Make ideas and money flow
A place for collaborative funding.
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Co-create and fund projects together
Dream Together
Tap into your group’s creative potential. Crowd source, develop and review ideas. Spark opportunities for collaboration along the way!
Fund Together
Distribute decision-making power by distributing money; if people want projects to happen, they get to put their money where their mouth is. Invite others to chip in via fundraising!
Realize Together
Share progress and celebrate achievements so everyone can see what was made possible, learn together and get inspired. Showcase what you are capable of!
How to use Cobudget
You’re in good company
Networked organizations and professional associations
Enabling members to decide and track the spending of collective funds (e.g. from membership fees)
Granting bodies
Making submission and granting processes transparent
Co-working and co-living spaces
Crowdsourcing ideas and pooling money towards them
Self-set pricing
Cobudget is an open-source tool maintained by communities passionate about spreading collaborative funding practices since 2014. Ensuring that Cobudget continues to be both available and accessible depends on contributions from users – there is no external funding, and all of the work is done by volunteers.
Starter
Try Cobudget
Free
Start using Cobudget immediately for up to 10 users per round. Try the tool with your colleagues to see if it's right for you.
- Setup your round
- Configure your round: Choose currency, privacy settings, guidelines, deadlines and more!
- Customize: URL, description and images
- Admin & moderator features
- Customize the project submission form
- Crowd-review features
Membership
Monthly or Annual
Self-Set Price
To use Cobudget with more than 10 users and use our groups feature, please set up a monthly or annual donation.
You choose the amount based on the value you see in the Cobudget project, and your financial means.
We recommend 45 EUR a month, to help us cover technical operating costs and customer support.
We support purpose-driven initiatives from anywhere in the world, and we do not want money not to be a barrier. You can use Cobudget for less, or for free, while those who have the financial means are encouraged to make a larger contribution.
Custom & large groups
Tailored
Get in touch
To use Cobudget with over 100 users, or if have white-label needs, such as a custom instance on your own domain, or wish to fund new feature development, please speak to our team.
Our story
Cobudget’s origins go back to 2014, when two different self-organized communities began (independently from each other) experimenting with collaborative funding: the Enspiral Network from Aotearoa New Zealand, and The Borderland community from Scandinavia.
Thanks to the initiative, drive and technical skills of a handful of members of both those communities, their fledgling collaborative funding practices were quickly turned from spreadsheets into software prototypes, leading to the creation of two different tools: Cobudget and Dreams.
Bring people, ideas and money together, encouraging participation at every stage.