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10 tools for systems change to a zero carbon world A concise toolkit presenting core approaches to systemic transformation for sustainability, offering practical frameworks for understanding and addressing complex climate challenges.
1kx - Organization Legos - The State of DAO Tooling 1kx Network comprehensive analysis of DAO tooling landscape examining governance platforms, treasury management, contributor coordination, and communication infrastructure, mapping composable organizational primitives emerging in Web3 ecosystem.
a16z DAOs Canon - Comprehensive DAO Resource Collection Andreessen Horowitz curated collection of foundational DAO readings spanning governance, legal structures, tooling, and case studies, providing comprehensive entry point into decentralized organization literature from venture capital perspective emphasizing practical implementation.
a16z Guide to DeSci - Decentralized Science Overview Andreessen Horowitz comprehensive guide to decentralized science (DeSci) movement using blockchain tools to address research funding, peer review, and data sharing challenges, examining how Web3 approaches could transform scientific knowledge production beyond current institutional models.
Anarchist Technologies - Mutual Aid and Cybernetics Rigorous academic analysis exploring how anarchist principles of mutual aid, voluntary association, and anti-hierarchy can inform technological design, combining historical anarchist theory with contemporary cybernetics.
Anticapture An operational framework for digital governance of shared resources.
BioFi Cultivator - Bioregional Finance Framework BioFi framework for bioregional finance connecting ecological restoration with regenerative economic systems, showing how place-based financial mechanisms can fund watershed health, biodiversity, and community wellbeing within specific bioregions.
BlockchainGov Knowledge Base - Blockchain Governance Resource Directory Specialized knowledge base aggregating resources on blockchain governance systems, protocols, and mechanisms, providing structured access to documentation, research, and analysis on how decentralized networks coordinate upgrades, parameter changes, and community decisions.
Cabin - Network City Building Regenerative Communities Cabin DAO pioneers network city model connecting physical neighborhoods through shared values and decentralized governance, demonstrating how DAO coordination structures can support regenerative place-based communities beyond purely digital organization.
Churchill Fellowship Report - Transforming Philanthropy Comprehensive research report from Churchill Fellowship examining philanthropic transformation globally, documenting trust-based approaches, participatory grantmaking, and power-shifting practices that redistribute decision-making from funders to communities.
Circles - Alternative Monetary System A radical reimagining of money where each person issues their own currency instead of relying on central authorities, creating trust-based networks for direct peer-to-peer exchange without banks or governments.
Civic-Indigenous Placekeeping and Partnership Building Toolkit Comprehensive toolkit for building respectful partnerships between municipalities and Indigenous communities, grounded in reconciliation, land relationships, and indigenous-led placekeeping practices.
Changing Finance - Club of Rome Report Club of Rome comprehensive report examining financial system transformation necessary for ecological sustainability and social equity, showing how current finance drives extraction and what alternatives could enable regenerative economies.
Collectively Intelligent Sustainable Common Future Comprehensive Demos Helsinki report examining how collective intelligence, digital democracy, and participatory governance can address sustainability challenges through regenerative approaches to decision-making.
Automating Ostrom for Effective DAO Management Commons Stack framework applying Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning commons governance principles to DAO design, showing how proven institutional patterns can inform blockchain coordination systems.
Community Building in DAOs A practical guide to fostering vibrant, engaged communities within decentralized autonomous organizations, addressing key challenges and opportunities in web3 community development.
Community Land Trusts in Canada Network documenting Canadian community land trusts (CLTs) implementing commons-based land governance where communities collectively own land while individuals hold buildings, removing land from speculative markets to ensure permanent affordability.
Crypto Altruism Podcast Comprehensive podcast resource documenting crypto for social impact initiatives, interviews with practitioners, and analysis of how blockchain technologies serve humanitarian, environmental, and social justice goals beyond financial speculation.
22 Top Web3 Social Impact Developments of 2022 Crypto Altruism comprehensive year-in-review documenting significant Web3 social impact developments including humanitarian aid, environmental initiatives, financial inclusion projects, and governance experiments demonstrating blockchain applications beyond speculation.
