Boosting Diversity in Catalyst

We need to include everyone's voices and ideas to change the world. We need diversity to unlock our potential and maximize our impact.

Every person, group, and culture has a voice in the conversation. We build solutions that include input from everyone, everywhere.

- How many new users of Cardano were onboarded?

- How many new Catalyst community members became engaged and participated?

- How many new communities, countries, languages, and/or cultures are being added to the conversation?

Diversity leads to increased creativity and better outcomes in every instance where it has been studied and measured. This challenge seeks to foster inclusive and welcoming environments and remove barriers for people from all communities, cultures, and backgrounds to join the Catalyst ecosystem and participate in meaningful ways by increasing awareness and building mechanisms to encourage greater diversity.

This challenge is about human networking, encouraging and fostering communication between groups and individuals, and increasing the diversity in the Catalyst ecosystem through creating a safe, welcoming, and exciting spaces for people to feel welcome. There is tremendous value to the entire Catalyst ecosystem in connecting, extending, and growing our human networks and opening up silos to more collaborative engagement.

The value of a network grows exponentially (see: Metcalf's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law)))))))) as we add more and more connections and nodes. Let's expand our human network and bring as many people into our ecosystem as possible. Through increasing diversity and inclusion, this challenge will act as an accelerator for uncovering and fostering creativity and encouraging serendipitous discovery and collaboration by helping people and projects in the ecosystem connect and collaborate.

Investing sufficiently to increase diversity in our community will pay off more and more over time as the community grows. The purpose of this challenge is to ensure that we put enough attention on encouraging projects that increase diversity and grow our community to many different parts of the planet, and include more and more voices from diverse communities and demographics. Additionally, this budget will help support translations and accessibility improvements, bring in initiatives and projects that remove barriers, ease onboarding, and welcome diverse participants.

Challenge amounts should only be proposed in increments of $25K. Other amounts not in these increments will be rounded up. E.g. $27,500 will be rounded up to $50,000.