metadata: {"signature": "0xe38e2693e224d2368d27c51832d06586fe1c385f1ff72c453a413a0ba6a0ae9867b1aa566014d468ec1353f27bdfd011fdb57524888fc694d824f633903b1df61b", "application": {"round": "0x1b0caf40f491dce9c51e7e33d6e86112bb0bb91b", "answers": [{"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Research on grant program design and effectiveness", "Development of Web3 Grants tooling", "Experiments with innovative funding mechanisms", "Other"], "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project contribute to the advancement of the Web3 grants ecosystem?", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "See our grants listing for details. Our team members have also developed DAO Drops and taught on Gitcoin's Easy RPGF classes. Since 2011 we have been researching and inventing how to fund holistic grassroots community organizer labor. Now that Web3 UX is usable enough for highly non-technical people such as farmers, we have meshed our research on how to bootstrap bioregional economies, how to fund the people who seem to be impossible to fund right now, and on-chain bounties for an on-the-ground community-led Web3 grants approach.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your previous work or plans related to the Web3 grants ecosystem.", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We present a reputation token that can value the knowledge of primarily IRL leaders, which is important for the \"next billion\" adoption of Web3. Our project is a novel way to fund grassroots communities, that any DAO, protocol, or grants community can implement, contribute to, or interoperate with. Lastly it's a pathway to finance The Infinite Garden for real, using Web3 grants.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project create value for the Web3 grants ecosystem?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Magenta Ceiba is a co-founder of DAO Drops, an experiment in Web3 grants that uses on-chain data to ascertain who would be informed decision makers for grants allocation, as well as amazing UX that makes the grants process fun. https://daodrops.io She has also participated in and researched multi-stakeholder governance processes for funding distribution across movement coalitions, where grantees and funders together strategize around most effective use of the funds. The experience informs her contributions to Web3 grants. Lastly, she was a first beta tester for Giveth as well as their first marketing copywriter, alongside fellow Bloom co-founder Danibelle Gennety of Giveth and a Local Bloom hub in Costa Rica. Danibelle has decades of experience with community fund allocation and general decision-making and conflict resolution, as well as decades of experience in traditional philanthropy via working for the Gates Foundation. 12 co-founders of Bloom Network developed a global decentralized governance model that is designed to be resilient against power abuse. Our Web3 grants model is engineered to power that governance model and maintain place-based wise governance by real communities. Together, along with members of dOrg, we have discussed using algorithmic governance and on-chain data to assist with forming governing bodies representing diverse knowledge and diverse affected stakeholder. Down the road we'll likely use something like Hats Protocol to run that. Lastly, we worked with an all-female legal team at Jason Weiner for two years to encode our governance model into a federated cooperative/DAO as a Colorado Limited Cooperative Association. It was the only way we found for the network infrastructure to truly be internationally owned, and for the token part of our grants system to be legally above board across borders.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your team's expertise in your chosen focus area within Web3 grants. Include relevant experience, publications, or past projects.", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We will publish a report after our first grant round (on now) ends, September 30. It will summarize findings and metrics as outlined in our grant listing, as well as recommendations for Round 2 and for other network states or grants communities who are interested in using a similar approach.", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you plan to share insights, methodologies, or tools developed through your project with the Cartographer Syndicate and the broader Web3 grants community?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We haven't directly deployed contracts ourselves, but we are using Inverter Network's bounties module: https://github.com/InverterNetwork/", "hidden": true, "question": "List any contract addresses with the associated network(s), EOAs, or deployer addresses your project has deployed.", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We've received approximately $20,000 USD equivalent from Momus.eth and Gitcoin Grants that we used for the legal development to make sure the token part of our Web3 grants didn't put our IRL communities at risk. $7,000 from Aragon for sponsoring our governance hackathon in 2017. The remainder of the total $212,000 funds we've raised since 2008 have been used to develop the platform, pay Local organizers to document their knowledge and consult on cross-cultural design, and to obtain our tax exemption for our grants.", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you received any previous grants or support for your work in Web3 grants? If so, please provide details and estimated funding amounts.", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Please confirm that you have read and agree to comply with the ethical standards outlined in the eligibility criteria, including Gitcoin's Quid Pro Quo policy (https://support.gitcoin.co/gitcoin-knowledge-base/gitcoin-grants/general-questions/what-is-our-quid-pro-quo-policy)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Do you have any potential conflicts of interest to disclose? If yes, please provide details.