is a biologist who has studied rainforest conservation. But now he devotes his time to a different project. You may have heard about how crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and GoFundMe are helping people raise money for medical care, charity work, new businesses, or artistic projects like movies and board games. With crowdfunding, a lot of people each put a little bit of money toward solving a problem or making an exciting idea a reality. Ranganathan wants to do the same thing for scientific research. The organization he helped found, SciFund Challenge, is teaching scientists how to get better conversations going with
