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Foundation is a certified nonprofit organization, and our initial financial support was generously provided by individual crypto investors and partner organizations ($17k via crypto investment, 11/22; $63k via partner projects, 4/23). We've predominantly self-financed our initiatives, ensuring each project aligns seamlessly with our core values and objectives. Our collaborations with esteemed partners have been invaluable, enabling us to leverage shared resources and collective expertise.\n\nThis Gitcoin grant round marks a significant milestone for us. It represents our first dedicated endeavor to secure external funding that will empower us to amplify our impact and more comprehensively deliver on our mission. We approach this opportunity with gratitude, optimism, and a deep-seated commitment to driving meaningful change in the world.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc) ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "8", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "49", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Project Age & Maturity: The S.A.N.E. Foundation has been operational beyond the 3-month minimum, with established initiatives in bioregional stewardship and web3 solutions.\n\nDirect Climate Focus: Our core initiatives, spanning the Inland Temperate Rainforest, Amazon Rainforest, and Ecuadorian Andes, are directly aimed at GHG reduction. Activities such as agroforestry, eco-forestry, watershed restoration, and partnerships for ecological preservation underscore our commitment to tangible climate solutions.\n\nAccountability & Reporting: We have a track record of consistent progress documentation. Our bioregional engagements, algorithmic deployment, and decentralized finance model all showcase tangible milestones, ensuring accountability to our supporters.\n\nUpdated Proposal & Funding Utilization: The additional funding will be instrumental in the further development of the NUNA algorithm. This tool is set to revolutionize the valuation of natural capital assets and services, driving a more holistic economic approach. The funds will catalyze our GHG reduction initiatives and expand our web3 climate solutions.\n\nViability & Credibility: Our projects, while ambitious, are rooted in practicality. We leverage traditional ecological knowledge combined with cutting-edge web3 technology, as evidenced by our partnership with ZERO and our technical infrastructure. Our solutions are actionable, credible, and designed for tangible impact.\n\nIn essence, the S.A.N.E. Foundation aligns seamlessly with the GG18 CLIMATE Round's criteria, poised to lead in the realm of web3 climate solutions. We're committed, ready, and eager to amplify our impact with the support of this grant.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is the S.A.N.E. Foundation's inaugural participation in a Gitcoin grant round. As newcomers to this platform, we are both excited and honored to introduce our vision and initiatives to the Gitcoin community.", "hidden": false, "question": "What previous Gitcoin grant rounds has this project been a part of? Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The impact of the S.A.N.E. Foundation is gauged through a multi-faceted approach, combining quantitative metrics with qualitative insights to ensure a holistic understanding of our achievements.\n\nBioregional Stewardship Metrics:\n\nRegenerative Projects: We prioritize the completion of tangible, on-the-ground regenerative initiatives. The success of each project is evaluated based on its alignment with our core values and its tangible impact on the bioregion.\n\nEcological Impact: We assess the holistic health of the ecosystems we engage with, considering factors like soil revitalization, waterway restoration, and native species reintroduction. Our projects are strategically chosen to ensure the greatest long-term benefit to the overall health and resilience of the ecosystem.\n\nCommunity Engagement: Our Resiliency Centers serve as hubs for community-driven actions. We monitor the frequency and success of collaborative projects, ensuring that local communities are at the heart of our stewardship efforts and that they feel empowered and involved in the regeneration process.\n\nNUNA Algorithm Insights:\nNatural Capital Valuation: Once operational, NUNA will provide real-time data on the value assigned to natural capital assets and services, offering a tangible metric for ecological impact.\n\nHuman Wellness Index: This index will capture both qualitative and quantitative data on community well-being, happiness, and overall quality of life, ensuring our initiatives foster holistic human development.\n\nDecentralized Finance Indicators:\n\nToken Engagement: The eventual adoption and utilization rate of the $SANE token will provide insights into the financial viability and community trust in our economic model.\n\nStake for the Future: The number of bioregional-specific stakes and the amount staked serve as indicators of investor confidence in tangible on-ground projects.\n\nGlobal Network for Regeneration Metrics:\n\nBioregional Empowerment: Tracking the number of bioregions onboarded and their respective success stories offers a macro view of our global impact.\n\nSANE App Engagement: User metrics, feedback, and active participation rates on the SANE App, developed in partnership with ZERO, provide insights into our digital community's growth and engagement.\n\nFeedback & Testimonials: We actively seek feedback from our community, partners, and stakeholders. Testimonials, success stories, and constructive critiques offer qualitative insights into our impact and areas of improvement.\n\nBy weaving traditional ecological metrics with innovative web3 indicators, the S.A.N.E. Foundation ensures a comprehensive, transparent, and accountable measure of our impact, setting the stage for a future where technology and nature harmoniously coexist.