A straightforward funding mechanism that rewards innovators and risk-takers while remaining sensitive to the social impact of new…
Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of Giving
Gaps in philanthropic funding for era-defining science and discovery demand a new approach. In this piece, we look at how learning from venture capital is a game changer for catalytic philanthropy.
Philanthropy 2.0: What the Evolution of For-Profit Investment Tells Us About the Future of Giving
Gaps in philanthropic funding for era-defining science and discovery demand a new approach. In this piece, we look at how learning from venture capital is a game changer for catalytic philanthropy.
Funded projects | Scaling Trust
Explore the projects we're funding in the Scaling Trust opportunity space.
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some more lessons I’ve learned, for the $free.99
The Owning Impact Project | MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative | MIT Sloan
The Owning Impact Project examines the role that systemic investing strategies can have in fostering transformative change.
The rise of the "successful" unsustainable company
We're funding too many unsustainable companies.
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research
Researchers often employ signaling theory to explain the effect of entrepreneurial communication on fundraising success. This focus on signaling can lead researchers to overlook alternative explana...
Moving beyond the charity framework
A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.
Framing charitable donations as exceptional expenses increases giving.
Today we're launching the Open Source for Science Fund, a new multi-donor philanthropic fund by Renaissance Philanthropy, seeded by @biohub.org and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with support from @kavlifoundation.org and @researchsoftware.bsky.social 🧵 os4science.org/news/open-source-for-science-…
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
os4science.orgI need people to stop trying to solve funding problems in the Atmosphere by trying to be attractive to the same funders and funding models that put us in this situation in the first place. Empowering individuals and communities via technology was step one. Step two is doing the same for funding.
We just launched the Open Source Endowment, the first endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers, with $693,000 raised already. The world depends on Open Source, but making our ecosystem sustainable is a complex task. I hope that, with community consultation, the Endowment can help 🙏
A VC and some big-name programmers are trying to solve open source's funding problem, permanently | TechCrunch
techcrunch.comFunding / contribution structures
Alternative org, funding, finance, contribution structures towards... improving society somewhat
novel funding mechanisms
funding models that doesn't depend on VC. funding models that keep things accessible and open but yet provide enough incentive for people to pay
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Company as a Commons
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The Real Reason that Substack is Collapsing
