Grant-making isn't a cheap venture. Even if you are a re-granting agency (you are given money to give away), the overhead involved in running a grants program is significant. I want to help that change.

In 2006, Wired coined the word "crowdsourcing".  The idea behind crowdsourcing is to use many people to make light work of a task. Grass roots political efforts are a form of crowdsourcing.  Software development activities in the opensource community are forms of crowdsourcing like the development of Drupal and Joomla!