While crypto philanthropy presents an incredible opportunity to future-proof your organization's fundraising strategy, there are many other benefits to embracing Web3 including expanding your organization’s reach globally, forming new partnerships, and using blockchain technology to scale your organization’s impact.

Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from March 2023: how blockchain will improve healthcare, chatting Quadratic Funding with Gitcoin’s Connor O’Day, five ways blockchain can help end deforestation, and how stablecoins can help end extreme poverty.

In episode 97, we’re excited to welcome Victor Texeira, Lead Crypto Economist from Canza Finance, “an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets.” We discuss how Web3 and DeFi can bridge the gap to financial services for small businesses in emerging economies, some of the barriers to financial inclusion for the unbanked and financially underserved, why Africa is at the frontier of the Decentralized Finance movement, and much more.

While not a fix-all solution, blockchain technology has the potential to play a significant role in achieving a zero-waste future. By incentivizing sustainable behaviors through blockchain-based reward systems, and creating immutable and transparent systems for tracking waste, blockchain enables better waste management practices and the more efficient use of resources.

Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry by empowering patients with control over their own data, driving down costs, and improving the overall quality of care. With its decentralized and secure nature, Web3 can eliminate inefficiencies and increase transparency in healthcare delivery.

In episode 96, we’re excited to welcome Melissa Jun Rowley, Founder of HerVoice NFT, an NFT project with a bold vision to “unleash the voices of 3.9 billion women.” We discuss how Web3 can help uplift and drive movements of change, the power of NFTs to raise funds and awareness for important causes, building inclusion and diversity in Web3, and much more.

Beyond crypto philanthropy, engaging with Web3 opens Nonprofits up to a world of possibilities to reach a global audience, to form key partnerships, and to use the power of blockchain technology to scale their impact. Nonprofits should get on board with Web3 now as early adopters to fully realize these benefits.

In episode 95, we’re excited to welcome Jason Metz, Senior Web3 Strategist at TIME. Through their Web3 initiative, TIMEPieces, they are using the power of Web3 to bring artists, collectors, and the community together. In this episode we discuss how NFTs can help elevate history and culture, why Web3 as a powerful tool for uplifting social change movements, and how Web3 can help build community.

While still in its infancy, blockchain developers are beginning to leverage the power of blockchain technology to create innovative eLearning apps that provide a more secure, transparent, and personalized learning experiences.

Tracing The Wild, a collaboration between the Sovereign Nature Initiative, Kenya Wildlife Trust, and Nairobi Design Week, introduced a first-of-its-kinds interactive digital and physical art installation that seeks to unite nature and humanity with the power of Web3 technology.

Introducing Glo, the anti-poverty dollar. With Glo, every time you buy or use the stablecoin, you're making a difference in someone's life, automatically. This is made possible by donating 100% of proceeds to GiveDirectly, an NGO that provides cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty.

In episode 94, we’re excited to welcome Connor O’Day from Gitcoin, a Decentralized Autonomous Organization that is “empowering communities to fund, build, and protect what matters.” We discuss what the heck Quadratic Funding is at its core, how Web3 can empower communities and revolutionize crowdfunding, the incredible impacts of the Gitcoin grants protocol, and much more.

With the recent announcement of Endaoment making their developer tools available to the Web3 ecosystem, we dive into what this means for builders interested in adding giving capabilities to their projects, and how this exciting development will transform the crypto philanthropy movement.

In honor of International Women’s Day, it’s important to recognize the incredible women in Web3, while also taking some time to reflect on how we can build a more inclusive and equitable space. In this blog post, we highlight 15 incredible projects, organizations, collectives, and DAOs elevating women in Web3 and building a more inclusive ecosystem.

In episode 93, we’re excited to welcome Garm Lucassen and Jasper Driessens from Glo, a stablecoin with a mission to generate basic income and lift people out of extreme poverty. We discuss why Web3-enabled basic income is such a powerful force for fighting poverty, the mechanics behind the Glo Dollar, how crypto can drive financial inclusion, and much more.

The world has lost one-third of its forests, and urgent action is needed to protect the forests that play a vital role in earth’s biodiversity and in mitigating climate change. Blockchain and Web3 tools can help through on-chain monitoring and verification, greater community ownership, new opportunities for climate finance, tokenization of natural assets, and increased accountability.