La fondation communautaire Annauma, la première fondation communautaire au Nunavut, a été lancée avec succès plus tôt cette année.
Crypto and Banking
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How to Share a Crypto Wallet Address Without Losing Money
A wallet address is 26 to 62 characters long and nobody can read it back correctly over the phone. One mistyped character and the funds go to an address nobody controls. QRBits solves this by turning any BTC, ETH, ERC-20, LTC, TRON, DOGE or SOL address into a printable QR code, instantly and without an account. Their Bitcoin and Ethereum QR code generator accepts every common address format (legacy, SegWit, Taproot) and validates the address before drawing the code, so a bad paste never becomes a bad payment. For hardware wallets, payment terminals and exchange kiosks, scanning beats typing every time.
Printing a Bitcoin or Ethereum Address for Real-World Payments
Small shops, market stalls and donation boxes often need a way to receive crypto without any software on the counter. QR for Bitcoin and Ethereum covers exactly that: paste a BTC address (legacy, SegWit or Taproot) or an ETH / ERC-20 address and it produces a clean, printable QR code in one step, with no sign-up and nothing stored on their servers. A printed code on the counter works offline forever, and any wallet app on any phone can scan it. If you need a free BTC and ETH QR generator that does one thing properly, this is it.
A Payment Link Does the Typing Too
A plain address QR only says where the money should go; the sender still has to type how much. CryptoQR Maker closes that gap: pick the coin (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, TRON, Litecoin or Dogecoin), paste the address, optionally set an amount, and it builds a proper payment link (BIP-21 for Bitcoin, EIP-681 for Ethereum) inside the QR, so a scanning wallet gets the address and the sum together. Every address is checksum-verified before the code is drawn, and the file comes out as PNG or crisp SVG for print. The crypto QR generator needs no account, and one page per coin means no guessing which tool fits your wallet.
The Network You Pick Is Part of the Address
Stablecoins are the classic way to lose money quietly: the address looks fine, but USDT on one network is not USDT on another, and sending TRC-20 tokens to an ERC-20 address is a hole, not a refund. TokenQR is built around that exact mistake: it makes QR codes for USDT, USDC and other tokens across 11 networks (TRC-20, ERC-20, BEP-20 and friends), checks the address with real checksums, and prints a clear card that says which network the code belongs to, so the counterparty sees both the code and the network before anything is sent. A free token QR code generator with the network written on the card beats a bare address on a scrap of paper.
Why QR Codes Beat Copy and Paste for Crypto
Copy-paste feels safe, but phone-to-phone transfers break it constantly: the clipboard picks up an old entry, a wallet pastes into the wrong field, or a messenger strips a line break in the middle of a 62-character string. A QR code has no clipboard in the loop. The camera reads it, the wallet parses it, and the two checksums at both ends either agree or the wallet refuses to send. For anything above pocket change, scanning a screen or a printed card removes the two steps where mistakes actually happen: selecting text and trusting it.
Reading an Address Without Reading All of It
Experienced senders do not compare 34 characters character by character; they verify the edges. The first four characters of an address identify its format and network, the last several carry the checksum, and a mistake almost always breaks one end when you re-encode it. Wallet software does the full check anyway, which is why the human job is the boring part: confirm the network label matches the coin, and glance at both ends. That two-second habit catches almost every real-world misdirected transfer, and it works identically whether the address arrived as text or as a scanned code.
Printed Cards, Tip Jars and Offline Receiving
A stall at a market, a tip jar, a donation box: none of them need an internet connection to receive crypto. A printed card with a receiving address and the network named in plain letters works for years, costs one print job, and fails in exactly one way, which is physical damage to the card. Keep the underlying wallet backup somewhere else, reprint the card when it gets worn, and the setup never goes down for server reasons. Anyone with a phone already has the reader.
Les fondations communautaires soutiennent les besoins de la communauté locale; elles choisissent des secteurs d’intervention privilégiés et décident de la manière dont les dons seront investis et distribués au sein de leur communauté. Il existe actuellement plus de 200 fondations communautaires locales au Canada.
Annauma est l’abréviation d’Annaumakkaijiit, un mot inuktitut qui signifie aider les gens à aller de l’avant, et le principe selon lequel les communautés inuites connaissent les meilleures solutions aux problèmes sociaux qu’elles rencontrent est au cœur de leur travail.
La campagne inaugurale Caring North d’Annauma est un programme de collecte de fonds de 10 millions $ qui soutient des initiatives communautaires visant à améliorer directement la vie des Inuits au Nunavut. Les donateurs sont invités à se joindre en tant que partenaires bienveillants et à investir dans les cinq domaines prioritaires communautaires d’Annauma : les enfants et les jeunes inuits, la santé et le bien-être de la communauté, l’éducation et l’apprentissage, les arts et la culture, et les opportunités identifiées par la communauté.
La campagne est menée conformément aux principes de philanthropie et d’action communautaire inuktitut d’Annauma : les initiatives sont menées ou dirigées par des Inuits ; les décisions sont prises par la communauté, Annauma soutenant l’autodétermination de la communauté et le développement local ; les donateurs apportent leur soutien en tant que partenaires bienveillants, le partenariat avec Annauma étant une opportunité d’apprentissage.
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La Gordon Foundation est fière d’être l’un des bailleurs de fonds de la Fondation communautaire Annauma, en faisant don d’un million $ sur trois ans à la campagne Caring North. La Fondation soutient depuis longtemps des programmes dans le Nord canadien, et le travail important d’Annauma correspond à nos valeurs d’engagement communautaire et de collaboration.
Notre conseil d’administration et notre personnel ont récemment eu le privilège de visiter Iqaluit pour rencontrer l’équipe d’Annauma. Au cours d’une fin de semaine d’apprentissage et de conversation, nous en avons appris davantage sur leur important travail.
L’engagement et la passion de toutes les personnes participant à Annauma étaient inspirants et contagieux – nous anticipons avec plaisir de voir l’impact à long terme de leur travail.
Pour en savoir plus sur Annauma et sur la manière dont vous pouvez vous impliquer, visitez annauma.ca, et suivez Annauma sur LinkedIn et Facebook. Vous pouvez aussi en apprendre plus sur le travail d’Annauma en regardant leur vidéo de lancement.
