Glo Dollar

David Casey

We build bridges between builders, funders, and researchers to transform the funding mechanisms for public goods. Alongside our sister series, Earth Commons, which focuses on nature’s commons, we aim to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem by uniting diverse communities from Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, and industry.Funding the Commons (FtC) focuses on innovating public goods funding infrastructure through integrating Web2 and Ethereum platforms. Our initiatives, including conferences, builder residencies, hackathons, and impact pilot projects, accelerate the growth of the public goods funding ecosystem and shape the discourse around commons. Our community fosters collaboration, mentorship, and innovation.Key Initiatives:<ul><li>Conferences: FtC has organized 10 international conferences, strategically designed to foster innovation in public goods funding. These events unite global leaders in Web3, public goods funding, and decentralized governance to share knowledge and promote impactful collaborations.</li><li>Builder Residencies: These 1-month co-living experiences drive public goods projects forward through community workshops, mentorship, and peer support. Our Thailand residency, for example, explores applied use cases of commons funding in a local context.</li><li>Hackathons: Designed to ignite innovation in public goods funding infrastructure, FtC hackathons offer sponsor challenges, prizes, and mentorship to empower developers and integrate existing PGF platforms.</li><li>Impact Pilot Projects: FtC incubates selected projects, leveraging its ecosystem’s tools to contribute to sustainable public goods funding infrastructure.</li></ul>By fostering a global community of builders, researchers, and funders, FtC is accelerating the growth of the public goods funding ecosystem and shaping the future of commons stewardship.

We build bridges between builders, funders, and researchers to transform the
funding mechanisms for public goods. Alongside our sister series, Earth Commons,
which focuses on nature’s commons, we aim to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem
by uniting diverse communities from Web2, Web3, research, ph...

Giveth

Funding the Commons

Lauren Luz

<h2>What is Giveth?</h2> Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding opportunities available within the web3 ecosystem. Read more on our <a href="https://blog.giveth.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog</a> or in our <a href="https://docs.giveth.io/whatisgiveth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">docs</a>! <h2>What is Giveth.io?</h2> Giveth.io is the free, open-source, and decentralized application for peer-to-peer donations that you are using right now. 💜 Giveth.io allows anyone to open crypto funding portals by creating projects for their for-good initiatives on our DApp. Donors can choose from a wide range of projects that run the gambit on for-good ventures - feeding the homeless, funding open-source software, saving the environment. Projects can be made in minutes, and donations can made in seconds! <h2>How are donations being used?</h2> Donations are our primary source of funding and are deeply appreciated! Donations to Giveth.io will help our team keep the platform alive and running, add new features, expand our community support and outreach, and ultimately, build a world where public goods are abundant and public goods supporters thrive. Fun fact: Donation made to this project act as entries to the <a href="https://blog.giveth.io/givbacks-reloaded-introducing-the-new-givbacks-program-92d3827ba970" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GIVbacks raffle</a>, and give you a chance to win up to 500,000 <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/giveth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GIV</a> ﻿🎉﻿ <h2>How can you get in touch?</h2> Your questions, suggestions and feedback are needed to help us shape and tailor our platform to your needs. Check out our <a href="https://giveth.io/support" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Support Page</a> and our <a href="https://giveth.io/join" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join Page</a> for ways to contribute to or join our thriving community. Let us welcome you personally to the Future of Giving! <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmWvewDX9TfxUN8tVCYZo6cAKVLtsMaro7EsbwY3cXBVJN" />

WHAT IS GIVETH?
Giveth is a community focused on Building the Future of Giving using blockchain
technology. Our intention is to support and reward the funding of public goods
by creating open, transparent and free access to the revolutionary funding
opportunities available within the web3 ecosyst...

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The Giveth Community of Makers

