Through the Awards, we have been able to recognize the efforts of social entrepreneurs and support their goals towards innovating and developing solutions that aim at addressing gaps in society and the environment.
Now you can support our awardees with your Gitcoin Contribution
This year Blockchain for Humanity and StartUp Secret Santa have partnered to build a stronger coalition in support of startups in the space.
b4H Awards applicants have been invited to sign up and apply for the elevator pitch session.
Building strong #Coalitions4GOOD is our priority and advance our mission of making this an ecosystem of purpose-driven development.
The b4H Crew is actively supporting this initiatives.
We are delighted to join forces with BitGive in this Crypto for Good Conference. Iva Kaleja will be joining a panel and representing b4H.
Blockchain for Humanity has the honor to have been invited to present at the Blockchain Summit Latam
Gus Segovia and Grace Torrellas will be presenting on the following days:
Wed Nov 4
Thu Nov 5
We are excited to meet the Bitcoin Frankfurt Community during Blockchain Week.
We are organizing a participatory session to co-design approaches and best practices from Community members that are familiar or would like to get involved with the implementation of Blockchain powered Community Currencies worldwide.
The b4H team will be welcoming participants and leading the sessions.
Why do we do this? Because We believe that Blockchain powered Community Currencies can transform fragile communities and become resilient and prosperous socio-economic networks. Learn more here
See you in Frankfurt!
DUE TO COVID PROTOCOLS, REGISTRATION IS MANDATORY.
We gather as a Community to share ideas and look for the seed of opportunity in current challenges. The Community Gatherings are meant to share the positive impact technology can have on Humanity and how we envision our contribution #call2action.
The Virtual Gatherings take place on selected Thursdays.
Next one:
Michael Peterson presents the most valuable use case of Bitcoin adoption, especially during these unprecedented times. Blockchain for Humanity's team engages in a conversation about the project implications and how it is facilitating aid for the people in El Salvador. Bitcoin Beach is a project that serves vulnerable communities in El Salvador and prepares them for Bitcoin adoption.
We would like to gather as Community to share ideas and challenges during these unprecedented times. The Community Gatherings are meant to share the positive impact technology can have on Humanity and how we envision our contribution #call2action.
The Virtual Gatherings take place every other Thursday.
Next one:
Featured Project: EthicHub
Speaker: Gabriela Chang, Co-Founder
Ethichub is a high impact Marketplace that connects smallholder farmers with worldwide lenders and direct buyers. The purpose-driven enterprise is set out to improve smallholders farmer's standard of living by addressing the Poverty trap.
Coffee Harvesting and its supply chain reveals opportunity to help improve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by reframing the emerging economies system...
...Learn more at the Virtual Gathering.
We would like to gather as Community to share ideas and challenges during these unprecedented times. The Community Gatherings are meant to share the positive impact technology can have on Humanity and how we envision our contribution #call2action.
The Virtual Gatherings take place every other Thursday.
Next one:
Community Inclusion Currencies (CiC) a project carried out in Kenya by Grassroots Economics, Will Ruddick.
We will learn the steps required to implement similar initiatives in any other part of the world. What are there technical components that are are there to serve the purpose and how we can all take part in the effort of creating prosperity for vulnerable communities.
Blockchain for Humanity would like to encourage the participation and collaboration of individuals and enterprises in a #Coalitions4GOOD united effort.
With over 1,000 daily transactions, the Community Inclusion Currencies Project is empowering more than 12,000 community members in Kenya, allowing them to create and manage their own decentralized currency and credit system with the support of the @kenya-red-cross
This is how we will eradicate poverty and create prosperity for underserved communities around the world.
"Let Communities do what banks do and let's de-risk it, let's do it on chain so we all know what the collateral is, let them create their own currencies and credits, just like banks do. But let's do it totally transparently with Blockchain" says Will Ruddick
We would like to gather as Community to share ideas and challenges during these unprecedented times. The Community Gatherings are meant to share the positive impact technology can have on Humanity and how we envision our contribution #call2action.
The Virtual Gatherings take place every other Thursday.
Next one:
THURSDAY, 23rd APRIL 2020 @ 16h Central European Summer Time (CEST)
We would like to gather as Community to share ideas and challenges during these unprecedented times. The Community Gatherings are meant to share the positive impact technology can have on Humanity and how we envision our contribution #call2action.
The Virtual Gatherings take place every other Thursday.
