Grantee Directory

Projects and organizations funded by the Interledger Foundation, working to expand access to digital financial services around the world.

The Work in Practice

Interledger grantees work across the world in different financial environments, from regions with limited infrastructure to highly connected digital economies. They include community-based organizations, researchers, technologists, and advocates who build infrastructure, advance research, shape policy, and expand how financial systems work in practice.

Year
2020

10 results

  1. Micro-Donations for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums via Web Monetization and the Omeka S Platform

    Grant for the Web

    49 949 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Lincoln Mullen

    Creating a plugin for the open-source Omeka S platform that uses the Web Monetization Standard to collect micro-donations from users, allowing them to contribute automatically and voluntarily to cultural heritage and educational institutions without requiring these institutions to lock content behind a paywall.

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  2. Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Video Training Program

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Belgium
    Project lead: Pamela Alexander

    Modeling a repeatable, scalable monetization framework with Cinnamon and the Interledger protocol natively built in to deliver the 8-week online mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program to assist people with stress, anxiety, depression, and pain.

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  3. Akita: Get Involved in Web Monetization With or Without the Price Tag

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Elliot Evans, Sharon Wang

    Continuing to develop Akita, a website, browser extension, and outreach initiative that seeks to increase awareness and improve understanding of Web Monetization by providing individuals with helpful resources and insight into their online browsing. It also increases accessibility by enabling engagement with Web Monetization without having to commit money. Additionally, this effort includes the ‘A Web Monetization Story’ project, an interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.

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  4. E-learning Content Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Andrew Hancox

    Engaging with the Moodle community to design, develop, publish, support, and promote a suite of plugins to bring Web Monetization to Moodle. The plugins will allow entire sites, courses or individual activities to be monetized. A reference site will be set up to demonstrate the technology, allow selected individuals and organisations to publish content, and provide free courses on installing and configuring the plugins (for site admins) and setting up a digital wallet (for consumers). Once the plugins are delivered there will be a programme of out-reach via Sussex University to not-for-profit organisations who would benefit from building new or more sustainable business models around existing content and knowledge.

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  5. Freemitization: A live streaming experiment targeting mass adoption combining freemium and Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Benjamin Marshall

    Creating a live-streaming platform that employs the freemium approach to grow Web Monetization usage. The platform will drive community engagement by delivering events and educational content, showcasing Web Monetization, and leveraging Coil and Interledger to provide fairer creator rewards.

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  6. Getting started with Web Monetization & Interledger

    Grant for the Web

    13 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Hong Kong
    Project lead: TSZ HING LAU

    Creating an educational course conducted in Mandarin for anyone who wants to learn more about the basics of Web Monetization and Interledger in order to grow adoption.

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  7. Providing free legal assistance to web monetization innovators

    Grant for the Web

    20 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Art Neil

    Conducting one-on-one consultations to provide pro-bono legal assistance to independent online creators who use Web Monetization technology, including to Grant for the Web grantees. Also, publishing educational resources based on those consultations to provide guidance to the vast majority of creators in need who we don’t have the capacity to directly assist.

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  8. Sustainable Funding Vlogcast, Case Studies, and Online Course for Media, Educators & Tech

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Erica Hargreave

    Using experiments, interviews, and case studies to create open educational, online learning opportunities around the Web Monetization standard, and to inform sustainable funding models.

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  9. What Kind of Internet Do You Want? Season 2

    Grant for the Web

    49 503 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Amy Oliveira

    Producing the second season of the series What Kind of Internet Do You Want? with a focus on educating people about Web Monetization through fun educational videos, deep-dive discussions with experts, and reviewing case studies of monetized projects.

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  10. www.pattyalexx.com - Webpage for Baking, Photography, Pet Care, Crypto, Web Monetization awareness

    Grant for the Web

    14 997 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Portugal
    Project lead: Patrícia Carapinha

    Using the personal website www.pattyalexx.com to raise awareness on Web Monetization, crypto currencies, and the Interledger Protocol, by educating readers that arrive to see other content.

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