This wiki section is dedicated to the topic of "How do we make Peer Production sustainable?

Introduction

• Why It Is Crucial that Peer Production Companies Refuse Venture Capital Investments

Also read:

1. How Open Source Development is Funded‎, study of the funding of open source projects
2. Shared Financing of Community-Based Businesses; (applies to the U.S.A.). By Jenny Kassan of SELC
3. Crowdfunding and the Law. Janelle Orsi, SELC
4. Autonomy, Labour, and the Political Economy of Social Media. By Dmytri Kleiner

• Podcast: Bauwens, Kleiner, Restakis on Cooperative, Commons-Based Venture Funding

Typology

1. Donations-based business model
2. Crowdfunding business model
3. Freemium as a business model

To be developed:

1. Ethical finance
2. Social investment and philantropic venture capital
3. Microfinance
4. Social lending
5. Prizes

Important Initiatives

• Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change

1. The Open Venturing Accelerator‎‎ of the Hub Launchpad‎, an expression of the Open Venture Movement‎‎ that funds open and transparent companies (see also the proposals for an Open Limited Company‎ form and a (Open Company Sector‎
2. Goteo, commons and community oriented crowdfunding platform
3. Gittip is a way to give small weekly cash gifts to people you love and are inspired by.
4. Flattr [1], a system for social micro-donations to support online creative work
5. Kachingle, quite similar to Flattr, but uses Paypal and proportionally distributes amongst number of visits to sites users wish to support
6. CivicSponsor [2] is a new twist to crowdfunding--it allows folks to contribute to public projects in their neighborhood. Get new bike lanes from your local government, receive a tax deduction. Great participatory budgeting initiative.

Indy Johar on the Open Venture Movement

"Our hypothesis

1. Venturing + Activism = one of the best instruments democratic instruments for changing the world

2. Open is both; Open as in radically transparent + Open as in (Openly Shareable + Openly Editable + Openly re-shareable) = a systemic pathway to a radically democratic economy

3. We believe Open is going from the Open web to the the Open Everyday

4. We have built a £4m framework accelerator to seed this Open everyday economy..

5. This will be a learning journey for us, the startups,..."

Key Resources

Key Articles

• Venture Capital Investments in P2P Companies
• On the Goteo project: Moving crowdfunding from commodity- to commons-based dynamics
• How to Finance Your Start-Up on Shareable Terms: using Direct Public Offering‎s

Key Policies

• Report: Regulation of Crowdfunding in Germany, the UK, Spain and Italy

Crowdfunding Directory

Investing in start ups	Supporting projects	Microcredit	P2P lending	Donations
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Energy Crowdfunding Platforms

1. Solar Mosaic
2. SunFunder
3. Abundance Generation
4. CleanCrowd
5. Microgenius
6. Sunnycrowd
7. OnGreen
8. Skipso

• Donation-Based Energy Crowdfunding:

1. Green Fundraising
2. Green Unite
3. GreenFunder
4. Green Crowd

More

Directory with links at http://www.smartermoney.nl/?p=315#platforms:

1. Crowdfunding-Based Startup Investments‎ ; Equity-Based_Crowdfunding, investing for profit-sharing
2. Crowdfunding-Based Project Support
3. Crowdfunding-Based P2P Lending
4. Crowdfunding-Based Microcredit
5. Crowdfunding-Based Donations

See also: Crowdfunding for Social Change Projects, a top 10 directory compiled by Dowser

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