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This enables Celo builders to access mentors, public goods funding, and other builders from the wider EVM community.\n\n- **Though we are builders of internet technology, there is no substitute for the bonds forged through real-world connections.** Based on preliminary results from our first public goods builders residency, we believe that we have a strong collaborative peer production model for open-source public goods, through fostering peer collaboration. This is amplified by curating a community of particularly collaborative and mutually supportive builders and by curating a highly conducive environment for collaboration to occur, from the venue selection to the available activities to the dietary selection, all optimized for happy, healthy, harmonious builders.\n\n- **Our residencies and pilots integrate grassroots NGOs and social entrepreneurs addressing real-world problems** in the specific context of the region that they take place in. By exposing builders to these real-world problems and facilitating conversations between builders, activists, social entrepreneurs, and local NGOs, we are exposing builders to potential real-world applications of web3 and giving those same builders direct opportunities to build relationships with organizations solving real-world problems at the last mile\u2014exactly the territory where the Celo blockchain is purpose-built to excel.\n\n- **In Chiang Mai this year, we will run a pilot alongside our builder residency.** The pilot specifically addresses the plight of Burmese refugees fleeing war across the border and integrates various grassroots NGOs that work directly with Burmese refugees, who are often stateless persons (i.e., are not citizens of their native nation-state and therefore do not hold a passport) and thus unable to attain basic access to financial services through conventional channels. Celo builders will have the opportunity to interface directly with these grassroots NGOs, whom we\u2019ve been able to bring in through our partners, who have trusted and longstanding relationships with these local organizations.\n\n- [Video - recap from 2023 Berlin residency](https://youtu.be/NXrqTm9UBZI)\n- [Video - What is a Funding the Commons Residency](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ToX5EbFLE8&t=9s)\n\n- **Other key facts about the 2023 Berlin Residency:**\n    - 40 builders participated\n    - 15 sponsors/mentors\n    - We can proudly say that one of the projects incubated during the residency and given its first grant by Funding the Commons post-residency has allowed our community member to receive the ETH Next Billion Fellow Award\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Impact statement - what real world problem do you solve and how", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- **In our [Berlin public goods builder residency](https://youtu.be/NXrqTm9UBZI), we hosted a number of Celo builders,** including Gainforest, impactMarket, Good Dollar, and others. These builders were able to connect and forge bonds with other builders in the EVM ecosystem, as well as receive support, mentorship, and, in some cases, public goods funding from web3 foundations that supported the builder residency. Celo founder Ren\u00e9 Reinsberg spent time at the Berlin residency, where we facilitated mutually beneficial connections. Celo also offered their Berlin office space to our residents, which forged solid connections between our builders and the Celo ecosystem. Additionally, there were live activations with Celo products, such as sending funds via phone numbers on Valora wallet and learning how to build/deploy on Celo. One of the tangible outcomes of the builder residency was the deployment of the [Hypercerts](https://www.notion.so/GG21-Real-World-Builders-f363b5c9b7ab4acca8d52f80882440cc?pvs=21) protocol on the Celo mainnet. Funding the Commons helped facilitate this deployment through conversations with Celo builders on-site and Berlin-based builders from the Hypercerts team. The residency also introduced one of our builders to the Celo ecosystem (Sophia Dew), which later led to her stepping into a role as Celo developer relations engineering lead. It was the first time I heard about Celo, and then it was so clear that all the goals that FTC has with democratizing access to capital were the goals of Celo and actively being worked on by the Celo ecosystem projects.\n\n- **Funding the Commons CEO David Casey is a Celo Scout** and has funneled over 10 founders and projects into the Celo ecosystem to date, often giving these builders personal time and attention to secure ecosystem funding.\n\n- **We are currently coordinating with Celo developer relations engineering lead [Sophia Dew](https://www.fundingthecommons.io/residencies)** to have a similarly strong presence of Celo builders at our upcoming Chiang Mai residency this November. We have already confirmed two prominent builders in the Celo ecosystem and have more confirmations on the way.\n\n- **We are producing professional-quality short videos highlighting public goods builders** and distributing those videos through our partner networks. Receiving funding from the Real World Builders campaign will enable us to highlight real-world builders in the Celo ecosystem, such as David Dao and Marco Barbosa.\n\n- **Celo builders will have the opportunity to present their projects on stage during a builder demo day at Funding the Commons Bangkok,** where we anticipate 700+ attendees from the broader Ethereum community, as well as the international humanitarian sector, and the SEA public sector. [See Funding the Commons Berlin residency update for our builders at the FtC Berlin Conference in 2023.](https://youtu.be/BJTGP_JqZl8?si=FpbDtZRKiGTMDshH)\n\n- **We are also working with Talent Protocol to create a custom sponsorship package** that allows builders in need of a travel stipend to attend the residency, thereby diversifying the talent pool and being able to extend invitations to groups like UNICEF Office of Innovation and some of the projects they are incubating in SEA.\n\n- **We continuously platform and collaborate with Celo for event programming.** For example, at the Berlin 2023 conference, we were graciously given the Celo office for our Workshop Stage and hosted a popular Fireside Chat between David and Rene Reinsberg.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "Celo leverage - how does your project contributed to the Celo ecosystem?", "questionId": 4}], "project": {"id": "0x158ab8951774976a766c75367cc2995b796300ebb2212b4b8cf8ef9f2ffbd9a2", "title": "Funding the Commons", "logoImg": "bafkreicnmrxqztrcnhkbfz2z7kaefbj3nkufgon2nucoi3rh345c7tjgie", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreidqkgp77rbkxem54p6obkr44d3dxb5hjtbue4rwsboi6w6dudh3iu", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://fundingthecommons.io/", "bannerImg": "bafkreifvwiwdyoysluosbclqzs7mnqnhgjgoytl6hyylys5skaxrrhzpfi", "createdAt": 1699376462734, "userGithub": "davidacasey", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..zK9h17UnIDoROGSLzBSBBZTnyyn48Fr5MrKQSY555kB1_Ox_eYsWIG51qJeGxPuKSZ-fU4_P--1Kp-G_jra6Ag", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-07T16:58:44.472Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-07T16:58:44.472Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-05T16:58:44.472Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x576edCed7475D8F64a5e2D5227c93Ca57d7f5d20", "hash": "v0.0.0:FNQFRLDgB8do9280TgD0X92Dx7MqM4wlh12Sae049pA=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#fundingthecommons#10065319"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..TZZM6pW6sLzDdgdEBk4Oodw1WbfFJ858wn5H2pT9LVKVOB8AEZmPwJhKlRPRjgYx85ZK_kOl85BOnMbfGLHVDg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-11-07T16:58:19.656Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-11-07T16:58:19.656Z", "expirationDate": "2024-02-05T16:58:19.656Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x576edCed7475D8F64a5e2D5227c93Ca57d7f5d20", "hash": "v0.0.0:X7k3yGIb71xKLLToM1zyN1j24J+e2MH0m9PnQE5+npo=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#FundingCommons"}}}, "description": "Funding the Commons (FtC) originated as an event series aiming to cultivate a public goods community spanning across the spectrum, including Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, government, and industry. \n\nIts primary focus is the fostering of innovative public goods funding mechanisms. 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