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Our self-governed approach to trust-based philanthropy leverages the collective intelligence of a network of the world’s brightest builders to allocate donations across projects, ensuring that your donation will create a sustained and systemic impact.
Our impact reporting and extensively auditable blockchain financial records empower you, our donors, to see the exact impacts that your donations create.
How To Donate
Funding for the OpenCivics Network can be directed to network stewardship, consortium treasury, member projects, or autonomous network activities.
Some activities and member projects may be fiscally hosted by the OpenCivics Foundation, making them eligible for tax-deductible donations as well.
Make a Donation
The OpenCivics Network currently accepts donations through multiple currencies and pathways. Donations are not currently tax deductible. We will soon be releasing our plan to become a 501(3)c non-profit organization.As such, the information below represents intentions to be enacted in 2025.
One Time Fiat Donation
Donating fiat currency supports Network stewardship and the foundational support infrastructures that empower autonomous activities within the Network.
One Time crypto Donation
Donating crypto currency also supports Network stewardship and foundational support infrastructures, particularly those that leverage web3.
Reoccuring Donation
Recurring donors provide a reliable source of revenue, a necessity for ongoing strategic development. Recurring donors are gifted an NFT which unlocks participation in the Network.
Paths to donate
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Funding the stewardship of the OpenCivics Network provides critical funds to maintain shared infrastructures, provide coordination support, and continue to develop and implement our progressive protocolization strategy.
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Crypto donations to the OpenCivics Consortium Treasury will be democratically allocated by members through funding proposals. Funds can be sent directly to the multi-signature wallet address on Optimism or
Ethereum: 0xF273673fA4ad8178b0CCB09470ea39aBd92F2c8f -
Funding projects within the OpenCivics Consortium goes directly to member projects. Funds can be sent directly through our Direct Grants Program or multiplied by matching funds if participating in our quarterly Quadratic Funding Grants Round.
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Funding for alliances, initiatives, grants, gatherings, courses, within the OpenCivics Consortium are autonomously stewarded by members. Some activities are fiscally hosted by the OpenCivics Foundation and are eligible for tax-deductible donations.
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Why Donate
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Our hyper-transparent financial accounting allows donors to trace exactly where every single donation travels throughout a complex and interconnected impact funding architecture. All projects receiving grants from the OpenCivics Foundation are required to generate blockchain-based impact reports which the Foundation verifies, allowing donors to monitor the verified impacts of each project and modulate their donations according to their performance.
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As a neutral third party monitoring the impact of all projects within the OpenCivics Consortium, we provide assurances to donors that every project’s impact reports are vetted and verified. We evaluate impacts so that you don’t have to, enabling highly informed and targeted donations based on proven track record and trust in a project’s future capacity to leverage donations for maximum impact.
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By providing a 501c3 as a shared infrastructure for a Consortium of impact projects, we function as a trusted intermediary between grassroots projects and donors, enabling even small scale projects to become eligible for tax deductible donations and receive support for the reporting and validation of their impacts.
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If you choose to make a donation to the consortium or a particular impact area, your donation will be transparently and democratically allocated to a network of pioneering civic innovators, aligned and coordinated to maximize impact through the non-rivalrous network effects of the OpenCivics Consortium.
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By funding an impact network instead of individual projects, your donation will support positive feedback loops between projects as they work together on the ground to create lasting, systemic change.