General Grants Structure
This document identifies the general structure for grants that the IMN project will apply for in collaboration with other guilds and projects within bDAO
The biggest value prop of the IMN project is a multi-lingual reach of 20000 audience members in 15+ languages. The IMN project has proven to be good at broadcasting/replicateíng content produced originally in English to its audience as well as creating its own content.
In the context of collaboration, it's best to look at grants as a collaborative exercise for the whole DAO. Through this lens, there are two key functions that need to work in unison.
- Content production: produce articles and podcasts in English to educate the general audience
- Translate: Distribute the original through bDAO newsletters as well as translated content through IMN newsletters
- Distribution : Distribute the content produced or translated through IMN media channels. This can be included in both Content Production type or Translation type of grants.
Standard costs:
- Cost for producing 1 written article of 1500 words and sharing it on medium/newsletter/other media: 1500USD
- Cost of producing 1 podcast (45 min) and making it available for general consumption via Crypto Sapiens: 1500 USD/show
- Translation is $0,15 per word. $0,1 for translator and $0,5 for reviewer.
- Distribution :
// // and distribute 1 written article of max. 1500 words in other languages via IMN newsletters: 400 USD per language
How to Apply for Grants:
- Find a grant on IMN Grants Board
- You can find relevant links and comments by the grants lead in the tasks.
- Navigate to the platform URL
- Read about the platform to get a feel for how IMN and our services may overlap or align with the needs of the grant provider’s platform
- Navigate to the grants page for the platform
- Review grant requirements and criteria
- Find the discord page for the platform or grant arm of the platform and join; find any potential grants related channels and look for additional information
- At this point you will be able to to determine if it’s a fit or not
- The primary piece that you need to look for however, is the grant deadlines or grant seasons (Q1, Q2 etc)
- If the grant is out of season or opens at a later date, please add the dates to the grant task in the board.
- Now you can start a draft for the proposal and use the past applications to fill out the parts of your draft that are already answered in the older applications. Past applications can be found in the DONE section of the board.
- Start sharing your draft in the grants channel and weekly grants meetings to get feed back.
- When the grants team has consensus on that the grant is ready, you can post it in the relevant forum or tally form.
Additional Considerations
- Review grants that have received funding to get a feel for what kinds of projects are being funded;
- Also, one broad approach to IMN being applicable to a platform is checking out their request for proposals and see if there is any media creation or translation asked.
- Another objective regarding contributing to grants would be to find additional grant providers and add them to the grants board.