Stories & Insights

Funding That Flows: Why Grants Should Behave More Like Rivers Than Calendars

Most grant funding behaves like a dam. Money is held back behind a wall, released only at scheduled intervals, and communities downstream must line up at the appointed hour, applications in hand, hoping to catch some of the flow before the gates close again. Miss the round, and you wait months for the next one — by which time the problem you needed to solve has changed shape entirely.

A new chapter for community controlled funding

Hum.community – a new kind of local economy

Using technology to put locals back in control of where the money goes

Hum.community vs Open Collective

Case Study: Mohua 2042 – Community-Led Sustainability and Participatory Grantmaking in Action

Why Web 3

Rethinking philanthropy: What if communities controlled the money?

A new approach to philanthropy – Creating a Wellbeing Economy

Case Study: Tāne Ora - Improving access to funding for community-led initiatives

Ethereum Foundation executive director Aya Miyaguchi seeds Rātā Rangatahi Fund

Trust based Philanthropy and Web 3.0 - Can We Scale Localism?

The Commons Reimagined: Empowering Communities Through Biodiversity Legislation and Web 3

Quadratic and Conviction Voting: new ways to make decisions