Cobudget Information

Cobudget helps groups make ideas and money flow. It is THE place for collaborative funding - where you can dream, fund and realize projects together. Here are some of the questions that Cobudget helps address: How can we shift the ways in which power and money flow within groups, organizations, society? How do we bring more transparency and deeply integrate the voices of beneficiaries into granting processes? What practices and tools are needed to help us all become active participants in decisions around money and resources–be that in our cities, workplaces or communities? Cobudget’s origins go back to 2014, when two different self-organized communities began (independently from each other) experimenting with collaborative funding: the Enspiral Network from Aotearoa New Zealand, and The Borderland community from Scandinavia. Thanks to the initiative, drive and technical skills of a handful of members of both those communities, their fledgling collaborative funding practices were quickly turned from spreadsheets into software prototypes, leading to the creation of two different tools: Cobudget and Dreams.