Last Call For Grant Applications & Consortium Update

Apply For Membership & Grant Round

Applications for the OpenCivics Genesis Round close on November 15th!

We’ve already received some amazing applications from organizations and projects like RadicalXChange, Holonymn, Re-Public, Mechanism Institute, Dandelion, and others.

We know there are other amazing civic innovation projects out there that we’d love to include in the round. To make the application process easier, we’ve created a Grants Portal with step by step guides and tutorials that will guide you through the basics of setting up a web3 wallet, creating a project on Gitcoin Builder, and submitting your grant application.

Please share the link to the Grants Portal with any person or project you think might be a good fit for the round and the consortium!

Apply for a Grant & Membership!

If you’ve been considering applying, this is your reminder to submit your grant application in the next few days to ensure your application will be reviewed in time to be included in the round.

We’ve also been consistently approving new Network members with our accepted membership now at 60 incredible systems-aware visionaries and builders. If you’re applying for a grant or wanting to engage in upcoming Network activities like our open jams or collaborative initiatives, also be sure to submit an application for membership to participate in all of these exciting opportunities.

Tune into OpenCivics’ Spaces

To promote the round and raise awareness about the amazing work of OpenCivics’ members, we’re hosting a series of Spaces on X. Join us for the first space this upcoming Monday, November 13th at 5pm PST to explore “What is Civic Innovation?”

We’ll be sharing invitations to future Spaces in the coming days, but you can find a list of all our live conversations on the Grants Portal where you’ll be able to set reminders for the conversations you’re most interested in attending!

The Future of the OpenCivics

As Consortium membership continues to grow, we’re opening the doors of collaboration with some of the most well respected civic innovation projects. We see our role as Stewards of the Consortium primarily as facilitators of collaborative processes that help all of us work better together.

While our focus is currently on our Grant Round and growing Consortium membership, once the round is complete, we’ll start to expand out into facilitating collaborative initiatives and fundraising for the Consortium. Our goal is to create the minimum viable scaffolding and infrastructure to begin the process of multi-stakeholder collaboration, fundraising, and communications.

We’ve begun forming strategic partnerships with key players in the civic innovation space, ranging from technology platforms to research groups. We’re hard at work on Collaborative Initiative 00, a research and development collaborative focused on refining and publishing strategic elements of the OpenCivics Collaborative Protocol as an open source methodology for multi-stakeholder, systems-aware strategy and collaboration.

If you’re interested in participating in our initial Collaborative Initiatives around Bioregional Governance, Governance Toolkit Research, Citizen Assemblies, Decentralized Campaigning, or Food Sovereignty Networks, read about them on our wiki and be sure to have filled out a membership application with either the Citizen or Contributor role and then head over to Discord to contribute.

Thank you

We’re excited to grow this Consortium and Network together with you. We’re seeing brilliant civic innovators joining the Consortium every day and we look forward to raising funds, engaging in collaboration, and fostering a sense of non-rivalrous community with an amazing group of deeply devoted agents of systemic change.

In Us We Trust,

OpenCivics Stewards