Hey there, friends and fellow altruists! We are delighted to announce that Community Funds are now available for the Extra Life gaming charity – all through an initiative we're calling Community Funds Giving! Extra Life game day is coming up on November 2nd, so it’s time to put those gaming hours to good use by helping kids in need.

Extra Life is an annual gaming event with the goal of raising funds for Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Over the past 11 years of participation, the Reddit community has rallied to raise over $1,000,000 in donations. Not too shabby!

Community Funds Giving

ICYMI, Reddit’s Community Funds program offers fundraiser matching for your community-led fundraisers. Community Funds Giving runs through the end of the year, at the conclusion we’ll post a wrap up to showcase all of your fantastic collaborative efforts. In order to be showcased in our wrap up, make sure your application is in by Dec 1. And this year, it’s easier than ever for you to host a fundraising event. You focus on tapping into your community to raise money, and we’ll work behind the scenes to support your efforts. Community Funds will match you dollar for dollar up to $20,000 USD for any funds raised after you’ve signed a Community Funds contract.

Past Community Funds matching events include supporting the Boys & Girls club with, holding a donation drive for the World Central Kitchen, and raising $48,500 for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank. For even more inspiration, check out r/CommunityFunds. If you’d like to casually talk through your idea before applying, follow this link to grab some time to chat with program staff.

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How Community Funds for Extra Life works

Communities participating in Extra Life may apply for Community Funds to match their fundraising efforts – up to $20,000 per applicant!

Before you apply, be sure to create a “subreddit team” under the Reddit Super Team on extra-life.org. You will also need to choose which Children’s Miracle Network Hospital you’d like the matching funds to support.

Next, rally your community members to sign up and join your Extra Life subreddit team, and organize them to raise funds via their friends, family, and social networks! Every dollar raised helps kids battling serious illnesses, and all funds - including those matched by Community Funds - go directly to Extra Life on behalf of the participating community.

When is Extra Life happening?

While the official Extra Life game day is Saturday, November 2nd, their fundraising platform is available year round. Applications for Community Funds are also available year round, but as a reminder if you want your fundraiser to be showcased in our Community Funds Giving wrap-up, please submit your application by Dec 1.

What if I’m not in the US?

Anyone can register for Extra Life, regardless of where you live. If you wish to raise money to help kids outside of the United States and Canada, a list of hospitals with significant international outreach programs and reach is available here.

Let’s not just save virtual worlds but save lives in the real one, too!

Can I host a fundraiser for an organization other than Extra Life?

Yes! We evaluate the following when reviewing Community Funds applications for fundraiser matching:

• The charity must be a registered 501(c)(3) organization (US), a T3010 Registered Charity (CA), or relevant local equivalent, and
• The organization’s verifiable financial practices.

We love seeing communities coming together for a good cause, share some of your favorite examples in the comments. Or, be your own example and let us know what you’re planning for Community Funds Giving 2024!

Over the past two and a half years, Community Funds has helped facilitate some one-of-a-kind moments for communities and redditors online and IRL. Today, we’re excited to make the program available for even more communities around the world! Moderators based in Italy, Spain, France, and Brazil are now welcome to apply for Community Funds.

Here’s what you should know about applying:

• Moderators are invited to submit applications on behalf of their communities.
• Applications are open year-round. Plan your application with your community and fellow moderators; apply when you’re ready!
• We typically recommend applying 2-3 months in advance of your event or initiative. 

Country-specific guidelines:

• Moderators based in Brazil are welcome to apply for up to $5,000 USD in funding for IRL events. 
  • This grant size was determined by estimates to host small IRL gatherings in Brazil. If you need more than this amount, please send us a ModMail or share further details in your application. We will continue to work on making additional grant types available in the future.
• Moderators based in Italy, Spain, and France are welcome to apply for up to $50,000 USD in funding for events, fundraiser matching, or group projects.

We’re committed to increasing the program’s global availability and hope to expand to more countries in the future. We evaluate the local regulations and policies for each country to properly assess the risk for moderators, communities, and Reddit – but it’s our ultimate goal to make the program as widely available as possible.

Stay tuned for future updates in r/CommunityFunds about additional expansions of the program. You’re also welcome to comment here, post in r/CommunityFunds, or send a modmail to r/CommunityFunds to ask any questions. We’re so excited to learn more about your communities and the projects you have in mind!

