We build tools for the common good and support others in doing so as well. On the Giveth DApp, 100% of the funds donated go to the cause the donor intended to support.

We are an open, non-hierarchical global initiative - We empower communities with novel decentralized technologies to address their collective needs.

We build tools that create strong bonds and alignment for people and the planet. We see donations as an opportunity to connect Givers to the people on the ground doing the good work.

 A Decentralized Altruistic Community using blockchain technology to make the world a better place.

Our system connects the people on the ground directly to the Givers, and provides a level of transparency and accountability no other platform can offer.

Donate directly to social good projects with zero added fees.

For Makers

For Givers


<p><strong><em>We are pleased to announce the official full release of </em></strong><a href="http://trace.giveth.io/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=traceLaunch"><strong><em>Giveth TRACE</em></strong></a><strong><em> — a platform for traceable, accountable, effective donations powered by blockchain technology.</em></strong></p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*R7uUVNQgvtEcegclykyYag.png"></figure><p>In the <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/what-is-the-future-of-giving-d50446b0a0e4">early stages</a> of Giveth, we set out to demystify philanthropic contributions to nonprofits by empowering Givers with the ability to see where and how their donations are being used. We released our MVP DApp in 2018 to be beta tested by the Giveth Galaxy, but faced huge obstacles. Scope creep, maintenance of a complex system, and an overly complicated user experience prevented a quick release, and then we simply ran out of funding. We were close to “calling it quits” on our original DApp in favour of a simpler, <a href="https://giveth.io/">user-friendly version</a> that we would design from scratch.</p>
<p>Fortunately for Givers everywhere, our all-star devs refused to give up. We assembled a team around the DApp and worked tirelessly for months on stabilization and beautification. With our hearts full of joy and our hats in our hands, we are proud to finally come out of beta and release TRACE to the world.</p>
<h4><strong>Giveth TRACE is no longer a wistful dream of something that could have been — it’s a reality!</strong></h4>
<p>Allow us to proudly present a platform that lifts the veil between Givers and their donations in action. A platform that empowers projects to create highly customizable online representations to attract real supporters. A platform that emphasizes the development of trust between all parties — the Givers, the projects and the greater community. We proudly present: <a href="http://trace.giveth.io/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=traceLaunch">Giveth TRACE</a>.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*TdLybtbf7FTbhJ7m"></figure><h3>Project Verification</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/644/0*kkzjgJAZhhswixI-"></figure><p>Givers using TRACE know that their donations are going to top-quality legitimate projects thanks to our project verification system. In order to add a project as a Campaign on Giveth TRACE, a Maker must first add their project to <a href="http://giveth.io/">giveth.io</a> and apply to become verified. Currently this process is informal, but soon it will be integrated into the project flow. For now, if you want to verify your project, fill <a href="https://hlfkiwoiwhi.typeform.com/to/pXxk0HO5">out this typeform</a> and reach out in the #project-onboarding channel on our <a href="https://discord.gg/nVSbGSHaaD">Discord</a>.</p>
<h3>Accountability</h3>
<p>Campaigns represent the big picture for each project — projects use Campaigns to collect traceable donations and manage them transparently. Under each Campaign there can be multiple “<a href="https://docs.giveth.io/trace/leavingTraces">Traces</a>”, i.e. payments, bounties, or expenses. Traces specify how the project is using their donations to achieve the goals of the overarching Campaigns. When a Giver donates to a Campaign they can follow the flow of their donations. Whenever donations are moved from a Campaign to a Trace, the Giver is notified and can see exactly how their donations are used.</p>
