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# Sign of the Times: Kickstarter Expects to Raise More Money for the Arts than NEA
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/kickstarter-nea/
- Published: 2012-02-24T21:16:32.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:19:19.000Z
- Description: "One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribue over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or more than entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), which was $146 million." [TalkingPointsMemo [h
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Funding, Kickstarter, National Endowment for the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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“One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribue over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or more than entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), which was $146 million.” \[[TalkingPointsMemo](http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/kickstarter-expects-to-provide-more-funding-to-the-arts-than-nea.php?ref=hyperallergic.com)\]