📖 Introduction

This document intends to provide a comprehensive view of the grants program for applicants and teams looking to apply for a World Foundation Community Grant. This guide showcases how to apply for a grant, what type of grants World Foundation offers, how to establish clear milestones, and describes how a grant application is processed and reviewed by the World Foundation Grant Team as well as the milestone review and approval process.

📝 A list of RFPs and categories is posted before the grant application goes live. Read the proposed RFP carefully and formulate grant proposals per them.

Request for proposals (RFPs)

Generally, a project has a better chance of being accepted if:

• it presents a well-researched or tested concept, for which ideally you can show some prior work;
• you have tangible proof of how and to what extent the project is a benefit to the World community and its users;
• you can demonstrate that the project will be maintained after completion of the grant, be it through an obvious commitment to the technology from your side, additional funding sources, or an existing business model;
• your team has proven experience with the relevant languages and technologies and/or a strong technical background. You will be asked to provide the GitHub profiles of your team members as part of your application, which we will examine for past activity and code quality. Naturally, you can also link to projects on other platforms; and
• you can present how your project is differentiated from other applicants or implement technology that doesn't exist in the ecosystem yet.

✅ Additionally, your project must fulfill the following requirements:

• Open-sourced: All code and other deliverables produced as part of a grant must be open-sourced, and it must also not rely on closed-source software for full functionality. We prefer MIT licenses but we are open to discussing on a grant-to-grant basis.

❌ We do not:

• Fund projects that actively encourage or promote gambling, illicit trade, money laundering, or criminal activities in general.