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View submission: Announcing the Community Funds Program
How are you going to ensure that funds are distributed equitably? Are there any measures in place to make sure that there is a diversity of recipients?
Comment by Go_JasonWaterfalls at 28/04/2022 at 19:45 UTC
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Awesome question. Our aim is to empower a broad and diverse slate of communities by investing $1 million into the program and our proposal evaluation measures are based on their creativity, feasibility, and community impact. Community impact, in particular, is not only about how many communities might be positively impacted, but also how representative those communities are of the full breadth and depth of experiences across Reddit.
We will also be evaluating the scale of projects to help determine and ensure funds are distributed fairly. While our expanded program opens the possibility of larger individual grants up to $50k, we generally saw that community projects from our pilot requested around $1000-$5000. The final number of projects funded will ultimately depend on a number of variables, including how many communities apply and qualify, and how much funding is requested per accepted project.