The objective of this grant is to help us Grow & Sustain Open Source with Gitcoin Grants. Funds in this grant will be added to the matching pool for Round 11+, in a 3/6 multisig managed by GTC Governance Keyholders Austin Griffith, Linda Xie, Kevin Owocki, Kyle Weiss, Avsa

Unchain is a charity project created by blockchain activists – open to everyone.With your support we can quickly raise and distribute money to the people of Ukraine – to where they need it the most.We are urgently raising funds for the support of the Ukrainian people - supporting effective NGO's doing work on the ground right now.These NGOs include:Voices of ChildrenVostok SOSProject C.U.R.EInternational Medical CorpsPeople In NeedPolish Centre for International AidWe are consulting with the community for further effective NGOs to support. These will be decided by the community.Our larger goal is to help Ukraine become the country it deserves to be: peaceful, successful, substantive, friendly, educated, and free.Let’s unchain the real power of blockchain for the good.Our goal is to break the chain of war and scatter its links far away from each other. So that they could never meet again.Our main method of fundraising is through the sale of NFTs. These can be purchased or you can make a simple donation.Important! We don’t raise money for weapons. We raise money for medicine, evacuation and repair needs, food and clothes. Our priority is to help civilians.Let’s break this chain together.FAQHow do I know funds will make it to the organizations listed?All donations garnered go to a multi-signature wallet before being distributed to our chosen effective organizations.Each signatory to this wallet are active in the larger cryptosphere and have made their wallet addresses public. All transactions are publicly readable on the blockchain here.Only after a majority of signatories sign a transaction can funds be moved. This is an extra measure of security against rugpulls and bad actors.How were the NGO's chosen?NGO's were chosen based on the following guidelines:1. Must be local, have history of working in Ukraine, or preparing for refugee support2. Must be focused on non-military aid3. Highly rated by Charity Watch and Charity Navigator, or strongly vetted4. Recently activeNGO's will still be decided by community vote.I have a question / how can I get involved?Join us on our Discord server here.

I run a bridge server for chats (Discord, Telegram, Riot, ...) and am actively engaging communities connected to the Ethereum space. Especially with the advent of newDAOs my services are being requested on a regular basis. Most requested at the moment is bridging between community servers on Discord (both communities get to share a room), whereas before it was mostly mirroring rooms between different protocols. Once a bridge is up, it still needs to be maintained and I regularly check that everything is in working order. I never charge for these services, but I do accept donations (all Ethereum tokens) Current list of bridged communities:GivethThe Commons StackMetagameHackalong1hiveethereum.orgbalancer.ioAragoncadCADToken EngineeringToken Engineering CommonssourcecredRaid GuildDappNodebrightIDMetafactorydOrgMaticConsensysPanvalaGitcoinYearnDAOHausKshazuDAO Book ClubMol Le ArtETHLatamShenaniganSeeing EarthBoson Protocol

Street-side Syntropic . Free The Food plants street-side food systems and provides educational content to help others worldwide successfully implement these systems! Using Permaculture and Syntropic farming techniques, fruit trees, edible plants, and additional companion plants are combined to create a circular and regenerative food system. We empower people and communities around the world to plant their street-side with food!Why Street-side? . Strips of land between road and property fence lay bare and underutilized. The goal is to collaborate with landowner, gain free access, and convert these stretches of land into micro food forests. This provides the community with free food, spreads the knowledge of Syntropic farming, and saves landowner time and money.Why Syntropic? . It is one of the most successful and harmonious growing methods for rehabilitating land and growing food. Syntropic agriculture mimics the evolution of a forest and uses techniques to accelerate growth, generate biomass to build soil, and continuously remove CO2 from the air. This successional planting method is a permanent and evolving system that rebuilds ecosystems and provides food forever.We currently have 3 street-sides planted in Costa Rica with 2 more on the waiting list. We are currently seeking donations for Website Development, Videographer/Photographer, Tools, Seeds&Trees, Transportation, and Signs. We provide 100% transparency with donation allocation and use of funds. Thank you for your contributions to help heal soil, sequester carbon, and grow the decentralized food movement! Arthur & Devin syntropic@protonmail.com

