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

6 results

  1. Bowie State University

    NextGen Higher Education

    30 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dr. Andrew Mangle

    To engage more students at HBCUs in open protocols by expanding our program to include coursework, micro internships, supporting resources, mentorship, community engagement, and foster collaboration. This expansion includes student engagement, forming partnerships with HBCUs and other organizations, encouraging community support for students, and supporting student contributions to open protocols. The project developing talent, leadership, and coordination to establish a self-sustaining pipeline among the HBCU community along with under-represented talent that offers various interests, capabilities, and perspectives.

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  2. 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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  3. Democratising Design Education with a Web Monetized Publishing Platform

    Grant for the Web

    99 370 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Graeme Fulton

    This project will develop Prototypr as an inclusive Web Monetized publishing platform for designers, that rewards contributors whilst democratising design education by providing openly accessible, quality content across different cultures.

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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. PeerPay

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Chile
    Project lead: Néstor Campos

    PeerPay will be a platform that through API allows small businesses to integrate payments on their websites and accept their own currencies, regardless of the currency with which their customers pay. In the same way, it will allow transactions between people, reducing transaction costs between them.

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  6. Web Monetization for the Arts

    Grant for the Web

    11 410 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Natalie Axton

    Web Monetization for the Arts is an education and outreach project that listens to and informs arts organizations in the United States about Web Monetization so that they may develop more effective and sustainable online content practices. Our project researches and surveys classical music and performing arts groups to discover their current understanding of Web Monetization, meeting them where they are, and then writes and delivers educational materials in order to create sustainable and equitable practices and deconstruct myths around free art.

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