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In 2014, the store nearly went out of business due to rising competition from online streaming services. In October, Scarecrow's catalog was donated by owners Carl Tostevin and Mickey McDonough to the Scarecrow Project, a group formed by current and former store employees and long-time patrons, and supported by a successful [[Kickstarter]] campaign which raised over $100,000.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kassendorf |first1=Julius |title=Scarecrow Video Kickstarter is A Success! {{!}} The-Solute |url=https://www.the-solute.com/scarecrow-video-kickstarter-is-a-success/ |website=www.the-solute.com |access-date=1 December 2023 |date=19 August 2014}}</ref> Scarecrow Video reopened under new ownership as a non-profit, preserving “one of the world's largest publicly available libraries of film and television”.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Story |url=https://scarecrowvideo.org/our-story |website=Scarecrow.com}}</ref>
 
Today, Scarecrow Video continues to operateoperates its video rental store business in its second Seattle location with the addedstated mission of maintaining “full public access” to its extensive media collection. (Its original location was on Latona, in the Ravenna neighborhood). Scarecrow now offersconducts free community film screenings in its private screening room, a weekly children’s story hour at its store, summer outdoor movie events at Magnuson Park and other community events, and Silver Screeners movie discussion groups at Seattle-area public libraries and senior centers.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
 
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