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Details: $191,000 from Gitcoin and Giveth, including contributions from Celo, Shell and Momus.eth (2020 to present). $17,400 from individual donations through our nonprofit. $3,200 from the Lush Re grant in 2021. $7,000 from Aragon for sponsoring our governance hackathon in 2017. $7,700 from the Threshold Foundation in 2018. .25 ETH ($800) from ENS Small Grants for public goods", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "11", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "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. We estimate the scale of this problem to reach over 100M people and $1T in potential community-owned revenue.\n\nThe solution: Local Action Rewards is a unique RPGF protocol that incentivizes real world communities to share their knowledge to finance their labor and scale bioregional innovation. It's coupled with our full-featured social network for mass mobilization, and a cooperative patronage token we want to release on Celo.", "hidden": true, "question": "Impact statement - what real world problem do you solve and how", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This onboards completely new web3 users to Celo as one of their first experiences. And it integrates Bloom with more detailed MRV tools on Celo such as Silvi for greater collective visibility and legibility. We are working on onboarding 3,000 users within the first 6 months of our Local Action Rewards, and scaling from there to onboard the rest of our 30,000 person real-world community and more. 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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.\u00a0[https://bloomnetwork.earth](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:**\u00a0Community-led economic development tends to be invisible to philanthropy and social impact investing, because it is inherently collaborative, multi-issue, and builds power laterally. We estimate the scale of this problem to reach over 100M people and $1T in potential community-owned revenue.\n\n**The solution: Local Action Rewards is a unique RPGF protocol that incentivizes real world 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# Cooperative Patronage Token on Celo on the Superchain\n\nThis builds on our existing Local Action Rewards protocol.\n\n\ud83c\udf38 How it works now:\n\n-   **Earn FLO (Flowers) / [X token]**:\u00a0Local Bloom members earn FLO by documenting the outcomes of their community actions.\n\n-  **Impact Reporting Interface:**\u00a0A user-friendly web2 UI allows rich image uploading and social networking features. 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\n-   **Grants Distribution**:\u00a0A verifier (increasingly local as we scale) reviews the report for completion and truthfulness. FLO is issued using\u00a0[Inverter Network's](https://www.inverter.network/)\u00a0bounties contracts. Grants are then distributed based on FLO earned, benefiting individuals and local treasuries.\u00a0[Details.](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/announcement-local-action-rewards-942c6454c17d)\n\nThe local treasury can be used to pay a stipend to community organizers, venue rental, farm equipment, or invest in a local business. It's up to each Local community to self-manage their treasury.\n\nGrants, as well as profits as the coop becomes profitable, are routed to the members on the ground who are doing the kinds of place-based labor that humanity needs to massively scale to mitigate climate impacts and solve common societal problems.\n\nIt's worth noting that we have already workshopped the legal side of our approach, with an all-female legal team, using the Colorado Limited Cooperative Association in tandem with a US-based 501(c)3, to reduce risk for existing real world communities who are new adopters of Web3.\n\nBenefits of this approach:\n\n- \ud83c\udfa1 **Kickstart flywheels for bioregional regenerative economies**, by issuing capital to communities that have limited access to any other means of obtaining it.\n\n- \ud83c\udf3f **De-risk philanthropic contributions**, by documenting the impact before payment is issued.\n\n- \ud83d\udcb8 **Low international remittance fees** via stablecoin payouts enable micro payments at scale on globally.\n\n-  \ud83d\udc40 **Makes the unpaid labor and innovation being done by communities all over the world visible, and fundable.**\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**GG21 Contribution Allocation:**\n\n- 90% to the Local Action Rewards pool.\n\n- 10% to platform development and training, including crypto education and development of V2 of our token on Celo on the Superchain.\n\nThis onboards completely new web3 users to Celo as one of their first experiences. We are working on onboarding 3,000 users within the first 6 months of our Local Action Rewards, and scale from there to onboard the rest of our 30,000 person real-world community and more. Read on for details on how we will increase transaction volume on Celo for real world economic well-being.\n\n# Phase 2: \n\nOur first funding round runs through September 30. Starting 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\nWe are now onboarding our real world community to Bloom's social network and Web3, automating impact report deployment to on-chain systems for grants interoperability, and beginning to research how to enhance FLO with community currency properties to support local business discovery and economic development, expanding local-first on-chain connectivity.\n\n![community-Currency-nodescrip.png](https://i.postimg.cc/cJY52P2q/community-Currency-nodescrip.png)\n\nThis mechanism allows locals to share our surplus and establish relationships with potential customers. If you're a techie, it helps you deepen your experience with people and projects working around you. This is being explored in relationship with other local-global networks such as Celo regional DAOs, ReFi DAO, and aligned Celo apps that have tokens such as Silvi, Local Bloom nodes with local reputation tokens.\n\n# Impact Since GG20\n\n[Milestone reporting on Karma GAP](https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/bloom-network/grants?tab=overview). Highlights:\n\n-   **Education:**\u00a0Prepared 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:**\u00a0Coded 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:**\u00a0Broadfield Enterprises Uganda\u00a0[obtained EU and US organic certifications](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/beu-organic-vanilla--376e25c4c1c1). Earthist planted another hemp field to\u00a0[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\u00a0[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:**\u00a0](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\u00a0**Experienced Team:**\u00a0Our platform team is 100% women-led with decades of experience in technology transformation.\n\n\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc69\u200d\ud83d\udc67\u200d\ud83d\udc66\u00a0**Community Builders:**\u00a0Local Bloom organizers have been building communities since 2008.\n\n\ud83c\udf3f\u00a0**Proven Impact:**\u00a0We excel in achieving local food and economic sovereignty and are now scaling what we know works, in relationship with Web3.\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)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "BloomNetwork", "projectTwitter": "ourbloomnetwork"}, "recipient": "0x5219ffb88175588510e9752A1ecaA3cd217ca783"}}