Each Gitcoin Grants round, we like to take a moment to highlight all the grantees who we’ve had the honor of highlighting on the Crypto Altruism Podcast! For GG20, there are 10 projects that we’ve featured, including Glo Dollar, $EARTH, Atlantis DAO, The Solar Foundation, Giveth, Hypercerts, ReFi DAO, Traditional Dream Factory, Kokonut Network, and Good Dollar.

Open-source software is the backbone of the modern digital economy. Despite this, the OSS ecosystem faces many challenges including a lack of funding and burnout amongst open-source developers. In this article, we discuss how Web3 is addressing the most pressing challenges faced by open-source developers, thereby promoting a healthier, more sustainable ecosystem for digital innovation.

In this podcast starter pack, we’ve bundled together nine episodes highlighting projects that are leveraging Web3 tools to advance public goods. This starter pack includes interviews with pioneering leaders from Gitcoin, Tea Protocol, Giveth, Artizen Fund, Hypercerts, Endaoment, Glo, and ReFi Phangan.

In episode 138, we’re excited to welcome Paul Burg, a regen legend and Founder of ReFi Phangan, GreenPill Phangan, and EcoSynthesisX, and Founding Steward of PhanganQF and DeSpace QF. We discuss the growing ReFi movement in Phangan, Quadratic Funding as a valuable tool to advance public goods, building partnerships with local NGOs and business, and much more.

Looking back on the top articles, podcast episodes, and infographics from 2023! Covering everything from Regenerative Finance (ReFi), to Quadratic Funding, to Decentralized Space Exploration, and everything in between. Join us as we review the top content from the past year and highlight some of Crypto Altruism’s most exciting achievements of 2023!

Web3 is at the forefront of a movement revolutionizing how public goods are funded. Experimentation with new Web3-powered funding mechanisms has led to exciting improvements over traditional public goods funding models. In this infographic, we highlight some of the key innovations in Web3 public goods funding and case studies of pioneering projects that are leading the way.

Recap of the most popular Crypto Altruism content from November 2023: Advice for new Web3 social impact builders, chatting Quadratic Funding and community coordination with Gitcoin’s Ben West, ten reasons nonprofits should embrace crypto giving, and decentralizing solar energy with The Solar Foundation.

For the seventh episode of The Web3 Nonprofit, we’re excited to welcome Jon Behar of The Life You Can Save, a nonprofit on a mission to “make “smart giving simple” by curating a group of nonprofits that save or improve the most lives per dollar.” We dive into how they’re leveraging Web3 to advance this mission, and their upcoming Quadratic Funding round on Gitcoin’s Grant Stack!

In episode 129, we’re excited to welcome Ben West, Grants Program Lead at Gitcoin, an incredible organization that has distributed over $50M to early-stage public goods builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, education, and more. We discuss quadratic funding, Web3 as a powerful tool for community coordination and advancing public goods, advice for first time grantees, and more.

Recap of the most popular Crypto Altruism content from October 2023: decentralizing space exploration and education with Web3, chatting ReFi with DreamDAO, an introduction to Quadratic Funding and Gitcoin Grants, and how blockchain is being used to deliver high quality coding bootcamps in Africa!

In this infographic, we give a brief introduction to Gitcoin Grants, an innovative new granting program for early-stage public goods projects. We explain quadratic funding, why public goods builders should participate, how to get involved as a grantee or community member, and how to make the most of your Gitcoin experience!

Quadratic Funding is democratizing public goods funding by amplifying the voice of the community in determining how matching funds are allocated. In doing so, it ensures that the community’s favorite projects get the funding they deserve. In this infographic, we give an overview of what Quadratic Funding is, why you should care, and some of its future use cases.

In episode 119, we’re excited to welcome Mitch, DAO Steward at Giveth, a community-driven movement to transform the way we fund nonprofits and social causes. We discuss how they are using Web3 tools to reimagine philanthropy and the donor experience, DAOs and Giveth’s “Decentralized Altruistic Community”, optimizing public goods funding with conviction voting and quadratic funding, and much more.

In episode 117, we focus on Gitcoin Grants Round 18! We start with an introduction to Gitcoin and Quadratic Funding, the innovative matching funds mechanism behind Gitcoin grants. We then highlight 10 current Gitcoin grantees including Solar Foundation, Mycelia, Solarpunk DAO, Earthist, OceanSoles, ReFi Medellin, VoiceDeck, Urbanika, Grassroots Economics, and Endangered Tokens.

Newsletter highlighting the most popular Crypto Altruism content from July 2023: Natural Capital Backed Assets, empowering human creativity with Web3 fundraising tools, celebrating Ethereum’s 8th birthday, Endaoment & Gitcoin partner on new Universal Impact Pool using Quadratic Funding.

Endaoment recently announced the unveiling of the first “Universal Impact Pool” (UIP), an innovative new fund which makes use of Gitcoin’s Quadratic Funding mechanism to distribute matching donations quarterly to nonprofits who receive donations or grants via Endaoment.