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Voluntary and Open Membership; Cooperatives are voluntary organisations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial, political or religious discrimination.\" we help bring some more of that to web3\n- The audience of coops is different from web3 and arguably more diverse (gender balance, social classes, political views...) we help bring some more of that to web3\n- By promoting (and practicing) tools such as sociocracy, microsolidarity, non-violent communication, etc. we want to make people more aware of DEI, and even more importantly, give them the skills to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in their contexts", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project fit into the Community & Education round eligibility criteria? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is our first grants round.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "A small donation and a tweet help us a lot!\nThank you for checking out our grant \ud83d\udc9a\nIf there's anything we can do for you, please send us a DM at: [https://twitter.com/IMPACTOPIAearth/](https://twitter.com/IMPACTOPIAearth/)", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? 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Our goal is to find synergies between the models, and mend partnerships. We want to live in a world where human and planetary well-being are prioritized over profit maximization.\n\n*Our north star*: organizing a **three-day in-person event** in Brussels where cooperators, DAO workers, commoners, and their sympathizers can mingle, learn from each other, and follow workshops. This can be the start of a **growing network of relations** between two surprisingly similar worlds that, to date, barely interact with each other.\n\n> Impactopia: A place (topia) where regenerative projects are nurtured and collaboration is celebrated.\n\n# What have we done so far?\n\n*July 2022:* The idea was born during a lunch, inspired by an iconic vacancy in the center of Brussels (see below) (https://twitter.com/daobrussels/status/1543231109210800128)\n\n*December 2022:* The idea becomes a plan, and the team begins forming. It is also the start of a long learning journey into the problem space. (Like our audience, some of us have more experience with coops than DAOs, and vice versa.)\n\n*January 2023:* In parallel, we set up our back office in Notion and we start applying sociocracy. We find it important to make decisions together, to care for each other, and to be welcoming to volunteers.\n\n*February 2023:* With our newfound experience (and teammates) we start working on a podcast to inform people about the similarities of DAOs and coops, and reel them in around our cause: bridging the world between DAOs and cooperatives\u2026\n\n*March 2023:* Our first episode launches! Sarah De Heusch, from the cooperative world, and Xavier Damman, from the Silicon Valley and DAO worlds, bring listeners up to speed about coops and DAOs and find synergies between the systems during their conversation.\n- You can listen to a 6-minute excerpt here: [https://youtu.be/puf0korZwPU](https://youtu.be/puf0korZwPU)\n- You can listen to the full episode here: [https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vJ9LGvF2QL0DLcyMlvZJ5?si=449e4e4f09464cd9](https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vJ9LGvF2QL0DLcyMlvZJ5?si=449e4e4f09464cd9) or [https://youtu.be/gYGF4Z9MBrw](https://youtu.be/gYGF4Z9MBrw)\n\nAll of the above was done with zero funding.\n\n# Where are we going?\n\nIn the coming months, we want to release several more **podcast episodes** that explore the perspectives of cooperatives and DAOs. Some of the themes we have in mind are social impact, community land trusts, DeFi, and credit unions.\n\nThe podcast is part of a wider plan to help people \u201cdiscover the other side.\" *If you are a DAO worker, you may not know that cooperatives have a long history of several centuries, are firmly rooted in many jurisdictions, and (usually) have sustainable business models while their members retain full ownership and democratic control. If you are a cooperator, terms like \u201cblockchain technology\u201d, \u201cweb3\u201d, \u201cDAOs\u201d, etc. may stun you, which means that you might miss out on rapid innovation, avenues for digitizing your cooperative, incredibly bright technical talent, and allies. On top of that, there exists an entire body of knowledge and practices that we want to make more available to contributors of both cooperatives and DAOs. Examples include Ostrom\u2019s principles, liberating structures, sociocracy, microsolidarity, non-violent communication, etc. We believe this will enable more people to \u201cwalk the talk\u201d of self-organized, member-owned, member-controlled, and, above all, caring organizations.*\n\nWe want to inform a wide audience and bring interested parties together in online spaces for mutual learning and networking. **This all leads us to our north star\u2026**\n\n# Impactopia - the event\n\nWe will organize a three-day event in September in Brussels, with up to 500 participants per day. Our location of choice is the former money printing facility of the National Bank of Belgium, which is now a temporary occupation. Together with our partners, we will co-create a pop-up town square (solarpunk style), optimized for conversation, serendipity, and mutual learning. Keynotes will be limited in favor of smaller parallel workshops with experts and facilitators.\n\n![The former money printing facility of the National Bank of Belgium](https://www.notion.so/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2Fa62de10e-54cc-4779-b149-ee5a7aefe17b%2FUntitled.png?id=d8aa65f9-4d83-4cdd-9a52-594605a51086&table=block)\n\n# Rough Estimates\n\nThe estimated cost for hosting 500 people per day, for three days is 250 000 EUR, which covers the following expenses:\n\n- 40 000 EUR for the venue\n- 75 000 EUR main logistics\n- 30 000 EUR secondary logistics (food court, co-working, 5G, rooms e.g. for resting, meditation, cinema\u2026)\n- 35 000 EUR promotion & communication\n- 50 000 EUR event management\n- 10% risk management\n\nWe will fund the event through a combination of grants, partnerships and ticket sales. We want to keep ticket prices low so a diverse audience can attend.\n\nWe will put the proceeds of this grant towards the deposit, to lock in the venue and dates. Then we will concentrate on improving the release schedule and production quality of our podcast and website.\n\n# Now what?\n\nIf you like to see more collaboration and mutual learning between DAOs and cooperatives, please donate to this grant. If you\u2019re feeling extra generous, let us know on Twitter too! We appreciate all your support, and even a small amount can make a huge difference! (QF \ud83d\ude0e)\n\nThank you!\n~ Kelly, Sinouh\u00e9, Sarah, Pia, William and Bruno\n\nP.S. We\u2019ve made some tweet templates that you can use to support us: [https://impactopia.earth/gitcoin](https://impactopia.earth/gitcoin)\n\nP.P.S. If you are part of an organization that could benefit from this event, we\u2019d like to hear your story! Please send us a DM on Twitter: [https://twitter.com/IMPACTOPIAearth](https://twitter.com/IMPACTOPIAearth)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "IMPACTOPIAearth"}, "recipient": "0xf1A086CbC85bB971Cda2dd5959Be64e7E8133D7B"}}