for a little extra funding to kick the science up a notch.
Best, Naupaka ================ New Source of Funding for Research Projects: Crowdfunding! Petridish.org is looking for researchers with interesting project proposals who want to share their work with the world and raise money for their research. Weâre a passionate community of science-lovers and researchers.  Our mission is to increase the funding available to science by engaging the public in new discoveries. Researchers share information about their work on our website, where the public has the opportunity to donate to individual projects.  With your help, we are pioneering a completely new way to fund research. Weâre currently accepting applications for our next class of projects.  Once chosen, you will have the opportunity to create and post a short video about your work targeted at the general public.  We will feature high-level overviews of the projects seeking funding on our website and in our media coverage.   Donors contribute to specific projects for the opportunity to build relationships with researchers including frequent updates on their work, and to receive small tokens of appreciation. Applications are welcome from all disciplines including Astronomy, Archeology, Ecology, Social Science, Biology, Health, Medicine and more.  It only takes a few minutes to apply.  If interested, please visit http://www.petridish.org/project_inquiries/new or email [email protected] for more information.