<p>Traces are the only way for donations to leave Giveth TRACE. Every project on the platform will have to explain how they are using the donations before collecting them.</p>
<h4><strong>This way, the Campaigns are held accountable to the Givers and the Givers can see their donations in action!</strong></h4>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*CbKsnQKlF7qLzNGl"><figcaption>Campaigns Live on <a href="https://www.trace.giveth.io/">Giveth TRACE</a></figcaption></figure><h3>Donor Empowerment</h3>
<p>Not sure which Campaign to donate to? Giveth TRACE also offers “Communities”, which represent people and projects united by common goals and initiatives. When you donate to a Community, you are donating to a cause that you believe in! <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/trace/entitiesAndRoles">Communities can delegate donations to Campaigns or to specific Traces</a>, and each time donations are delegated, the Giver can choose to veto the movement.</p>
<p>In this way, Giveth TRACE builds on blockchain technology with an added layer of donor empowerment that has never before been possible. <strong>Givers don’t have to trust that their donations are flowing to projects they believe in, they can actively ensure it.</strong></p>
<h4>But wait — there’s more…</h4>
<h3>Free Gas for Giveth TRACE Projects</h3>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/762/0*FhXKYRlVUOKxQqzT"></figure><h4>On Giveth TRACE, Giveth pays the gas fees so projects don’t have to!</h4>
<p>Giveth TRACE makes use of two networks in order to address security and scalability issues. Our use of Rinkeby testnet <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/tackling-ethereum-scalability-issues-29bd700b5060">makes it free to perform basic site interactions</a>, such as creating a Trace, managing donations, or updating a profile. However, in order to collect or disburse donations from a Trace, <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/trace/bridgeSecurity/">Ethereum gas fees must still be paid</a> to get the donations to the final recipient on mainnet. We are excited to financially support each project on Giveth TRACE while also protecting them from the difficult user experience and the complications of the Ethereum network, so we cover their gas costs!</p>
<p>You can see the total gas Giveth paid for each Campaign, Trace or Individual on TRACE — and can even share it with your friends.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/700/0*Ec1aYn_0mqWK8YyX"><figcaption>Total Gas Paid for the <a href="https://www.trace.giveth.io/campaign/commons-stack-community-iteration-0">Commons Stack Community Campaign</a> on Giveth TRACE</figcaption></figure><p>Our mission at Giveth is to bridge the non-profit and blockchain worlds, connecting people, ideas and resources with free, open source decentralized applications. The launch of Giveth TRACE and its ability to offer unique transparency, traceability, customization, empowerment and accountability is a major milestone in Building the Future of Giving!</p>
<p>So what are you waiting for?<strong> </strong>Head over to <a href="http://trace.giveth.io/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=traceLaunch">Giveth TRACE</a>, try it out for yourself and let us know what you think!</p>
<p>Want to get more involved?</p>
<ul>
<li>Join us on <a href="https://discord.gg/JftjK8Un3z">Discord</a> or <a href="http://t.me/givethio">Telegram</a>
</li>
<li>Discover our <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/">Docs</a>
</li>
<li>Fork our code on <a href="https://github.com/Giveth/">GitHub</a>
</li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="http://medium.com/giveth/">Medium</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/givethio">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/givethio">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/giveth/">Reddit</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClfutpRoY0WTVnq0oB0E0wQ">YouTube</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Help us Build the Future of Giving: 🦄 <a href="http://donate.giveth.io/">Donate directly</a> 🦄 or <a href="https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=d663">buy a Ledger with our affiliate link</a></p>
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Giveth TRACE is Live


