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Prosocial Coordination for a Thriving Planet: Hylo is a donation-driven, open-source community platform for purpose-driven groups.

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Backer

$5.00 per month covers the server costs of your use of Hylo

$5 USD / month

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Supporter

$10.00 per month covers the server costs of your use of Hylo and supports our lean operations team.

$10 USD / month

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Collaborator

Your contribution of $20 per month supports our non-profit building Hylo to serve the community. This covers server & software costs, ops, and supp... Read more

$20 USD / month

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Co-Creator

Step into deeper reciprocity and partnership with us with a gift of $50 per month to support Hylo's growth. This covers all our costs (ops, product... Read more

$50 USD / month

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Membership

Seed (Basic Support)

Seed is the initial tier in Hylo's Priority Support Program. This program offers a reciprocal relationship where Hylo partners receive collaboratio... Read more

$100 USD / month

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One-time contribution

Hylo Team Consulting

Get help from the Hylo team with a dedicated one-hour call to focus on your community's needs. We are available to support with Hylo steup, demos, ... Read more

$300 USD

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Blossom (Deep Support)

The Blossom support tier is for fledgling groups that could use additional support in their early days on Hylo. We require that partners at the Blo... Read more

$1,000 USD / month

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Custom Hylo Demo Video [Pollination Add-On]

A Hylo Demo Video is an add-on to our "Pollination" package and includes a 5-7 minute custom Hylo demo in your Group's context. Prior to creating... Read more

$750 USD

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Pollination [Onboarding Support]

The Pollination package is for organizations that can benefit from hands-on support during your transition to Hylo. We work closely with you to ens... Read more

$2,500 USD

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Flourish (Deepest Support)

Flourish is the deepest tier in Hylo's Priority Support Program. This program offers a reciprocal relationship where Hylo partners receive collabor... Read more

$3,000 USD / month

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Goal

Double Your Impact: Help Hylo Build a Thriving Future

Contribute to our year-end fundraising campaign and your donation will be matched! Read more

$45,048 USD of $100,000 USD raised (45%)

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Top financial contributors

Incognito

$25,000 USD since Jan 2025

Emanuel

$12,000 USD since Apr 2024

$10,000 USD since Dec 2024

John Sprague

$4,170 USD since Jan 2023

Rebecca Rosado

$2,500 USD since Dec 2023

Edward West

$2,500 USD since Sep 2024

Regen Network

$1,200 USD since Nov 2024

karie crisp

$1,010 USD since Nov 2024

Kate

$1,000 USD since Dec 2024

David Witzel

$1,000 USD since Dec 2024

samuel oslund

$1,000 USD since Dec 2024

Sam Turner

$770 USD since Apr 2022

Moonlight and Morning Star

$660 USD since Aug 2022

Juno Bolding

$500 USD since Dec 2024

Richard Coates

$400 USD since Dec 2022

Andy Swindler

$340 USD since Jan 2023

midi berry

$290 USD since Feb 2023

Guest

$250 USD since Dec 2024

Mary

$250 USD since Dec 2024

Kalvin

$225 USD since Aug 2022

Hylo is all of us

Our contributors 100

Thank you for supporting Hylo.

Clare Politano

Admin

$215 USD

Aaron Brodeur

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Krisha Subram...

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Tom Watson

Core Contributor

Tibet Sprague

Admin

Incognito

Double Your Impact: Help Hy...

$25,000 USD

Emanuel

$12,000 USD

Double Your Impact: Help Hy...

$10,000 USD

John Sprague

Supporter

$4,170 USD

Rebecca Rosado

Pollination [Onboarding Sup...

$2,500 USD

Edward West

Pollination [Onboarding Sup...

$2,500 USD

Regen Network

Double Your Impact: Help Hy...

$1,200 USD

Budget

Transparent and open finances.

Monthly financial contribution to Hylo (Backer)

Credit from Vivek Gani to Hylo • July 8, 2025

+$5.00USD

Completed

Contribution #768411

Monthly financial contribution to Hylo (Backer)

Credit from J. Friday to Hylo • July 2, 2025

+$5.00USD

Completed

Contribution #848409

Monthly financial contribution to Hylo (Supporter)

Credit from Adrienne Rajna to Hylo • July 2, 2025

+$10.00USD

Completed

Contribution #845942

Today’s balance

$75,094.17 USD

Total raised

$75,594.17 USD

Total disbursed

$500.00 USD

Estimated annual budget

$49,123.00 USD

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News from Hylo

Updates on our activities and progress.

