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Grants directly enable vital pioneering projects to receive funding by connecting civic patrons with innovators through democratic and trust-based philanthropy.

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Grant Rounds

Seasonal cycles of grant funding offered utilizing Gitcoin’s quadratic funding platform.

  • Research Round

    ROUND 03 / CLOSED / Aug 2024
    $42,500 USD funded to grantees

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  • Consortium Round

    ROUND 02 / CLOSED / Apr 2024
    $76,000 USD funded to grantees

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  • Genesis Round

    ROUND 01 / CLOSED / Nov 2023
    $33,000 USD funded to grantees
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  • Fund a Round

    Grantees need your support. Each season we host a grants round enabled by the support of matching pool partners.

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About Activities

the connective tissue of the network

Within the Open Civic Innovation Framework, the participatory design process exists to guide and support the open civic innovation lifecycle through six essential activities: map, alliances, initiatives, grants, gatherings, and courses. Participatory activities are expressions of strategic functions designed to provide the necessary scaffolding for the emergent self-organization of sovereign actors towards a common goal.

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  • Align : Maps

    Mapping is a practice of structuring representations of systems, relationships, and processes to foster alignment and empower collective action.

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  • Coordinate : Alliances

    Alliances are aligned peers/projects, coordinating their efforts for increased impact and efficacy in their complementary independent pursuits.

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  • Collaborate : Initiatives

    Initiatives are collaborative working groups of aligned peers/projects, producing mutually beneficial outputs that require synergistic coordination.

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  • Resource : Grants

    Grants are resourcing for civic innovation projects, connecting civic patrons with innovators through democratic and trust-based philanthropy.

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  • Convene : Gatherings

    Gatherings are online and in-person convenings that bring civic innovators, organizers and patrons into closer relationship around shared purpose.

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  • Learn : Courses

    Courses are learning experiences that empower civic organizers and innovators with knowledge, frameworks, and peer learning that supports collective action.

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/ About Program

The Grants Program fosters trust and accountability through transparent resource allocation, impact reporting and verification. Utilizing a variety of innovative grants mechanisms, donors access multiple ways to support causes that matter to them.

The program enhances donation impact by offering mechanisms that incentivize and enable effective funding of multi-organization collaboration.

    • Provide pluralistic and democratic network funding mechanisms

    • Multiply donor impact through collaborative network effects and project synergies

    • Normalize funding civic innovation as a holistic systems change strategy

    • Provide transparent, credibly neutral impact reporting, evaluation and verification to support a web of trust between grantees and patrons

  • This program seeks to maximize the systemic impact of philanthropy through the collective intelligence of Consortium members as they coordinate and synergize their real-world knowledge and impact strategies. By funding a network of civic innovators, this program works towards a future of trust-based philanthropy in which funds are able to transparently flow to grassroots projects creating lasting impacts.

    • Over $150,000 USD distributed to 45 projects

    • Continuous innovation in on-chain philanthropy

    • Over 800 individual donors have participated

    • Actively experimenting with on-chain impact attestations

    • Actively collaborating with / learning alongside other grant programs

    • Selected multiple times by Gitcoin to receive matching funds

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  • The Grants Program is experimenting with innovative mechanisms for democratic and attributive funding, and attestations to track the impact created through donations.

    • Quadratic Funding

    • Quadratic Voting

    • Direct Grants

    • Treasury Proposals

    • Retroactive Grants

/ Recent Reports

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Questions about This program?

Programs are an offering of the OpenCivics Network. Visit our wiki to learn more or contact us with your questions.

Support the Grants Program

This program is publicly funded and relies on public donations to operate. The program’s records are public.