DAO Governance - Challenges, Ideas and Tools A comprehensive exploration of DAO governance challenges and innovations, offering practical frameworks and solutions for effective decentralized decision-making.
DAO Research Collective - Curated DAO Governance Research Repository Collaborative initiative curating academic research, case studies, and analysis on DAO governance and coordination, providing centralized access to scholarly work examining decentralized organizations beyond promotional materials and speculative predictions.
DAOs and the Pitfalls of Progressive Decentralization Critical governance analysis from Gardens examining how "progressive decentralization"âgradually distributing control over timeâcan serve as excuse for founder control rather than genuine power redistribution in DAO contexts.
DAOstack - Holographic Consensus Governance Framework DAOstack develops holographic consensus mechanism addressing DAO scalability challenges by enabling collective attention focusing on most critical proposals through prediction markets and reputation-weighted prioritization, demonstrating sophisticated approach to governance at scale beyond simple voting.
The Political Economy of the Commons - David Bollier Interview Comprehensive interview with commons scholar David Bollier exploring commons-based economics, alternatives to capitalism, and how shared resource governance challenges scarcity mindsets and market fundamentalism.
Decentralised Tech & the Future of Organising A curated collection of web3 projects and initiatives with significant social impact potential, emphasizing practical applications beyond speculation and financial use cases.
Decolonial Futures - Gesturing Towards Alternatives to Modernity Foundational resource on decolonization, indigenous wisdom, and imagining alternatives to modernity, exploring how to disentangle from colonial systems and gesture towards different ways of being and knowing.
Donut Economy x 8 Forms of Capital - Gitcoin Integration Comprehensive integration of Kate Raworth's Donut Economics model with the 8 Forms of Capital framework, applied to decentralized coordination and regenerative economics in the Gitcoin context.
DRC December Report - Liquid Democracy, Cooperative AI, Web3 Philanthropy Democracy Research Collective synthesis examining liquid democracy mechanisms, cooperative AI governance, and Web3 philanthropy innovations, providing research-grounded analysis of emerging democratic coordination approaches beyond conventional voting systems.
Ecocertain - Ecological Certification and Finance Platform Platform connecting ecological certification with finance mechanisms, enabling verified environmental benefit to generate economic value through certificates that funders and markets can reward, creating financial viability for regenerative land stewardship.
Educator's Guide to Web3 for Absolute Beginners Comprehensive educational resource from EdTech Insiders providing accessible introduction to Web3 concepts, blockchain technology, and decentralized applications designed specifically for educators and learning contexts.
Embodied Economics - What Economists Can Learn from Starlings Embodied Economics essay examining what murmuration behavior teaches about coordination without central control, challenging economic assumptions about markets and hierarchies while exploring how ecological patterns inform alternative economic thinking grounded in embodied intelligence.
An Ecological Technology - James Bridle Interview Emergence Magazine interview with artist and technologist James Bridle exploring ecological, systemic approaches to technology that recognize interconnection with the more-than-human world.
Enchanted Network - Working With Lore - Discursive Landscapes Enchanted Network exploration of "discursive landscapes" as framework for understanding how language, narratives, and meaning-making shape collective reality and coordination possibilities, drawing on Indigenous wisdom traditions and complexity thinking to reimagine knowledge systems beyond Western rationalist paradigms.
Enchanted Network - Working With Lore - The Future of Work Enchanted Network exploration reimagining work beyond capitalist employment paradigms, examining how alternative economic relationships, gift economies, and commons-based production can create livelihoods aligned with ecological regeneration and community wellbeing rather than extraction and accumulation.
Shifting Power to Catalyze Movements - Equality Fund Framework Power-shifting and movement-building framework from Equality Fund exploring how funders can genuinely redistribute power to catalyze social movements rather than controlling movement direction through philanthropic capital.
