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

Upholding our values of Transparency and Accountability by sharing recent development updates from this past sprint.
In this past sprint, we worked out the kinks on our rich text editor, allowing Makers to add photos, videos, numbered lists, font styles, headers and more to project descriptions and updates! This should be ready to go on <a href="https://giveth.io/">giveth.io</a> this week. If you’re a project owner, be sure to log-on and update your description to get potential Givers even more excited about what you’ve been up to.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*y9GSWPfav8ekaNkHh1QRow.png"><figcaption>Rich Text Editor Embedded in Create-a-Project</figcaption></figure>We also spent some time optimizing the presentation of our Dapp for Mobile, fixing some visual inconsistencies and improving overall usability. We improved upon our email notifications, ensuring that Givers and Makers receive confirmation when a donation is made.
We developed and implemented automated testing for the create-a-project flow and updated the <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/docs/testing-guidelines/">testing guidelines</a> in our documentation — two measures to ensure that new features work as intended.
We also addressed a few bugs: ensured that cancelled projects don’t show up in the projects list, fixed pricing, and rerouted external links for xDai donations to blockscout.
One of our all-star developers also surprised us this past sprint with a proof of concept: building Giveth.io using Next.js and Vercel instead of Gatsby and Netlify. Once we make sure all our functionality is bug-free, this change will drastically improve the UX. We’re talking faster site build, fewer issues on loading and updating, and an overall snappier site experience.
In the future, we’re going to be enhancing the UI so Makers will be able to upload photos via Unsplash when editing or creating a project. We are in the process of updating our Join, About, Contact and Support sections to the most recent info. We are also still working on the integration of an embedded chat bridged directly to our team, and project/profile verification using 3box or other.
Finally, the most exciting update to share is that we are working on giving the site a little makeover. We won’t give too much away, but here’s a little sneak peak of the new design:
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*AkT2Avgj6Ru43buy.jpg"><figcaption>Working on a New Look for Giveth.io</figcaption></figure>We want to extend a huge thank you to our community for all your support so far! Since launching in March, <a href="https://giveth.io/">Giveth.io</a> has seen the following metrics:
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*GrDIkKuNcw0infnos5t50w.png"><figcaption>Site Metrics from Giveth.io</figcaption></figure>As always, we are committed to building the future of giving based on feedback from you, our community! Let us know what you’d like to see us work on in future sprints by <a href="http://giveth.io/">trying out the DApp</a> and sharing your thoughts in our <a href="https://discord.com/invite/JftjK8Un3z">Discord</a>.
Thanks for reading and we’ll see you at the end of the next sprint for more dev updates 😘
Many thanks to our amazing team for making all this possible: James, Mateo, Kay, Merlin, Danibelle, Willy, Griff, Marko, Mitch, Ashley, and Lauren!
Want to get more involved?
<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="http://giveth.io/">Site</a>, <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/">Docs</a> and <a href="https://wiki.giveth.io/">Wiki</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>
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>
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<a href="https://medium.com/giveth/what-dappened-april-21-may-5-f918958e403e">What DAppened: April 21— May 5</a> was originally published in <a href="https://medium.com/giveth">Giveth</a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