<p>Giveth has been buzzing with action! While we’ve been hard at work behind-the-scenes building for our community, Giveth change-makers have been hard at work creating positive impact on the ground. We are excited to share with you one final round-up of projects in the Change-Maker Campaign.</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/607/0*hfCED9c2VpX6cbih"></figure><p>Our <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/calling-all-change-makers-7fa964684c2b">Calling All Change-Makers Campaign</a> launched in April 2021 as a way to highlight the unique stories of for-good projects on Giveth and bring extra attention to the work that they are doing to change the world for the better. Read on to discover the final submissions!</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/0*DO7PF09rVoOy--dR"></figure><h3>Perfect Village Communities (PVC) in Burundi</h3>
<p>Is an organization that aims to improve the living conditions in rural communities across the central African country of Burundi. The project’s creator, Mugisha, states that in rural Burundi up to <strong>58% of children suffer from malnutrition</strong> and communities often have no access to medical services. Agriculture and livestock can represent up to 95% of a village’s commercial activities, yet families still struggle to get enough food to sustain themselves.</p>
<p>PVC Burundi began in 2015 and is teaching rural communities how to implement regenerative systems for improving education, agriculture and healthcare. Activities focus on soil regeneration, organic waste recycling, tree planting, and of course, growing food. PVC Burundi provides healthcare access to communities in exchange for tree-planting services, incentivizing a healthy environment in tandem with healthy humans.</p>
<p>Food sold in markets via Village Communities are used to fund PVC’s healthcare and education initiatives. Every year they launch “Community Reconciliation” where they expose new communities to different regenerative techniques, begin tree planting campaigns and bring food to market. Currently, one of their main goals is to extend their healthcare facilities in Burundi.</p>
<p><a href="https://giveth.io/project/CREATING-THE-PERFECT-VILLAGES-IN-BURUNDI">Check out Perfect Villages in Burundi</a> and help spread the regenerative movement in Africa!</p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/0*2LIG_eL4pKjbjhij"></figure><h3>Bridging Digital Communities</h3>
<p>Is run by a Digital Wizard by the name of Kay. He creates online bridges that allow communities to stay connected. In the decentralized world of Blockchain, communities can spring up seemingly out of nowhere, forming around causes, concepts, technologies or protocols. In this rapidly growing part of the world wide web, communities thrive off of the collective innovation and synergy of ideas, exponentiated greatly by the digital bridges that Kay creates. He has been creating and maintaining bridge servers for applications such as Discord, Telegram or Riot and has never charged anyone to make these connections. He bridges quite a few notable Ethereum projects such as: Matic, Gitcoin, 1hive, Conensys, Aragon and even Giveth (Thanks Kay! 😉)</p>
<p>Kay has a project on Giveth — the proceeds of which go into funding the work he does building bridges and keeping digital communities connected. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/Bridging-Digital-Communities-1">Check out his project on Giveth here!</a></p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/0*SEDD8bikjpDQIbaW"></figure><h3>Vegan Africa Fund</h3>
<p>Is a Social Enterprise focused on creating a vegan economy in Africa. They actively support African ventures in education, regenerative agriculture, renewable-energy cryptocurrency mining, vegan leather and clothing, reforestation and making delicious vegan food! They have minted their own digital $VAF impact-tokens which are accepted by all of their affiliate businesses for any products, services and experiences they might offer. Vegan Africa Fund hopes to kick-start their green economy with initial funding to back their $VAF token.</p>
<p>Help Vegan Africa Fund pave the way for a plant-based Africa by making a donation to <a href="https://giveth.io/project/vegan-africa-fund">their project on Giveth.</a></p>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/720/0*Ha4nvK3cfYf6p94h"></figure><h3>Spread the Love Commission</h3>
<p>Bridges the divide in the US between those experiencing homelessness and the inspired individuals who want to lend a hand. Wren Fialka, the founder, started it all by asking a man experiencing homelessness one question: “If there was a bag of items that I could bring you tomorrow to make your day-to-day life easier, what would be in the bag?”. Based on their simple approach focused on “Connection, Compassion and Vital Supplies” they have been serving communities across the US for the last 6 years.</p>
<p>On the Spread the Love project page they state that anywhere between 600,000 to 1.5 million people experience homelessness across the country, and with Covid-19 financial support ending soon, that number is likely to rise. With only one employee, Spread the Love Commission needs to grow in order to meet these rising challenges. So far they have served over 30 communities and with Giver support they hope to serve many more.</p>
<p>Spread the Love Commission aims to remove the stigma of homelessness and connect those stuck in a vicious cycle with support from those who are ready to offer it. With sustainability, compassion and persistence they hope to end the homelessness crisis once and for all.</p>
<p><a href="https://giveth.io/project/spread-the-love-commission">Visit the Spread the Love Commission Giveth project page</a> to find out more and help them fund their critical mission!</p>
<p>And that’s a wrap! Thank you to all the Givers that provide support to projects that are making a difference, and to all the change-makers that are finding a way to make positive global impact. It has been amazing to have the opportunity to learn from and highlight so many projects that are daring to be different, working hard to connect humans and improving the world we live in!</p>
<p>While the Change-Maker campaign has ended you can still get some <strong><em>Giveth love</em></strong> by sharing your project with us on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/giveth/">Reddit</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/Givethio">Twitter</a> for a shout out or a repost on our social media channels. We always appreciate outstanding Giveth projects and are planning to keep highlighting Makers going the extra mile on the Giveth.io. Thank you to all of our participants!</p>
<h4>Want to get more involved?</h4>
<ul>
<li>Join us on <a href="https://discord.gg/JftjK8Un3z">Discord</a> or <a href="http://t.me/givethio">Telegram</a>
</li>
<li>Discover our<a href="https://docs.giveth.io/"> Docs</a>
</li>
<li>Fork our code on <a href="https://github.com/Giveth/">GitHub</a>
</li>
<li>Follow us on <a href="http://medium.com/giveth/">Medium</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/givethio">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/givethio">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/giveth/">Reddit</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClfutpRoY0WTVnq0oB0E0wQ">YouTube</a>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Help us Build the Future of Giving: 🦄 <a href="http://donate.giveth.io/">Donate directly</a> 🦄 or <a href="https://www.ledgerwallet.com/products/ledger-nano-s?utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=d663">buy a Ledger with our affiliate link</a></p>
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Change-Makers: Final Round-up!

