That’s a Wrap! A successful crowdfunding campaign for Hylo
By: Clare Politano
Tags: Collaboration, Fundraising, Collaboration Tools, Cooperatives, Community

We have successfully wrapped up our crowdfunding campaign for Hylo! With $190,277 raised from 271 individual contributors and one major partnership, we blew past our original goal of $100,000 and we are fully resourced for the next season of work. With the deepest gratitude and from the bottom of our hearts, we want to express a huge thank you to our community! It is an incredible honor to be able to focus on building the next features in our ambitious roadmap, thanks to your support, and deeply affirming that you believe in us and want to participate in our mission to make Hylo the social coordination platform for a thriving planet.

The campaign started off with great news — just a couple weeks in, we embarked on a partnership with the Planetary Health Alliance, based out of Harvard. This partnership is perfect for us because they are using Hylo already and their desires for new additions to the platform are perfectly aligned with what we have been wanting to build. With the blended funding from PHA and our crowdfund we were able to raise a total of $190k.

PHA is an incredible organization advancing the cutting-edge field of planetary health, which weaves public health and ecological health in an interdisciplinary approach. They are a consortium of over 200 universities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and government entities from around the world committed to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts. We are honored to work with their amazing team.

Upcoming Features

For our work with PHA, we’ll carry out some major usability upgrades, mobile app improvements, and big new additions. Here’s what we’re working on together:

Improved Profiles: Help members share who they are and connect with likeminded collaborators.

Community Discovery pages: Let communities showcase who they are and what’s happening in their group.

Holonic Architecture: This huge architectural rewrite reinvents the structure of groups on Hylo to more closely match how people collaborate in real life.

Threaded Conversations and Forums: Make conversations easier to follow.

Onboarding Flow: Set new communities and new members up for success when first joining Hylo.

Community Analytics Dashboard: Make visible the network health of groups on Hylo

View the complete scope of work with PHA on the Hylo Product Journey.

Designs for the new community Discovery pages.

How to Get Involved

Building Hylo is the home for collaborative conversations about how we steward and build this open source project. Joining this group is a great way to get to know Hylo and participate in these conversations!

Hylo Stakeholders Call — January 27, 2021 @ 10–11:30am PST

Join the very first stakeholder call — our equivalent of a shareholder meeting — this January. We’ll report on Hylo progress, and discuss what’s needed to govern Hylo moving forward. Topics will include: working groups to start, the cadence of these meetings, and who wants to contribute in what ways. Save the date and look out for the official invite coming soon.

Thank You!

Thank you all so much for contributing. It means the world to us to know our incredible community is behind us and believes in our work. We can’t wait to co-create Hylo with you.

In solidarity,

Terran Core Stewards

Tibet | Neha | Kelly | Clare | Aaron

PS — We held a campaign wrap party on December 1 with friends, Hylo community leaders, and musical guest Brian Capobianchi! If you missed it, check out the livestream here.