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The S.A.N.E. Foundation is more than just a project; it's a manifestation of a collective dream to harmonize human aspirations with Earth's biocapacity. Our journey has been enriched by the collaborations we've forged, the challenges we've overcome, and the communities we've empowered.\n\nOur previous work spans diverse bioregions, each with its unique challenges and opportunities. From the lush expanse of the Inland Temperate Rainforest in BC to the vibrant heart of the Amazon with the Shuar Nation, our engagements have always been rooted in mutual respect, understanding, and a shared vision for a regenerative future.\n\nOne of our proudest achievements is the network of partnerships we've cultivated. These collaborations are a testament to our commitment, credibility, and the transformative potential of our vision. We invite you to explore our esteemed partners, each playing a pivotal role in shaping the SANEconomy and our broader mission. Discover more about these collaborations on our partnerships page: sanefuture.io/partners.\n\nIn determining our project's eligibility, we hope you recognize not just the tangible metrics and milestones but also the intangible essence of what we represent: a beacon of hope, innovation, and unwavering dedication to a world where every individual, community, and bioregion flourishes with nature.\n\nThank you for considering our application. We are excited about the potential of joining forces with the Gitcoin community to further amplify our impact and bring our shared vision to fruition.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "dropdown", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? 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Foundation is a pioneering force in environmental stewardship, leveraging the transformative power of web3 technology to address global climate challenges. Our vision is the SANEconomy, a revolutionary economic system designed to align with Earth's biocapacity, providing real-time feedback loops from the biosphere and empowering communities to shape their sustainable futures.\n\n# Impact & Initiatives:\n\n### Bioregional Stewardship: \n\nInland Temperate Rainforest in BC:\nWe cooperatively steward over 35,000 acres in the Inland Temperate Rainforest of western Canada. We also manage a 400-acre farm and an 80-acre mountain-top ecovillage. Our initiatives here encompass agroforestry, eco-forestry, reintroduction of fire in historically fire-maintained ecosystems, fish rehabilitation, watershed restoration, and wildfire mitigation. We are establishing an 11-acre Resiliency Center to serve as a dynamic hub for community activities, civic engagement, and ecological education. Through these efforts, we aim to foster resilience, robustness, and community well-being, ensuring that the local populace plays an active role in shaping their region's flourishing future.\n\nAmazon Rainforest Partnership:\nIn collaboration with the Shuar Nation, we are developing a regenerative economy within the Amazon, spanning over two million acres. This initiative is a harmonious blend of ecological preservation, human wellness enhancement, and the acknowledgment of the Shuar People's inherent sovereignty. As we embark on this transformative journey, we're not only safeguarding an essential ecosystem, but also championing a model where nature, culture, and economy converge synergistically. We have our inaugural series of proposals poised for implementation, and initial investments will be directly allocated to these groundbreaking projects. These encompass the construction of a Shaur Temple of Wisdom, the development of a marketplace, and offices for the Shuar to share their unique goods and services, as well as pivotal forestry restoration projects aimed at enhancing biodiversity and strengthening carbon sequestration. Through these endeavors, we are actively setting the stage for a future rooted in vitality, resilience, and shared prosperity.\n\nEcuadorian Andes Engagement:\nOur engagement in the Ecuadorian Andes spans over 100 acres, with a focus on ecovillage development, full-stack permaculture, and youth empowerment. Our Ecuadorian Resiliency Center supports civic engagement by bridging local wisdom with innovative sustainable practices. Our Applied Regenerative Sciences Initiative serves as a living testament to holistic regeneration, blending the ancient with the avant-garde. As we cultivate spaces like our research lab amidst flourishing permaculture gardens, we are sowing seeds for a future where science, spirituality, and sustainability converge.\nAs we continue our work, each bioregion we engage with becomes a model for regenerative solutions, demonstrating the transformative power of community-driven environmental stewardship. As we witness these amazing results, we are gearing up to expand to other territories primed and ready for a sane approach.\n\n### NUNA Algorithm: \nThe SANE Algorithm, known as NUNA, is central to our transformative approach. While still in development, its foundation is a dual-faceted engine designed to give a voice to nature and human wellness, while also assigning tangible value to natural capital assets and services.\n\nVoice of Nature and Human Wellness: NUNA, when fully realized, will be data-driven, open-sourced, and constantly evolving. It aims to integrate both qualitative and quantitative data, offering a comprehensive feedback mechanism. Drawing from decades of data collection from our bioregion in British Columbia, which has already been utilized in highly effective fire prediction models guiding strategy and preservation, NUNA's potential is immense. Unlike traditional economic systems that often neglect foundational assets like Ecosystems Health and Services, NUNA's design incorporates these alongside a Human Wellness Index. This promises an economy that values both tangible assets, such as the oxygen produced by an old-growth tree and intangible joys, like the happiness of children playing in a park.