Step Up, Step Back - Reimagining Non-Competitive Grantmaking Equality Fund framework for feminist, power-aware grantmaking that addresses how competitive funding processes harm movements through "Step Up, Step Back" participatory allocation where funded organizations determine distribution together.
Ethereum Community Fund - Ecosystem Development Support Ethereum Community Fund supports ecosystem development and token engineering research through grants and resources, fostering innovation in Ethereum-based coordination tools, governance mechanisms, and public goods infrastructure serving broader Web3 ecosystem.
Ethereum Localism - Knowledge Garden and Movement An action-oriented research hub and community movement bridging digital blockchain innovation with real-world local impact through community-driven initiatives, tools, and educational resources that ground global technologies in local contexts.
Ethereum Localism A collection of perspectives exploring the intersection of Ethereum and localism, examining how blockchain technology can support local communities while maintaining global coordination.
Expansive and Extractive Networks of Web3 - Critical Power Analysis Academic paper providing critical power-aware analysis of Web3 systems, examining how decentralized technologies can either expand collective capacity or concentrate extractive power in new forms.
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Feminist Finance - Alternative Economics Beyond Patriarchy Resource hub exploring feminist economics and alternative finance that critiques patriarchal financial systems and proposes care-centered economic models prioritizing social reproduction and collective wellbeing over accumulation.
Web3 - The Promise of a Denizens-Owned Internet FemWealth feminist critique examining Web3's promise of citizen/denizen ownership of internet infrastructure, analyzing power dynamics, inclusion challenges, and whether decentralized technologies can genuinely redistribute digital power.
Emerging Consensus - Accelerating DAO Decision-Making Flipside practical framework for accelerating DAO decision-making through emerging consensus processes that enable action while maintaining legitimacy, balancing speed with participation and preventing gridlock.
Forefront - Tokenized Communities Analysis Forefront's analysis of tokenized community coordination examining how shared tokens enable new membership models, incentive alignment, and collective resource management, while critically assessing risks of financialization and speculation overwhelming community purpose.
Forum for the Future - Governance as Route to Transformation Forum for the Future analysis positioning governance reform as overlooked but essential pathway to systems transformation, examining how participatory governance, futures thinking, and regenerative principles can enable organizations to navigate complexity and contribute to broader societal change.
Funding the Commons - Past Research Residencies Documentation of Funding the Commons research residencies bringing scholars and practitioners together for intensive study of public goods funding mechanisms, creating knowledge production bridging academic research with implementation practice.
Funding the Commons - San Francisco 2025 Major public goods funding initiative and conference bringing together researchers, practitioners, and funders exploring mechanisms for sustaining commons through novel funding approaches including retroactive rewards and quadratic mechanisms.
Future of Good - Media Platform for Social Impact Changemakers Canadian media platform providing journalism, analysis, and community resources for social sector practitioners, nonprofit leaders, and impact-focused organizations, bridging news coverage with practical resources for changemakers navigating sector challenges and innovations.
Assembly Theory x Onchain Capital Allocation Gitcoin framework integrating assembly theory from complexity science with onchain capital allocation design, offering novel theoretical approach to understanding and improving how DAOs distribute resources.
The ImpactDAO Poster Book - Visual Educational Resource Gitcoin visual educational resource presenting impact DAO concepts through accessible poster format, making complex coordination mechanisms understandable through design-forward explanatory visuals.
Govbase - Online Governance Projects Database Metagov comprehensive database documenting online governance systems across platforms, communities, and protocols, providing searchable repository of coordination mechanisms for research and design inspiration.
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Governance for better futures - DAO 2 DAO Co-operation
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Onchain Impact Networks - GreenPill Framework GreenPill comprehensive framework for building onchain impact networks that coordinate regenerative action, align incentives with ecological and social benefit, and create infrastructure for measuring and rewarding positive externalities.
Hats Modules - A New Era for Programmable Organizations Hats Protocol modular system enabling programmable organizational structures through composable primitives that organizations can combine to create custom authority, accountability, and coordination mechanisms.