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project or team that wasn't covered in the previous questions?", "questionId": 9}], "project": {"id": "0xefceb00c3f7c0c92856bf2334815c9fb93e286b02617a42cdac8e1fa18b80ee5", "title": "Bloom Network Local Action Rewards", "logoImg": "bafkreibv3lprnbxlmitis265ktp25lhfxqogstqemnnlrximdnhzbikdxq", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiajdncyuolt5esbqavlhjrmpvs5rkqau23ilanjryzerqmigcye3u", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://bloomnetwork.earth", "bannerImg": "bafybeiat2pfhmhzcaythve6gh6cddh5og6uipv3uxrgwrb7ht6w3gjfyde", "createdAt": 1722992830235, "userGithub": "magentaceiba", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..rMptwT8TBWJe8MqfWrMcwRKiBhi5eJmwIZftfLdgirrHmKU3WE8spG715bXNH49BqRg0NGpPFP6UE4wV36FXDQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-07T00:28:15.604Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-07T00:28:15.603Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-05T00:28:15.603Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x5219ffb88175588510e9752A1ecaA3cd217ca783", "hash": "v0.0.0:a3bWS40cdiFeFLP5m+dxMR8QjFETXt5aa16VXfBXsp4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#OurBloomNetwork"}}}, "description": "Bloom helps more people participate in local grassroots climate action through a feature-rich social network that helps on-the-ground actors share knowledge and incubate their projects. Governed as a federated DAO of Local Bloom nodes, we've built communities around the world since 2008, through regional food security, Indigenous solidarity, and alternative economies. https://bloomnetwork.earth.\n\n\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffd We are 33 Local Bloom hubs across 11 countries, and 30,000+ people on the ground. We've jumpstarted over 7,000 local urban and agroecology farms worldwide, 400+ community enterprises, and built permanent foundations for regenerative cultures. Our members have deep knowledge of how to achieve climate adaptation and watershed restoration, with decades of experience building local economies.\n\n**The problem:** Community-led economic development tends to be invisible to philanthropy and social impact investing, because it is inherently collaborative, multi-issue, and builds power laterally.\n\n**The solution: Local Action Rewards is a unique RPGF protocol that incentivizes communities to share their knowledge to finance their labor and scale bioregional innovation.**\n\n[![5.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/xjw3tw9R/5.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/V5FtNHrr)\n\n*pictured: Broadfield Enterprises, Uganda, food security and African economic sovereignty*\n\n# Local Action Rewards\n\n\ud83c\udf38 How It Works:\n\nLocal Bloom hubs and their members earn FLO (Flowers), our cooperative patronage token, by documenting the outcomes of their regenerative actions on a platform they collectively own and govern. This incentivizes IRL impactooors to share their knowledge and learn how to use Web3 tools. The public can easily read about the actions, allowing peers to learn and improve their own impact. Our social network, combining features of LinkedIn, Facebook, and Discord, supports effective mobilization around what is working well for climate adaptation and repair.\n\nEach report is verified by at first our global grants team, and gradually more locally. FLO is then issued using Inverter Network's smart contracts.  **Bloom's grants pool, in stablecoin, is dispersed based on FLO earned in that period.** [Read more details](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/announcement-local-action-rewards-942c6454c17d).\n\nBenefits of this approach:\n\n- **Kickstart flywheels for bioregional regenerative economies**, by issuing capital to communities that have limited access to any other means of obtaining it.\n\n- **De-risk philanthropic contributions**, by documenting the impact before payment is issued.\n\n- **Low international remittance fees** via stablecoin payouts enable micro payments at scale on globally.\n\n- **Makes the unpaid labor being done by communities all over the world visible, and fundable.**\n\nLocal Action Rewards do not rely on popularity contest dynamics, or who has the largest marketing and outreach budget. Instead of one-time sale ecocredits, Bloomers' impact reports can be used to receive rewards from multiple ecosystems that are offering payment for real world impact. **The purpose is to route as much capital as possible into the hands of the people and communities doing the most highly scalable, cost-effective work to stabilize our climate and remedy common social problems.**\n\n[Whitepaper summarizing our 16 years of global R&D.](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZFoS7EHlmPfnAKAOHdbK0FTHBMSrItO/view?usp=sharing) It outlines how the cooperative patronage token can be used for token-weighted voting in local DAO treasuries (as a measure of true investment and knowledge in local regeneration), and detailing impact reporting data interoperability for grants and investment decisions.