Tanda Foundation: Public Funding for Creative Practice

Tanda Foundation is a freestyle and experimental foundation, that merges the logic of traditional not-for-profit organizations and the tanda model, to create a funding platform held and run by its own Patrons and Candidates. Tanda Foundation collects micro-funds towards the support of creative practice.

Tanda is an informal economy system practice mainly by illegal immigrants, unable to joing the formal economy system. The groups are formed by people that know and trust each, and make regular contributions to create a fund. Tanda Foundation is inspired in this practice.

We aim to found new ways and means to support creative practice, without relying in institutional inertia (or the lack of it) and encouraging our members to give small donations to build a public fund to support and decide our own cultural agenda. The Foundation aims to be an accountable platform of funding for its users, where the process of application, reviewing, voting, and collection of funds is accesible to all its Patrons and Candidates. We accept donations from 1 to 20 dollars wich aren't tax deductable - due to our informal nature.

The Foundation relies on 2.0 infrastucture to exist with minimal costs and labor. Think in an automatic not-for-profit, created as a response to the system and scarcity of institutional grants in rich countries, and the limited or null support for creative production, in less advantage ones.

We still in Beta but the system works fine!. We are looking for Patrons and Candidates. We are looking specially, for users interested in both, donate and apply. If you are interested in a grant you might be interested in facilitate other ones too, and viceversa! At the moment we have around 600 dollars for Cash! grants. We also award Fame! grants each month.

 For more information about our Grant 2.0 system, please visit our F.A.Q. section. Also we have a Desk dedicated to the administration and Works section, ready to showcase the projects funded and some documentation about our simple mechanisms for collect funds for the inaugural Tanda.

 www.tandatanda.org

desk.tanda.foundation.@gmail.com

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