My recent campaign to launch Pint Craft has distracted me from blogging, but focused my attention sharply on the whole idea of crowdfunding. Mashable recently highlighted three civic crowdfunding initiatives: Patronhood, Spacehive, and Citizinvestor. While I don’t have the mental capacity to evaluate these ideas at this point, I am deeply fascinated about combination of community engagement and community financial support. This is especially interesting as equity-based crowdfunding is on the horizon for next year.