This wiki section is dedicated to the topic of "How do we make Peer Production sustainable?

Introduction

• Why It Is Crucial that Peer Production Companies Refuse Venture Capital Investments

1. How Open Source Development is Funded‎, study of the funding of open source projects
2. Shared Financing of Community-Based Businesses; (applies to the U.S.A.). By Jenny Kassan of SELC
3. Crowdfunding and the Law. Janelle Orsi, SELC
4. Autonomy, Labour, and the Political Economy of Social Media. By Dmytri Kleiner

Typology

1. Donations-based business model
2. Crowdfunding business model
3. Freemium as a business model

To be developed:

1. Ethical finance
2. Social investment and philantropic venture capital
3. Microfinance
4. Social lending
5. Prizes

Important Initiatives

• Top 40 Platforms for Crowdfunding Social Change

1. Goteo, commons and community oriented crowdfunding platform
2. Flattr [1], a system for social micro-donations to support online creative work
3. Kachingle, quite similar to Flattr, but uses Paypal and proportionally distributes amongst number of visits to sites users wish to support
4. CivicSponsor [2] is a new twist to crowdfunding--it allows folks to contribute to public projects in their neighborhood. Get new bike lanes from your local government, receive a tax deduction. Great participatory budgeting initiative.

Key Resources

Key Articles

• Venture Capital Investments in P2P Companies
• On the Goteo project: Moving crowdfunding from commodity- to commons-based dynamics

Crowdfunding Directory

Directory with links at http://www.smartermoney.nl/?p=315#platforms:

1. Crowdfunding-Based Startup Investments‎ ; Equity-Based_Crowdfunding, investing for profit-sharing
2. Crowdfunding-Based Project Support
3. Crowdfunding-Based P2P Lending
4. Crowdfunding-Based Microcredit
5. Crowdfunding-Based Donations

See also: Crowdfunding for Social Change Projects, a top 10 directory compiled by Dowser

Related Sections

1. Business Models]
2. Music Crowdfunding]
3. Equity Crowdfunding SEC FAQ