# About this guide

## **About the authors**

This guide is brought to you by [**Greaterthan**](http://greaterthan.works), an organization with the mission to make participatory governance in organizations the new normal by spreading culture, knowledge and practices. We want to make collaborative funding easy and accessible to anyone.

**The authors** of this playbook, **Francesca Pick and Kate Beecroft,** have over a decade of experience in participatory governance, self-organization and community building. The knowledge shared here stems from their first-hand experiences as leaders and practitioners in global networks such as [Enspiral](https://enspiral.com/) and [Ouishare](https://www.ouishare.net/), and the growing practice of collaborative budgeting they have helped to develop in these networks.

## Acknowledgements

**Thank you to:**

* [**Enspiral**](https://enspiral.com/) for incubating the development of Cobudget and for trusting Greaterthan with its Stewardship.
* Communities who have served as testing grounds for these learnings and collaborative funding practices, Enspiral, [Ouishare](https://www.ouishare.net/) and many more.
* Genesis Alpha DAO and [DAOstack](http://daostack.io) for making this work possible with a financial contribution[ through Alchemy](https://alchemy.daostack.io/dao/0xa3f5411cfc9eee0dd108bf0d07433b6dd99037f1/proposal/0xf4ff20c180a8f3e6e82c925484b1ff91d5c83041b362b3ae96274d7f712e6865).
* Lisa Gill for editing.

## License

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