GiveMeAnArtGrant.com: Peer to Peer Micro-Grants for Arts and Culture

Purpose: Provide a place for artists to solicit and receive microgrants from P2P patrons. Kiva for artists, except not loands, rather one-time microgrants for specific project proposals.

Approach: Use Drupal as a platform for artists to self-generate a page with an embedded donation widget.

domainname.com/artistname

would be a blog with their profile and donation info in the sidebar. They could use the blog to update about work progress including end-results of granted projects, make requests, etc.

The main page would aggregate all artist posts into a river. Could also collect tags from artist profiles to build a tag cloud for artist discovery.

Artist workflow:

1) Create a profile

-- name

-- location

-- description of project

-- tags, keywords

-- existing URLs

-- upload multi-media of work

-- plug in paypal acct for donation widget

2) Create Profile post that is a generic description of project/request

3) Generate ongoing updates

4) Create a new project/request for funding

How to sections:

create a profile

add your paypal account

set up donation widget

create a post

post your art

Patron workflow:

1) Find a project

Methods of discovery:

search

tag cloud browsing

review river of posts/feeds/email

direct to url

2) Create a profile on the site

-- similar to artist profile

-- describe projects you want to fund

-- updates

Some other places for us to review:

micropatronage.org

arthead.org

socialactions.com

Micropayment Service Providers

If you are interested in continuing work on this project, please contact Evelyn Rodriguez, 408-513-7324 or crossroadsdispatches =at= gmail =dot= com, or twitter.com/eve11