Decided on another Quest: Quality or Quantity

Back in English even if I humbly admit it is NOT my mother tongue. This article is a kind of mid-report about my experimental campaign using #NFTs to fundraise. The #campaign concerns #bioregional #regeneration and in particular different typologies of support; one for myself BUT simultaneously for the event and the project I would like to support happening in Sicily and within a #ReFi framework. The bio regeneration Sicilian project, for now, concerns restoring 3 hectares of land in the #Sicily region in #Italy; the longer plan is to acquire more and more hectares and to activate more and more projects at the local, regional, national, and bioregional level.

My idea is NOT the traditional BIG BOOM like finding the main donor financing me entirely as to make it less work and more money within the maximization logic BUT I have this conviction, maybe illusion, I could make it accessible for a wider audience and multiple differentiated income targets.

AI Art from Midjourney — Fundraising and Campaigning Evolution

Ok let’s have two sampling scenarios :
1. Angel donor finances me entirely: I start the work — campaign duration max. 6 months
2. Less than 10 donors finance me entirely: I start the work — campaign duration max. 12 months

3. I keep it accessible and while campaigning I also try to educate people both in conceiving and perceiving #cryptos in a different way, maybe also slightly impacting the #cryptoforgood #ReFi #Regen communities attracting more users, disseminating concepts, best and good practices and possibly finally bringing more active members and contributors within these communities over than distributing tools and instruments enabling access to the crypto-token world.

When you bring ordinary people in, what happens?
Receive feedback to make it usable for mediums technological alphabetized users.
Seriously activating a transition or merging process such as common people can leave KickStarter and using DoinGud or maybe Kickstarter contacting DoinGud and asking for a collaboration to create hybrid models sort of what happened here: https://www.classy.org/crypto-giving/.

AI Art from Midjourney — Fundraising and Campaigning Evolution

The final aim is to attract more users to these spaces while experimenting. People living on socials are not keen on donating thousand of euros at once, they neither have cryptos nor wallets BUT they can be sensitive to environmental and social causes; if the process becomes accessible they can start interacting with tokens with a nonprofit imprinting and a regenerative intent. One of the aims is connected with the different images I would like to create within people's imagination about cryptos and tokens, this time not designed to “make money” but to be rewarded while donating. Imprinting in the first use a different value for this tool that’s a support for regenerating shred common resources; the reward will be double, as you can understand, BUT people will look at the immediate one, in the first period, this will incentivize the use. The experience will be accessible, and will enable people to donate and be rewarded without “risking” or feeling “fear of losing their money”. We are talking about very small amounts connected with a learning-rewarding experience. Who wouldn’t spend 10€ to learn how to “play tokens”? The gamification bit it’s essential and maybe for the first time “donating for a good cause” can become a game or a learning experience, too. There is a huge potential for developing such concepts.

AI Art from Midjourney — Fundraising and Campaigning Evolution

NGOs could benefit both from donations and from the crypto design mechanisms, over than being inserted in mixed incentive mechanisms. So I started to post my campaign around talking about fundraising through #NFTs. This means that fundraising agencies and professional fundraisers at one point (or maybe they are already doing it) will start equipping their crews with artists, musicians, and scientists (with mintable scientific articles), plus training and informing their copyrighters and storytellers about these typologies of campaigns. So just one experiment could result, if repeated, in the activation of different economic processes at diverse levels. From involving “the people” and NGOs to the creation of training opportunities or info sessions for the operators of the sectors to proposing “new job opportunities” for musicians and artists within the fundraising sectors BUT seeing their operas recognized, considering that minting the NFT will make it THEIR piece of art, from which to gain royalties in the first place.

If a Campaign is a long-lasting one it can be developed using different tools, integrating old and new methodologies, methods, and tools while targeting different users. I envisioned campaigns that can possibly run throughout the #metaverse, embedding NFTs memberships and giving access to spaces and products or services; invading the #GameFi space while unblocking features or activating abilities through donations connected with the NFTs to be collected while playing. I mean this new fundraising and campaigning can be amazingly creative bridging guilds and digital spaces with IRL agents operating in the sector and not yet aware of what’s happening or what’s actually possible. I am excited about possible evolutions of the fundraising strategies and I would love to come in contact with someone that’s already doing it for the #nonprofit sectors BUT also for the #socialinnovation sector.

AI Art from Midjourney — Fundraising and Campaigning Evolution

To close it thinking also about a platform that has the following characteristics:
1. Minting for free after having acquired the NFT membership — that would be optional :
- permanent one giving access to a limited number of free minted pieces per year
- yearly so every year users could upgrade her/his NFT which would become a sort of avatar to interact with people in the metaverse and also to be used as an animated photo in their platform profile. The avatar could be upgradable and function as a “guide” throughout the campaign for the targeted donors

2. Minting could also foresee multiple functions, so not only minting art, and photos but also music or speeches or articles, videos, or composed pieces like audiobooks or illustrated short stories or comics and staying open to other minting proposals

3. Additional features for small NGOs could embed access to services like Mid journey (https://midjourney.com)/, there where they are small realities or informal groups, not having the opportunity to externalize artistic production or not planning to enlarge the working group.

4. Embed specific functions for individual grants campaigns, like mixed serviced embedding models like GTIs — https://grantstoindividuals.org/

5. Make the minting possible also within a #gifteconomy framework so not including fixed prices all the time but leaving it open to the donors, too

6. Foresee donations in different tokens so that people can donate from different chains without having to swap, pay additional fees, or to get into technical “roundabouts” to donate

7. Connect it with other platforms like Giveth to enable givebacks — https://giveth.io/ — or even to activate crowdfunding campaigns where people can claim NFTs for donations. These NFTs could be connected with real product purchases and this scheme can be used for social innovation projects to realize high-impact products

8. Specific area of the platform as an additional feature can be dedicated to “certificates minting” for NGOs/project volunteers. After they would have collected a certain number of NFTs volunteering badges they could access rewards in different forms.

9. Another area of the platform would serve the NGOs themselves in activating NFTs membership programs for their associates, while the platform is taking a small percentage of each minting process.

For now, these are the elements I put together taking inspiration from my current experiment. I will write more going on. As usual, feedback is welcome, and sorry for elucubrating or writing about things already existing and thinking they don’t.