Artizen Accelerator for Community Funds
Receive up to $10,000 to launch your own Community Fund on Artizen.
Are you a community leader? Do you want to support the people, projects, and causes that matter most to your community? Then the Artizen Accelerator is for you! This 12-week program will give you the tools, funding, and mentorship to directly support the creators you love. If accepted, you’ll secure a spot in our accelerator and receive up to $10,000 to launch your own Community Fund on Artizen.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for passionate leaders embedded in creative communities—whether it's basket weaving, biohacking, or DIY robotics. Maybe you run a local poetry slam, organize underground symposiums, or lead a thriving Discord for AI artists. Perhaps you’ve built a space—physical or digital—where artists connect, scientists collaborate, or coders hack. What’s your vision? How will your fund make an impact? Show us you have the drive to bring together creators, fans, and sponsors. If you’re ready to build something meaningful, we want to hear from you.
Benefits of Running a Fund
Launching a community fund is the most effective way to directly support the people, projects, and causes you care about. Artizen makes it easy—simply define the type of creators you want to support, set your fund’s guidelines, and rally your community.
By leveraging our platform, you can attract funding from both individual supporters and corporate sponsors, ensuring the best projects receive the resources they need. Our community curation engine empowers your network to help review submissions and select the strongest projects, making the process fair, transparent, and efficient.
As a fund owner, you’ll also earn rewards, including cash tips from sponsors and cultural Artifacts from the projects your fund supports. Plus, Artizen will promote your fund to over 50,000 creators in art, science, technology, and culture, helping you attract top talent and maximize your fund’s reach.
How It Works
Apply to the Accelerator: To be considered, submit a compelling idea for a Community Fund. We’re not looking for vague, general funds—we want highly specific funds designed to support passionate, often niche creative communities. The more unique and well-defined, the better.
Prove Your Leadership: The second part of the application is about you. Convince us that you are already a pillar of your creative community or have the energy and vision to become one. We want leaders who can rally their community and make a real impact.
Top 20 Selection: The 20 best applications will be selected for the accelerator, receiving up to $10,000 in funding to launch their Community Fund.
Three-Month Accelerator Program: Selected participants will engage in a structured program designed to help them successfully launch and manage their community fund.
Program Structure
Month 1: Weekly live-streamed meetings focusing on best practices for attracting project submissions, securing small-dollar individual sponsors, and developing effective curation processes.
Month 2: Hands-on support in securing major brand sponsorships as match funding competitions begin.
Month 3: Strategies for sustaining and scaling the community fund for long-term impact.
Weekly Live Sessions
Participants will join a weekly group session led by Artizen founder René Pinnell. These interactive sessions will blend education, mentorship, and accountability. Only accelerator participants will be able to ask questions and engage directly, but the sessions will be live-streamed so the broader community can learn alongside them.
Topics covered will include:
Best practices for securing project submissions
Strategies for attracting and engaging sponsors
Community-led curation processes
Selecting effective curation guidelines
Engaging top talent to maximize fund impact
Join the Accelerator
Applications are open now through the end of March. If selected, you will receive funding and expert mentorship to bring your community fund to life. Join us in shaping the future of community-driven funding. Submit your match fund idea today and be part of this transformative journey!