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

13 results

  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. REACH.Love

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Nonny de la PeƱa

    Designing a WebXR subscription solution that allows for the creation and experience of volumetric content in a PC-based browser, headset or mobile phone. REACH disrupts the technology landscape which has perpetuated a system that keeps compensation and coding know-how from underserved communities. Instead, both creators and REACH itself can monetize exclusive content.

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  4. World Premiere Feature Film: The Faithful: The King, The Pope, The Princess

    Grant for the Web

    55 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Ann Berman

    Exploring alternative revenue models in film distribution by staging the worldwide premiere of the film The Faithful on the Cinnamon platform. Audiences members who use Web Monetization to purchase a ticket will gain access to special bonus events.

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  5. 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 ā€˜A Web Monetization Storyā€™ project, an interactive, story-based Web Monetization tutorial for online creators.

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  6. Central Pennsylvania Info Hub

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Erika Kitzmiller

    Testing a new model for providing essential news to small towns through the development of a sustainable, monetized website that will incentivize local residents to produce original news coverage of their community.

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  7. Design Club: Reboot (Web Monetization Discovery)

    Grant for the Web

    15 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United Kingdom
    Project lead: Jemima Gibbons

    Conducting experiments in the creation, distribution, and discoverability of new content for childrenā€™s workshops in Design Clubā€™s free and open Resource Hub. The team will educate themselves, their design-led community, and others in the open learning content space about Web Monetization.

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  8. Exploring the future of Web Monetization

    Grant for the Web

    38 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Stephanie Rieger

    Writing a white-paper that explores the potential long-term impacts of the Web Monetization standard and Interledger protocol, positing both positive and negative ways these tools may change to how we use the web, and providing practical recommendations to ensure these technologies result in a more equitable, open, and diverse web.

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  9. Fueling social justice with a monetization stream, for Ushahidi grassroots users.

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Kenya
    Project lead: Angela Oduor Lungati

    Web Monetizing deployments on Ushahidi, an open-source crowdsourcing platform thatā€™s been used globally for crisis response, human rights protection, good governance, and ensuring integrity in elections. This will enable users to opt-in to access donations to their work seamlessly and directly from their projects. Users will also be able to publicize the licensing associated with content generated on their deployments using a content disclaimer feature.

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  10. 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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