This series under our “economics” section of SEEDS Library describes ways SEEDS is designed to align all our interests: Giving pathways for people to meet their needs today while best serving what this new economy needs to thrive. The series describes how to take advantage of funding opportunities through Alliance Shares (Financing), Campaigns (Subsidizing) and DHOs (Incubating).
Campaigns are great for spreading Seeds, not paying bills
Campaigns are created to generate an economy of Seeds, to subsidize and reward. These are fantastic for spreading outside of our existing SEEDS community to engage more people and use Seeds, the currency, as additional incentive for donations and volunteerism.
Campaigns can be used to directly reward and subsidize regenerative behaviors, to activating and inviting their communities into SEEDS or otherwise providing rewards to help this movement thrive.
If you need money to pay bills and meet your needs —then Campaigns are not ideal. Campaigns are not intended for funding projects to pay upfront, but they are encouraged for spreading Seeds far and wide to support and grow the movement. Campaigns help communities form and grow, and embrace an abundance and gift culture by creating pathways for people in need to receive an invite into this movement.
Great Examples of Campaigns
One of our first organizations to use Seeds as gifts to match donations, is Forests Without Frontiers, a Romanian re-forestation project that also works to preserve the indigenous wisdom, culture and way of life. Forest Without Frontiers is gifting 2,000 Seeds for a set number of donors.
The Barichara Regeneration Fund recently onboarded 100 new regenerators who received Seeds as a match to minimum $20 donations to benefit the community regeneration program in Barichara, Columbia.
Another example of a campaign is to give 1,000 Seeds to 5,000 people who make videos about local regeneration and share it to multiple channels.
Campaign success is giving hundreds of Seeds to millions of people, distributing wealth, rather than giving millions of Seeds to hundreds of people, which does the opposite as it concentrates wealth.
Campaigns for donations
For those wanting to use Campaigns to finance non-profit or purpose-driven causes, there’s been a few successful workarounds by using the Campaign system to subsidize donations while and rewarding/inviting a diversity of donors. Two successful examples are Forests Without Frontiers and Barichara Regeneration Fund. This is a good model as it gets the projects the funding (in donated fiat currency) they need up-front while still following the spirit of Campaigns, sending a small number of Seeds to a wide diversity of people.
Rewards for running a campaign
The member running a campaign gets rewarded too. A member who, through the campaign, invites a new person into the movement who then becomes a Resident, earns a referral award, historically between $10-$60 in Seeds. When a Resident who was invited through the campaign becomes a Citizen, the original member who invited them earns a referral award, historically between $15-$70 in Seeds.
*As of this writing, referral/invite rewards when someone you invite becomes a Citizen is around 2000 Seeds. These rewards are temporary and there is only enough for approximately the first million Citizens.
If money is needed up-front to pay expenses, then there are other avenues to get funding in the movement — such as the Hypha Incubator, Hypha DHO and other DHO’s starting up. Prepare a quest to bring to Hypha or another DHO. For more, visit the video SEEDS Campaigns How to propose a Campaign and then proceed to the next part of this series to learn more about Decentralized Holonic Organizations (DHOs.)