Hey everyone, a quick housekeeping update: The Community Team has revised and standardized the Participation Agreement we use for community-managed programs, and this revised agreement will apply to participation in Community Funds as well as all other Reddit Community programs (for example, Reddit Mod Council, Adopt-an-Admin, and User Feedback Collective).

If you find any points of confusion in this revised agreement, please let us know! We hope it is clear here that this policy applies to admins as it does to any other program participant. This will go into effect immediately, so if you suddenly see a deal-breaker in here for you, please message us via ModMail.

Policy follows:

Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in Reddit Community programs a welcoming experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

Expectations

Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our community include:

• Demonstrating empathy, curiosity, and kindness toward other people
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Gracefully giving and accepting constructive feedback
• Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, and learning from the experience
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
• Prioritizing actionable feedback – clear and specific suggestions for improvements

We also expect participants to comply with our ~Moderator Code of Conduct~ (as applicable), ~Content Policy~, ~Privacy Policy~, and ~User Agreement~. Additionally, we ask that you follow the program expectations explained in the application process.

Examples of unacceptable behavior include:

• The use of sexualized language or imagery (unless directly applicable to the topic), and sexual attention or advances of any kind
• Insulting or derogatory comments, taunting or baiting, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment, and bullying
• Sharing others’ private information, such as a physical or email address, without their explicit permission
• Calling out users, communities, and groups, or engaging in any other conduct that may be deemed uncivil
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Influencing Unacceptable Behavior

Influencing or inciting unacceptable behavior and activities will be viewed as the behavior and activities themselves, and result in the same consequences.

Retaliation

Retaliation against those who raise concerns or make reports in good faith will not be tolerated.

CONFIDENTIALITY

If you receive Community Funds, you agree to uphold confidentiality as outlined in the agreement pertaining to your project.

1. Sharing of Information. You agree not to disclose any confidential information to any third party, without the prior written consent of Reddit or program members. Additionally, any information you learn about a person, moderator, admin, and subreddit is expected to remain confidential, including personal information such as identity. Similarly, Reddit will keep information shared by participants confidential and will not distribute it but will use them for internal purposes or may share anonymized notes to a public audience, with the written consent of those involved. Reddit may indicate you can share specific parts of information.
2. Use of Information. You agree to use any confidential information solely for the purpose of participating in the program. You may not use this information for personal gain or for the benefit of any other individual, community, or entity. Feedback provided by program participants may be used by Reddit to improve products and services without any restriction, obligation, or compensation to you.

Interpretation

These expectations are not exhaustive or complete. Rather, they serve to distill our common understanding of a collaborative, shared environment and goals. We expect it to be followed in spirit as much as in letter.

Enforcement Responsibilities

Community program leaders (such as focus group representatives, organizers, and project or call leads) are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior; they will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Community program leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, posts, code, docs, presentations, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Conduct Agreement, and will communicate reasons for moderation decisions when appropriate.

Scope

This Conduct Agreement applies within all community spaces (virtual and in-person) and/or when an individual officially represents the program in public spaces. Examples of representing our programs include speaking, posting, or commenting on behalf of the program, responding to questions about the program, and leading projects or meetings directly related to the program.

Some examples of spaces where the Conduct Agreement does not apply: unofficial Discords or other chat platforms, off-Reddit platforms, non-program ModMail, personal chats/email/DMs.

Confidentiality breaches may be reported and investigated regardless of whether they happen in official spaces. Examples of confidentiality breaches include: sharing the plans for a change to a Reddit feature when you learned about it in a confidential setting, or disclosing any information that a program participant shared in a confidential setting, without their permission.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported to program manager admins. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All community program leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the reporter of any incident.

While we hope this never happens, we reserve the right to terminate a participant's membership in a community program at any time, for any reason. This includes failure to comply with our guidelines or policies, any breach of the Participation Agreement or Confidentiality Agreement, or any other violation of this Agreement.

Enforcement Guidelines

Community program leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Conduct Agreement:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing clarity around the nature of the violation, explaining why the behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. The individual must not interact with the affected individuals or those enforcing the Conduct Agreement for a specified period. This includes avoiding direct or indirect communication on Reddit and external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior.

