C4C Community Hub Operations

This proposal aims to enable the required budget to reward Cardano4climate core contributors and services over the next 3 months.

Cardano4climate is a community-driven project which emerged itself through engagement in Project Catalyst. We proactively participate in building the Cardano Ecosystem and provide constant services to our Community

[IMPACT]

Making the World Work Better for All People, Animals, & the Planet

Preserve * Regenerate * Co-Create * Support * Empower * Thrive

WHO WE ARE

What began as a challenge has become a community: Cardano4Climate

We are a community following the examples of the Project Catalyst Swarm & WADA; building on the principles of engagement, reliability, & sustainability.

WHAT WE DO

In the past 6 months, we have grown a community around communication channels & a shared vision. Emerging from our social media channels, weekly meetings, monthly events (with a growing list of domain experts), website, YouTube channel, & outreach both inside & outside of Catalyst is 

a community hub of

• Support for the collaborative development of well-defined proposals through feedback, knowledge, & resource sharing related to climate change issues & mitigation, as well as the processes defined by Catalyst
• Moderated discussions to empower individuals to engage & take action.
• Connections to experts & teams within the Cardano & Catalyst Community: WADA, Swarm, Catalyst School, Climate Neutral Cardano SPOs, the Cardano Foundation & the IOG Impact team.

a resource base for

• Data & information related to Climate Change & SDGs,
• Referrals to relevant sources of information, trusted experts, & assistance
• Promotion of Catalyst & Cardano activities (with domain experts previously outside of Cardano)
• Climate-related proposals in Catalyst
• Projects (on & off-chain) needing & giving support
• Documents tracking our activity to duplicate processes and to build trust through transparency

an online, global meeting place & time to

• Connect, collaborate, contribute, listen, learn, absorb & recharge.
• Bridge outside communities affected by climate change to applications on the Cardano blockchain
• Educate & promote sustainable solutions.
• Explore ways to bridge knowledge gaps.
• Offer continuous support & advice related to Project Catalyst processes.
• Collaborate with other community hubs throughout Project Catalyst.

to reach the highest in human collaboration to address humanity's greatest challenge: Climate Change

The Global Problem

Climate change is a failure of cooperation

-Scott Poynton

Due to increasing activism and consumer consciousness, trillions of dollars are being pledged towards mitigating and reversing Climate change. Our current systems are inefficient. There exists a widespread lack of transparency, community trust & impact on a global scale. Solutions being proposed by world leadership are centralized & do not work for everyone. Where do communities in need turn?

A Scalable Solution

Two disruptions to our current situation on earth can not be ignored... Climate Change & Blockchain technology. One is a wicked problem; the other is positioned to become a major contributor to the solutions. The Cardano blockchain is sustainable while facilitating the worldwide scalability, transparency & traceability essential for the effective allocation of resources. These capabilities increase the trust needed to motivate off-chain communities to choose Cardano, the blockchain network best positioned to facilitate solutions for those concerned about carbon footprints.

Cardano4Climate realizes an opportunity for Cardano to combine new blockchain models with ground-up, community-driven challenges and solutions arising from climate change. Cardano gives power to all. Through Catalyst, we have access to an ecosystem of aligned individuals, as well as the conditions necessary for the creation of regenerative systems to heal us and our environment.

Detailed Problem Description:

A community-driven project like Catalyst needs community-organized events & meetings to connect ideas & initiatives, discuss & solve problems, & initiate collaboration. Without moderation, facilitation, coordination, & an action plan, energy & time are consumed by discussions without reaching a conclusion or direction for implementation.

Current & Proposed Solution:

The Cardano4Climate HUB is motivated by the language of the heart: purpose. The citizens of this culture are localized to the environment & systems in which they live while being aware of the global impact of Climate Change. It is both the problems creating Climate Change & the ground-up solutions to mitigate it, that have drawn us together into a global community of many tongues, heads, hearts, & hands that reach into every corner of the globe. Cardano4Climate opens a space to speak our heart languages & gives a collective voice to this purpose through our social media channels, meetings, and event.

Target demographic:

The Catalyst community, individuals representing funded proposals and those applying for funding, non-government organizations & communities outside the Cardano network affected by &/or working to mitigate climate change. 

While the problems are global the people's activities are local. Cardano4Climate is a global community composed of local hubs & activities and supporting local communities. 

The 'F8: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs' challenge asks, "How do we encourage Local Community Hubs to drive adoption and awareness of Cardano in 2022?" By providing the time & space for connecting individuals & teams, forwarding important announcements, collaborating with other Hubs, moderating various discussions on our Discord server & Telegram channel, hosting meetings, and organizing events, Cardano4Climate has been directly addressing this challenge for six months now.

Why is it important? Without users on the ground level, we are building niche products serving mostly technical people with blockchain expertise.

Cardano4Climate growing members are around the world. Many if not all are active in local activities towards climate change be it related to green energy, agriculture, forest conservation, and more. There are obviously members with technical expertise but they also have “boots on the ground” with their local community. While Cardano4Climate gives the framework and global place to come together. Each member then takes it to his local community and serves as a Cardano impact & climate hub. 

What does success look like? Local Community Hubs across the world where the average person can take part in their own language and with their own cultural understanding

Cardano4climate community brings local people working on local climate-related problems into coordinated efforts with a common purpose of working out together how Cardano and blockchain could support their work.

We are aiming to become self-sustaining and evaluate a few income models such as recognition fees from funded proposers, launching our own mission-driven stake pool, as well introducing an impact climate token. Those solutions will be evaluated in the next 3 months. 

The key challenge we have today is to manage the growth of the community and support the local community hubs. In Addition, climate change deals with many areas (agriculture, energy, finance, education, cycle economy…) and there are many opportunities to use blockchain as a key part of the solution. The challenge is therefore to dedicate the resources to be able to support our activities. 