Regens Unite

What is Regens Unite? ⭐ Check out our feature on the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/106-regens-unite-with-xavier-damman-and-leen-schelfhout/id1609313639?i=1000609431550" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Green Pill Podcast</a> ⭐Regens Unite is a movement of events and educational media. Our community-building initiative bridges the gaps between the broad range of sectors working on regenerative solutions, connecting expertise with innovation. DAOs 🤝 ReFi 🤝 DeSci 🤝 Platform Coops 🤝 Purpose Organizations 🤝 Climate Activism 🤝 NGOs 🤝 ArtLaunched in May 2022, we’ve successfully run <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/#events" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dozens of IRL events</a> with a growing roster of new locations. Our curated, in-person gatherings have programs designed to guide participants through professionally facilitated discussions and knowledge-sharing experiences. <ul><li>Intimate &amp; Intentional Event Curation - We organise inclusive, participatory events with a team of experienced facilitators.</li><li>Facilitation &amp; Programming Services - We support other events through programming partnerships, facilitation training or consulting, and marketing.</li><li>Educational content - We produce digital media such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@regensunite/videos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">after-movies, session recordings</a>, <a href="https://paragraph.xyz/@regensunite" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a newsletter</a>, &amp; an events handbook to share learnings and provide a platform for our growing regen network.</li></ul> Check out some of our after-movies from Berlin and Paris! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAI0Zc39rm8&amp;t=28s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmYTAVyNqtPGndsAmuA8UafqPjP81RSccn5Q4QV6jFm21o" /></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efOOtCN7ds" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTvePnALBxsXARiexksgKBoPCHCW7pXzcgQwAQREP3quy" /></a> What Regens Unite is bringing to web3:It’s no secret that web3 needs more diversity and more expertise to achieve true systems change at a global scale. If we want to build regenerative systems, we need everyone involved in the solution design process. We are evolving the web3 space by: <ul><li>Bringing in expertise from sectors outside of web3 to broaden the regen movement</li><li>Providing an avenue for innovative web3 projects to conduct research and receive rapid feedback outside of their bubble</li><li>Designing events with high-quality interaction, and safe spaces for experimentation to co-create web3 projects with local communities</li><li>Driving inclusivity and diversity in web3 through curated attendance, using application processes &amp; scholarships </li><li>Creating toolkits and media to elevate project stories, educate on the regen movement, and inspire new groups to get involved</li></ul> <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmVjzUbUrp9PNvWLLQsCfKe1oiDJ5XioufNTcK3QKPfTXw" /> Community feedback in response to our question, "what surprised you?"- "Solid female presence, and people who didn’t know what web3 was"- "I was positively surprised, that not only people from crypto world attended"- "The leaning into regeneration as a personal, interpersonal human need as well as environmental regeneration"- "I loved the incredibly genuine inclusivity of the whole event, the horizontal hierarchy, and feelings of agency"- "Due to my work I haven't had many touchpoints with web3, and I get really fascinated that there are a lot of real people with the same mission and vision" <img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/QzmUmTnbcCaxaCyO7i_qUCo5fiEPvOTzf1AXUJyPgRBjo7vcj4OPycPGzbrZ_jfZJxJwx18dDYVqFw9f7oyZQDRvFJvd1pWsyeJ7Yu-Pe_E3z2Ly0n-bnHUlR40wJEZ1DAZvGSyiQS2NcbCyv_iCiGk" /> What your funds are helping us to build:Outside of a few small event sponsorships, Regens Unite has been entirely supported by donations - and the core team does this work predominantly unpaid. While we are developing a sustainable business model, we need funding to continue.We have a growing pipeline of inbound requests from event organizers across the world to expand the movement organically.Our goal is to raise funds to provide support services from our DAO (marketing, programming, facilitation, &amp; organizational support) to enable regenerative event organizers around the world who want to use our brand, and to continue to build an online platform for our regen network to discover new opportunities for collaboration.We like to show our work - so for example, in 2023 we’ve been launching digital content and IRL events to serve our growing community:Events, events, events!<ul><li>A <a href="https://twitter.com/CorinnaSchlicht/status/1654500925065633800" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">“Web3 Fundraising” activation event</a> promoting Gitcoin &amp; Giveth in Berlin</li><li><a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/event/regens-unite-brussels-2023" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regens Unite Brussels</a> (the second edition of our genesis event)</li><li>Program partnership with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SkH7MAFCPg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Enchanted Village</a> </li><li>A <a href="https://lu.ma/notyourbikini?tk=g0ewRS" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">regen side event</a> at ETH Barcelona</li><li><a href="https://youtu.be/_efOOtCN7ds" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A Regen Hub in Paris alongside EthCC</a></li><li>A <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/event/regen-summer-camp-2023" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regen Summer Camp</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/event/regens-unite-london" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regens Unite London</a> kickoff</li><li><a href="https://x.com/regensunite/status/1710298452301590902" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regens Unite Berlin</a> alongside Blockchain Week</li><li>Program partnership with <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/event/dpact-istanbul" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dpact.io in Istanbul</a> during DevConnect</li></ul>Content, content, content…<ul><li>A brand <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">new website</a></li><li>A monthly <a href="https://paragraph.xyz/@regensunite" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regen Roundup newsletter</a></li><li>An episode of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/106-regens-unite-with-xavier-damman-and-leen-schelfhout/id1609313639?i=1000609431550" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The GreenPill Podcast</a></li><li>An open and collaborative <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/calendar" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regen Calendar</a> to promote other events</li><li>The Regens Unite Handbook: a practical guide for designing regenerative gatherings</li></ul> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mIXT6a_zG6jQQnJkEpepB-yneh57Sz2Zt_g5dAh6j-j7R-waRc6EKfuU4mn2FKYu2GDNJKg3EVxGdWzCFvtGstp_tQ1-DNHqR600xErAHcAXCImLQ1EsOtPVvnzpT9GB7RKFtMKeN-Gdjoxckxm7yKQ" /> What’s next for Regens Unite?Regens Unite was born in May 2022 with a seed event in Brussels. Since then we have initiated:<ul><li>dozens of IRL events</li><li>a growing Telegram group of 700+ regens</li><li>a collaborative network of media partnerships</li><li>growing social presence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram &amp; Facebook</li></ul>We have an expanding pipeline of inbound requests from event organizers across the world to work with our brand and grow the movement, and we are continuing to build a support structure around this.Thank you in advance for your support. Every donation counts to help us further our mission to unite regenerative builders around the world!<a href="https://t.me/regensunite" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">﻿👉﻿ Join our community</a> on Telegram!Find more information about us and our events <a href="https://www.regensunite.earth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">on our website</a>.

