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Kids & Family

How You Can Help Fund a 'Junior Kane County Board'

Kane County is the third public entity to try crowd funding as a way to promote public projects.

Kane County launched its first-ever crowdfunding campaign, making the county the third government entity in the area to crowdfund public projects on Citizinvestor.com. (Evanston and Napervillehave already successfully funded projects).

This specific project is to support a "Junior Kane County Board," in which students in the area can learn about local government, policy and public service. Kane County is raising the $3,780 they need to give this board of students a real budget to use as they see fit in promoting Kane County as the premier place to live, work and invest.

You can read more about this project at citizinvestor.com/project/junior-kane-county-board.

Although citizens are asked to enter their credit card information on the project page, their cards will not be charged unless the project reaches 100 percent of its goal in the next 87 days.

Kane officials are promoting it as a way to accomplish good works without added tax dollars.

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