Civic infrastructure, from the smallest unit up
Building community wealth
hum is civic infrastructure that enables: shared funds, shared decisions, and wealth in all its forms. A wellbeing economy, built from the smallest unit up.
- For funders: trust-based philanthropy made practical and scalable.
- For charities: increase your impact, tools to support participatory grantmaking.
Built by The Wellbeing Protocol, a New Zealand social enterprise. Stay in the loop →
Shared funds · shared decisions
This isn't just better grantmaking. It's new infrastructure for communities ready to define prosperity on their own terms.
“There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right.”
Nobel Prize Winner
Real wealth isn't only money
It's the knowledge passed between neighbours, the trust built through collective decisions, the food grown locally, the culture kept alive, the relationships that hold a place together when things get hard.
hum builds tools that help communities grow all of it - funding what matters, recognising what's valuable, and exchanging what they have with one another. So local groups can govern resources, track what's genuinely thriving, and build the kind of prosperity no balance sheet fully captures.
- Social
- Material
- Financial
- Living
- Intellectual
- Experiential
- Spiritual
- Cultural
Who is hum for?
Funders
Public / private, large or small
- Streamlined, low-cost administration
- Real-time impact visibility
- Transparent, traceable funding flows
- Fast, efficient grant cycles
Community organisations
Charities, NGO's, Social Enterprises, Iwi, Local Councils etc
- Access to funder ecosystem
- Scalable participatory grantmaking
- Real-time reporting
- True Community empowerment
Impact stories
Real communities, real change. See how participatory funding is transforming local initiatives across New Zealand and beyond.
Walworth, London, UK
Business community
Working with The Social Innovation Partnership to bring the business community together to share and develop ideas for improving community health
Walworth, London, UK
Community wellbeing
Working with The Social Innovation Partnership to bring the Walworth community together. Using their first-hand experiences and local knowledge to think of new ways to create a better place to live, work and manage money.
Wellington, New Zealand
Youth local food production
Aya Miyaguchi of the Ethereum Foundation seeded the Rātā Rangatahi Fund, enabling youth to guide grant allocation supporting food production, climate healing, and community development.
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What people say
“It's rare to see a project with the potential to make giving more transparent, more human, and more effective. hum.community is one of them.”
Ecostore founder, social entrepreneur and philanthropist
“I see the immense potential of this initiative to harness decentralised technology for the betterment of underprivileged segments of society.”
President of Ethereum Foundation
“I've watched hum.community evolve into something powerful: a new model for funding that restores agency to communities and redefines what meaningful giving looks like.”
Director of Philanthropy for Rod Drury
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- Rod Drury
