Unnamed Fund was organized by members of the NEW INC community to explore alternative forms of creative grantmaking with an emphasis on solidarity and mutualism. As a collective, we are launching distinct grantmaking experiments, with the intention of incorporating lessons learned into new experiments.

Unnamed Fund launches its first experiment in community grant making! Applications Open July 7!

Unnamed Fund is excited to announce a generous grant from OCELOT (Original CELO Treasury) to support our genesis experiment. As part of the support, OCELOT has granted Unnamed Fund 7,525 CELO, the native token of the CELO blockchain.

We are excited to announce that we have received generous support for our initial collective grantmaking experiment from mCLUB!

Late in the summer of 2021, I wrote an original proposal for an idea called “NEW DAO”, a web3 native ecosystem fund that would be owned, run, and controlled by NEW INC members. The impetus behind the fund was that many NEW INC projects are not natural fits for traditional venture investment-- and that there could be interesting collective and codirected approaches to allocate capital towards member projects. This proposal also coincided with discussion within NEW INC about a desire to create an investment fund. Eventually, this “NEW DAO” proposal grew into an active group of individuals working to help build and shape the idea further.

Welcome to Unnamed Fund —  a cooperatively controlled creative ecosystem fund.