Hats Protocol - Structure Without Capture Anti-capture governance framework and protocol providing organizational structure that prevents power concentration through revocable delegated authority, enabling accountability without centralized control.
Hypercerts - Impact Certificate Protocol Novel protocol for creating impact certificates that enable retroactive funding by making positive externalities trackable, tradeable, and rewardable through onchain credentials representing verifiable impact contributions.
ICDevs DAO - Internet Computer Developer Community Developer-focused DAO for the Internet Computer ecosystem providing bounty systems, transparent governance, and open-source development coordination for Internet Computer protocol advancement.
Impact DAO Media - Comprehensive DAO Database and Analysis Impact DAO Media maintains comprehensive database tracking DAO landscape with governance focus, providing structured data on organizational models, voting mechanisms, treasury management, and participation patterns across hundreds of decentralized organizations.
Impact DAOs - Practical Resource Guide Comprehensive practical guide for social impact organizations using DAO structures, providing accessible documentation on governance setup, legal considerations, treasury management, and community coordination for mission-driven decentralized organizations beyond purely financial applications.
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joaxap - DAO Governance Models 101 Educational overview of DAO governance approaches providing accessible introduction to voting mechanisms, delegation systems, multi-sig management, and decision-making structures, helping newcomers understand governance options and trade-offs without requiring technical expertise.
Introducing the Agreement Engine - Metagov Metagov protocol for creating enforceable community agreements through programmable contracts that encode collective commitments, enabling communities to formalize mutual obligations beyond informal norms or rigid smart contracts.
Beyond DAOs - Design Decisions for Internet Organizations Metagov comprehensive framework examining governance design choices for internet-based organizations beyond DAO defaults, exploring diverse coordination models and when different structures serve different organizational needs.
Metagov - Governance Research and Development Hub Leading interdisciplinary research organization and resource hub dedicated to advancing online governance, institutional design, and collective decision-making across decentralized platforms and communities.
Modular Politics - Toward a Governance Layer for Online Communities A framework proposing modular, interoperable governance components that enable communities to build flexible and adaptable governance systems across digital platforms.
Municipal MycoFi A pattern for creating decentralized, mycelium-inspired financial systems that serve bioregional communities while maintaining connections to broader economic networks.
Using Negotiated Joining to Construct Open-ended Roles Academic research examining how organizations construct flexible roles through negotiated joining processes where newcomers and existing members collectively define responsibilities rather than filling predetermined positions.
Tomorrow's Democracy Is Open Source - Noema Magazine Noema essay arguing for treating democracy like open-source softwareâparticipatory, iterative, collaborativeâshowing how digital governance as commons enables continuous democratic innovation rather than static institutional forms.
How We Can Encode Human Rights In The Blockchain Nathan Schneider for Noema exploring how human rights protections could be embedded in blockchain protocols themselves, moving beyond crypto's "censorship resistance" default to encode rights protecting people from harm while enabling coordination.
We Need To Rewild The Internet - Noema Magazine Noema article applying ecological restoration metaphor to internet infrastructure, arguing that current platform monoculture requires rewilding through decentralization, interoperability, and biodiversity rather than continued consolidation.
What If Money Expired? - Noema Magazine on Demurrage Currency Noema exploration of Silvio Gesell's alternative currency concept where money loses value over time (demurrage), challenging assumptions about wealth accumulation and showing how monetary design choices shape economic behavior and power distribution.
OpenCivics Collaborative Initiative â Specification Template 2.0
Operator - Protocol-First DAO Strategy Framework Strategic framework for DAOs built around protocols rather than organizations, examining how protocol-first approach shifts governance priorities toward long-term infrastructure resilience, minimal viable governance, and credible neutrality over operational decision-making and organizational growth.
The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising A mega list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share
When Ostrom Meets Blockchain - Commons Governance Meets Decentralized Systems Rigorous academic analysis applying Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning commons governance principles to blockchain systems, examining how decentralized protocols can avoid the tragedy of the commons.