\n\nAssigning Monetary Value: The envisioned brilliance of NUNA lies in its potential to assign value to current conditions and then project values to future desired states. This differential between the present and the future is set to form the core of the SANEconomy. By reverse-engineering these proposed future conditions back to current states, we will assess the impact of our improvements, establishing a unique sector of proficiency within the SANEconomy framework. \n\n\nOur commitment to NUNA is steadfast, and the funds raised through this grant will significantly aid in its development and realization.\n\nProposals & Smart Contracts: Central to the SANEconomy is the concept of Proposals. These are envisioned future conditions that, with NUNA's assistance, are assigned a value. Proposals range from restoring degraded lands to rejuvenating public parks. Once a proposal is approved, a Smart Contract is generated, and SANE tokens, representing the value of the proposal, are minted. This approach ensures that the SANEconomy is rooted in real, tangible actions on the ground, driving regenerative activities.\n\nFrom Bioregional to Global: NUNA is designed to function initially at the bioregional scale, with processes replicable worldwide. Over time, its application can expand to national and global scales. By focusing on actionable projects and real activities, the SANEconomy offers a sustainable alternative to traditional economic systems based on debt and infinite growth.\n\nTechnical Backbone: NUNA is built using the Unreal Engine with ArcGIS plug-ins, ensuring robustness and scalability. It is open-source, inviting collective evolution and refinement. As a representation of our collective journey, NUNA aims to align choice-making, economic activities, and the human-nature interface towards a Sustainable, All-considerate, Numinous, and Evolutionary (S.A.N.E.) future.\n\n\n### Decentralized Finance: \n\nThe SANEconomy, powered by the $SANE token, is our blueprint for intertwining decentralized finance with ecological regeneration:\n\n1. Shared Success: Every $SANE holder is not just an investor but also a stakeholder in our regenerative journey. As we achieve milestones in bioregional projects, holders are rewarded, making them direct beneficiaries of on-ground progress.\n\n2. Stake for the Future: Beyond traditional staking, we offer a chance to invest in the very fabric of our planet. By staking in specific bioregions, you're not just securing a financial future, but also championing a vision of a world that is Sustainable, All-considerate, Numinous, and Evolutionary (aka SANE).\n\n3. Natural Capital Assets: As the SANEconomy matures, bioregions will launch their own tokens, each backed by their invaluable natural assets. This decentralizes financial power, directly linking the creation of value to the health and vitality of the planet.\n\nBy reimagining the economic reward system, we ensure that value is intrinsically tied to tangible, beneficial conditions on the ground. This approach not only decentralizes economic power, but also empowers communities to drive initiatives that resonate with their bioregional ethos.\n\n\n# Global Network for Regeneration: \n\nA New Dawn in Finance: At the heart of the SANEconomy is a commitment to reshape the very essence of finance. We are not just creating a token; we are crafting a new narrative whereby every transaction echoes with purpose, and every stakeholder becomes a guardian of our planet.\n\nBioregional Empowerment: Our approach begins locally, but thinks globally. By empowering individual bioregions, we are weaving a tapestry of interconnected hubs, each a beacon of sustainable practices and regenerative actions. This isn't just decentralization; it is a global symphony of ecological harmony.\n\nHarnessing the Sustainable Impact Market: The world is hungry for genuine, impactful change. The SANEconomy is poised to channel this demand, transforming latent capital into a force for global regeneration. Every stake in our system is an investment, as well as a commitment to a world where sustainability and shared prosperity thrive.\n\nBeyond Traditional Staking - A Pledge for Tomorrow: With our \"Stake for the Future\" initiative, we are inviting you to be more than just an investor. You become a visionary, pledging allegiance to a world where finance and ecology are inseparable allies.\n\nJoin the Evolution: As we lay the groundwork for this transformative economy, we invite you to be part of this journey. This is more than just a financial venture; it is a call to arms, a movement, a collective dream of a world where every transaction nurtures our planet.\n\n# Become a \"Saner\" & Get Involved: \n\nJoin the SANE Nation and actively contribute to a saner world. As a \"saner\", you can propose regenerative actions, get rewarded for your contributions, champion your bioregion's onboarding, and access the SANE App, which is being developed in partnership with ZERO (https://zero.tech) to bring a world-class encrypted communication, decentralized social media and DAO coordination experience to our contributors. In addition, \u201csaners\u201d will get to join exclusive community events, virtually and in SANE bioregions around the world. \n\n\n# Support Our Vision: \n\nBy supporting SANE in this GG18 CLIMATE Round, you are not just funding a project; you are championing a revolutionary approach to climate solutions, weaving the power of web3 with tangible, on-ground impact. Your contribution will catalyze our initiatives, drive GHG reduction, and set the stage for a new era of web3 climate solutions.\n\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "SANEfuture"}, "recipient": "0x5AdCCAc4f36B095fFb0AA8F43F59F39F52EE7FB3"}}