Chris Lawrence

Life After the Grant : Let’s talk sustainability!

Grant funding is great. It can kickstart projects and innovation, creating a lifeline for startups, but it can't sustain a project forever. Join us in exploring the post-grant challenges and possible solutions and pathways to sustainability. In the process, we will look to examples from projects in the Interledger and Creative Equity Communities that are at different stages of crafting their susta…

Community Building for Innovation and Sustainability

If you build it, go forth and seek your community, and engage that community, then they will come. Community building is not a field of dreams, at least not in the way of the movie. It takes work and a welcoming, open approach to encourage innovation and invite your community to adopt the space as their own, experimenting with what is possible beyond what you’ve thought of. There is an art to it t…