Category: Guest Blog
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Crowdfunding brings clubfoot treatment to children in the developing world
This Mendeley guest post talks about how a crowdfunding campaign is bringing an innovative research design from Stanford University to children in developing countries struggling with clubfoot. By Janeen B. Gingrich, MSW, Associate Director of Philanthropy, miraclefeet When I first heard about miraclefeet and clubfoot, I felt compelled to get involved. I had done…
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Improving Long-term Healthcare with Crowdfunded Community Partnership
Collaboration and community are at the heart of bringing research to life in ways that make a real difference to people’s lives, specially when it comes to advances in healthcare. So this time we give a shout out to an interesting crowdfunding project that was launched yesterday to try and do just that: By…
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Crowdfunding Innovative Water Treatment Research
Mendeley is proud to help spread the word about how research makes a positive impact in people’s lives, which is why we were really happy to work more closely with Elsevier in Research4Life. At its core, research is about making the world a better place, and technology is a key way of enabling this. As part…
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Crowdfunding to develop healthcare matching technology
A technology platform is helping to match paraplegic patients and those with neurological disabilities with the best healthcare providers available. They now want to use crowdfunding to develop this service even further, and their Indiegogo campaign has already reached over half of their initial $60,000 goal. Here’s their story, which began over 10 years ago……
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