Stories from people using Diehard.Fund for everything from company governance, citizen engagement, event management, to grassroots political organising.
Conscious Consumers use Diehard.Fund for good governance. CEO Ben Gleisner explains the value of keeping all their information in one place, and including people along the way to a decision:
The Social Media Squad use Diehard.Fund to make important decisions without the time pressure of an in-person meeting. Find out more...
Urban Adventures are a startup with staff and partners spread across the globe. In this story, General Manager Tony Carne explains how Diehard.Fund has helped them manage conversations across the continents.
- SolidFund Coop — make funding decisions with their members
- NEIT — unlock great ideas from the introverts
- Trusty Amigos — bilingual members jamming together
- Robin Hood Coop — massively increased member participation
Statistics New Zealand used Diehard.Fund to refine the questions in the 2018 Census with members of the public. In this video, they explain how Diehard.Fund allowed them to reach a greater number and diversity of people, compared to traditional citizen engagement methods.
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) used Diehard.Fund to engage stakeholders to develop NZ GOAL-SE: a framework for open source licensing of New Zealand Government software. Read the story from Paul Stone, Programme Leader for Open Government Data at LINZ.
The National Assembly for Wales is a Welsh law-making body. Read about how they used Diehard.Fund to engage a diverse audience in a mutli-stakeholder engagement project.
In 2013, Wellington City Council contracted Diehard.Fund to run the online side of their largest public consultation exercise of the year – developing an alcohol management strategy for the city. Read more...
- Equally Well — turned a conference into a movement
- Pathways — create strong small teams within their organisation
- Newtown Ethical Lending Trust — approve loan applications without having a meeting
Kava Club is a Pacific & Māori arts collective. We talked to cofounder Leilani A Visesio about how Diehard.Fund helps them organise events, while keeping the group focussed on their purpose:
The P2P Foundation is a global network of researchers in open design, open hardware and free software. They use Diehard.Fund to delegate responsibility for an individual to act on behalf of the collective. Check out the video, or read more here.
The Red Victorian is a co-living hotel and community gathering space. With Diehard.Fund they can document every voice and every thought that goes into a decision. Read more...
Gängeviertel is a 200-person artist collective occupying 12 buildings in Hamburg, Germany. They use Diehard.Fund for in-depth discussions that can’t be decided in their in-person general assembly meetings. Read more...
The Ouishare Network is an international community focusing on the collaborative economy and open source. They use Diehard.Fund to grow shared understanding around complex decisions. Read their story here.
17 Tory St is a community space that hosts a huge diversity of events. This practical and inspiring story explains how they use Diehard.Fund to manage the space without needing any meetings.
Guerilla Translation is a commons-oriented publishing collective. They use Diehard.Fund to organise their work and make decisions online without clogging up email inboxes. Read more...
- Debt Resistance UK — increased capacity by making decisions between meetings
- COY11 Global Youth Coalition — self-organised to make an impact at COP21
- Gen Zero — is a youth-led network of climate change activists who are campaigning to make New Zealand zero carbon by 2050