metadata: {"type": "project", "title": "ReFi Spring", "logoImg": "bafkreihwt4cikof3rhgur6mkhpazefgxoczebttbfyypdxsr624gibjbxe", "website": "https://refispring.com", "bannerImg": "bafybeiawpdlmewdkxxd7r2bpugi3cqiezgwg7x3tk3ytgj2ub455fa72xm", "createdAt": 1673615132756, "credentials": {}, "description": "TLDR - Let\u2019s make ReFi accessible for all! Gitcoin support will enable support for IRL events establishing places of belonging for the ReFi Movement.\n\nOur Why?\n\nImagine a regenerative economy, a financial system that serves humanity and our collective home - Earth.\n\nWithin web3, the ReFi movement aims to cultivate this vision within a new economic system. ReFi Spring exists to support its emergence across a rich diversity of global networks by facilitating strong bonds between individuals through human IRL interaction.\n\nWhat does ReFi Spring do?\n\nReFi Spring is a nonprofit working to enable global IRL ReFi events to create new communities in the ReFi ecosystem. We do this by providing free, accessible, full-range event support services and educational content, including:\n\nHow we do it\n\nEvent Toolkit: This toolkit contains all the information event organisers need to run a successful ReFi event, including event frameworks, marketing materials, tips for press engagement, workshop plans, and more.\n\nEvent Funding: Every ReFi event can apply for event funding; however, our funding criteria is weighted towards supporting events by and for marginalised communities. We recognise the importance of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as fundamental values supporting the healthy growth of the ReFi ecosystem.\n\nEvent Organizer Cohort: Providing upskilling sessions and the networking environment to grow the community of ReFi on-the-ground leaders.\n\nIntro to ReFi Course: ReFi Spring is currently curating an \u201cIntro to ReFi\u201d online learning course for new and native audiences to understand and engage in the ReFi ecosystem.\n\nReFi Rabbithole: Supporting the creation set of interconnected materials that explain what ReFi is to new audiences\n\nWe offer all of the above and so much more as a public good to the ReFi Community.\n\nGR15 Update\n\nThanks to GR15 support, we enabled a further five events for a total of 27 events for Season 1 of ReFi Spring\n\nReFi COP16 was series of talks, workshops, and panels addressing the use blockchain to increase the efficiency of the global fight against the climate emergency led by Regen Network at COP16.\n\nReFi Mercadito Verde - A ReFi Spring event focused on social currencies which promote a circular economy and a network of exchanges in Monteverde, Costa Rica.\n\nReFi India - A hugely successful first ReFi event in Bangalore, with over 100 participants and 15+ speakers.\n\nReFi Primavera Regenerativa - In Minas Gerais, Brazil, this event kicked off a season of meet-ups between web3 natives and agroforestry practitioners.\n\nDescentraliza BH - The first Bankless Brazil IRL event introducing newbies to Web3 and Web3 natives to the ReFi movement, this was the first event to address ReFi in the city of Belo Horizonte in Minas Gerais, Brazil.\n\nGoals for Alpha Round\n\n$5000 can fund 2 events + support our ongoing operational costs and the development of further open-source event materials\n\n$10000 can support 4 more events in 2022 + \u201c \u201d\n\n$20000 can support 8 more events in 2022 + \u201c \u201c\n\n$50000 can support 20 more events in 2023 + \u201c \u201c\n\nIn recognition of the exclusive nature of the Alpha round and our strong desire to continue to see the growth of the ReFi movement, ReFi Spring will drip 25% of the total of donations to gitcoin projects that support underserved communities and that are actively supporting Regenerative projects and education.\n\nThank you for your support and for being part of this movement! There\u2019s never been a more vital need to regenerate the Earth.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "RefiSpring"}
name: ReFi Spring