The Diamante Bridge Collective (DBC) is a network of land stewards, individuals, organizations and communities located primarily within the Diamante Valley of Costa Rica, expanding to include those from the greater Southern Zone of Costa Rica, and those abroad.The DBC functions as a hub of many physical nodes, connected via global networks of shared vision and mission with the goal of restoring, preserving and consciously stewarding surrounding lands and watersheds while living harmoniously within them in alignment with our planetary values.We work together to create collective foundational agreements and a local regenerative economy that includes digital currencies for the transparent and accountable recordkeeping of our exchanges.We are building bridges between individuals, communities and organizations, local and global cultures, property owners and skilled service providers in the Southern Zone of Costa Rica who are committed to working together long term to care for our bioregion, our neighbors, and ourselves. We also serve as a bridge, and an entry portal, for individuals looking to exit the industrial consumerist lifestyle, and return to regenerative practices and community living. Operating as a diverse network, we are in a unique position to be able to direct and connect individuals to communities which will best suit their needs, interests and passions.We value the transcendence of the old model of land “ownership”, choosing instead to “steward” lands. We are in the process of creating a legal foundation for the securing of land into trust or conservation, for the benefit of future generations.We embody the ethics and principles of permaculture in our personal and communal lives, whilst supporting and inspiring one another with honesty, clarity and authentic communication. We value family and community life, seeking to create village settlements that nurture optimal human development by most effortlessly meeting everyone's needs.We value open-sourced platforms of information storage so that our story may serve as a model to be shared with other collectives and put into action. Our governance model is Sociocracy, valuing the diversity of perspectives within our collective and ensuring space for all voices during decision making processes.DBC Education and culture sharing includes:Facilitating the Living Permaculture Mentorship Program, offering skill sets in Syntropic Agroforestry, Social Permaculture, Holistic Wellness, Permaculture Design Certificates, and Growing and Preserving Food (Campaign can be found by copy and pasting this link: https://trace.giveth.io/campaign/living-permaculture-mentorship-program)Hosting and collaborating on culture exchange and skill share eventsSupporting the rebirth of balanced Earth-People cultures through Visionary storytelling and integrated Indigenous ancestral wisdom Offering scholarships for youth leaders from economically disadvantaged communities.Creating multicultural and multilingual learning environments. Current Members within the DBCDiamante Luz Centre for Regenerative LivingH.O.M.E. (Heaven On Mother Earth) FarmLa Luz del BosquePerma VidaEARTHEART Living Permaculture Mentorship ProgramFinca MorphoFinca La PazFree The FoodKapi KapiDon Marcelino & the Bri Bri Indigenous Nation of Costa RicaVisionWe envision an interdependent network of healthy autonomous communities cultivating and nurturing a planetary paradise where everyone's needs are met and the prosperity of Earth is endowed to future generations.  MissionWe are inspiring planetary transformation by embodying regenerative lifestyles. We are generating experiential learning tools, skills, and capacities for the flourishing of personal, spiritual and environmental relationships.We are co-creating collective agreements for self-governance, economic exchange, resource sharing and common-land stewardship.We are facilitating the just redistribution of resources and power toward restoration of ecological wellness and social equity. We have adopted the Findhorn Values of:Spiritual PracticeServicePersonal GrowthIntegrityRespect OthersDirect Communication ReflectionFeedbackNon-violencePerspectiveCooperationPeace-keepingAgreementsCommitment

