Mein Grundeinkommen is a German nonprofit association that crowdfunds basic incomes and raffles them off: whenever enough donations accumulate, it draws lots and pays the winners EUR 1,000 a month for one year, unconditionally. It is financed entirely by donations and crowdfunding and takes no state money, making it the best-known lottery-for-good model of non-state basic income.
None (fiat)
100% crowdfunding and donations from the public (recurring small donors plus one-off gifts). Every time the donation pool reaches EUR 12,000, another one-year basic income is raffled. No government funding.
Registered German non-profit association (eingetragener Verein) with paid staff, a supervisory structure and public reporting; draws are streamed publicly.
Michael Bohmeyer (founder, 2014)
- Lottery-for-good model: not universal, but unconditional and recurring for each winner, and used deliberately as a demonstration and research vehicle.
- The same organisation initiated Pilotprojekt Grundeinkommen, the privately crowdfunded 3-year RCT listed separately here.
- In August 2023 it published a financing model arguing a tax-funded EUR 1,200/month UBI for all German adults would leave ~80% of the population better off.
- mein-grundeinkommen.de returns HTTP 403 to some automated fetchers; verified via Wikipedia, the raffle page listing and press coverage.