Civic crowdfunding: A new opportunity for local governments

• The nature of the project was identified as a factor influencing civic fundraising. Rewards emerge critical A charitable approach cannot be taken for granted in crowdfunding rounds. In crowdfunding, local communities are asked to financially contribute projects aimed at regeneration an area. Usually government acts co-funder. This paper employs fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis discover which conditions combined and may result collection significant amount funds. Five were selected: project, number backers, rewards, percentage backers that did not require reward rewards required during fundraising campaign. study used sample 40 Italian successful rounds sponsored match-funded by government. presence seem factors. These findings open up further investigations on attitudes towards