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Grassroots Economics
Grassroots Economics is a Kenyan non-profit that develops open-source economic tools, community currencies, and commitment-pooling systems. It supports underserved communities, researchers, developers, donors, and impact-focused institutional partners.
Kilifi, KE
3 current maintainers2 active leads
Maintainer signals as of Aug 10, 2026
Grassroots Economics
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Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that empowers marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future by using Community Asset Vouchers to exchange goods and services, reducing reliance on national currency and volatile markets.Cosmo-Local Credit
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Cosmo-Local Credit provides infrastructure for routing redeemable claims across curated markets. It emphasizes interoperable commitments, transparent governance for pools and disclosures, optional insurance layers, and resilient settlement for production, service delivery, and local exchange.Category: Payments Infrastructure
Sarafu Network
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Sarafu Network provides a marketplace for community pools, with dashboards, maps, visualizations, vouchers, reports, wallet tools, and paper-wallet tools. Its pools support exchanges and coordination involving goods and services, lending, rotating labor, mutual aid, regenerative agriculture, and other local community activities.Category: Payments Infrastructure