In the late 1980s, the term scrip evolved to include a fundraising method popular with non-profit organizations like schools, bands and athletic groups.

Thus, due to the rising costs of education, Jog-A-Thons have become one fundraising method that can be used by both public and private schools.

Villa's remarkable generalship and recruiting appeal, combined with ingenious fundraising methods to support his rebellion, were a key factor in forcing Huerta from office a little over a year later, on 15 July 1914.

On October 30, 2008, on the Fox News Channel, Eagleburger referred to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama as a "charlatan", citing his fundraising methods and other aspects of his presidential campaign.

In York, Pennsylvania, the same fundraising method was used with the opposite meaning: people paid 10 cents to drive a nail into the head of a statue of the kaiser with a red, white and blue handled hammer.

Following ongoing complaints from Islington residents, and branding the fundraising method a "nuisance", the council now wants to ban it in six sites within the borough: Angel, Highbury Corner, Archway, Farringdon, Holloway Road and Old Street.

Various fundraising methods were used such as selling chairs for Temple seating at US $25 apiece.

Raising a few eyebrows, a fundraising method for Miller's campaign was dubbed "The Great Sideburns Debate", which began due to an article by John David Dyche of the Louisville Courier-Journal that stated, "Treasurer Jonathan Miller sports perhaps the longest sideburns on a gubernatorial candidate since the Seventies...the 1870s."