\n\nFLO can be used by other protocols as an on-chain marker of knowledge and experience in on-the-ground regenerative solutions, hopefully bringing more real world first wisdom keepers into the leadership structures of Web3.\u00a0\n\nStarting with our second grants round, we are adding a second pool specifically for Indigenous-led regenerative actions, to address the fact that less than 1% of climate-related aid goes directly to Indigenous organizations, despite Indigenous communities stewarding 80% of the biodiversity on planet Earth.\n\n**GG21 Contribution Allocation:**\n\n- 90% to the Local Action Rewards pool.\n\n- 10% to platform development and training, including crypto education, integrating a small wallet directly into our app so the impact report and FLO bounty claim are converged into one step.\n\nWe will deliver a report after our grant round ends September 30, with metrics such as new Web3 wallets created, amount of FLO issued, # of impact reports written and verified, # of members who joined, funds distributed, qualitative feedback from members, normalization formula utilized, and recommendations for round 2.\n\n# What Now\n\n\ud83c\udfa1 We are exploring ways to add community currency properties to FLO to support local business discovery, further utilizing [Inverter Network's](https://inverter.network) smart contracts.\n\nFor example, say I live in the Lisbon area. I have 300 FLO / [X network token] from helping plant a local food forest, or mentoring a local farmer in business skills. I can see offers from near me that I can receive in exchange for the token. I learn about local businesses near me who are values-aligned with this network. Perhaps the dividend goes to the person who accepted the FLO. Our next development is about researching this.\n\n[![community-Currency-nodescrip.png](https://i.postimg.cc/cJY52P2q/community-Currency-nodescrip.png)](https://postimg.cc/1gmHN7yM)\n\n# Goal\n\n**Sponsors for the rewards pool are welcome. Our community could easily put $100M to effective use on proven local projects that are ready to scale, securing foodways and restoring watersheds for climate resilience.**\n\n# Impact Since GG20\n\n[Milestone reporting on Karma GAP](https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/bloom-network/grants?tab=milestones-and-updates&grantId=0x4dec8c494dabd77b1712b4ce66cca5a0db244ef6d7462dc843a28282c61f012c). Highlights:\n\n-   **Education:** Prepared educational materials and began onboarding our 30,000-person community onto Web3 via Bloom Network. Developed a Needs Assessment survey to help Local Bloom nodes write grants.\n\n-   **Impact Reporting Interoperability:** Coded an API to pull impact reports from Bloom Network into Karma GAP, aiding Local Bloom projects in securing additional funding.\n\n-   **Local Blooms' Impact:** Broadfield Enterprises Uganda [obtained EU and US organic certifications](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/beu-organic-vanilla--376e25c4c1c1). Earthist planted another hemp field to [build community collaboration, enrich soil and biodiversity](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/kendir-hemp-plantation--a-8b80c8354447). Diamante Bridge Collective deepened relationships with Boruca matriarch-led restoration efforts and transformational conferences in Costa Rica. They received their Precious Plastics Shredder to form [waste into usable materials](https://giveth.io/project/recenter-the-resource-recycling-center-san-salvador-0?tab=updates).\n\n-   **[Three new Bloom nodes joined:** ](https://bloomnetwork.earth/engage/localBlooms)\u00a0Cooperativa Los Higuerones in Costa Rica, Northeastern US Bio-Economy Alliance, and Permatours.\n\n-   **[Platform Enhancements](https://medium.com/@bloomnetwork/bloom-network-major-release-13-july-2024-e3afa0cf4f2c)**:: Customized Inverter Network's bounties app, added Global/Local toggle for social media timeline, integrated a Discord clone including dm's, introduced event listings, and launched \"Digs\" (Bloom's version of likes).\n\n[![GG20.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/Z5pN0n3t/GG20.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/w1xMG600)\n\n*pictured: Ogallala Life, Texas, aquifer restoration. Rifai Sicilia, moringa agroforestry and web3 onboarding*\n\n# Why Bloom?\n\n\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\ude80 Our platform team is 100% women-led, with decades of experience leading technology transformation!\n\n\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc67\u200d\ud83d\udc66 Local Bloom Organizers have been building communities together since 2008!\n\n\ud83c\udf3f Bloom Network excels at achieving local food and economic sovereignty. Combined with Web3, we are rapidly scaling low-cost, proven solutions with low international remittance fees for mass mobilization.\n\nWe welcome you to contribute to this grants mechanism to support the profound work being done by Local Bloom hubs all over the world! \u2764\ufe0f\n\n[Roadmap](https://drive.google.com/file/d/17dfUA0mtyOlDQcoowi5Ekd91Nrq39ZQh/view?usp=drive_link)\n\n[![northbay.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/g2CfqSnL/northbay.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/68hjBhVB)\n\n*IntegriTea Cafe and community center, Vallejo*", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Bloom Network", "projectTwitter": "ourbloomnetwork"}, "recipient": "0x5219ffb88175588510e9752A1ecaA3cd217ca783"}}