What is Regens Unite? 
⭐ Check out our feature on the Green Pill Podcast ⭐
Regens Unite is a movement of events and educational media. Our
community-building initiative bridges the gaps between the broad range of
sectors working on regenerative solutions, connecting expertise with
innovation. 
DA...

Public Nouns Operations

Public Nouns (<a href="https://publicnouns.wtf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://publicnouns.wtf/</a>) exists to promote, fund, and proliferate aligned projects that focus on serving our public.Inspired greatly by Nouns DAO and the mechanisms it’s pushed forward, Public Nouns is a project that leverages these awesome mechanisms to help fund Public Goods and experimentation thereof.Borrowing from the Charity:Water model, Public Nouns has a goal to fund any operational expenses separate from the funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury.  By supporting Public Nouns Operations, you help allow 100% of funds that go into the Public Nouns DAO treasury via sales of Public Nouns to be used towards Public Goods and experimentation thereof.Public Nouns launched at the end of September, and has raised over 165 ETH in its first 70 sales of Public Nouns.  Docs: <a href="https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/</a>Manifesto: <a href="https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/manifesto" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.publicnouns.wtf/manifesto</a><h2>Funding Operations</h2>The Public Nouns Operations will be funded out of pNounders.eth multisig. Funding into pNounders.eth would planned to be used for things like:<ul><li>Kickstarting some early experimentation</li><li>Bots set-up</li><li>Starting iteration on governance and research (interested in exploring things like RageQuit into Public Nouns)</li><li>Proliferating the Public Noun meme from the start, for Public Goods sake of course</li><li>Retroactive to contributors</li><li>Hosting and ongoing maintenance</li><li>Ensure Public Nouns is well supported to start</li></ul><h2>Success</h2>There are varying degrees of success when it comes to deploying a new project. While success could be as minimal as being net positive $1 in favor of Public Goods versus what it cost to launch, we’re setting our sights much higher. We’re setting out to gamify the funding of Public Goods using the proven flywheel mechanism of Nouns, and then iterate beyond on creative ways to continue funding Public Goods. Success would be Public Nouns becoming a formidable addition to the Public Goods-funding ecosystem.<h2>Public Nouns Details</h2><img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTNPL83mKdaZ55VCkdk1S77hmDthPFrqMaUSkh2fAbWUn" />Quick examples of public good attributes added to the mix<h2>PG Nounders “pNounders”</h2>PG Nounders “pNounders” “pounding the pavement for public goods” Founders of Public Nouns. This small starting group of aligned public goods communities kickstarted and deployed the initiative:<ul><li>Moloch (attr: Demon)</li><li>MetaCartel (attr: Chili)</li><li>Gitcoin (attr: Bot/Green Pill)</li><li>Panvala (attr: stampee)</li><li>Radicle (attr: seedling)</li><li>CLR.FUND (attr: Bubbles)</li><li>Optimism (attr: OPossum)</li></ul>

Public Nouns (https://publicnouns.wtf/) exists to promote, fund, and proliferate
aligned projects that focus on serving our public.
Inspired greatly by Nouns DAO and the mechanisms it’s pushed forward, Public
Nouns is a project that leverages these awesome mechanisms to help fund Public
Goods and...

