Polygon Village - Janine + Abhishek McFarland

  • Grantees currently dissatisfied with the shift to vouchers
  • Most successful voucher usage is for Marketing
  • Tracking Impact - tracking reapplicants and what they have done since then, communications team is following up with previous cycles and what they have done
  • 30 people working on the Polygon Village team → works on 4 things: job board (talent referral), grants, marketing sector, Polygon wonders - accelerator and incubator
    • Rolling voucher application - click services they need but right now more spray and pray
      • Taking more time on their end
    • Grant Application - monthly 200 grantees
      • Capping at 2 recurring rounds. Up to $15K in grant + up to $20K in vouchers but now average
      • Questbook is something they are using for receiving applications
  • seeing a strong request from Developers to collaborate. Can we create gated channels to put up jobs or get help from others working on similar problems. Can we set up calls like the proposal from Gary for builders to connect.

Polygon Village - Janine + Abhishek McFarland

  • Grantees currently dissatisfied with the shift to vouchers
  • Most successful voucher usage is for Marketing
  • Tracking Impact - tracking reapplicants and what they have done since then, communications team is following up with previous cycles and what they have done
  • 30 people working on the Polygon Village team → works on 4 things: job board (talent referral), grants, marketing sector, Polygon wonders - accelerator and incubator
    • Rolling voucher application - click services they need but right now more spray and pray
      • Taking more time on their end
    • Grant Application - monthly 200 grantees
      • Capping at 2 recurring rounds. Up to $15K in grant + up to $20K in vouchers but now average
      • Questbook is something they are using for receiving applications
  • seeing a strong request from Developers to collaborate. Can we create gated channels to put up jobs or get help from others working on similar problems. Can we set up calls like the proposal from Gary for builders to connect.