What DAppened: April 21— May 5

We asked our community to add their projects to <a href="https://giveth.io/">giveth.io</a> and <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/calling-all-change-makers-7fa964684c2b">share their stories</a> about how they are changing the world for the better using #giveth4change. Read on to discover our first round of submissions, or <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/calling-all-change-makers-7fa964684c2b">submit your story</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/Givethio">twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/giveth/">reddit</a> to be featured in our next summary.
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*87ixVhyru8m_MFx5.png"></figure>Wow 2 weeks already into the change-maker campaign! It’s been an exciting couple of months for Giveth. We’ve come hot off the heels from the Giveth.io launch right into this opportunity to hear about projects making a difference across the globe. We’ve received six outstanding submissions that we would like to highlight in our first roundup. Without further ado here they are!
<h3>Sage to Saddle</h3>
aims to focus Native American youth on healthy lifestyle alternatives, rising above the poverty and substance abuse that they often live with. Nate Bressler realized while on photo-assignment shooting Native American horse racing teams for Outside Magazine, that a winter horse riding facility would greatly benefit the community of Pine Ridge, South Dakota. He teamed up with Lakota Native, Stan Brewer, the driving force behind Pine Ridge’s horse community and Angela Smith, who grew up in Utah and has been involved in nonprofits her whole life. Together, they created lofty but attainable goals that will bring structure, education, celebration, along with the opportunity for these Native youth to lift their chins with pride.
This project hopes to provide an after-school program for kids 8–18 focused on equine relationships in an indoor horse riding arena. Students of the program will be granted the opportunity to learn and grow while carrying on a traditional relationship with the very animal that made their ancestors’ survival possible. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/sage-to-saddle/">Check out Sage to Saddle on Giveth here!</a>
<h3>Conscious Medicine Collective</h3>
dreams to create a one-of-a-kind psychedelic consciousness center. Manex Ibar and Victoria Ibar, partners and founders, intend to create powerful experiences to bring together creativity, music, art, and high-end healing. The intention is to gather medical practitioners and influencers together into a club that fosters innovation, problem solving, and creative solutions through the use of plant medicines, psychedelics, and consciousness programs. They seek funding to establish their center on 12 acres of land they already have purchased in the picturesque Basque Pyrenées. Conscious Medicine Collective aims to bring magic, nature and wonder into an experiential club center that provides elevation of consciousness. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/conscious-medicine-collective/">Venture over to their Giveth project page.</a>
<h3>Trust Graphic Novel</h3>
is a transmedia project by Blockchain Philanthropy Champion Anne Connelly and accomplished artist and storyteller Chief Nyamweya. Both a graphic novel and motion comic, it is set in a future African nation that tells the story of Moraa, a young woman who learns about blockchain and uses it to protect her homeland from cultural and ecological destruction. By using storytelling to educate readers about blockchain technology, they hope to inspire African youth to see a bright future and link them to the training to create it. Currently Anne and her team are partnered with groups in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa. The book will cover the basics of blockchains and cryptocurrency, and provide resources and links to their African-based educational partners. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/trust-graphic-novel-and-motion-comic/">You can find their Giveth project here.</a>
<h3>Bloom Network</h3>
represents an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. Local Bloom hubs around the world grow participation in practices such as food security, local economies, celebrations of diversity, and art as cultural transformation. There are tens of thousands of initiatives solving major social and environmental problems, who are excluded from mainstream media and institutional finance because the way they work is naturally collaborative and polycentric. Three big picture goals the Bloom Network hopes to achieve are:
<ul>
<li>Inspire a billion acts of regeneration.</li>
<li>Build capacity and relationships across regenerative culture initiatives.</li>
<li>Transfer power and resources to decentralized networks.</li>
</ul>
Contributions made to their project will go towards “Regenerative Actions Ticker” on their homepage, DAO templates that local Bloom chapters can use to fund the coordination labor of actions and launch the “Call to Bloom” that will help 100+ local Blooms get started as centers of regenerative action in their cities. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/bloom-network/">Donate to Bloom Network on Giveth.io!</a>
<h3>Must Have Crypto</h3>
is a Cryptocurrency project based out of Kenya led by Mutinda Kisio. The Project is about teaching the masses about Crypto while enabling them to earn a daily basic income. They have minted their own token and plan to use it to teach low income individuals and families about how to use cryptocurrency by providing a steady stream of airdrops up to a maximum of a 1000 addresses. Mutinda is seeking funding to back the value of the token and provide real value to the tokens that are being airdropped. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/musthavecrypto/">Make a Contribution to Must Have Crypto on their Giveth project page.</a>
<h3>Diamante Bridge Collective</h3>
is a group of land stewards in the Diamante Valley, Costa Rica working together to create collective foundational agreements and a local regenerative economy that includes digital currencies for the transparent and accountable recordkeeping of their exchanges. They are building bridges between communities and organizations, local and global cultures, property owners and skilled service providers who are committed to working together long term to care for their bio-region, their neighbors, and the community at large. The Diamante Bridge Collective functions as a hub of many physical nodes, connected via global networks of shared vision and missions with the goal of restoring, preserving and consciously stewarding surrounding lands and watersheds while living harmoniously within them in alignment with planetary values. Donations will help develop infrastructure systems to support growing communities. <a href="https://giveth.io/project/diamante-bridge-collective">Head over to their project on giveth.io to make a donation!</a>
Six change-making projects live on Giveth and inspiring change! There are a couple more weeks left to make submissions so if you or someone you know is working on a great cause then now is the time to get on board! <a href="https://medium.com/giveth/calling-all-change-makers-7fa964684c2b">You can check out our original medium post here for more details!</a>
<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*RXXBWgnPgpgK-y8k.jpg"></figure><h3>Want to get more involved?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Try out <a href="https://giveth.io/project/giveth/">Giveth.io</a> or <a href="https://beta.giveth.io/dac/giveth-dac">Giveth TRACE</a>
</li>
<li>Discover our <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/">Docs</a> and<a href="https://wiki.giveth.io/"> Wiki</a>
</li>
<li>Join us on<a href="https://discord.gg/JftjK8Un3z"> Discord</a> or<a href="http://t.me/givethio"> Telegram</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> and<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/giveth/"> Reddit</a>
</li>
</ul>
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>
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The First Change-Maker Submission Roundup is In!

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 

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:<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

The current social and health crisis in Colombia is forcing people to raise their voices. This year, the protests began on April 28th and people have taken the streets with no rest since then to claim to the government. Although the nowadays crisis is not something new, there were several triggers for the social response that we see today, among them:

- A tax reform that would have affected low and medium-class people
- The more than 900 social leaders murdered since 2016, the year in which was signed a peace agreement with the FARC guerrilla
- A health reform, that pretends to privatize the public resources
- Since the first days of protests, the police forces repressed the protesters in such a violent way, that there are 37 people murdered by the Colombian police in less than 20 days of strikes
- The historical inequality here is such, that it would take 11 generations for a poor family to approach the mean income and the current government policies are not doing anything to change this situation
- The ineptitude and disinterest of the government in protecting women from gender violence

In this social context, there are a lot of people organizing themselves and joining forces to support the strikes. Among these connections arose a "Spontaneous Gathering" in which some people from Bogotá started to meet to gather ideas to move forward. Here I share some of the things we have accomplished so far:
- Organized the logistics to carry out a space of open mic in a public park. In this space, we also received and handled donations of food like fruits, sandwiches, and water to distribute to whoever could need them that day. 
- Gathered nonperishable food, first aid supplements for kits, and money to donate to people in need.

Now, we aim to also gather international funding to keep up with the required work to support the strikes. We will be deeply thankful for your donations; we will update the destination of each dollar here.    

¡El pueblo no se rinde, carajo!

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