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]]>The Goteo Foundation (www.goteo.org), in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Activa, launches the call “Conjuntament” A matchfunding pool of 96.000€ are available to multiply citizens donations made to the 24 social initiatives. Every € donated by the citizens will be duplicated by the Goteo Foundation.
The 24 social initiatives want to change Barcelona and its neighborhoods through a lot of projects which are economically sustainable and related to sectors as agro-ecology, feminism, technological sovereignty, cooperative housing, labor inclusion, documentary production, the commons, the economy of cares and the sharing & social economy.
Matchfunding is a new way to manage institutional budgets which provides:
- Legitimacy: Public institutions legitimize their budgets while allowing citizens to decide and prioritize how public money is used. Creating a space for participation where citizenship promotes and supports initiatives coming from below.
- Participation: Citizens decide to launch projects and to choose which projects to support.
- Sustainability: Projects come from neighborhoods and organized citizenship, in opposition to top-down policies. Communities are behind these projects and they want to make them alive.
- Transparency: Citizens audit the whole process, as they can check and visualize instantly how the money is used.
- Success: The success rate rises until more than 90%, when a public institution multiplicate the donations made to the crowdfunding campaigns.
- Learning lab: While they are in campaign, projects learn as they work collectively, making the project stronger and growing their network.
Key points
- The call for projects was open from October 23th to December 4th 2017.
- 24 projects have been selected and ranked according to the criteria gathered into the Terms (https://ca.goteo.org/call/conjuntament) and according to two categories: 1. social entrepreneurship and 2. Common and collaborative economies.
- Past 8th of February a communication workshop for the 24 selected projects was held.
- Advising has been carried out with the promoters in order to help them to prepare their crowdfunding campaigns. This will continue during the campaign and post-campaign.
What is the impact of the matchfunding call Conjuntament?
67 projects have been submitted, where 24 of these were selected.
These projects need a total of € 192,543 as a minimum budget of crowdfunding and € 321,419 as a optimal.
The Goteo Foundation, in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Activa, created a matchfunding pool of € 94,000 available for the projects (€ 4,000 per project) to meet their budgets.
About Goteo
Goteo is a civic crowdfunding platform for initiatives with a high social impact on cultural, technological and educational projects. Through this social and commons approach, Goteo designes tools, such as matchfunding, which allows public and private institutions supporting and promoting social projects by multiplying the amount of donations they receive from citizens.
Goteo is also a community of communities made up of more than 120,000 people, with a success rate of more than 75%.
However, it is much more than that. Behind the platform there is a non-profit foundation (with the consequent fiscal advantages for donors in Spain) and a multidisciplinary team developing tools and services for co-creation and collective financing.
With a common mission always linked to the principles of transparency, progress and improvement of society. Its philosophy of open source and free licenses resulted in copies and alliances in several countries, as well as is has been recognized and awarded internationally since 2011.
For further information and/or collaborations, please contact at [email protected]
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]]>Procomuns 2017
The collaborative economy based on digital platforms is growing exponentially, creating challenges and opportunities. It has turned into a top priority for the political agenda around the world, and the involvement of citizenship is key, as well as the differentiation of models and to impulse of the commons model and platform cooperativism as an opportunity to democratize economy at a large scale.
Venue
Barcelona Activa
c/ Llacuna, 162-164
Barcelona
08018 Barcelona
When
27/06/2017 – 28/06/2017
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona Activa – Ajuntament de Barcelona, BarCola and Dimmons research group of the IN3
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Program
This year 2017 is the year of the regulations of the collaborative economy: we will discuss with representatives of the European Parliament, the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council about which policies could support the commons, and we will define guidelines for cities. We will reflect with Yochai Benkler, expert in digital commons, on the deep transformations underway, as well as define strategies of passing from an oligarchical economy to open social economy. We will present resources for entrepreneurship, economic models and technologies for the scalability of initiatives, and co-design solutions for city challenges, regarding housing, care, precarity and exclusion.
27 & 28 of June (Tuesday and Wednesday) in Barcelona Activa (c/ Llacuna 162-164) from 9am to 7pm every day, and final party at 28th (7:30pm) at La T (Media-TIC building, Roc Boronat 127, 8th floor). Registration is open and free. There will be translation and videostreaming from the web.
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The collaborative economy, along with digital innovation, grows exponentially by opening up great opportunities for economic democratization and for preserving the commons in cities, while creating new challenges. It has become a priority of political agendas around the world, at all levels, European, regional and local. Procomuns is a forum for the co-creation of public policies to boost collaborative economies. The common economic model represents the models that work the most for more egalitarian and distributed governance and economy. Join us in the development of proposals and strategies for an advance of the Commons collaborative economies
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