Consequence: A temporary ban from membership or opportunities for membership in one or more community programs for a specified period of time. During this ban, the individual must not interact with the affected individuals or those enforcing the Conduct Agreement for a specified period. This includes avoiding direct or indirect communication on Reddit and external channels like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from membership or opportunities for membership from all community programs.

Reporting flow:

🟢 = low impact, for example:

• questions about Program rules or processes
• feedback about, or flagging, a participant’s specific, isolated action or behavior
• request for feedback or advice on a sensitive topic

🟡 = medium impact, for example:

• flagging concern about another participant’s conduct or behavior (when the behavior issue is not as severe as those described in the 🔴 section)
• Community Program feedback (including unchallenged conduct issues)

🔴 = high-impact, for example:

• Insulting or derogatory comments, taunting or baiting, bullying, personal or political attacks, or any similar behavior
• Doxxing or releasing participant PII
• Harassment
• A Reddit employee engaging in any action or behavior that is in violation of applicable laws.

Green issues:

How to flag: Send a ModMail to r/CommunityFunds or, in the case of a post or comment, use the “report” feature.

What happens when a report comes in: The program manager admins focused on the Community Program will respond, and if relevant, speak to the person whose behavior caused concern.

Yellow issues:

How to flag:

1. For concerns relating to another mod or admins that don’t regularly appear in the program, send a ModMail to r/CommunityFunds.
2. For concerns you prefer to flag to the admins that oversee the Community program — u/infinitebroth — fill out ~this special Program Feedback survey~ that goes directly to them and is not reviewed by the people who regularly interact with Program participants, like u/AsteriskRX.

What happens when a report comes in:

1. The program manager admins focused on this Program will review the details shared in the report and determine whether any additional necessary details can be gathered. Based on the material evidence that can be considered, the report will be actioned according to the conduct agreement.
2. u/infinitebroth will review the details of the report, and determine whether any additional necessary details can be gathered. Based on the material evidence that can be considered, the report will be actioned according to the conduct agreement.

Red issues:

How to flag:

1. For concerns relating to another mod, please fill out ~this special Program Feedback survey~ that goes directly to u/infinitebroth.
2. For concerns relating to an admin/employee of Reddit, please fill out the form here: ~https://app.convercent.com/en-US/LandingPage/a511881b-dbc7-ec11-a98b-000d3ab9f296~

What happens when a report comes in:

1. u/infinitebroth will review the details of the report, and determine whether any additional necessary details can be gathered. Details may be shared with other program managers as needed. Based on the material evidence that can be considered, the report will be actioned according to the conduct agreement.
2. Reddit’s Legal Department will review the details of the report and determine how to proceed. Reports may be referred to the appropriate Legal, HR, or Reddit team for further action, or may be handled by a third-party investigator, depending on the circumstances of the report. All updates regarding the report will be completed through the hotline.

Modifications to the Conduct and Participation Agreement

This Conduct Agreement may be amended from time to time, as may the procedures it sets out where appropriate in a particular case. Your agreement to comply with the Conduct Agreement will be deemed agreement to any changes to it. If you would like to suggest updates to this document, you can do so by sending a Modmail to r/CommunityFunds.

Attribution

This Conduct Agreement is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 2.1, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by Mozilla’s Conduct Agreement enforcement ladder.

For answers to common questions about this Conduct Agreement, see the FAQ at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.

I'm currently running a small regional subreddit and is looking to increase online engagement by hosting an online contest soon. Was looking to know if r/communityfunds supports give aways in India.

Hey everyone! We have expanded our office hours to now include time slots on Wednesday. On our booking page, you’ll be able to find a wide range of times between 10:30 AM ET and 5:00 PM ET. Office hours might be helpful if:

• You’re wondering if certain parts of your project will be approved
• You want to brainstorm ways to get your community involved in your project
• You want to start a project, but aren’t sure how all of this works

If any of this sounds familiar, come meet with us! We’re happy to help you through any and all aspects of the Community Funds process. 

Würde gerne nen Community (b)e-vent machen und finanzielle Unterstützung erhalten👍🙃

Hello! Are community funds available to reddit communities and moderators based outside of US/Canada? Can moderators of well established subreddits in India get access to it for organizing online events or offline events for the community?

If yes, how can me and my moderation team get in touch with the community funds team to discuss further?

Really sorry if this question doesn't belong here, I couldn't find any specific information regarding this in the information pages.