ReCivitas Institute is a Brazilian NPO as crowd-funded unconditional basic income pilot project in Quatinga Velho, Brazil.[1] The project paid 30 reals a month to around a hundred members of the community for five years(2008 to 2014). In January 2016, ReCivitas launched a “Lifetime Basic Income” in the Brazilian village of Quatinga Velho, a project it hopes will serve as a model to other organizations.[2] This new project Basic Income Startup which intends to make these payments permanent. As of January 16, 14 residents of Quatinga Velho have basic incomes, now set at an amount of 40 Reais, that they will retain for at least 20 years.[3]

The directors of ReCivitas, Bruna Augusto Pereira and Marcus Brancaglione have also published several papers [4] and books[5] on the results of pilot projects. And made several speeches in Congresses,[6] Initiatives,[7][8] Universities,[9][10][11] and Forums [12] around the World advocating for a Universal Basic Income and experimental models like Quatinga Velho.

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  1. ^ "BRAZIL: Basic Income in Quatinga Velho celebrates 3-years of operation - Basic Income News". Basicincome.org. 7 June 2012.
  2. ^ "NGO launches lifetime basic incomes in Brazilian village, founds collaborative "projects network" | Basic Income News". Basicincome.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  3. ^ "BRAZIL: Basic Income Startup gives "lifetime basic incomes" to villagers | Basic Income News". Basicincome.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  4. ^ "Parallel Session : A" (PDF). C.ymcdn.com. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  5. ^ Kevin Carson (2017-02-15). "Center for a Stateless Society » Lessons from the Practice of Basic Income". C4ss.org. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  6. ^ "BASIC INCOME - Speech BIEN Munich 2012 - Bruna Pereira - english subtitle & portugues". 19 December 2012 – via YouTube.
  7. ^ "Basic Income in Brasil - Bruna Pereira and Marcus Brancaglione - TEDxBologna". 7 November 2011 – via YouTube.
  8. ^ "PARIS, France: UBI experiment in Brazil, 4 November - Basic Income News". Basicincome.org. 2 November 2015.
  9. ^ "Basic Income in a Brazilian Village: Lessons for Human Liberation | School of Public Policy". Spp.ceu.edu. 2015-11-19. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  10. ^ "Boletin Informativo" (PDF). Dept.sophia.ac.jp. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  11. ^ "ReCivitas project at Oxford 1 Feb 2016 - Basic Income UK". Basicincome.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-03-31.
  12. ^ "Basic Income Makes Headway at the World Social Forum 2016 in Montreal - Basic Income News". Basicincome.org. 12 September 2016.
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