S17 - Public Goods Funding Budget Proposal

This is a funding proposal for the Public Goods Funding Workstream requesting ratification of budgetary funds for Season 17.

TL;DR

Our main goals for S17 are twofold:

Protocol growth readiness and Gitcoin Grants Program readiness.

Our overarching priority in S17 is to continue setting up the protocol for successful adoption with solid infrastructure to drive sustainable growth.

Overall we will:

• Developing runbooks and guides for communities to use to run QF rounds and drive adoption
• Running test rounds with partners to onboard and enable them to manage their own programs permissionlessly
• Defining and launching the Core Gitcoin Grants Program in April, to embrace our DAO’s goal of funding public goods with our protocol
• Defining and providing a paid services offering to early adopters until a fully self serve approach is viable

Amount: PGF's S17 budget is $606,000. A 30% decrease from last season. Accounting for 60+ day reserves and current reserves we are requesting $337,903. A 68% decrease from our total request last season.

You can view our full proposal here: https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/s17-proposal-draft-gitcoin-public-goods-funding-budget-request/12742