https://vote.pooltogether.com/proposals/51

Team Name	Community Team
Quarter and Year	Q4 2022
Payout Address	TBD
Total USD Value Requested	$45,681.66 USD

Purpose

The community team is responsible for stewarding, instilling, and nurturing the culture and contributors around the protocol. Its work ensures the ethos of PoolTogether stays strong as the protocol grows. The team’s areas of focus are:

Identity: Facilitate and foster events, vibes & values Spaces: Manage & maintain community spaces Content: Create & promote content such as newsletters, guides, articles, and user documentation Engagement: Empower community members to take ownership & help grow PoolTogether Relationships: Cultivate trust, coordinate actions, and collaborate for change

Objective

PoolTogether is perceived as the most wholesome, welcoming, and secure community in DeFi.

Goals

1) Maintain a strong and engaged community.

-Shape community-first vibes through events, bounties & other fun activities -Promote the PoolTogether values and nurture our community identity -Ensure the community is a safe space for its members -Bootstrap a community-led events program -Conduct audit for community spaces -Conduct DAO-Health Survey

Performance Metrics: DAO Health Survey results, number of events, grow # of event participants by 5-10%, Community growth (Discord Members) – Grow community sustainably by 2%

2) Increase the level of ownership taken by protocol contributors through Community Experience.

-Increase transparency & awareness of key community activities -Create entry points for contributors to play a role in growing the protocol -Spotlight contributors and their work -Revamp onboarding calls

Performance Metrics: Number of Coordinape members & teams, unique voters, number of members who made their first contribution

3) Increase awareness & affinity for savings, the no loss spirit, and PoolTogether’s role in Decentralized Finance.

-Be a reliable news source around the PoolTogether protocol and its closer ecosystem -Create educational content around PoolTogether, & savings: visuals, explainers, and videos -Actively work on creating spaces for cross-community activities in an effort to unite communities

Performance Metrics: Content reach (Recipients, Open Rate, Click-throughs) – Grow reach by 10%, maintain an open rate ≥18-20%, facilitate at least one cross-community opportunity

4) Improve coordination, mutual learning, and flow of resources and information

-Host meetings & workshops to share and apply our learnings -Create playbooks to garner and share best practices -Maintain spaces for knowledge exchange

Performance Metrics: Built Context (Number of created/updated documents, formalized processes), host at least 3 workshops, deliver a Community Dashboard

Here is an overview of current projects the community team is working on to achieve these goals.

Metrics

The following metrics will be used to measure the team’s success:

Baseline Data (as of 30. September 2022)
Discord members	11,905
# of members who made their first contribution	not tracked
Token holders (>1 POOL)	8,744
# (%) of holders verified on Discord	443 (x%)
Twitter followers	47,387
Lens followers	40
Mirror subscribers	27
Substack subscribers	2,212
Events (#, month)	15
Teams (#)	8*
Coordinape Contributors (#)	48

Budget

Requested Amount

Token	Amount	USD
USDC	8,228.00	$8,228.00
POOL	38,012.53	$37,453.66
Total	–	$45,681.66

Budget Breakdown

Team Members

Role	Yearly USD Compensation	Commitment Percentage	Quarterly USDC	Quarterly POOL	Contributor	Contributor Discord
Community Builder	$94,000	100%	0	3,959.20	Tjark	Tjark#0815
Coordinape Manager	$90,000	7.5%	1,418	274.03	Lonser	Lonser#7584
Language Advocate	$60,000	20%	2,655	350.15	Open Role
Language Advocate	$60,000	20%	2,655	350.15	Open Role

In case the budget request is accepted the Community Team will offer two open positions.

Note: PoolTogether Inc currently covers the USDC compensation for the Community Builder position for this quarter.

Team Expenses

Description	Amount
Coordinape	31,579 POOL
Bounties & Contests	1,500 POOL
Merch & Incentives	1,500 USDC
Delegation Budget	100,000 PTaOptUSDC

The Coordinape budget is capped at $10,000 worth of POOL per month. $400 per active circle member is being distributed per month. Any leftover funds will roll over into the next quarter.

The Executive Team should hold custody of the Delegation budget. This budget is not intended to be spent but to be used as contributor incentives and contest rewards via the PoolTogether delegation feature. A member of the Community Team will serve as a representative and provide a quarterly report on how the delegation budget has been used.

All the funds not used at the end of the quarter will be rolled over to the next quarter in case the team gets approved. If it is not, all unused funds will be returned to the PoolTogether treasury.

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Appendix

Note: Token prices at time of budget request are used for standardization. For simplicity the relevant token prices are provided below.

Token	USD
USDC	$1
POOL	0.985298

The team member compensation is based on the compensation formula spreadsheet.