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title: Crowd(funding) Control
date: 2014-02-06T19:44:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/crowdfunding-control-6bdcd54f-b1ec-4c12-8f31-2807b49ca73f"
section: Articles
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# Crowd(funding) Control

*February 6, 2014* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


Your extra $10 is more powerful than you think, thanks to the booming trend of crowdfunding. Instead of one person giving $10 million to a cause, now a million people with $10 can do a lot of good. Joe Bailey, a research associate professor of finance and executive director of the QUEST honors program, walks us through how pooling our money can turn a mini-investor into a movie producer, a banker, a mortgage lender, a venture capitalist or a philanthropist.