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How Public Lab is Funded

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The funders listed below support the Public Lab nonprofit organization. Other Public Lab community members have received funding from different organizations which are not listed below. Public Lab also creates earned revenue through sales of open hardware kits in the Civic Information Starter Kit program area.

2013

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - $10,000 Support for 2013 Public Lab Barnraising

Patagonia - $9,000 Gulf Coast Restoration - monitoring wetlands through community-led aerial imaging

Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $71,373 - 1,556 backers Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - $10,000 Match for 1,000 backers on Infragram Kickstarter

Points of Light Civic Accelerator - $10,000 Investment in development of Civic Information Starter Kit program

2012

Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $110,538 - 1,633 backers Public Lab DIY Spectrometry Kit

Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $34,646 - 463 backers Balloon Mapping Kits

DenizenMedia.org - $3250 Balloon Mapping Kits, 2 day workshop, remote support

2011

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Knight News Challenge- $500,000 General support

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Civic Media- In-kind support Staff and research equipment support

National Affordable Housing Network, Butte, MT- In-kind support Butte site support

Shpilman Institute for Photography- $10,000 Evaluation of work at Gulf Coast, New York and Montana sites

UNICEF Rio- $4,500 To implement a week long training on aerial mapping in Rio de Janiero, Brazil

American Anthropological Association, Anthropology and Environment Section- $2,000 In support of hydrogen sulfide sensing tool development

DevelopmentSeed- $1,000 To support printing the July 2011 Wilkinson Bay Grassroots Mapping Forum

2010

Kickstarter (crowdfunded) - $8,285 - 145 backers Grassroots mapping the Gulf oil spill with balloons and kites

Awesome Foundation Boston- $1,000 Grassroots Mapping of the BP oil spill