Ma Earth's Funding Model
How does funding work on Ma Earth?
Collective Funding in Action
Ma Earth combines three funding streams to bring maximum funding to community-led regeneration. Our collective funding model is different from both traditional grants and typical crowdfunding.
The three streams
Crowdfunding: Community contributions. Participating land stewards reach out to their network, friends, family, colleagues, and others, and their communities contribute directly to projects through the platform during a funding round.
Matching funds: Amplifying community support. The more individual supporters a project has (as well as how much it raises), the more matching funds it receives from the matching pool. Quadratic funding rewards breadth of community engagement, as well as the total donation size.
Bonus funds: One project's success is everyone's success. If all projects in the round collectively reach a funding target, every project receives additional funds. A rising tide lifts all ships.
Ma Earth's funding model may be different from what you're used to.
Traditional grants: Projects apply to many funders separately and wait months for a committee to decide where funding flows. Extensive reporting is often required, and funding is uncertain.
Typical crowdfunding: Projects ask their network for support, competing against everyone else on the crowdfunding platform. Each project receives what they raise, nothing more.
Ma Earth: Projects apply once and hear back within weeks, then run a crowdfunding campaign where community support unlocks additional matching funds from the pool. All participating projects collaborate toward a shared funding goal, and matching grants are community-directed. Each funding round, a project can build a track record that carries into the next round.
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