Grassroots Economicsseeks to connect people to their own abundance by supporting them in creating their own Community Inclusion Currencies - which are blockchain based Vouchers backed by the goods and services of community groups in vulnerable communities in Kenya and growing to other countries.Our vision is of communities creating their own medium of exchange linked to local values and connected to other communities creating an emergent, healthy and decentralized economic system. Our work is also anchored in Syntropic Agroforestry as the basis for local economies and sustainable food production.We need help in testing, developing, integrating and maintaining open source software and documentation Please join us on our team and help us fund this really important work!Besides software development and support, we train organizations and communities around the world how to design, start and maintain community currencies - Your support also helps support new communities to develop their own programs.Contact us at info@grassecon.org

Help us build a recycling center and create an Extruder Machine to transform “non-recyclable plastic” into a great building material : Wood plastic or Madera Plastica - - -Without a formal waste management system in place and limited information and options to recycle, residents of San Salvador are left to individual choices and practices; which is often in the form of illegal burning and dumping.After reaching success in creating two small scale projects for the Togethering and the local store Abues (see traces below), we are excited to expand and create a bigger recycling center for Diamante Valley.Our intention is to:● Spread awareness by educating locals on recycling, composting, reducing and...● Create recycling opportunities by receiving, storing and redirecting recyclables such as cardboard, glass, tetrapacks, aluminum and tin● Build an extruder machine so that we can locally repurpose plastics into building materials.On the following link you can see our machine being built, it will be ready in few weeks :https://youtube.com/shorts/B9enOV4-LpE?feature=shareThe great news is we have the land and local community support. Now all we need are financial contributions so that we may move forward and:Create parking for community accessibilityBuild a permanent structure to receive, store, redirect and repurpose recyclable materials.Build the extruder machine and the molds.Build a second structure to work with the extruder, the molds and cooling pool.Create and print educational materials- flyers, videos, signageStart up wages for two part-time individualsWe have goals to make this a self sustaining regenerative enterprise and will use profits from future membership and facility use fees, as well as "repurposed plastic" building supply sales. We believe our project can be an inspiration for communities and municipalities to follow. Make a financial contribution become a solution to the pollution ;)You can see the past success of the Resourcery Team at work on GivethTRACE as we have implemented two previous actions with great results: The Togethering Place Campaign, Create a Recycling Program (Phase 1, TTP) Trace, and Create a Recycling Center (Phase 2, Restaurant/Store) Trace.Our Extruder Machine being built in Perez Zeledon

The Giveth Matching Pool is raising funds for future donation matching to verified projects on Giveth! It is a one-stop-shop for donors who want to ensure their donation has a broad impact.Our vision for the Future of Giving is a world in which giving is effortless and people are rewarded for making positive change. Give to donation.eth, make a difference for public goods, and get rewarded with GIVbacks.Donations to this project as well as funds sent directly to the donation.eth multisig on Mainnet or Gnosis Chain are eligible for GIVbacks. In both cases, 100% of the funds collected will be distributed to verified projects on Giveth. Note: only donations in tokens on the GIVbacks token list are eligible for GIVbacks.The donation.eth multisig is a 7/15 multisig managed by core Giveth team members. Once we have reached our goal of $500,000 we will begin to distribute the funds to verified projects on Giveth at the end of each 2-week donation round.The intention of the raise goal is to ensure we have enough funds to provide significant matching ($10-20k) every 2 weeks for a full year (26 total rounds). The exact details of how the donations will be distributed are to-be-determined. If you want to help us design the system for allocating these matching funds, please weigh-in with your comments in our forum. We’ll keep you posted with the results in project updates!Note: We are not matching funds to this project, we are using these funds to provide additional funding to other verified projects.

