Awesome UBI (Universal Basic Income) Organisations

✨ A curated list of amazingly awesome articles, websites and resources about UBI (Universal Basic Income). ✨

This list contains a variety of resources, projects and organisations actively working on Univesal Basic Income. The goal of the list is to provide quick access to information on the breadth of projects in the UBI ecosystem.

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Always work in progress.

Advocacy

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN)	Global	1986		Runs Basic Income News, the most authorative source for current affairs on basic income, including fact checking mass media hype; Maintains list of regional and national affiliates.
Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBI-Europe)	EU		Advocate for the implementation of Basic Income in Europe and its recognition as a Universal Human Right
Basic Income Canada Network (BICN)	Canada	2008		Maintains list of local Candian basic income chapters; Co-runs annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) conference with USBIG
US Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG)	US	December 1999	(Mostly) academic arm of US-based movement	Maintains most extensive archive of basic income research, Discussion Papers; Publishes monthly NewsFlashes newsletter; Co-runs annual North American Basic Income Guarantee (NABIG) conference with Basic Income Canada Network
Basic Income Action (BIA)	US		Local chapter based advocacy and outreach arm of US-based basic income movement	Best place to find (or start) a US-based local chapter

Blockchain

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Group Income	Global; Project of okTurtles Foundation	2015	Decentralized voluntary basic income for you and your friends.	Works with any currency, fiat or crypto. Follow progress here to join prototype tests.
CirclesUBI	Global; Berlin, Germany	2017	Blockchain-based personal currency with interlocking trust networks
Manna	Global (EN)	2015	Blockchain-based digital currency for basic income.	Re-branded from Grantcoin in Dec 2017.
Project Greshm	Global; Boston, MA, United States	2018	USD-backed independent basic income system.	In development since 2015.

Film

Org	Location	Schedueled Release	Description	Notes
Basic Income Film	Filming (US, Canada)	Mincome (Spring 2018); Stockton (TBD)	Short-stories and vignettes about basic income.
Bootstraps Film	Production (NYC); Filming (12+ sites all over the US)	Q1 2020	Upcoming documentary about basic income in the US, following 20 families for two years with a $1k/month basic income to answer the question of how ordinary Americans will empower themselves with a little economic security.	$1k/month basic income for two years is the most geographical diverse basic income pilot in the US to date
Income Outcome Film	Filming (US)	TBD	Documentary about the history of basic income, focusing on potential impacts on rural America.

Pilots

Policy

Economic Justice

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Insight Center for Community Economic Development	Oakland, CA		UBI as an economic component of racial justice

Intergovernmental organization

Org	Location	Ideology	Selected Works	Notes
United Nations Development Programme, China	Beijing,China	Globalism	White paper: Universal Basic Income: A Working Paper, A Policy Option for China beyond 2020? (2017)

Legislative

Org	Type	Location	Year	Description	Notes
Climate and Prosperity	Carbon cap and dividend; Partial basic	US, Federal	Introduced 2009; On going as of 2018.	Caps carbon emissions and distributes a quarterly dividend to every US resident with a social security number
FairTax	Tax Reform; Partial basic	US, Federal	Introduced 1999; Ongoing as of 2018	Consumption tax prebate based on poverty line: ~$250/month/adult, ~$80/month/child	Related to Negative Income Tax.

Thank Tanks

Org	Location	Ideology	Selected Works	Notes
Adam Smith Institute	London, United Kingdom	Neoliberal (formerly libertarian)	White paper: Basic Income around the World: The unexpected benefits of unconditional cash transfers (2018); PDF
American Enterprise Institute	Washington, DC, USA	Conservative	White paper: A budget-neutral universal basic income (2017)
Roosevelt Institute	Washington, DC, USA	Liberal	White paper: Modeling the Macroeconomic Effects of a Universal Basic Income (2017)

Research, Academic

Journal

Journal	Founded	Description	Notes
Basic Income Studies	2006

Private Foundation

Org	Founded	Description	Notes
Y Combinator Research, Basic Income	2015	$1,000/month (up to five years), randomized controlled trial (RCT) in two US states	Non-profit research arm of for-profit Y-Combinator, seed-stage venture capital.

Research Centre

Centre	University	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Stanford Basic Income Lab (BIL)	Stanford University	Stanford, California (Silicon Valley)	February 2017

Transfers, Non-governmental

Charitable

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
GiveDirectly	Headquartered in US; Cash transfers to Kenya, Uganda	2009	Charitable cash transfer for international aid

Mutual Aid

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Voluntary Basic Income	US	2017	Non-governmental (partial) basic income via member-based income-sharing

Raffle

Org	Location	Founded	Description	Notes
Mein Grundeinkommen	Germany; Global	July 2014	World's largest basic income raffle, with 150+ €1,000/month for one year basic incomes raffled and growing
My Basic Income	US	2015 (presumed defunct as of 2018)	Completed one $15k basic income raffle in 2016

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