The ANCC pay-to-participate approach to funding a large-scale research project is innovative but has similarities to a newapproach being implemented in a number of scientific endeavors, including research in healthcare. This new approach is called crowd sourcing, crowd science,orcitizenscience,which is used to indicate collaboration among a large number of scientists or between scientists (professionals) and ‘‘crowds’’ or ‘‘citizens’’ (nonprofessionals) in order to complete largescale projects.2-5 The various terms refer to the collaboration of different individuals, groups of people, or organizations in funding or con- tributing to a project. In research endeavors, ‘‘crowds’’ usually contribute by providing data or funding the study.