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

5 results

  1. 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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  2. Sharing values, sharing funds - Web Monetization as a catalyst for social change

    Grant for the Web

    50 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: Israel
    Project lead: Lior Zalmanson

    The project addresses the challenge of raising funds for social causes via the internet, emphasizing issues and solutions relevant to users from disenfranchised communities and minority groups. While the internet has primarily democratized the act of fundraising, most activists struggle with “converting” users from clicks to monetary support for their content and causes.

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  3. SITH Creative Community

    Grant for the Web

    100 000 USD

    Total amount committed

    • Location: United States
    Project lead: Eleni Maltas

    In the technology and music spaces, Women, Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, and LGBTQ communities have been underrepresented and under-served with far less access to equal resources and salaries than their white male cis counterparts.  We want to give our community the opportunity to use cutting edge resources and technology to further advance their careers and artist profiles. In addition, we want to see our community receive the financial dues they deserve.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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