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View submission: Community Funds applications are open!
Awesome program, but I'm surprised the minimum value is set so high? For example, our mod group has been looking at setting up a public blog/wiki with articles to help future business analysts with their careers (resume advice, questions, career guidance, building skills), and we're considering asking internally for donations just to get like $100 to fund domain names and hosting for the year. With $500, we could pretty much secure the wiki for 5 years, so we probably don't need enough money to hit the minimum.
Tldr: How was the lowest request amount/bracket decided?
Comment by Watchful1 at 30/06/2022 at 23:16 UTC
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I'm guessing they don't have the manpower to review or police requests from the number of communities that would ask for $100. They'd end up just handing out a bunch of money that people would just run away with. With fewer, larger projects they can monitor progress and see actual results easier.
Comment by ViolentHamster8II at 30/06/2022 at 22:45 UTC
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This was what i was wondering, our community would be able to last a few years with $50.
Comment by appa4ever at 01/07/2022 at 21:39 UTC
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That’s a great project idea! We set our funding thresholds based on data from our pilot program, but we’re aware that sometimes a community might need slightly more or slightly less. We’re happy to help workshop your ideas at r/CommunityFunds and figure out what could work. Our goal is to help you have impact (and we’re pretty reasonable people, too).
Comment by DaddyuctioAdAbsurdum at 03/07/2022 at 18:27 UTC
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Maybe you could build a little coalition (if that’s the right word, I’m very tired) of subs that have similar goals in terms of creating wikis? If you had a repeated methodology in terms of (eg) we’d all get hosting from [whatever place], each sub has an appropriate number for their size of named folks who’ve agreed on committing to creating the initial wiki content, the funds will handled by a smaller number that the whole group, maybe a small groups of mods from only a couple of the involved subs will handle domain purchases, same with hosting costs and any other elements involving money (leaving Reddit a small, manageable number of people to vet and get into presumably legally enforceable agreements with before giving them cash, which I reckon the other comments around that risk are probably right.)
Comment by ZenMrGosh at 01/07/2022 at 17:53 UTC
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Probably worried about being overwhelmed by the Nickel & Dime effect