Our story
Earthbux is the social network for charities: a weekly pool that goes where its donors vote, and a newsroom that follows the money.
Most charitable money is warehoused. A private foundation must release only 5% of its assets a year; a donor-advised fund has no payout rule at all. The deduction is taken the day the money leaves — the gift can wait forever.
The money that does move is barely policed. The rules permit generous valuations and creative accounting, and the only account of your donation is written by the people who took it.
We decide almost everything we share by voting — except where our charity goes. Donors get no options and no control: finding something worth funding is unpaid research, so the winner is whoever asked loudest.
Earthbux makes the donation itself a vote. Together we elect a cause, then the mission inside it, then the organization that runs it — and only then does the money move.
Social media took over how people learn, argue and decide. Everything that wants participation now has a network and content behind it — charity still asks the way institutions asked in 1985.
So we built the network and the newsroom into the donation. The research that decides a mission, the posts that build its budget, and the reporting that follows it are the same feed.
People are generous — and hesitant to give without options, control, and a reason to look. An election gives options and control. A newsroom gives feedback and a reason to look. What makes it worth watching is what keeps it honest.
In 2026, the world seemed at risk of total destruction. Earthbux was invented to give us control so we save it.
Our goals
The weekly pool goes where benefactors vote, not where a grantmaker decides — cause, initiative, organization, every week, for every cause. Until budget day, the part of your stake that isn’t final is still yours to withdraw or move to another mission.
So control is what we hand out: every member is granted 10 tokens in every initiative election — a new one opens each week — a dollar of real say in where the pool goes, whether or not you give a cent of your own.
A slice of every pool funds Earthbux News. Every mission you fund is covered like a story for as long as the money is moving: we report on the cause, and we report on the organization. Money is released in steps against a budget the community approved, and our reporting sits beside the organization’s own.
Publish the mission’s progress live on its page — what was promised, what arrived, what it cost. They travel
Verify the initiatives and vet the organizations, and keep the research scientifically honest. They travel
Track every dollar sent against what the organization said it would spend, and report the difference. Public ledger
This is what a slice of every pool buys: not a receipt, a correspondent.
Most of what people hear about charity is an appeal or a scandal. We want to show the other part: a mission elected, a budget approved, a receipt, a result — every week, in public, with your name on the vote.
When people can watch their dollar do something, giving stops feeling like a loss and starts feeling like progress. A world that can see itself getting fixed is a world that believes it can be.
How it works
You vote first on what the mission is, and only then on who runs it. Five phases, every week, for every cause — and a network that does the research at each one.
Keep this week’s cause, or back a challenger.
Anyone can propose a cause and make the case for it in its discussion. Seven causes rotate — atmosphere, oceans, land, forests, wildlife, human rights and human progress — so every week has a fresh focus, and the people who care about it gather there.
Donate to this week’s cause by funding what you want the mission to be.
Initiatives are nominated and argued in public. Background research is how the community decides between them, and the most-voted Background is fixed as the mission’s leading research when the initiative wins.
After the mission is decided, your tokens can be put towards its philanthropy.
Organizations claim their profile, run for the mission and answer benefactors in the Q&A on their campaign page. Benefactors write an Investigation of each one, and the most-voted Investigation is fixed when the organization is elected.
Earthbux orients the organization and its benefactors, and the community builds the budget.
Benefactors post costed budget items and approve them into the budget, and the Analysis — built from the leading Background and Investigation — is elected on budget day. 3/32 of every pool is paid to the winning research and what it cites.
Labor required. Something we can send people to do — a job, an hourly rate, and the days it takes.
Commodities required. What those people need to do it — an item, and what it costs.
Connections required. An approval, professional help, legal help in a conflict. No cost line: a connection is not a purchase.
Researches the initiative and philanthropy together, and weighs the action plan against comparable programmes. Opens at week 8 · one per mission
Hold on, or exchange for a different mission. Our newsroom keeps you updated.
Earthbux News reports on the mission beside the organization’s own reports, and your inbox carries a weekly update: what was elected, what entered exchange, and what closes next. Holding, moving or trading a mission’s coin is a public signal no grantmaker has ever had.
What an Earthbuck is
You commit your tokens to the initiative you want. They become that mission’s Earthbucks, and they finalize in steps. Until budget day, the part that isn’t final is still yours to withdraw as cash.
How to post
Every post is about something. A Background is about a cause; an Investigation is about an organization; a budget item is for an initiative; an Analysis is about a mission — and it is built from the others. A general post can be about any of them, or about nothing at all.
Every edit is a new version. The version an election used stays exactly as it was. You can bring an old post into a new mission; its votes start again there.
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How we compare
The closest analogues are good organizations, and several are our allies. None lets the donor vote on the target and then pays someone independent to go and check.
| Kind of giving | Who decides where it goes | When it pays out | Who reports on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private foundations | One donor or family, through its board | At least 5% of assets a year | Its own public filings |
| Donor-advised funds | The account holder advises; the sponsor approves | No legal payout requirement | No per-account disclosure |
| Crowdfunding | Whoever asks loudest, and whose network is biggest | When the campaign ends | The campaigner |
| Charity raters | Analysts rank; you still choose alone | Whenever you give | Ratings of the charity, not follow-up on your gift |
| Giving circles & community foundations | Members or a local board vote | On the circle’s own schedule | The circle itself |
| Earthbux | Every donor votes — on the cause, the mission and the organization | Every week; released in steps against a public budget | An independent newsroom paid from the pool, and the public |
Our team
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