Grant Applications Are Open!

Learn more and apply by April 16th

Dearest Innovators & Allies,

We’re excited to invite you to apply for a grant from the OpenCivics Consortium Round!

💸 Round Details At A Glance:

• Applications open : April 3rd - April 16th, 2024

  • (Applications received after April 16th cannot be guaranteed review)

• Round open for donations : April 23rd - May 7th, 2024

• Apply to the round : Gitcoin Builder

• Learn more: OpenCivics Grants Program Portal

As with our first round, applicants must be OpenCivics members (you can still apply here if you haven’t already) to encourage collaboration and coordination amongst grantees. This round, we’ve expanded the matching pool to over $40,000 thanks to Gitcoin and DeCiv Fund and will be experimenting with new forms of impact measurement for our grantees. This round is taking place on the Arbitrum One network which supports Gnosis Safe multi-signature wallets. This means you can apply for a grant as a group of organizations which we encourage as part of this round’s theme: collaboration and coordination.

About The Round

This OpenCivics Consortium Round seeks to fund critical collaborative protocols, prototypes, and infrastructures that enable civic engagement and interoperable civic utilities for direct governance and stewardship of our communities and commons. We see these collaborative methods and prototypes as critically underfunded force multipliers for multi-agent coordination on key systemic leverage points that create deep social change.

Ideal applicants will be engaged in developing technology, applied research, and social processes related to collaboration and coordination for collective action. Projects may address the diverse stack of collaborative protocols needed for successful multi-agent coordination such as: identity and attestation, on-chain delegation and roles, decentralized project management, fundraising and allocation, strategic alignment processes, measurement and evaluation, and participatory governance and learning. These efforts may be theoretical and research-based or may be applied contexts of collaboration whose successful actualization could lead to protocolization of key activities and collaborative functions.

Why Collaboration & Coordination?

We see collaboration and coordination as essential civic utilities that make so many other forms of civic innovation possible. Without open source models for community groups and innovation consortia to swarm around solving problems and addressing dysfunctional systems, we won’t see the scope and depth of response needed to create a truly healthy and thriving society. For those reasons, we’re committed to prioritizing grantees whose work supports groups in coming together to govern and coordinate amongst themselves.

If you or someone you know would be a good fit for this grant round, please send them the application and encourage them to apply!

For round criteria, application guides, and additional details, please visit go.opencivics.co/grantsportal.

If you have any questions about the application process or would like feedback on your application before applying, schedule a call with Benjamin.

In Us We Trust,
Patricia, Benjamin, and Spencer
OpenCivics Stewards