Kyle W

We're on a mission to create technologies and opportunities that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters. Now, as a technology organization, Gitcoin is bringing capital allocation strategies to web3 in permissionless ways. As leaders in the Grants allocation space, we will move more money into the hands of the builders, dreamers, and the web3 community at large. With Grants Stack, you can configure direct grants programs, quadratic funding rounds and even retro active funding rounds. Grants Stack is built on Allo, Gitcoin's allocation protocol. Allo is the first protocol to combine three core components: A universal project registry, with diverse funding strategies (how the capital is allocated), with robust payout strategies (ensure accountability with the capital that is being allocation). Combined, Allo makes it easy to run a grants program, learn more about projects or fund what matters. The Gitcoin Grants Program is a quarterly initiative run by Gitcoin that empowers everyday believers in web3 to drive funding toward what they believe matters, with the impact of individual donations being magnified by the use of the Quadratic Funding (QF) distribution mechanism. The objective of this grant is to help us grow &amp; sustain the builders who are pioneering in the capital allocation space and supporting public goods globally.

We're on a mission to create technologies and opportunities that enable
communities to build, fund and protect what matters.
Now, as a technology organization, Gitcoin is bringing capital allocation
strategies to web3 in permissionless ways. As leaders in the Grants allocation
space, we will move...

Gitcoin

Token Engineering Commons

The Token Engineering Commons is a DAO with the purpose of advancing the field of token engineering. The TEC supports the creation of ethical, safe, resilient and diverse economic systems to benefit societies around the world. <img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmdbreDNVAUgkGuN726aXwMzhtfkUYfKfKwrYCQYZqxzYV" /> If you want to support Token Engineering in general, donating to this project is the BEST way to do it. The funds collected by this project will be allocated by TEC Token holders to advance token engineering. <h1>About us</h1> The TEC’s mission is to become a <a href="https://nav.al/schelling-point" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Schelling Point</a> for the token engineering community through economic and social layers. The economic layer funds projects that discover, develop and proliferate the best practices for engineering safe tokenized economies, while aligning our collective success with the individual benefit of TEC token holders. Our social layer is even more important, as it unites the token engineering field around the ethical principles, standards, tools and methodologies that emerge as this nascent field advances. The Token Engineering Commons cultural framework operates based on <a href="(https://app.gitbook.com/@token-engineering-commons/s/tec-handbook/what-is-the-tec/the-cultural-build" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elinor Ostrom’s principles</a> for governing the commons. It values a prosocial perspective and prioritizes the advancement of token engineering over short-term gain. ‌Integrity, curiosity, constructive inquiry, consistency, presence and gratitude are foundational for maintaining mutual respect within the growing community.‌ The TEC encourages its members to be radically open source, non-hierarchical, transparent in their intentions and accountable for their actions. <h1>Links</h1> Our website is: <a href="https://tecommons.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tecommons.org</a> Our discord is: <a href="https://discord.tecommons.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discord.tecommons.org</a> Our forum is: <a href="https://forum.tecommons.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.tecommons.org</a> Our handbook is: <a href="https://token-engineering-commons.gitbook.io/tec-handbook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://token-engineering-commons.gitbook.io/tec-handbook</a>

The Token Engineering Commons is a DAO with the purpose of advancing the field
of token engineering.
The TEC supports the creation of ethical, safe, resilient and diverse economic
systems to benefit societies around the world.
If you want to support Token Engineering in general, donating to this ...

The Glo Foundation gives $3,000+ a month across cause areas: Web3 Public Goods, Fighting Poverty, and Combating Climate Change. For our Web3 Public Goods Cause Area, we’re meta: we fund the funders. The rails, stewards, and curators that allocate capital, maintain protocols, and set norms. Funding funders is high-leverage: it reduces coordination costs, keeps the commons credibly neutral, and multiplies downstream impact. One strong allocator or maintainer can unblock hundreds of builders. Who we back<ul><li>Giveth. Open-source, crypto-native donation rails that route funds directly to public goods with on-chain transparency, community curation, and recurring support—turning one-off gifts into sustained infrastructure.</li><li>Gitcoin. Grants and quadratic funding that let communities signal what matters; matching pools amplify many small backers, steering capital to high-signal early work markets would miss.</li><li>Protocol Guild. Collective funding for Ethereum’s core researchers and maintainers—long-term, credibly neutral rewards for the people who keep the base layer secure, performant, and evolving.</li><li>Artizen. A curated funding program for culture as infrastructure -- supporting creators whose stories and artifacts attract talent, explain the tech, and compound adoption across the ecosystem.</li></ul> For this Giveth cause, we’ve added a Polygon-native lineup that, like our current projects, unblocks hundreds of builders: Giveth Community of Makers, Gitcoin, Public Nouns Operations, Funding The Commons, Regens Unite, and Token Engineering Commons. Why this mattersPublic goods are underpriced. Strengthen the allocators and maintainers and you get sturdier protocols, better tools, and faster shipping. Through this Giveth cause, we aim to channel even more dollars to these funders so they can scale the commons -- and the rest of the ecosystem with it.

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Web3 Public Goods by Glo Dollar
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