love.fund: one pager
love.fund is gitcoinâs funding brand. we facilitate pilots and campaigns that route money to the people and places doing the work, and we lend them our name, yield, and distribution so they donât have to build those from scratch.
it starts as facilitation: someone brings a funding idea, we screen for the best ones, we help run it. the ones that work graduate into ongoing love.fund campaigns.
pilots (short term)
before we say yes to a pilot, we want answers to these:
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whereâs the money coming from? a named funder, a matching pool, donors we can actually reach.
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whereâs the audience coming from? who shows up to give, apply or vote, and through which channel.
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what are we trying to accomplish? one outcome we can check at the end, so we know whether to keep going.
if a pilot canât answer the first one, it isnât ready.
campaigns (long term)
a pilot becomes a campaign when it can carry these:
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love.fund branded, or co-branded with the partner.
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revenue share back to gitcoin, so campaigns fund the platform instead of draining it.
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good software that donors and recipients actually enjoy using.
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good operations: payouts land on time, reporting is clean, nobodyâs chasing a spreadsheet.
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Its so powerful that we want to build it into the techne everything app as a flagship of our inchoate âfundingâ app section.
we curate and fund. we donât operate partnersâ programs for them.
first three
We will run an open application process at brand launch, and well see what we get, but these three are good candidates to be the first three we love.fund.
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bioregional funding with benjamin. routing money to a bioregion, starting close to home.
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joshâs love.fund app. the product surface for campaigns.
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supertake for impact. say what change you want, get an allocation, follow or fork other peopleâs theses (spec).