Red Armonía (English = Harmony Network) is an ELEV8D initiative birthed in 2021 in the South Pacific region of Costa Rica. A foundational network for community sovereignty. We’re using technology and people power to:Create a Digital App that will establish a network that connects the local community with organic farmers and vendors via an online marketplaceCreate hands-on practical education for things like composting, soil building, planting and rain water collectionContinue to host community events such as our EcoMercado that helps sustain local small businesses, organic farmers, and entrepreneursCreate a safe haven, mother hub nursery for the preservation and cultivation of organic Seeds and plant Genotypes, to ensure generational food securityCreate a collection and distribution network for food production and food excess/waste from private lands and businesses that can be donated to families in needBuild Community Gardens using sustainable local resources such as bambooCampaign for Change (activism) to educate people on the benefits of organic and harmonious practices, and inspire the elimination of harmful conventional farming(En Español)Red Armonía es una iniciativa de ELEV8D que nació en 2021 en la región del Pacífico Sur de Costa Rica. Una red fundacional para la soberanía comunitaria. Estamos utilizando la tecnología y el poder de las personas para:Crear una aplicación digital que establecerá una red que conecte a la comunidad local con agricultores y vendedores orgánicos a través de un mercado en líneaCree educación práctica práctica para cosas como el compostaje, la construcción del suelo, la siembra y la recolección de agua de lluvia.Continuar organizando eventos comunitarios como nuestro EcoMercado que ayuda a sostener pequeñas empresas locales, agricultores orgánicos y empresarios.Crear un refugio seguro, vivero de plantas para la preservación y el cultivo de semillas orgánicas y genotipos de plantas, para garantizar la seguridad alimentaria generacionalCrear una red de recolección y distribución para la producción de alimentos y el exceso/desperdicio de alimentos de terrenos y negocios privados que puedan ser donados a familias necesitadasConstruir jardines comunitarios utilizando recursos locales sostenibles como el bambú.Campaña por el cambio (activismo) para educar a las personas sobre los beneficios de las prácticas orgánicas y armoniosas, e inspirar la eliminación de la agricultura convencional dañinaFor more information or to get involved visit / Para obtener más información o participar, visite: https://elev8d.online/red-armonia

Fundación Madre Tierra Verde (FMTV) aims to contribute to Costa Rica's transition to a green and intelligent society paradigm, following the guidelines of the National Climate Change Strategy (ENCC) and the Decarbonization Plan, through the guidance, advice and equipment of companies, organizations, communities, and governments. Based on the climate change agenda, we focus on the following axes of work: capacity building and technology transfer, financing, public awareness, and culture creation.The Colorado Multiversity project is an initiative that seeks to create an academic and research space with a methodology focused on people and their interaction with the environment, with partnerships and collaborations with projects, organizations and initiatives that feed on content to be able to train and empower communities on issues that benefit the Sustainable Development Goals.The multiversity campus consists of more than 1000 Ha at the Barra del Colorado National Wildlife Refuge in Pococí, Limón, at the North Caribean of Costa Rica, and at the outset will have facilities to accommodate up to 50 students, starting with the Disaster Care program in conjunction with Refuge Project, the Citizen Innovation Laboratory in conjunction with SIFAIS Lab and the Precision Agriculture Training Center , in addition to the Volunteering Programs with universities in the United States and Europe and the Community Precious Plastic Collection Center.This project is supported by the Spanish Cooperation, Gaia Gives, SDG Impact Fund, the United Nations International Organization for Migration. The need for capital is to start the infrastructure development project while reaching the necessary progress to receive the contributions of international cooperation and starting to operate with the first programs in June 2021.Next, we share a video that we prepare to better illustrate what the project is about.http://therefugeproject.org/

Update:Thank you all who supported us here in Giveth and within GG13 too ♥. With your help we completed the payment for buying the equipment (almost 5K only for the full MoCap suit, plus an iPhone 13 for face capture and 3D scanning urban places).We even managed to have a small budget for supporting the salaries of the team. However, we have not yet raised enough for financing one episode. This is why we are participating in GG14. Please support us again, we are putting our souls and hearts into creating the first propaganda machine for the crypto-commons.Check our first teaser and share the message, please!. Now, read below some updates regarding the name, the regenerative business model, and about the curricula. Enjoy!