What collaborative funding makes possible: celebrating 8 years of Cobudget

To celebrate 8 years of Cobudget, we're bringing together to our team to share Cobudget’s story, our vision and plans for the future, and invite four Cobudget groups to talk about their collaborative funding journey; challenges and all. 

What kinds of groups are we talking about? Imagine...

• A 150 000 Swiss Francs distributed to climate change related projects - with the funds allocated by climate activists themselves.
• Co-creating Europe's largest Burn festival together with 1200+ active users contributing to 170+ projects at the event, distributing over 100,000 EUR.
• Ideating, co-creating and financing environmental projects transparently in one of the worlds largest environmental NGOs.
• Members of one of Sweden's most innovative hubs for participatory culture & organisations deciding themselves how to spend the associations resources...

As an open source tool, Cobudget has come a long way since it originated from the collaborative funding practices of various self-organized communities in 2014. As we celebrate 8 years of cobudgeting, we are marking an important shift: Hugi Ásgeirsson and Francesca Pick and their teams have joined forces to realize their vision of spreading collaborative funding practices and growing the open infrastructure needed to make this possible. From now, Cobudget is developed and maintained by the newly founded Cobudget Cooperative. 

In this session, we will hear directly from Cobudget groups applying collaborative funding in a variety of ways. What got them started? What barriers did they encounter, and what unexpected benefits emerged? What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for collaborative funding to become an established way of moving money? 

Join us for a conversation on October 3rd to hear Cobudget’s story, our vision and plans for the future, and learn from four Cobudget groups about their collaborative funding journey; challenges and all:

• Dani Heusser | Freshwater Officer at WWF Schweiz (International NGO)
• Wanda Franziska Christ| Project Finance Coordinator at The Borderland (Participatory festival)
• Diana Monsberger | Community Builder at Blivande (Creative hub)
• Linus Fast | Process leader at Malmö Tillsammans (EU funded collaboration including the City of Malmö)

...and from the Cobudget team, hosted by Francesca Pick (Greaterthan Partner) and Hugi Ásgeirsson (Founder Blivande).