Web site aims to be Craigslist of fundraising

BOULDER – Carol Meier, whose children go to Boulder’s Bridge School, raised $450 for a school projector without leaving her house or pressuring co-workers.

Other people report the same success stories for soccer tournaments, trips, CD projects, filmmaking, pizza parties, scholarships, helping foreign orphanages and just about anything else. They do it without door-to-door solicitations and no traditional fundraising.

They do it with Crowdfunder.com, a site that enables communities to raise money. Users go online to post an explanation of their funding needs. Donors click a button, and their contribution is dispersed to the proper accounts. “If it had been hard I…