🎉GG21 Rounds Announced 🎉
We are thrilled to welcome ThankARB & Celo Public Goods as our two Ecosystem Rounds for #GG21. Ecosystem Rounds are managed, run and funded by trusted partners of Gitcoin. These are large, established ecosystems and protocols in the web3 space. In addition, we are excited to welcome 9 accepted Community Rounds into GG21! Each community wishing to participate were reviewed by the GG Community Council. Thank you to all the communities that applied and our dedicated council members.
Community Rounds participating in GG21:
→ Web3 Grants Ecosystem Advancement Round
→ Climate Solutions Round
→ Asia Round
→ Regen Coordi-NATION
→ Token Engineering The Superchain
→ OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round
→ DeSci QF GG21
→ Decentralized Science and Art in Psychedelics
→ CollabTech Round and Thresholds Experiment
Check out the announcement post, and their matching fund allocations: <gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-community-rounds-announced/19168…>
What](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-community-rounds-announced/19168…What)*[hat](https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg21-community-rounds-announced/19168…What)) are Ecosystem Rounds? What are Community Rounds? When is our OSS Program running again? Get up to speed on the GG 2024 Strategy: <gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-grants-2024-strategy>
🎉📆 COMING SOON 🎉📆
Mark your calendars for #GG21! Be on the lookout for more details to follow in the coming weeks
🌟DeSci Round Highlights
💚 Most liked in community round proposals
💸 $650K+ raised in three rounds
🌐 First round in English, Chinese, and Spanish
🔗 Deep dive and mint your NFT now. Proceeds go to the matching pool 👇<gitcoin.mirror.xyz/Gxx9Ne8c-TdeIQ9d84CFt78rnvFfWSikY3gNKia9oAQ>
Attention please, Our beloved CoachJ has a very important message to share with you regarding EthCC 2024 !!
🙌🏼 Everything GRANTSSS in 1 room! You will learn exactly what it takes to launch and grow a grants program ‼️
We have spent years collecting THE best practices and innovative approaches in grant-making, and are hyped to share them with you at our event.
Leave with actionable insights related to 👇
💲scoping and budgeting for a grants program 🤝 defining roles and responsibilities and governance tools involved
🗣️ coordination and comms between funders, operators and grantees
📈 measuring results and impact
Go check out our blog post for more detailed information on everything Grants Program Event 🔍
2️⃣ Get your hands on one of our books 📖, which we will be handing out to attendees at our Blank Canvas event at /EthCC Spots are filling up so get your hands on the tix 🫵🏼
📌 The top 3 reasons why you don’t want to miss our Grants Canvas Event @EthCC 🙋
1️⃣ You get to mingle with THE grants thought leaders 👥 Anything you ever wondered about grants programs? You have all the 🧠 in the room to answer your questions.
These are our headline and breakout session speakers (also called the GRANTS ARMY ⚔️) ➡️
Looking Ahead: 🌱
➡Continuous improvement and innovation as we move forward to GG21 and GG22. ➡Commitment to a resilient, inclusive, and impactful grants program.
Operations: 🤖
➡Decentralized review processes with "Team Tiger".
➡Introduced AI tool "Checker" for transparency.
➡Plans to refine the review process and expedite payouts.
Donor Experience: 💸
➡ Enhanced user experience on Arbitrum
➡ Despite fewer donors, overall crowdfunding increased by $27K.](https://hey.xyz/search?q=%2427K\&src=link_click\&type=pubs).)
➡ Future plans: focus on retaining first-time donors and simplifying the donation process.