1. Ecosystem Improvements

2. Grant Application / Funding Updates

3. Community Outreach

4. Who we're built for

5. How you can help

6. Upcoming events

We've been heads-down on the app this past week, squashing bugs and smoothing the edges of the experience. A few highlights:

Login reliability — We tracked down a legacy code issue that was causing intermittent login errors for some members. That's been resolved. If you were running into trouble getting in, try again - the door's open!

Notifications fixed — Direct message notifications were generating a 404 error instead of bringing you to the actual message. That's now working as intended, tap a notification, land in the conversation.

Tour behavior — You may have noticed the platform tour popping up repeatedly, even after dismissing it. A leftover setting from early testing was overriding the "Not Now" selection. Fixed. The tour now respects your choice and steps aside until you're ready.

SpiritDAO.org refreshed — We've updated our main site to better reflect where the ecosystem is today, a community of communities operating sovereignly, yet united in our vision of the good. We included clearer use cases and sharper language around what we actually offer. If you haven't visited spiritdao.org recently, take a fresh look.

A special thank you to the community members/users who shared their issues with us while exploring the application. This is so incredibly helpful.

We're actively pursuing funding to sustain and scale the work. Two applications are now in the pipeline:

Creativity Pioneers Fund — We've applied to the Moleskine Foundation's Creativity Pioneers Fund, a global program that invests in nonprofit organizations using creativity to drive social change. The fund provides unrestricted grants to support operational sustainability and long-term capability-building. SpiritDAO's approach — building infrastructure that gives communities ownership over their own coordination — fits squarely within their mission. We'll know more later this year.

Gates Foundation Grand Challenges — We've submitted an application to the Gates Foundation's AI to Accelerate Charitable Giving initiative, focused on how SpiritDAO operationalizes AI as community infrastructure and the impact that has on human connection. This grant explores a question we think about constantly: how can AI tools be designed not to replace human relationships, but to strengthen them? The application centers on our AI-assisted knowledge base and how it serves as shared memory for communities doing meaningful work together.

Both of these represent something important beyond funding. They're a signal that what we're building has relevance beyond our own walls — that the intersection of transparent coordination, AI, and community ownership is a conversation institutions are ready to have.

This past Thursday (4/2/26) during Limicon's Stichfest we were awarded ~$250 from a collective capital pool via community voting. A small but mighty victory for us, this helps pad our operational budget as we explore onboarding our initial cohort of communities.

Our deepest gratitude for all participants who cast a vote for SpiritDAO. At this stage in the journey every dollar counts.

Outreach to prospective community partners has continued this past week. We've had some encouraging email exchanges, but no formal partnerships have been established yet.

This is the honest reality of early-stage community building: the conversations are happening, and the interest is real, but trust takes time. We're looking for groups that already deal with the pain of fragmented coordination, organizations juggling five tools to do what one platform should handle. Collectives that need transparent governance. Nonprofits drowning in manual reporting. Creator groups trying to fairly distribute shared resources.

If that sounds like a community you're part of — or one you know — we'd love an introduction. We're not selling software. We're offering a backbone for how communities already work: roles, decisions, money, and memory — made transparent, permanent, and owned by the members themselves.

The platform remains 100% free to use. No trial. No paywall. Just tools built for people trying to do meaningful work together.

We've been refining how we talk about the communities SpiritDAO serves best. If you've ever wondered whether a group you know might be a fit, here's the short version:

Organizing collectives — mutual aid networks, tenant unions, advocacy groups running on trust and volunteer energy with no budget for enterprise tools.

Impact-driven nonprofits — organizations where transparent treasury management and auditable governance aren't nice-to-haves, they're the answer to donor accountability.

Creator and professional collectives — groups that share revenue, build knowledge together, and need fair mechanisms for contribution and recognition.

Civic and cultural institutions — co-ops, community land trusts, neighborhood associations with membership models still running on spreadsheets.

Web3-native communities — DAOs and protocol communities that already understand wallets and tokens but lack a real coordination layer.

The common thread: these are groups where coordination is the bottleneck. They already have the people, the mission, and the will. What they don't have is infrastructure that matches.

We say this every time because it remains the most important thing: SpiritDAO grows through its people.

If you know a community leader, a nonprofit director, a collective organizer, or anyone tired of duct-taping their operations together with five different platforms — please make the introduction. A single conversation can change the trajectory for a group that needs what we've built.

And if you're already inside the platform, keep showing up. Every event attended, every message sent, every piece of feedback shared makes this place more alive.

Upcoming Events This Week

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, Apr. 6th · 8:00 PM A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here

First Contact — Wed, Apr 8 · 12:00 PM The official starting point for new members — a peer-to-peer orientation into how participation works. Join here

Feedback Loops — Fri, Apr 10 · 12:00 PM 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

Thank you for reading!
Please share this email with any friends you think might enjoy this newsletter. We are spreading the message one curious person at a time.

Connect with SpiritDAO

🧠 SpiritDAO App
🌐 SpiritDAO.org
▶️ YouTube
🐦 Twitter
TikTok
📜 Docs

SpiritDAO is a registered 501(c)(3) EIN #99-1308806.