To mitigate it we are empowering community members to get involved and lead certain areas. C4C education is one example and regenerative agriculture is another. We manage regular weekly team meetings and community meetups to continually improve our community services. As a minimum, we have 4 weekly meetings each month.

[FEASIBILITY]

References:

We are a global community of over 200 members, grown in 6 months around communication channels, meetings and a shared vision. 8 active core team members.

Since mid-October, we have hosted weekly 90-minute zoom calls. We moderate a Telegram channel & Discord server with more than 200 members as well as maintain a YouTube channel & website. In the past 3 months, we have hosted several Project Catalyst after town hall breakout rooms.  

We have partnered with other Catalyst communities to collaborate such as Climate Neutral Cradano SPO group, DLT360, WADA, SWARM, Catalyst school, SustainableADA, and more.

We have become a point of reference to connect community activities with ecosystem players such as Cardano Foundation, IOG, Cardashift, and Empowa have all becomes active members in the C4C community

We have co-created a safe environment conducive to engagement

• Open discussions
• Consistent growth in participants
• Initiating ideation and collaboration
• Proposal improvement interactions
• Relevant content for Project Catalyst
• Transparent bottom-up design

Key Metrics to measure

• How many new Hubs were launched in 2022?

Cardano4Climate will use the resources to support its members to grow their local Cardano4Climate hubs around the world and bring more local people into Cardano. 

• How many developers did this community-focused challenge bring into the Cardano ecosystem?

Purpose-driven developers are part of the solution and find in Cardano4Climate a place to interact and collaborate with climate-related activities. Collaborating with AIM and Gimballabs is one example as well as individual purpose-driven tech people.

• How many new users of Cardano were onboarded?

In 6 months, Cardano4Climate grow from 0 to over 200 members. We expect it to continue and grow and at least grow 2x with the scope of this proposal    

• What was the total reach of the Hub's initial marketing launch?

It is an ongoing effort to onboard more people from around the world and provide them the platform and the tools to bring it to their local communities 

• How many external organizations did this community-focused challenge bring into the Cardano ecosystem?

This is an important part of the network collaborating with multiple external organizations and bringing them to Cardano. Some examples include: IMpact accelerators (seedstars.com), impact networks (Goodwall.io), Impact organizations (NGOs - i.e. thepondfoundation.org)

Budget

• Weekly event planning (including core team meeting a day before), hosting, post hosting admin (followup, recording…) $250 x 12 events (3 months) = $3000  
• Social channels management $1000 per month for 3 months = $3000
• Local members & hubs support and coordination $1000 per month for 3 months = $3000  
• Subscriptions & web hosting and other expenses: $350/month x 3 = $1050
• Marketing and PR (i.e. sign in to other community platforms) $2000 

Total budget $12050

We are aiming to become self-sustaining and evaluate a few income models such as recognition fees from funded proposers, launching our own mission-driven stake pool, as well introducing an impact climate token. Those solutions will be evaluated in the next 3 months. 

Core Team & Roles:

The core team members are very active with the community and in addition to their rules being active as challenge setting members, impact activities, other communities, and in the overall spread of the Catalyst and the Cardano community

• Melanie - creativity, empathy, co-facilitator, outreach to community groups focusing on preservation, education, organizing, social media moderation
• Nori - inclusivity, awareness, co-facilitator, organizing, collaboration, SPO, active Salmon Nation member
• Seomon - reliability, hosting, recording, website, GitHub, miro boards, Catalyst School & Swarm connection, proposal writing
• Tyler - engaged regenerative agriculture & mushroom farmer, ideation, writer, social media discussion facilitator
• Cem - professionalism, high quality video production, website design, presentations, business owner, programmer, leading Littlefish Foundation: Kiva-like DAO proposal
• Yoram - compassionate co-facilitator, organizing, NGOs, ideation, organization, regenerative agriculture, marketing, content, humor
• 200 plus members from around the world 

[AUDITABILITY]

Transparency

We are committed to improving the transparency of our process & decisions with increased accessibility of this information to all of our stakeholders. We have initiated a public GitHub repository where all ongoing tasks and actions will be tracked regularly. Join us Cardano4Climate: https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Catalyst-Community-Network/events

On Telegram: https://t.me/ClimateChange_THEChallenge

On Discord: https://discord.gg/gUP26qyqpe

On GitHub: https://github.com/Cardano4Climate 

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cardano4Climate

On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBEnbwS_KKCl-yt4uXMTsMg

Ongoing:

• Weekly meetups - recorded 
• presence at Catalyst Townhalls - - recorded 
• Upload videos to YouTube
• Core Impact Team distributes remuneration by consensus - financial external auditing team overlooking to process: The Catalyst Treasure Guild (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/399116)
• Organize information in Telegram & Discord channels available for all
• Create forms for community input & feedback
• Coordinate times with Eastern & Western hemisphere to host C4C meetups

Measurement of Success, Key Performance Indicators

• Grow Telegram & Discord membership from to over 400 members 
• Social media navigation improved as indicated by community feedback
• Attendance at all events increases by 50% or more
• Local members & hubs brining their local stories and onboarding more members
• Continue to be the point of reference to connect Cardano climate related resources with local hubs

F7: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs

Cardano4Climate Community Hub

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/384081

SDG Rating

The work we are doing basically covers many of the SDGs, obviously around climate change but this also deals with social inclusion, energy, agriculture and so on. Here are few key SDGs

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development

SDG subgoals:

12.1 Implement the 10‑Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns, all countries taking action, with developed countries taking the lead, taking into account the development and capabilities of developing countries

12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse

13.1 Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.3 Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.b Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

14.c Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of “The future we want”

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

13.3.1 Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

13.b.1 Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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