PledgeBank

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PledgeBank is a British website which runs pledges on all topics, of the form: "I will do x if y people agree to do the same." It was founded by mySociety and went live June 13, 2005.

Notable organisations promoted or started by pledges on PledgeBank include the seed funding for the UK Open Rights Group and publicity and legal funding for the NO2ID campaign.

Other creative efforts to raise money for charity are presented. For example, one pledge seeks financing for the World Series of Poker, with a portion of the potential winnings going to a non-profit charity.

Furthermore, it has been utilized to drum up global support for online protests, most recently by Freeculture.org to boycott CDs with DRM.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair has recently started a pledge himself, to become patron of a community sports club if 100 notable figures will do the same^[1].

One example of a successful pledge is the current NOMEDIA campaign started by Graham Woods. He pledges to completely boycott all forms of media for two weeks as long as 10 other people do the same.