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

25 results

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. COMPOST — An author-owned magazine about the digital commons; short for digital commons post

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Canada
    Project lead: Benedict Lau, Maira Ishikawa Sutton

    Giving authors greater control over publishing and monetization through democratic ownership of online publications. We will prototype our publishing tools through COMPOST, our magazine that shares stories and art about the digital commons. It will publish to the World Wide Web and Distributed Web.

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  4. 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 children’s workshops in Design Club’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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  5. 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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  6. 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 that’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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  7. Hackathon for the Web

    Grant for the Web

    17 424.60 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Nigeria
    Project lead: Christine Dikongué, Uchi Uchibeke

    Running a Web Monetization hackathon with NaijaHacks, Africa's largest hackathon. Open to both beginners and experienced developers, mentors will be assigned to teams and there will prizes for the winners. At this moment in history, it is especially important that we are inclusive and support communities around the world equally so that regardless of where a person is born, they have access to learn and create on the Web.

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  8. Ladyspike Media

    Grant for the Web

    10 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Caitlin Arcand

    Using this new and innovative method of monetization – and its profits – to support the writing staff at Ladyspike, the only website of its kind focussing on amplifying voices of women and LGBTQ+ performers in comedy.

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  9. p5.js Editor

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Dorothy Santos

    Using Web Monetization to create alternative revenue sources for p5.js, a JavaScript library for creative coding, with a focus on making coding accessible and inclusive. We aim to create a sustainable funding model for the p5.js Editor, the main tool used to code with p5.js.

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  10. 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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