🧐 What is Urbánika (before known as OurVerse)?A propaganda machine for the crypto-commons. Urbánika is an immersive video guide that will take the students from learning about the commons to actually co-creating and managing local urban DAOs as ways to re-imagining and regenerating their cities.Context:We believe that urban commons combined with the power of cyber-physical organizations such as DAOs and the proper token engineering will efficiently run cities. A very early empiric experiment about this was run in 2018-2019 in the city of Chetumal. The result was getting 23 people from across the government, universities, NGOs, business chambers, and citizens coming up with projects to regenerate their city. However, coordination failed due to starting from a city perspective when neighborhoods had different interests, tech interfaces were difficult to use, and the team didn't have the proper knowledge, just the will.The lesson was learned and these people have gathered again, now with greater understanding of urban commons, human coordination technologies, and matured networks of public good and crypto-commoning activists.We have come up with a storyline (check it in Spanish and English) and a plan to engage again citizens in regenerating their city. The aim is to film the training and support given to a cohort of activists and turn these videos into a film-series that facilitates others to do the same. The whole content will be opened as produced to enable the wider community to enrich it and fork it to their context. Read to the end to know our plans after finishing season 1.🤔 How are we delivering such impact?We will set up an extraordinary environment that facilitates learning through hyper-realistic virtual immersive experiences that are fun, engaging, and easy to digest. The key features of this immersive environment are:1️⃣ Video Lessons: Teachings are expressed in the form of videos. Lessons go from understanding and claiming an urban commons to managing them as a local urban DAO.2️⃣ Gammified immersion: After the lesson is presented through the main episode, the student will be able to choose which path to watch first: Capitalist or Post-Capitalist. Each path is shown through a video scenario where the consequences of implementing the technologies/methodologies of the chosen path within the local urban DAO are presented.3️⃣ IRL practice: After watching those scenarios the student will get an in-real-life challenge to solve within a time limit of three weeks.4️⃣ Recognition: When the challenge is solved, the student gets a skill badge of completion. And, like in a in game, life points are given for the contribution of taking humanity closer into becoming a regenerative species. In contrast, if the student does not solve the challenge, the life points are given to Moloch. When life points are out, the game is over.🧠 Tell me more about the training contentThe training's content is based on the book "Free, Fair, and Alive" by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich. We have divided the book into 9 episodes where Web3 tools are added, thus, introducing the use of cyber-physical coordination.The challenges within the episode start in the realm of understanding, reflecting, and becoming aware of the commoner inside each of us, then they advance into claiming, regenerating, and maintaining local public spaces as local urban DAOs that bootstrap local regenerative initiatives with the neighborhood and other local agents' support.Within each episode there are also mini-games that enable the students to consolidate the lessons. Such mini-games are for example, memory matching games, crosswords, and others.Finally, it is to clarify that all the content will be released using Creative Commons 4.0, and thus, all the episode’s resources, such as characters, scripts, 3D elements, and so on, are open to being forked and modified by other activists to fit their local contexts.Initially, Kin, the main SolarPunk character, will be focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, however, the storyline will show in shadows other unrevealed characters that are doing the same in other parts of the world. The idea is that the Urbánika's story and challenges call people to form up a fandom. Social movements based on shared interests and fun have the power to quickly adopt new trends, which in this case is adopting regenerative and post-capitalistic lifestyles. We hope, that others can join us, create new characters and spread the word of the commons!Kin, the SolarPunk agent sent by the Galactic Federation to accelerate the transition to a regenerative and post-capitalist society.📅What is the timeline of Season 1: The SolarPunk Awakening?July, 2022. Production of first episode.August, 2022. Quality testing of first episode and of all supportive material (community server, website, supportive documentation).August-September, 2022. Public launch of the series’ first episode. From this point forward, every month a new episode will be released in English and Spanish.October, 2022. Decentralization process of the guild into becoming a digital co-op.June, 2023. Closing of season 1 and planning of season 2.July, 2023. Supporting graduate's initiatives through the surplus of sales.