Cloudfunding guides

Practical funding for communities doing useful work.

Clear guides for planning, funding, budgeting, and making shared decisions people can trust.

Start here

Build the plan before the campaign.

Useful funding starts with a clear outcome, an honest budget, and named owners.

Planning10 min read

Turn a hopeful target into a plan your team can actually run, review, and improve.

Five practical resources

Fundraising12 min read

Choose fundraising ideas that match your people, capacity, timeline, and values.

Fundraising11 min read

Build a campaign people understand, can participate in, and will trust after the money arrives.

Budgeting9 min read

Build an honest project budget that explains the goal and survives contact with reality.

Governance11 min read

See how communities turn ideas into proposals, votes, funded work, and accountable follow-through.

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