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Funding, Reimagined
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Methods

There are countless ways to give outside-the-box. Here you will find the most accessible, successful, and collaborative Indie Philanthropy practices. They represent dynamically tackled giving and can be played with, altered and made your own.

Community-Based Decision-Making

empowers community representatives to help make funding decisions.

Flow Funding

allows a funder to entrust money to an individual or organization to distribute as they wish.

Funding Individuals

channels money directly to individuals instead of organizations.

Funding Start-Ups

seeds dreams, emergent ideas and new projects and organizations.

Giving Circles

are communities of funders and others pooling money and expertise to give collectively.

Micro Granting

provides very small amounts of money, usually to seed new work or seize windows of opportunity.

Partnerships

means collaborating with other organizations to make grants or support philanthropic activities.

Spending Down

Spending Down means an endowed foundation is intentionally spending money faster than that money is being replenished.

Indie Investing

directs investment capital toward enterprises that support social equity, ecological resilience and community wealth.