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Introducing The Current

A funding ecosystem for Free Money — New updates → Co-Designing the Current (published August 2022) → The Current is Shaping Us (published October 2022) → The Current’s New Tributary (published February 2023). Highlights (tl;dr) Hyperlocal organizations and initiatives across the U.S. continue to do critical work in their respective communities, yet typically lack equitable access to uncomplicated funding streams

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Introducing The Current
Introducing The Current

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Jun 15

Launching MoneyPot at Art.coop

Transferring wealth joyfully and efficiently to artists and culture-bearers who are building a Solidarity Economy — In March, I shifted my work on The Current to a new home inside Art.coop. Two important aspects of developing regenerative economic models are the degrees to which they are both practitioner-led and embedded in-community. Art.coop is founded and led by cultural workers, and its strategy is shaped by its…

Solidarity

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Launching MoneyPot at Art.coop
Launching MoneyPot at Art.coop
Solidarity

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Feb 14

The Current’s New Tributary

A wise collaboration to enable joyous redistribution of wealth — Highlights (tl;dr) After a year of sense-making, network-building, research and experimentation, I have decided to step away from The Current at the end of this month (February 2023) and will transfer my experience, resources and energy to supporting Art.coop’s launch of “Money Pot” [working title]—a pooled fund, inspired by The Current’s design.

Philanthropy

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The Current’s New Tributary
The Current’s New Tributary
Philanthropy

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·Oct 21, 2022

The Current is Shaping Us

Learning from lived experience and finding our role in the ecosystem — Highlights (tl;dr) Since we published our last update in August, The Current’s Maker Team has been heads-down in a 8-week design research sprint to begin to answer its initial Phase 1 design question: How might we help those with an abundance of “disposable” income begin to “free” their money toward non-directive giving? …

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The Current is Shaping Us
The Current is Shaping Us

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·Aug 11, 2022

Co-Designing The Current

Who’s in the room and where we’re headed — Highlights (TL;DR) Since we published our vision paper, our collective has grown to 40 members with 100+ in our wider field of support. We are a collective made up of lived and professional experience. While Phase 0 of The Current was focused on broad sensing and research, Phase 1 will…

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Co-Designing The Current
Co-Designing The Current

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Jul 27, 2021

Building Community? You won’t succeed without this.

It seems like the entire world - from the Silicon Valley, to creatives, to solopreneurs - is harnessing (in some cases, co-opting?) the power of community. By ‘community’ I mean people who share a purpose or need, who choose to belong to each other in a certain container, and whose…

Community

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Building Community? You won’t succeed without this.
Building Community? You won’t succeed without this.
Community

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Feb 16, 2021

What’s more exciting than an IPO led by the youngest woman ever? Another kind of offering altogether.

Why should the IPO be the ideal most entrepreneurs strive for? Meet the new model challenging the dominant Silicon Valley narrative. — ICYMI Whitney Wolfe Herd led Bumble to its IPO on NASDAQ late last week. The internet went pretty bananas for it (at least in my bubble). People (including me) are delighted to see a new record broken by a 31 year old female founder & CEO, and with a baby…

Startup

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What’s more exciting than an IPO led by the youngest woman ever?
What’s more exciting than an IPO led by the youngest woman ever?
Startup

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Dec 12, 2019

Want to Change the World? Build Community.

In the face of global crises, let’s stop elevating personal sacrifice as our greatest source of solutions; it’s time to seek each other, imagine together, and act collectively if we want to accelerate change. — Do you keep an ever-growing mental list of all the things you should and shouldn’t do? Buy less! Recycle more! Don’t fly! Go vegan! Ditch the plastic straw! Take your money elsewhere! Drive electric! Don’t procreate! Bring your own bag! Speak-up! Be courageous! Be the change!

Community

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Want to Change the World? Build Community.
Want to Change the World? Build Community.
Community

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