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
2022

8 results

  1. Cheeri

    Digital Financial Services

    75 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Alice Lo

    Cheeri helps social enterprises and nonprofits obtain sustainable, continuous funding. Through making it easy for impact funders and purpose-driven organizations to prove their impact and manage funding, Cheeri aims to level the playing field as well as enhance collaboration between funders and funded, in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals and positive social change for their beneficiaries.

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  3. Erica Hargreave

    Ambassadorships & Fellowships

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Erica Hargreave

    To extend the Web Monetization learning materials, creating educational assets on different ways to Web Monetize your digital assets and on different Web Monetization tools and platforms. In parallel to this, I'd also focus on community outreach, education, and on-boarding to specific digital niche communities with a focus on disability communities as well as within various digital communities that I am a part of that are well suited to Web Monetize with ease (including the open education, travel media, web series, and contemporary media communities globally).

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  4. Helping Small Businesses Adopt Web Monetization (HSBAWM)

    Grant for the Web

    33 300 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Rashon Massey

    Serving as a case study and roadmap for other online small business retailers, this project seeks to use Web Monetization as a vehicle for driving the potentiality of new/existing customers of MICOPEIA.com to exclusive online content, while also opening a pathway to growing a Web Monetized online community.

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  5. ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tabi Bonney

    The ITADI Digital Sustainable Farming Initiative will design and pilot the first direct to consumer farm that leverages the power of Web Monetization to prototype solutions addressing issues of transparency, sustainability, and equitable market access that plague coffee and other cash crop farmers around the world. This project will utilize a three part strategy that includes dynamic storytelling, limited-edition creative collaborations, and technologically upscaling a remote farm to become digitally enabled.

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  6. MicroMemberships - Subscriptions for values based content and services

    Grant for the Web

    49 995 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Netherlands
    Project lead: Robert Goené

    In our increasingly digitized society, online spaces are oftentimes owned – or exploited – by large tech companies that seem to disconnect from shared public values. We have become largely dependent on their digital services, and digital platform or content creators are bound to their terms. The standard is ‘free’ platforms built on advertisement income. In other words, the rights of users are violated by exploiting their personal data. These disruptive changes in our socio-economic landscape demand research into new financial models that are based on public values.

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  7. Using Web Monetization for Incentivizing Sharing of ‘Good’ Content

    Grant for the Web

    44 700 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: India
    Project lead: Tarunima Prabhakar, Denny George, Arathy Puthillam

    Our project aims to understand the possibility and effectiveness of web based monetization as a mechanism to promote sharing of better quality information in online spaces. This project is a collaboration between a group of psychologists and technologists who are trying to build better interventions against online misinformation.

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  8. Web Monetized Digital Knowledge Commons - powered by Mysilio

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Tani Olhanoski

    Mysilio will build a prototype for an open-source platform for managing a shared knowledge commons that is financially sustained through passive Web Monetization. Readers, research groups, grantmakers, etc can pay a subscription to access a community's social knowledge graph, and the subscription fees will be split and attributed to the individual creators whose content is being consumed through the platform.

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