Unnamed FundExperiment #1 Recap
Unnamed Fund was organized by members of the NEW INC community to explore alternative forms of creative grantmaking with an emphasis on solidarity and mutualism. As a collective, we are launching distinct grantmaking experiments, with the intention of incorporating lessons learned into new experiments. Our first experiment, outlined here, allowed NEW INC members and alumni to create any funding request, distributed via a community quadratic voting process from a shared pool of funds.Experimen...
Unnamed FundRe-imagining Creative Ecosystem Funding
Welcome to Unnamed Fund — a cooperatively controlled creative ecosystem fund. We're a group of creatives working towards sustainable funding solutions for artists, creative practice, and creative enterprises. As members and alumni of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator, we came together with the goal of building community focused solutions to, and imagining new futures for funding within our ecosystem.What would it look like to develop an experimental, community-led, cooperatively contro...
Unnamed FundThe original Unnamed Fund proposal
Late in the summer of 2021, I wrote an original proposal for an idea called “NEW DAO”, a web3 native ecosystem fund that would be owned, run, and controlled by NEW INC members. The impetus behind the fund was that many NEW INC projects are not natural fits for traditional venture investment-- and that there could be interesting collective and codirected approaches to allocate capital towards member projects. This proposal also coincided with discussion within NEW INC about a desire to create ...
A cooperatively controlled creative ecosystem fund.
Unnamed FundExperiment #1 Recap
Unnamed Fund was organized by members of the NEW INC community to explore alternative forms of creative grantmaking with an emphasis on solidarity and mutualism. As a collective, we are launching distinct grantmaking experiments, with the intention of incorporating lessons learned into new experiments. Our first experiment, outlined here, allowed NEW INC members and alumni to create any funding request, distributed via a community quadratic voting process from a shared pool of funds.Experimen...
Unnamed FundRe-imagining Creative Ecosystem Funding
Welcome to Unnamed Fund — a cooperatively controlled creative ecosystem fund. We're a group of creatives working towards sustainable funding solutions for artists, creative practice, and creative enterprises. As members and alumni of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator, we came together with the goal of building community focused solutions to, and imagining new futures for funding within our ecosystem.What would it look like to develop an experimental, community-led, cooperatively contro...
Unnamed FundThe original Unnamed Fund proposal
Late in the summer of 2021, I wrote an original proposal for an idea called “NEW DAO”, a web3 native ecosystem fund that would be owned, run, and controlled by NEW INC members. The impetus behind the fund was that many NEW INC projects are not natural fits for traditional venture investment-- and that there could be interesting collective and codirected approaches to allocate capital towards member projects. This proposal also coincided with discussion within NEW INC about a desire to create ...
A cooperatively controlled creative ecosystem fund.
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Unnamed Fund is excited to announce a generous grant from OCELOT (Original CELO Treasury) to support our genesis experiment. As part of the support, OCELOT has granted Unnamed Fund 7,525 CELO, the native token of the CELO blockchain.
OCELOT, a collective that democratically controls a multi-signature safe for CELO grants, has a focus for grantmaking in four categories:
Research and Development on Open Source Projects
Radical Experimentation
Emerging Markets
Community Growth
We feel like the spirit and focus of OCELOT is a great fit to support our NEW INC member-led project.
Our initial experiment, which these funds will be used towards, is a community-stewarded treasury, which will be democratically distributed to support impactful projects in the NEW INC ecosystem. Read more about our plans in our Mirror crowdfund.
Thank you to Gabrielle Micheletti for championing this partnership. Unnamed Fund is incredibly grateful to align with OCELOT in support of this experiment in democratic, codetermined grantmaking.
For our timeline, we are looking to set up voting and distribute funding by the end of June. We will continue to blog and reflect upon our learning and experience during and after the voting and fund distribution process.
Thank you for your support!
Learn more about OCELOT:
Unnamed Fund is excited to announce a generous grant from OCELOT (Original CELO Treasury) to support our genesis experiment. As part of the support, OCELOT has granted Unnamed Fund 7,525 CELO, the native token of the CELO blockchain.
OCELOT, a collective that democratically controls a multi-signature safe for CELO grants, has a focus for grantmaking in four categories:
Research and Development on Open Source Projects
Radical Experimentation
Emerging Markets
Community Growth
We feel like the spirit and focus of OCELOT is a great fit to support our NEW INC member-led project.
Our initial experiment, which these funds will be used towards, is a community-stewarded treasury, which will be democratically distributed to support impactful projects in the NEW INC ecosystem. Read more about our plans in our Mirror crowdfund.
Thank you to Gabrielle Micheletti for championing this partnership. Unnamed Fund is incredibly grateful to align with OCELOT in support of this experiment in democratic, codetermined grantmaking.
For our timeline, we are looking to set up voting and distribute funding by the end of June. We will continue to blog and reflect upon our learning and experience during and after the voting and fund distribution process.
Thank you for your support!
Learn more about OCELOT:
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