Aping into Progress - Crypto Philanthropy Deep Dive Other Internet comprehensive research report examining crypto philanthropy landscape, mechanisms, and whether blockchain-based giving serves social impact better than traditional philanthropy or reproduces extraction with new technology.
PoolTogether - Vibes, Labor, Constituencies (DAO Ethnography) Other Internet in-depth ethnographic case study of PoolTogether DAO examining how community vibes, contributor labor, and stakeholder constituencies shape governance reality beyond token-weighted voting mechanisms.
P2P Foundation Wiki A comprehensive knowledge commons documenting peer-to-peer practices, theories, and projects across economic, political, and cultural domains.
Paraphilanthropy - Giving Money Its Freedom Bayo Akomolafe's radical decolonial critique of philanthropy, proposing "paraphilanthropy" as a practice of releasing money from extractive logics and reconnecting giving with fugitivity, land, and more-than-human kinship.
The Philanthropist - Criticism is Good for Philanthropy, If Done Well Article examining role of critical analysis in improving philanthropic practice, arguing that constructive criticism strengthens sector by exposing power imbalances and effectiveness gaps while exploring how philanthropy can create cultures welcoming accountability rather than defensiveness.
Plurality - Technology for Collaborative Diversity and Democracy Comprehensive open-source book by Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, and contributors exploring pluralistic democracy, digital governance, and technology for collaborative diversity across difference.
Positive Sum Worlds - Remaking Public Goods Other Internet research on reimagining public goods through crypto-economic mechanisms that create positive-sum dynamics, expanding collective capacity rather than zero-sum competition.
RadicalxChange - Democratic Transformation Organization Core organization advancing democratic transformation through resilient decentralization, plural publics, and collective agency, providing research, tools, and community for systemic transition beyond extractive markets and authoritarian states.
Regen Coordination x Institute for Community Sustainability Regenerative coordination partnership case study documenting collaboration between regen coordination practitioners and community sustainability researchers, demonstrating practical application of regenerative principles to community development.
Open Space for Network Structure Proposals - Regen Coordination Regen Coordination open participatory process for communities to share and discuss proposals about network structure and governance, demonstrating commitment to emergent coordination design through collective deliberation.
Enabling a Thriving Civic Life - Regen Melbourne Distributed Grant Making Regen Melbourne report documenting participatory grant-making experiment using Wellbeing Protocol (Hum app) to enable distributed funding decisions, showing how digital tools can support community-led resource allocation beyond traditional philanthropy.
Retroactive Public Goods Funding A groundbreaking funding mechanism designed to create startup-style exits for public goods projects by rewarding demonstrated impact rather than predicted outcomes, addressing the fundamental challenge of sustaining open source development.
Rich Decibels - Decentralized Organizing Expert Personal resource hub of Richard D. Bartlett, co-founder of Loomio, Enspiral, and Microsolidarity, bridging community organizing traditions with decentralized governance innovations.
What is a DAO? - Conceptual Foundations by RnDAO RnDAO comprehensive conceptual analysis examining fundamental question of what constitutes a DAO, exploring boundaries, definitions, and core characteristics that distinguish decentralized autonomous organizations from other coordination forms.
Shifting Power to Shift Systems - Rockefeller Report Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors comprehensive framework on power equity in philanthropy and systems change, showing how redistributing power from funders to communities catalyzes transformation while maintaining concentration prevents genuine change.
Sacred Civics - Building Seven Generation Cities Open access book exploring indigenous knowledge and seven-generation thinking in urban governance, showing how cities can integrate long-term ecological and social sustainability through participatory governance rooted in indigenous wisdom and systems transformation.
Sobol - Diagramming DAOs - Gitcoin Visual Analysis Sobol's visual analysis of Gitcoin DAO structure using organizational mapping tools to reveal coordination patterns, contributor relationships, and governance architecture, demonstrating how visualization enables understanding complex decentralized organization beyond text descriptions.