Hylo Partners with OpenTEAM to Build Open Source Community Platform for Regenerative Agriculture

We are partnering with the Open T...

Published on December 16, 2021 by Clare Politano

Conversations

Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Question for Hylo Stakeholders

Published on December 16, 2021 by Clare Politano

What is the number one feature or improvement you'd like to see added to Hylo?

About

Hylo: The community platform for purpose-driven groups.

Hylo is a free and open-source community platform for purpose-driven groups. Our web and mobile apps enable discussions, requests, offers, resources, projects, events, geographic maps, rich member directories, and direct messaging.

Hylo is different.

Hylo works for groups of any size and excels at multi-stakeholder collaboration by making it possible to link groups together to form larger networks. Only on Hylo can you share one post with many different communities, creating conversations and actions across networks.

Hylo saves time for community leaders by creating space for peer-to-peer coordination and conversations that drive action. People use Hylo to share resources, events, needs, and offers. Peer-to-peer organizing builds trust and grows relationships, making for stronger, more self-directed groups. We believe that trust and deep relationships are the magic formula for high-performing groups and strong communities, and we’ve designed every aspect of Hylo to help people build the trust that makes communities thrive.

Hylo’s unique place-based tools enable local community building and resource sharing. Our geographic map helps people discover opportunities right around the corner.

Hylo is for purpose-driven groups.

Our partners serve groups composed of member organizations and individuals all dedicated to a shared purpose. Here are some of them:

Planetary Health Alliance is a non-profit out of Harvard with 220+ global member organizations at the intersection of public health and environmental health. They use Hylo to coordinate regional groups, student cohorts, and event participants involved in their many initiatives.

OpenTEAM (Open Tech Ecosystem for Agricultural Management) is a non-profit with 250 individuals, 45+ member organizations, and 15 farm & ranch networks dedicated to developing open source technology that improves soil health and advances regenerative agriculture. OpenTEAM is using Hylo to promote farmer-to-farmer relationships to support a collaborative learning network.

Prosocial.World is a non-profit that teaches groups how to cooperate, using their framework based on evolutionary psychology and commons management. They have trained hundreds of facilitators and served numerous networks and organizations around the world focusing on Youth and Schools, Health, and Spiritual institutions. They are bringing their global network onto Hylo to expand their capacity and provide a place for groups to engage with Prosocial practices.

Our partnership with Holo will make it easy to fully decentralize Hylo by porting it to Holochain, so that Hylo will become a peer-to-peer, distributed, and participant-governed community platform.

We are a 10x team.

Hylo is led by Tibet Sprague (Technology), Tom Watson (Technology), Aaron Brodeur (Design), Krisha Subramanian (Community), Yasmine El Baggari (Community), and Clare Brodeur (Product), and Tree Willard (Development).

We have combined decades of experience contributing to software teams, including web3 governance platform DAOstack and ecological accounting blockchain Regen Network. Our deep relationships allow us to work with high coherence and efficiency. We make the most of our partnerships and resources, delivering work that rivals VC-backed platforms while operating on a non-profit budget.

We embed our values at every level of our stack.

Our mission is to empower communities to build a world that works for everyone. Our team practices relationship-driven development, partnering with aligned organizations to improve Hylo in ways that benefit our entire community. These deep partnerships allow us to deliver a community platform that is truly tailored to meet the needs of purpose-driven groups.

We convene an open-source community of 700+ people that contribute to Hylo’s design, features, and codebase. Our advisors are helping us explore how this community can have a formal voice in governing the platform through some kind of cooperative structure.

Our Values

Seven-Generation Responsibility & Care - Our goal is long-term planetary thriving.

Relationship-Centered Design - We work in deep partnership with our stakeholders.

Transparency - Open source code. Transparent finances and governance.

Interoperability - We use and create open standards and protocols to advance interoperability between platforms.

Privacy and Data Sovereignty - You control your data. We will never sell your data or share it without your consent. You can export and delete your data as you wish.

Inclusivity - We ensure these tools are shaped by and serve diverse communities.

Collective Stewardship - We include users in decision making and design.

Our invitation to you.

We are raising charitable funds to grow Hylo’s user base and develop new features that will enhance Hylo’s ability to support place-based organizing. These funds will allow us to make Hylo financially self-sustaining by building features like community membership fees and transaction tips, and to deeply engage our volunteer developer community to build and steward the Hylo codebase to benefit all.

Our team

Clare Politano

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Aaron Brodeur

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Krisha Subram...

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Tom Watson

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Tibet Sprague

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