I am thinking about using crowd funding to help fund my team, so i am wondering how many other people have done it. Was it successful? What website, (Kickstarter, Indigogo, ect.) and any other helpful tips. Thanks! 
Some good examples i found:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/closed-2013-campaign-gladstone-robosavages-vex-championships
I’ve known of at least two clubs who have used GoFundMe.com, and got reasonable results. Typically I think you need to have those sorts of sites linked to from some other media source, for example articles in your local newspaper, etc. spotlighting your teams.
Of course I think all sites of that kind skim some percentage off of the donations, but it makes it convenient for donations from the general public.
We made 0 dollars using indigogo. I was very dissapointed simply because i thought we would do really well. I cant confirm this but if i Had to guess, the teams that did really well had asked family and friends to contribute theough the site instead of with a check. Couls be wrong but thats quite a bit of money to crowdfund otherwise…
donorschoose.org has gotten my team some parts in the past. It works if there is a Chevron facility in your local area because they do a program called ‘fuelyourschool’ once a year that funds up to $2000