PG Workstream Overview
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Mission
Gitcoin is fundamentally focused on building and funding digital public goods. We want to create a society that values creators and replaces corporatized infrastructure with sustainable, open, digital tools and spaces (the metaverse should not be owned by a single company).
Mainly, Gitcoin has focused on achieving this through Gitcoin Grants, a platform that leverages quadratic funding to help communities (like Ethereum) signal what kinds of public goods they care about and in the process get creators sustainable funding to continue their work.
Gitcoin Grants rounds take place on a quarterly cadence, where we try to rally the energy of the community collectively, while the remaining time goes into learning from what went well, what didn’t, and how we can get even more funding to more public goods projects the next time around.
Workstream Objective
The goal of the public goods funding workstream is to help push the mission above forward by increasing interest in public goods at large, and specifically increasing the usage of Gitcoin Grants, both in its current centralized form (cGrants) and as an eventual decentralized protocol (dGrants).
In this context there are three main groups of stakeholders:
- Individual contributors / donors
- Grantees (these could be infrastructure projects, community publications, and more)
- Organizations that want to fund the matching pool (the pool that matches individual donations)
Fundamentally, we want to make sure each of these groups truly feel the impact of what they’re doing and get what they need to keep pushing the broader mission forward.
With that in mind, the public goods funding workstream is tracking the following KPIs:
Total $ of matching funds raised (regardless of round)
Total # unique individual contributions per project per round (larger % of projects meeting their needs)
Total # of grantees (new and returning) that continue to thrive post-funding
Workstream Roles
The public library has been an amazing space for discussion around the moral case for public goods funding, how we might build new organizations (including the DAO itself) to help structure this work, and more. Over the last few calls we’ve agreed on a few core priorities that can help us reach our KPIs...
1. Librarian + Research Coordinator 📖
Our hope is that this creates a virtuous cycle where we have more people interested in taking direct action, and bringing in new funders and grantees.
Responsibilities:
- help foster great discussions on a weekly basis (at least one per month)
- find ways to bring in new high quality writers and advocates, (bringing in 2-3 speakers/writers per quarter) and
- build thought leadership around public goods in the ecosystem at large (e.g. through RFPs, a shared Mirror publication, or otherwise).
Expected Hours per Week: 3-5 hours Number Required: 4-5
P.S. if you would like to become a librarian, please check out:
2. Public Goods Gardener🌳
Our hope is that this creates a virtuous cycle where we have more people interested in taking direct action, and bringing in new funders and grantees.
Responsibilities:
- helping prospective grantees get started, and
- making sure they’re taking the right steps to get the word out there about their project to give them the best shot at funding.
- Gardeners will also likely be the first people to spot where a category might be “missing” or where more support and care is needed.
Expected Hours per Week: 4-5 hours per week (increases during rounds) Number Required: 2
P.S. if you would like to become a gardener, please check out:
3. Fundraising Champion 💸
Responsibility:
- build a community of funders, and eventually build a meta-funding org for the 21st centuryTM.
- rallying more matching partners from both inside and outside web3, so that we can feel comfortable increasing the kinds of categories we want to push forward,
- helping to make the materials necessary to make a strong case for public goods, and increasingly it will mean jamming with DAO leaders across the ecosystem.
Expected Hours per Week: 5-6 hours per week (increases during rounds) Number Required: 4
P.S. if you would like to become a champion, please check out:
The current CRM for fundraising can be found here:
https://gitcoin.notion.site/gitcoin/Side-Round-CRM-dd8f60ddc0ae473cbe9dfb768d79371c
4. Treasury Keeper 💳
This work will inform the work of champions and require a strong degree of ecosystem context and organization capacity.
Keepers are responsible for helping to ensure the treasury is:
- managed responsibly and within the guidelines set out by governance.
- Keepers will eventually help set frameworks for treasury interactions (e.g. token swaps) with projects alongside champions.
Expected Hours per Week: 10-15 hours per week Number Required: 2
P.S. if you would like to become a keeper, please check out:
5. It’s All Coordinators
Responsibilities:
- streamlining operations within each activity
- streamlining operations across entire workstream
- onboarding and developing contributors to this workstream
- cross-workstream coordination
Expected Hours per Week: 30+ hours per week Number Required: 2
P.S. if you would like to become a coordinator please email linh@gitcoin.co
6. Workstream Strategist
Responsibilities:
- guiding individual activities to help meet the workstream’s objectives
- scoping work with the workstream’s coordinators
- playing an advisory role for the workstream
Expected Hours per Week: ad-hoc project-based consulting activity
P.S. if you would like to become a librarian, please check out