Stories & Insights
Discover case studies, community impact stories, and insights from the field of participatory funding.
What if politicians lost their power the moment they lost your trust?
Not at the next election. Not after a scandal and an inquiry. That sounds like an abstract thought experiment. It was until we built it, and we think it has something to say about how democracy itself could work.
The tyranny of the majority (and how we're patching it)
Plato's oldest objection to democracy is that the 51% will simply vote themselves the benefits and send the bill to the 49%. Here's how hum's governance already partly answers him and the two new mechanisms coming soon that go further.
What if your community had its own currency?
Introducing Community Currency: a new tool in hum that helps communities recognise, track, and circulate the value they already create together.
Your community is the bank
Introducing Savings Pool - a new tool in hum that turns a community's own small, regular savings into a shared fund that lends, grows, and pays its profits back to everyone.
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.
Hum.community – a new kind of local economy
Using technology to put locals back in control of where the money goes
