On February 24th, 2022, from 2pm-5pm EST, Crypto Altruism Founder Drew Simon will be co-hosting ChangeDAO’s 7 Stories of Social Change Show. This experience, hosted on Twitter and Spatial, is a celebration of NFTs as a Force for Change, and aims to elevate the stories of seven amazing changemakers who are using NFTs for good.

Over the past couple of years, the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement has made enormous strides in working towards a world where everyone, regardless of where they were born, has the ability to access financial instruments and services to improve their lives. In this blog post, we highlight five projects using DeFi to build financial capacity in unbanked communities.

In this episode, we are joined today by Tim Stirrup from Angel Protocol, an organization empowering charities to take advantage of decentralized financial products to improve their fundraising and their impact. We discuss the future of philanthropy, and how DeFi is flipping the traditional philanthropic sector on its head.

In this episode we are excited to be joined by David, Antonio, and Nurvitria from AgUnity and AgriUt. We discuss how blockchain can build greater financial inclusion in last mile communities and support smallholder farmers.

Crypto philanthropy is bigger than ever, as more non-profits are accepting cryptocurrency and more individuals are donating to charitable organizations via cryptocurrency. In this infographic, we highlight some of the reasons you should donate crypto, and where to get started.

For this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Najah Roberts, Founder of Crypto Kids Camp. We discuss the amazing work of Crypto Kids Camp in providing a high quality, modern tech education to children and youth, their adaptive BEASTMODE curriculum, and how they're helping bridge the gap to tech education for underserved populations.

Building off of our pervious blog post, we highlight twenty more NFT collectives and projects that are promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the web3 space.

In this episode, we have the pleasure of being joined by Leah Ibrahim Sams, Founder of Power of Women NFT. We discuss how they are using NFTs to empower women, build greater inclusion in the space, open dialogue on womanhood, and drive social impact by supporting a number of social causes.

Blockchain and cryptocurrency will not be the panacea for all financial inequities that exist around the world, but they can certainly help put in place systems and protocols that make it easier for unbanked populations to access essential financial services.

In this episode, we are joined by Marco Barbosa, Founder of impactMarket, a decentralized poverty alleviation protocol that enables vulnerable communities to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, such as Unconditional Basic Income (UBI). We discuss how crypto and blockchain can enable greater financial inclusion, the synergy between crypto and UBI, and impactMarket’s unique decentralized approach to poverty alleviation.

In this episode we are pleased to be joined by Michael Cooper, Director for Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning at the Panagora Group, for a discussion on tokenizing social impact. We dive into what tokens are, the role of tokens in driving social impact, and Michael’s work on tokenizing social impact, including what it means for current social impact practice, and the gaps that need to be addressed moving forward.

The United Nations, and its charitable arms such as UNICEF and the WFP, have embraced blockchain and cryptocurrency as a way to achieve their mission and drive social impact.

In this episode we have the pleasure of being joined by James Siegel, Senior Fellow at KABOOM!, a non-profit organization with a powerful mission: to “end playspace inequity for good”. We discuss the amazing work KABOOM! is doing, and how they have embraced web3 and technological innovations.

In this episode, we aim to show you that NFTs are much more than just a jpeg, but are in fact a revolutionary tool that will disrupt the social impact space for the better.

In this episode, we are going to dive a bit deeper into the role that blockchain and cryptocurrency can play in supporting and empowering refugees. The refugee crisis is extremely complex, and blockchain and cryptocurrency will not magically swoop in and solve the problem. However, blockchain and cryptocurrency can help deliver innovation solutions to help refugees and vulnerable populations gain access to financial instruments, efficient and reliable aid, and digital identification.

One of the biggest benefits for humanity, that will be ushered in by blockchain, is the role it will play in helping cut out the middle man, or intermediary organizations, that have traditionally funneled money away from the average individual and put it in the hands of the already wealthy.