# hum.community

> hum is a participatory funding platform built by The Wellbeing Protocol, a
> New Zealand social enterprise. It puts micro-granting, community governance,
> savings pools, and community currencies directly into the hands of local
> communities, so funders (philanthropists, councils, iwi, NGOs) and
> hyper-local groups can decide together where money goes — with real-time
> transparency on every dollar.

Key audiences: funders and philanthropy networks, local councils and iwi,
community organisers, and researchers in participatory grantmaking and
wellbeing economics.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://hum.community/): what hum is and how participatory funding works
- [For communities](https://hum.community/communities): tools for local groups to fund ideas and grow prosperity together
- [For funders](https://hum.community/funders): real-time visibility and devolved decision-making for grant-makers
- [About](https://hum.community/about): the team and The Wellbeing Protocol
- [Theory of change](https://hum.community/theory-of-change): why community-controlled funding builds wellbeing
- [FAQ](https://hum.community/faq): common questions
- [Blog](https://hum.community/blog): essays, case studies, and product thinking
- [Newsletter signup](https://hum.community/newsletter): email-only, double opt-in
- [RSS feed](https://hum.community/feed.xml)

## Blog articles

- [What if politicians lost their power the moment they lost your trust?](https://hum.community/blog/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)](https://hum.community/blog/tyranny-of-the-majority): 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?](https://hum.community/blog/community-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](https://hum.community/blog/savings-pool): 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](https://hum.community/blog/funding-that-flows): 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](https://hum.community/blog/a-new-chapter-for-community-controlled-funding)
- [Hum.community – a new kind of local economy](https://hum.community/blog/humcommunity-a-new-kind-of-local-economy): Using technology to put locals back in control of where the money goes
- [Hum.community vs Open Collective](https://hum.community/blog/hum-vs-open-collective)
- [Case Study: Mohua 2042 – Community-Led Sustainability and Participatory Grantmaking in Action](https://hum.community/blog/mohua2042)
- [Why Web 3](https://hum.community/blog/web3)
- [Rethinking philanthropy: What if communities controlled the money?](https://hum.community/blog/rethinking-philanthropy)
- [A new approach to philanthropy – Creating a Wellbeing Economy](https://hum.community/blog/philanthropy-wellbeing-economy)
- [Case Study: Tāne Ora - Improving access to funding for community-led initiatives](https://hum.community/blog/taneora)
- [Ethereum Foundation executive director Aya Miyaguchi seeds Rātā Rangatahi Fund](https://hum.community/blog/rata)
- [Trust based Philanthropy and Web 3.0 - Can We Scale Localism?](https://hum.community/blog/scale-localism)
- [The Commons Reimagined: Empowering Communities Through Biodiversity Legislation and Web 3](https://hum.community/blog/web3-biodiversity)
- [Quadratic and Conviction Voting: new ways to make decisions ](https://hum.community/blog/quadratic-conviction-voting)