🏆TeamThe team members are passionate activists from Mexico and Europe, with a digital and physical reputation track that has enabled them to have leading roles in innovative communities globally.Carlos Chablé: Photographer and film director. He is a social change activist who pioneered in bringing non-commercial films to the Mexican South through Árbol Rojo. He also works independently, his last piece is Garífuna.Anna Kaic: Creative, storyteller, and marketeer. She designed and created Proof of Humanity’s walkthrough videos gathering thousands of subscribers in a few weeks as well as thousands of views per video. She has managed and strategized social media accounts of web 3 projects such as PoH, MetaGame, and the Crypto-Commons Association, as well as from traditional organizations such as Istria Wine, Faculty of Economics at Rijeka University, Airfood OÜ.Rodolfo Ramos: Instructional Designer at two top 10 universities in Mexico. He holds a broad experience in working with telecommunications companies and crafting immersive audio-visual productions (including virtual reality) in both Mexico and Japan.Bernardo Fernandez aka BEF: Bef, is a Mexican writer, cartoonist and graphic designer that has been awarded several prizes, including the Mexican Novelist Prize “Otra vuelta de tuerca”, the Grijalbo Prize, the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize of “the Semana Negra de Gijón”, the Ignotus Prize of the Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, and Mandarin.HBesso31.eth: Social entrepreneur leading this solarpunk and post-capitalistic training program. He has been experimenting social participatory approaches since 2014 through founding and orchestrating P2P-based services. In Chetumal, he led a first iteration of regenerative city-making. Magna cum laude in both MSc and MA of eGovernance and public sector innovation from KU Leuven. Alumni of the Programa para el Fortalecimiento de la Función Pública en América Latina, Trusted Seed of The Commons Stack, Hatcher of the Token Engineering Commons, Recruiter Champ in MetaGame, and Summoner of the UBI Blockchain Collective.B0gie: 3D designer and producer with more than 4 years playing and researching 3D design. He is creating all the scenarios and avatars to display within the film-series.Advisors: Amber Brandner: Embodied Leadership facilitator advocating and co-creating the new economy. Amber opens spaces for inclusive culture to develop and collaborative innovations to emerge. As a consultant and mentor, she has helped countless founders find and tell their stories, connect to their "why", build community and take the next step on the path of creation.Daniel Haboush: Founder, business analyst, and investor on post-capitalist projects. Daniel helps organizations align on scaling and transparency practices. He is passionate about immersive technology, global cultures and well-being.💸 BudgetOne time expense:Equipment: $4,696 (mocap suit with face recognition mount and software + iPhone 13 for face capture and LiDAR sensor to 3D scan urban assets).VR-settings: $500 (packs of VR artifacts).Landing page creation: $1000YouTube and Twitch ads: $2,000Studio's equipment: $1,500Subtotal: $9,696Monthly expense of current team:Salaries: $8,650 (7 people) x 10 episodes = $86,500Total: 96,196🌻 What's the business model? A regenerative and post-capitalistic one!The above budget will enable us to produce the whole first season (10 episodes). However, the subsequent year of support to the graduated students and the planning of subsequent seasons is not included in the budget. We believe that commons and public goods should aim to be financially self-sustainable by offering alternative services that others enjoy without sacrificing free access to the main public good. It is our goal to proof that is possible and be the example of others to transition into a fruitful commons-based society.To sustain our efforts we will turn the team into a DAO and offer the following services:1️⃣ Product-placing within the story of Urbánika. A vocal expression or an artifact such as a shirt worn by a character or an item appearing within the mainframe. Either of these with the intention of mentioning a value-aligned organization that fits within Urbánika's mission and storyline.2️⃣ In-story stories. A complete VR scenario and story script paide by a value-aligned org to appear as a complementary video with the aim to exemplify a success story of how a brighter future is possible through their methodology/tech stack/approach.Our income surplus will be managed in the following way:Financially support the emergence and consolidation of urban regenerative initiatives from the graduates of the course-series (45%).Financially support universal basic income and universal basic services development at the communities of the graduates (10%).The remaining will be put in the DAO's treasury to support the DAO's purpose of reaching out billions with the knowledge and tools to facilitate our transition into a regenerative interplanetary specie.✅ Monitoring and Metrics:Ask Me Anything (AMA). Once a month after the first episode goes out we will have AMA as a direct channel of communication with the community and the interested stakeholders. Kin will be hosting a real-time transmission. At this monthly event three things are to be shared: progress on how many urban commons have emerged, FAQ that the community has dropped in contact channels, updates from the projects participating in the episodes’s challenges. After these three sections, the community will have the space for asking anything.Main success indicator: 10 urban commons created across Latin America within the time-frame of series' season one.Secondary indicators: Engament within the Mattermost channels and the video commentaries.⚖️ Legal setup & considerations for the projectThe equipment owned and content generated will be governed by its workers aka The Team through a legally recognized cyber physical org (Production Cooperative legally constituted in Chetumal, México with a digital twin as a DAO. The guild will be the main operator of the funds).The content will be created through Creative Commons 4.0.💖 Please support us with three quick things:A heart ♥ on the project,Donating to it,and sharing it* wherever you can.These things will already be doing world-impact.