The Future of Giving is Now!

We have softly launched our second dApp from the Giveth community of makers, this free, open-source, and decentralized application for peer-to-peer donations you are using right now.

💜 Donations such as yours are our primary source of funding and are deeply appreciated!

In the current evolution of Giveth we're building upon firsthand experience gained through developing, maintaining and improving our original flagship dApp (live at beta.giveth.io). For 3+ years, all funding for Giveth has been tracked transparently, securely and accountably here using the full-featured version with DAC’s, Campaigns and Milestones.

This new dApp is starting out with a simple purpose:
💜 For Givers: Offer the best experience for anyone looking to donate to a cause, whether with crypto or a credit card.
💜 For Makers: Enable project creators anywhere in the world to start accepting donations in a few minutes, with zero fees and zero censorship.

We know that the future is what we make it, and at Giveth everyone is a Giver AND a Maker..
Your questions, suggestions and preferences are needed to guide the team in deciding what features and functionality to build next.

Ways to contribute:
Donate today and feed the team!
Click the “Feedback” button to submit your ideas!
Connect with us at join.giveth.io so we can welcome you personally to the Future of Giving!

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The Giveth Community of Makers 

<p>I run a bridge server for chats (Discord, Telegram, Riot, ...) and am actively engaging communities connected to the Ethereum space. Especially with the advent of newDAOs my services are being requested on a regular basis. Most requested at the moment is bridging between community servers on Discord (both communities get to share a room), whereas before it was mostly mirroring rooms between different protocols. Once a bridge is up, it still needs to be maintained and I regularly check that everything is in working order. I never charge for these services, but I do accept donations (all Ethereum tokens) Current list of bridged communities:</p><ul><li>Giveth</li><li>The Commons Stack</li><li>Metagame</li><li>Hackalong</li><li>1hive</li><li>ethereum.org</li><li>balancer.io</li><li>Aragon</li><li>cadCAD</li><li>Token Engineering</li><li>Token Engineering Commons</li><li>sourcecred</li><li>Raid Guild</li><li>DappNode</li><li>brightID</li><li>Metafactory</li><li>dOrg</li><li>Matic</li><li>Consensys</li><li>Panvala</li><li>Gitcoin</li><li>Yearn</li><li>DAOHaus</li><li>Kshazu</li><li>DAO Book Club</li><li>Mol Le Art</li><li>ETHLatam</li><li>Shenanigan</li><li>Seeing Earth</li><li>Boson Protocol</li></ul>

Bridging Digital Communities

<p>The Commons Simulator is a gamified simulation tool powered by a cadCAD backend that was developed by the Commons Stack's <a href="https://t.me/CSDdev" target="_blank">Decentralized Dev community</a>. The intention is to blend art and simulation into a dystopian sci-fi storyline. In the game, you travel back in time to use cadCAD as a tool to help a community design a regenerative Commons with the potential to save the world from total planetary and economic destruction.</p><p><br></p><div class="ql-video-wrapper"><iframe class="ql-video" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1OuD7afyZmo?showinfo=0"></iframe></div><p><br></p><p>The Commons Simulator helps to illustrate one of the core missions of the Commons Stack:</p><p><br></p><blockquote><strong>Empowering communities to design their own economies using open source simulation tools.</strong></blockquote><p><br></p><p>We have already launched our first level! Play it now at <a href="https://sim.commonsstack.org" target="_blank">https://sim.commonsstack.org</a> to change the future and save humanity with RadicalxChange &amp; Conviction Voting!</p><p><br></p><p><img src="https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmfJmeKnE3V3Mwm9G8nw89p9aArunzpF3BxUE2wAVFHyQu"></p><p><br></p><p>Donations to this project will go towards helping us level up! We want to make the simulator even more fun! The next level will expand on this foundation with a focus on the Augmented Bonding Curve as you leap into a new character and a new community. This is the coolest front end for cadCAD so far, and we are just getting started.</p><p><br></p><p>Read more about the Commons Simulator in our launch <a href="https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-commons-simulator-game-is-live-e1986615a105" target="_blank">blog post</a>, or learn more about the "magic" cadCAD backend in our deep dive blog post series with parts <a href="https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-magic-behind-the-commons-simulator-part-1-game-flow-8fa2bed8437b" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-magic-behind-the-commons-simulator-part-2-initialization-93da1b8b3abe" target="_blank">2</a>, and <a href="https://medium.com/commonsstack/the-magic-behind-the-commons-simulator-part-3-the-closest-look-a19d05b561a1" target="_blank">3</a>!</p>

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