1. Ecosystem Improvements

2. Grant Application / Funding Updates

3. Community Outreach

4. Who we're built for

5. How you can help

6. Upcoming events

We've been heads-down on the app this past week, squashing bugs and smoothing the edges of the experience. A few highlights:

Login reliability — We tracked down a legacy code issue that was causing intermittent login errors for some members. That's been resolved. If you were running into trouble getting in, try again - the door's open!

Notifications fixed — Direct message notifications were generating a 404 error instead of bringing you to the actual message. That's now working as intended, tap a notification, land in the conversation.

Tour behavior — You may have noticed the platform tour popping up repeatedly, even after dismissing it. A leftover setting from early testing was overriding the "Not Now" selection. Fixed. The tour now respects your choice and steps aside until you're ready.

SpiritDAO.org refreshed — We've updated our main site to better reflect where the ecosystem is today, a community of communities operating sovereignly, yet united in our vision of the good. We included clearer use cases and sharper language around what we actually offer. If you haven't visited spiritdao.org recently, take a fresh look.

A special thank you to the community members/users who shared their issues with us while exploring the application. This is so incredibly helpful.

We're actively pursuing funding to sustain and scale the work. Two applications are now in the pipeline:

Creativity Pioneers Fund — We've applied to the Moleskine Foundation's Creativity Pioneers Fund, a global program that invests in nonprofit organizations using creativity to drive social change. The fund provides unrestricted grants to support operational sustainability and long-term capability-building. SpiritDAO's approach — building infrastructure that gives communities ownership over their own coordination — fits squarely within their mission. We'll know more later this year.

Gates Foundation Grand Challenges — We've submitted an application to the Gates Foundation's AI to Accelerate Charitable Giving initiative, focused on how SpiritDAO operationalizes AI as community infrastructure and the impact that has on human connection. This grant explores a question we think about constantly: how can AI tools be designed not to replace human relationships, but to strengthen them? The application centers on our AI-assisted knowledge base and how it serves as shared memory for communities doing meaningful work together.

Both of these represent something important beyond funding. They're a signal that what we're building has relevance beyond our own walls — that the intersection of transparent coordination, AI, and community ownership is a conversation institutions are ready to have.

This past Thursday (4/2/26) during Limicon's Stichfest we were awarded ~$250 from a collective capital pool via community voting. A small but mighty victory for us, this helps pad our operational budget as we explore onboarding our initial cohort of communities.

Our deepest gratitude for all participants who cast a vote for SpiritDAO. At this stage in the journey every dollar counts.

Outreach to prospective community partners has continued this past week. We've had some encouraging email exchanges, but no formal partnerships have been established yet.

This is the honest reality of early-stage community building: the conversations are happening, and the interest is real, but trust takes time. We're looking for groups that already deal with the pain of fragmented coordination, organizations juggling five tools to do what one platform should handle. Collectives that need transparent governance. Nonprofits drowning in manual reporting. Creator groups trying to fairly distribute shared resources.

If that sounds like a community you're part of — or one you know — we'd love an introduction. We're not selling software. We're offering a backbone for how communities already work: roles, decisions, money, and memory — made transparent, permanent, and owned by the members themselves.

The platform remains 100% free to use. No trial. No paywall. Just tools built for people trying to do meaningful work together.

We've been refining how we talk about the communities SpiritDAO serves best. If you've ever wondered whether a group you know might be a fit, here's the short version:

Organizing collectives — mutual aid networks, tenant unions, advocacy groups running on trust and volunteer energy with no budget for enterprise tools.

Impact-driven nonprofits — organizations where transparent treasury management and auditable governance aren't nice-to-haves, they're the answer to donor accountability.

Creator and professional collectives — groups that share revenue, build knowledge together, and need fair mechanisms for contribution and recognition.

Civic and cultural institutions — co-ops, community land trusts, neighborhood associations with membership models still running on spreadsheets.

Web3-native communities — DAOs and protocol communities that already understand wallets and tokens but lack a real coordination layer.

The common thread: these are groups where coordination is the bottleneck. They already have the people, the mission, and the will. What they don't have is infrastructure that matches.

We say this every time because it remains the most important thing: SpiritDAO grows through its people.

If you know a community leader, a nonprofit director, a collective organizer, or anyone tired of duct-taping their operations together with five different platforms — please make the introduction. A single conversation can change the trajectory for a group that needs what we've built.

And if you're already inside the platform, keep showing up. Every event attended, every message sent, every piece of feedback shared makes this place more alive.

Upcoming Events This Week

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, Apr. 6th · 8:00 PM A standing community gathering for conversation, questions, and shared presence. Join here

First Contact — Wed, Apr 8 · 12:00 PM The official starting point for new members — a peer-to-peer orientation into how participation works. Join here

Feedback Loops — Fri, Apr 10 · 12:00 PM 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

Thank you for reading!
Please share this email with any friends you think might enjoy this newsletter. We are spreading the message one curious person at a time.

Connect with SpiritDAO

🧠 SpiritDAO App
🌐 SpiritDAO.org
▶️ YouTube
🐦 Twitter
TikTok
📜 Docs

SpiritDAO is a registered 501(c)(3) EIN #99-1308806.