Grant Support Squad H2 2024

by 0xf0480e7b09edb7229d4f7b3b25ef77429c5754cf (Palewin)

Should the following $71,200 grant in the Core Unit category be approved?

Abstract

Hi community!

We're happy to share our new proposal with you, featuring a smaller team, while maintaining our commitment to excellence.

In this renewal, we focus on improving processes to simplify them for grantees and improve the quality of funded projects to better align with DCL's goals. We will continue to provide support and monitoring for 37 current grants, including those from bidding and tendering, as well as upcoming projects.

Questions and positive comments are always welcome!

Grant size

71,200 USD in DAI

Project duration

6 months

Beneficiary address

0x658497d7681e4Fb18C65AbD5Ce066A1e3082c1e5

Email address

pablo.lewin@decentraland.org

Description

Our daily tasks represent a continual dedication to supporting, guiding, analyzing, and ensuring accountability for grants. The Squad operates with 4 key objectives:

1) Support Grant Projects

• Periodic Follow-up with grantees to identify problems and requests, audit the grant projects with onboardings, updating roadmaps, monthly calls and facilitating contacts.
• Analyze problems and requests, identify and solve them.
• Ensure the accessibility of information about the grants program and promote grant work through blogs on the official blog administered by the Foundation.

2) Foster Transparency and accountability

• Write a status update monthly on grantees public roadmap, and provide spaces to share their work and gather feedback with Testing Sessions and Townhalls.
• Provide information about the accountability of projects by publishing concerns raised, and analyzing the cases.
• Maintain and update the DAO's Grants Github repo.

3) Take care of DAO Grants Treasury

• Analyze and elevate cases to the Revocations Committee and provide support to the RC.
• Report on funds recovered.

4) General / DAO Participation

• Participation in DAO ceremonials and Core Units meetings
• Bridge with Decentraland Foundation
• Maintain Documentation

Here you can see the report of the last 4 months of the H1 2024 Grant (our previous renewal is for 5 months and not 6, to align this renewal with the start of the Q Budget), and our Financial Report.

Additionally, after almost 2 years of the Squad's operation, we can highlight that in this last 4 month period there were no significant revocations, thanks to our diligent oversight in the DAO and the ability to pause contracts for better tracking and support, ensuring funds are only received upon progress.

However, the DAO must continue to enhance the quality and alignment of funded projects with Decentraland's goals. That's why, for this renewal, in addition to the usual tasks, we propose to focus on the following process improvements:

1) Support - Improvements

• Systematize support flow for bids and tenders.
• Automate processes (e.g., onboarding emails, discord channels, end reports).
• Update the GSS Operational Manual.

2) Transparency and Accountability - Improvements

• Improve tracking and presentation of impact metrics for projects supported by the DAO Treasury.
• Define the flow of how to review the Projects during their journey (adding technical reviews of projects with an Advisors / Board of experts).
• Simplify the grantees' required tasks.

3) DAO Grants and Bidding + Tender care Treasury - Improvements

• Improve the Revocations Process.
• Ensure project delivery before cash out.

4) General Improvements

• Analyze the value of projects funded per category and facilitate governance processes as needed (Categories and re-structure Budgeting).
• Increase the visibility of the DAO Grants Program.

Thanks for reading!

Roadmap and milestones

Our work involves ongoing support, guidance, analysis, and accountability for grant projects, aimed at enhancing the Grants Program. We're committed to transparency and have published a GSS' Operations Manual, detailing our processes and daily tasks aligned with our goals

In the roadmap we are including the daily tasks explained above plus all the improvements for each area.

1) Support - Improvements

• Systematize the Support Flow for bids and tenders.
• Automate processes (onboarding email, create discord Channels, end reports, etc)
• Update the GSS' Operational Manual.

2) Transparency and Accountability - Improvements

• Track and display the impact metrics of the Projects: gather the info from the last 6 months and during the following period, analyze it and give feedback to the GovApp to display the information, Make a report.
• Technical reviews of the projects (Advisors / Board of experts): define the flow of reviewing the Projects during their journey.
• Optimize the Task management process of the Projects funded. How to show: the status of the projects, roadmaps, Financial reports and the Impact Metrics.
• Avoid duplicate efforts to the Grantees and the community members to review the information provided.

3) Take care of DAO Treasury - Improvements.

• Improve the process of the Revocations Process: reduce the time of response + automate communications during the process.
• Improve the Payment process: ensure the project is delivered before cash out.

4) General Improvements

• Grants Program Categories: Make a report to analyze the value per category + facilitate the governance process if it's needed.
• Grants Program Budgeting: Make a report to analyze the value per category + facilitate the governance process if it's needed.

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp