{"id":987653965,"date":"2021-02-11T03:21:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-and-scientific-research-in-the-crosshairs-of-crowdfunding\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T03:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T02:21:31","slug":"health-and-scientific-research-in-the-crosshairs-of-crowdfunding","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-and-scientific-research-in-the-crosshairs-of-crowdfunding\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and scientific research in the crosshairs of crowdfunding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Donations on participatory funding platforms more than doubled last year, boosted according to a study by an unprecedented movement of solidarity, particularly towards healthcare professionals in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;Donations peaked at 218.5&nbsp;million euros in 2020 on digital platforms, compared with around 80&nbsp;million a year earlier, according to the 2020 barometer of crowdfunding in France published this Wednesday (February 10, 2021) by Financement Participatif France (FPF) and Mazars.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>These participative financing platforms, or &#8221;&nbsp;crowdfunding&nbsp;&#8220;, including Kiss Kiss Bank Bank&nbsp;and Ulule, are used to finance projects through donations or interest-bearing loans. The volume of donations devoted to the &#8221;&nbsp;Health, scientific research&nbsp;&#8221; category rose from 2.7&nbsp;million euros in 2019 (all participatory funding combined) to 15&nbsp;million euros last year. Donations in the &#8221;&nbsp;Humanitaire et Solidaire&nbsp;&#8221; category rose from 11.8 to 51.8&nbsp;million euros.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Source<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linfodurable.fr\/educationcitoyennete\/la-pandemie-fait-bondir-les-dons-sur-les-plateformes-de-financement\"> here&nbsp;<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations on participatory funding platforms more than doubled last year, boosted according to a study by an unprecedented movement of solidarity, particularly towards healthcare professionals in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.&nbsp;Donations peaked at 218.5&nbsp;million euros in 2020 on digital platforms, compared with around 80&nbsp;million a year earlier, according to the 2020 barometer of crowdfunding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987531439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}