"Why SpiritDAO?" - Now on SpiritDAO.org
Identity Page — Tokens and Credentials, Separated
Grant Application — The Greater Sum Foundation
Outreach Continues
Upcoming events
We refreshed spiritdao.org to reflect everything that's live on the platform today, organized around four ideas: Communicate, Decide, Coordinate, and Own; including native video for gatherings and a token-powered Marketplace.
We also built a new Why SpiritDAO page that shows, side by side, how owning your community's infrastructure compares to renting a stack of disconnected tools. If you've ever tried to explain what we're building to someone unfamiliar, this is the page to send them.
Take a look → spiritdao.org/why
A special thank you Ardell from ICMatch.org for bringing up this comparative narrative and sharing initial thoughts on how we compared to various platforms. Overall we feel extremely confident in labeling SpiritDAO as a vanguard product for community coordination.
We've cleaned up how tokens appear on your Identity page. SpiritDAO is designed with our core governance philosophy of unique identities and a one person, one vote philosophy for both pod and DAO-wide votes. (With DAO-wide treasury decisions reserved for Advocate (donor) members.) Until now, community's with their own (previously deployed) governance tokens (like $TGN from the TreeGens community) showed up alongside your membership badges and roles in the Credentials section. That never quite fit. A credential says who you are in SpiritDAO and a token balance says what you hold.
Now your balances live together at the top: $SELF and $SYSTEM stay pinned where they've always been, with any community token you hold appearing right below them. Credentials stay focused on membership: roles, accreditations, and the things that define your participation. In alignment with our 501c3 mission, independent community tokens may only ever be incorporated for pod governance—we do not support the purchase or distribution of 3rd party tokens outside of our core ecosystem.
As more communities join SpiritDAO and bring their own tokens, those balances will appear automatically. No setup needed on your end. A small change, but one that scales and gives each part of your identity the space it deserves.
We've applied to The Greater Sum Foundation's grant program. Greater Sum is a Jacksonville-based foundation that supports early-stage nonprofit innovators through funding, mentorship, and accelerator programs, with a focus on education, environment, community-building, and health.
SpiritDAO fits squarely in their wheelhouse as an early-stage nonprofit building new infrastructure to solve an old problem: how do communities coordinate, govern, and sustain themselves without being dependent on tools they don't own? We'll share more as the process unfolds.
We were able to apply for this closed grant round because in 2025 we were part of their accelerator cohort.
We're consistently researching and reaching out to communities we believe would benefit from SpiritDAO — intentional communities, cooperatives, mutual aid networks, and mission-driven collectives. The conversations are growing. Some are early. Some are further along. All of them help us understand what communities actually need, which makes the platform better for everyone.
If you know a group that's outgrowing their current tools, an introduction goes a long way! Connect with Ron Rivers in app or at ron@spiritdao.org.
We strongly recommend registering for events within the SpiritDAO app (Events section) at app.spiritdao.org, it's how we gauge attendance and shape the flow of each session.
Town Hall — Mon, June 8th · 8:00 PM EST - A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here
First Contact — Wed, June 10th · 12:00 PM EST - The official starting point for new members — a peer-to-peer orientation into how participation works. Join here
Feedback Loops — Fri, June 12th · 12:00 PM EST - A live working session where the community helps shape the app — bring your bugs, your questions, and your ideas. Join here
The best way to get in touch is within our community: https://app.spiritdao.org
If it's easier, send us an email: community@spiritdao.org
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