Sobol - The Pragmatist's Guide to DAOing Sobol's practical guide to DAO participation and coordination providing accessible introduction to decentralized organization beyond hype and technical jargon, offering concrete guidance for contributors navigating governance, communication, and collaboration challenges in emerging organizational structures.
Building an Economy Within a DAO Society framework for creating internal economic systems within DAOs that value diverse contributions, reward participation beyond token holdings, and build sustainable coordination through reciprocal exchange.
Society - DAO and Community Building Analysis Society's exploration of how DAOs can support genuine community formation beyond transactional coordination, examining relationship-building, shared culture creation, and belonging that enables decentralized organizations to function as meaningful social groups rather than purely instrumental coordination mechanisms.
Working Toward Financial Inclusion With Blockchain - SSIR Stanford Social Innovation Review analysis examining blockchain's potential for financial inclusion alongside persistent barriers, offering realistic assessment of where decentralized finance serves unbanked populations versus where hype exceeds reality.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models - SSIR Framework Stanford Social Innovation Review comprehensive framework categorizing nonprofit funding approaches, helping organizations understand which models align with their missions and operational needs rather than pursuing all funding sources indiscriminately.
Web3 and the Trap of 'For Good' Stanford Social Innovation Review critical power-aware analysis examining how "Web3 for good" rhetoric can obscure extraction and power concentration while claiming social benefit, offering framework for distinguishing genuine impact from progressive branding.
The Blockchain Governance Toolkit A comprehensive framework for designing resilient and adaptive governance systems for blockchain networks, presented as a "cookbook" with modular components and balanced trade-offs.
The Crypto Syllabus A carefully curated educational resource that examines blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, and Web3 through critical interdisciplinary perspectives beyond typical techno-optimist narratives.
The Future of Work is Human An exploration of how evolving technologies and emerging organizational models are reshaping work to prioritize human connection, meaning, and flourishing over industrial efficiency.
The Handbook of Handbooks for Decentralised Organising A comprehensive meta-resource collecting handbooks, guides, and toolkits for non-hierarchical coordination, serving groups from grassroots movements to cooperative workplaces.
Trust-Based Philanthropy - Transforming Power Dynamics in Funding Comprehensive framework and principles for trust-based philanthropy that addresses power imbalances in grantmaking through multi-year funding, flexible use of resources, and centering community leadership over funder control.
Equity Matrix - Vancouver Foundation Practical tool from Vancouver Foundation distinguishing organizations that serve equity-denied communities from those led by affected communities, emphasizing proximity to issue and self-determination in funding decisions.
Vitalik Buterin - Thoughts on DAOs Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's comprehensive analysis of DAO governance examining fundamental challenges, mechanism limitations, and realistic assessment of what decentralized coordination can accomplish versus utopian promises.
Commons Briefing - Wellbeing Economy Alliance WEAll briefing on commons-based approaches to economic transformation, exploring how shared resource governance can serve wellbeing rather than growth-at-all-costs economics.
World Economic Forum - Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit World Economic Forum comprehensive DAO toolkit covering operations, governance frameworks, legal structures, and implementation considerations from institutional perspective, providing accessible overview bridging traditional organizational understanding with decentralized coordination innovations.
WHAO - World Heritage Autonomous Organisation World Heritage Catalysis applying Ostrom's commons governance principles to DAOs in context of World Heritage sites, showing how polycentric coordination can serve cultural and ecological heritage through participatory blockchain governance.
Wikipedia - Technological Transitions and Socio-Technical Systems Wikipedia's comprehensive overview of technological transitions theory examining how large-scale socio-technical systems transform through multi-level interactions between niches, regimes, and landscapes, providing established framework for understanding systemic change beyond simplistic innovation narratives.
Planetary Infrastructure as Resistance - Solarpunk and Web3 ZORA ZINE article connecting solarpunk aesthetics and values with regenerative Web3, showing how decentralized technologies can serve climate resilience and post-capitalist futures rather than merely speculative finance.