Next one:
THURSDAY, 09 APRIL 2020 @ 18h Central European Summer Time (CEST)
b4H and the #Coalitions4GOOD welcome you to join an interactive presentation on the use of emerging technologies in support of Charities and NGOs
Date: March 18 @ 17h
Place: Isolas Law Firm
Address: Portland House, Glacis Rd, GX11 1AA
20 Feb 2020 at 7pm / Location: IOV Labs
b4H Core Team will be participating as Judges of the Social Impact Track. b4H supports Social Innovation and advocates the use of emerging technologies such as Blockchain to develop solutions that address social, economic and environmental problems.
We encourage social entrepreneurs to join.
Details below.
- Participants can submit projects which qualify under the UN Sustainability categories.
- No existing projects are allowed as to keep a level playing field.
- The top 5 projects will share a prize pool of a minimum of $15,000 (cash or ETH equivalent).
The Crypto Finance Conference is an investors-focused conference on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. CFC brings together both private and institutional investors, family offices and funds to meet the leading industry experts in the field of crypto finance and blockchain. The conference offers high quality content for visionaries, analysts and entrepreneurs, helping them improve their investment acumen on crypto finance and blockchain while raising awareness on socially responsible and positive impact investments.
B4H was invited to join the next generation impact discussion, moderated by David Wachsman, where b4H presented the use cases that contribute with social innovation and how important is for Impact investors to support the development of businesses driven by purpose.
The Blockchain and Crypto Valley community meets during the WEF in Davos.
Location: Hotel Morosani Schweizerhof, Promenade 50, Davos-Platz.
b4H 4Good Advisors: Matti Liukas (Consensus Capital) and Amit Prandhan (Silicon Valley Blockchain Society) introduced b4H to peers followed by a Q&A session.
In support of Real Unicorns, for this year's awards, in addition to the coaching role b4H carries out to prepare, validate and strengthen the social impact model, the Foundation seeks to provide Seed Grants to eligible Awardees and distribute the funds subject to milestones completion.
The eligible awardees will get an equal portion of the funds raised in this event. We will use the funds to allocate to specific milestones. Funding donors can track the progress of the social projects while gaining full visibility of the funds' distribution and the project's achievement. So your donation will go a long way to get these projects to their next stage of development.
Want to meet the b4H2019Awards recipients? Check them out here
Art 4 Humanity Fundraising Event launched at LabitConf will offer a precious art piece given to the Foundation back in 2017 (at the peak of the Bitcoin price), and it is signed by distinguished members of the Blockchain Community to help raise the targeted fundraising goals.
Every year the b4H Awards are announced at the Latin American Bitcoin Conference
We are delighted to report an update on the impact projects in our scope and announce the awardees for 2019. See conference agenda
Join LabitConf 2019 here
The b4H team looks forward to meeting you at the conference!
The blockchain for Humanity foundation (b4H) and a grassroots movement that brings together ecosystem partners, social entrepreneurs, altruistic, sustainable businesses, tech4good fans, and Impact investors; collaborate and unite efforts to identify and support projects that are addressing a social or environmental challenges with the use of technology such as Blockchain and AI. Come and join us for an evening dedicated to raise awareness and discuss real challenges that can be addressed if we put are collective knowledge and resources together.
Address: ICON Lounge (3F, 100, Cheonggyecheon-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul.
- 18:00 Registration
- 18:30 Introduction of B4H and purpose of workshop
- 19:00 Workshop
- 20:00 Presentation and review
- 20:30 Networking
- High level discussion on the capabilities of technologies that can result in transformational changes in society.
- Review technical challenges
- Interactive discussion of Design Challenges
- Comparison of current models with blockchain powered models.
- What does it mean to join the #Coalitions4GOOD force?
Its is with great pleasure that b4H joins the aeternity community in their annual conference: aeternity Universe One. With a remarkable line up of speakers, an opportunity to increase the force of the #Coalitions4GOOD movement.
æternity is a public, open-source blockchain protocol that enables a platform for next-generation decentralized applications and high scalability. Its core components are written in the functional programming language Erlang, and its smart contracts are also functional.
Blockchain for Humanity core team member Ivan Kaleja presents the #Coalitions4GOOD movement.
We are proud to offer, together with Infuy, the first #Coalitions4GOOD MeetUp in Uruguay. This is the first of a series of events planned to bring together key contributors, such as PhiEconomy and Tokkenit.
Our host Infuy will offer its facilities to hold the event at Calle Estero Bellaco 2856, Montevideo.
We invite you to join us at the #Coalitions4GOOD Node which will be revealing content around Social, Economic and Environmental Impact projects that aim to improve the world and support the achievement of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
If you want to involved in the conversation, join our Telegram group
Our Blog post here
