Onboard Devs with Impactful Events

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Cardano4Climate’s team of professional and volunteer event staff organized and hosted 5 Project Catalyst Sustainability Goals events.  

These events bring external sustainability experts and projects together with Catalyst projects and groups working towards building a sustainable future.

This proposal is to continue monthly events, drive value, onboard newcomers, connect the community, and provide an environment and space where we solve the wicked problems of Climate Change using Cardano blockchain technology to accelerate our impact.

• Cardano & Climate Change November 2021
• Cardano & Trees January 2022 
• Regenerative Agriculture and Blockchain February 2022
• Plastics & Cardano April 2022
• Onchain your Impact June 2022 

All Cardano4Climate events have planning agendas, shareable slide decks, event feedback records, and public recordings on YouTube.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The C4C events team has created an event model that follows the Project Catalyst Funding rounds. 

The first event focuses on ideation, connection, and collaboration by supporting impact proposals and attracting new developers and stakeholders from outside the Project Catalyst ecosystem. The second event focuses on an important topic and potential use cases for the developer ecosystem. By collecting resources, aligning with individual and collective values, and facilitating collaborations, thematic events attract new members passionate about the subject and facilitate engagement with existing community members.

The third event showcases both previously funded, impact-related projects and new proposals in the current Project Catalyst funding round. 

For Fund 10, in collaboration with Gimbalabs and the developer community, Cardano4Climate will host a new series, “Developer Impact.” 

Each event includes both external and community speakers to bring awareness to communities not yet on Catalyst. For example, our guest speaker at the last event was Koen van Seijen from investinginregenerativeagriculture.com the founder of one of the most important podcasts promoting regenerative agriculture. 

Each event brings together a planning team of community members passionate about various subjects creating engagement, participation, and ownership of community activities.

It is this passionate, caring community of over 270 members who welcome newcomers to Catalyst and help them navigate the space through referrals to other projects, support, and communities like Gimbalabs, Eastern Townhall, Catalyst School, WADA, Swarm, Climate Neutral Cardano SPO group, DLT360, SustainableADA and more.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Risk: Blockchain is a complicated topic and a complex space. Not all blockchains are created equal and the negative environmental impact of bitcoin mining, crypto scams, and general fear of new systems and technology, in general, can cause caring, passionate people to overlook the potential we recognize in Cardano. 

Mitigation: Information and Education. Each event shares both researched information and an educational component geared towards languages of the heart. We care about the planet; we speak the same language. 

Risk: Technology has not been developed on Cardano: There are complex issues to solve for people with “boots on the ground” while blockchain and Cardano tech is still evolving and not proven

Mitigation: Continue to support Impact related projects whether or not the technology is ready. Connect projects to existing Cardano solutions. Encourage joint research and proof of concept opportunities through Catalyst.

Risk: Ineffective onboarding and missed opportunities to connect newcomers to the right community channels 

Mitigation: Continue to promote coordination and sync within the community, Cardano projects IOG and CF, and work closely with the emerging Cardano Impact Collective.

Risk: The growth of the community can outstrip our ability to facilitate events effectively

Mitigation: Continue to create templates, resources, and roadmaps and incentivize, train, and onboard members in community management and meeting facilitation.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Cardano4Climate is a global community of over 300 members [270 on telegram) & 370 on discord], grown in 10 months around communication channels, meetings & a shared vision. 8 active core team members.

In 10 months, Cardano4Climate has grown into a global community of over 300 members through communication channels, meetings, events, and a shared mission of making the world work better for all people, animals, and the planet. We have a growing team of core members.

Since August 2021, we have moderated a Telegram channel that has grown to over 280 members & a Discord server of over 370 members and multiple channels and categories. We have sub-communities and initiatives forming around impact, education, tokenomics, event planning & community management. Since mid-October, 2021 C4C has hosted weekly 90-minute zoom calls. All 3 weekly planning meetings, weekly community meetups, and monthly events are recorded and shared on our YouTube channel. We are regular Project Catalyst Town hall breakout room hosts.

We collaborate with other Catalyst communities such as Gimbalabs, Catalyst School, WADA, Swarm, Climate Neutral Cardano SPO group, DLT360, SustainableADA, and more. 

We are a point of reference to connect impact-related community activities with ecosystem players such as Cardano Foundation, IOG, Cardashift, and Empowa.

Cardano4Climate has put on five major Sustainability events:

• ‘Cardano & Climate Change’ November 2021
• ‘Cardano & Trees’ January 2022 
• ‘Regenerative Agriculture and blockchain’ February 2022
• 'Plastics & Cardano' April 2022
• ‘On Chain your Impact’ June 2022 

Main Event Deliverables (3 events based on Fund 10 timeline):

• Onboarding event (beginning of Fund 10)
• Thematic event (Mid Fund 10)
• Proposal Showcase event (Prior to voting for Fund 10)
• Event Planning Documentation

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Budget Breakdown

 +     4,500.00 - Event planning Budget - 1500 USD per event x 3 events = 4500 USD

• Weekly event meetings (4 meetings / month * 3 month = 12 weekly meetings)
• Event Slideshow 
• Speakers stipends 
• Event preparation

 +     1,800.00 - Event and meeting facilitation - 3 events x 2 people x 300 USD = 1800 USD

 +     1,500.00 - Documentation and Video production - 500 USD x 3 = 1500 USD

 +     3,000.00 - Marketing & Public Relations - 1000 USD x 3 = 3000 USD

 +     1,500.00 - Flexible and contingency use - 500 USD x 3 = 1500 USD

 +     1,000.00 - Accounting: Treasury Guild $250 per month X 4 months = $1000

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 +    13,300.00

Total: 13300

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

• Melanie - creativity, empathy, co-facilitator, outreach to community groups focusing on preservation, education, organization, social media moderation
• Nori - inclusivity, awareness, co-facilitator, organization, collaboration, SPO, active Salmon Nation member
• Seomon - reliability, hosting, recording, website, GitHub, miro boards, Catalyst School & Swarm connection, proposal writing
• Newman - results focused, cross-pollinator, co-facilitator, documentation, collaboration, & recording
• Yoram - compassionate co-facilitator, organization, NGOs, ideation, regenerative agriculture, marketing, content, humor
• Tyler - engaged regenerative agriculture & mushroom farmer, ideation, writer, social media discussion facilitator
• Miro - positivity, recording, documenting, and managing all financial transactions 
• Andre - creativity, documenting GitHub Actions

Over 280 (on Telegram) & 370 (on Discord) members of C4C from around the world

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Until climate change is solved, we will be back.

It is conceivable that this proposal could be self-funded with sponsorships and those looking for developers. But we don’t have plans for this at the moment.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

Monthly events and weekly meetups are recorded public events listed in the Cardano & Catalyst Community Network Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Catalyst-Community-Network/events

Planning meetings are recorded and uploaded to our YouTube Channel. We are committed to transparency in 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 are tracked regularly. We have begun an incentive and reward initiative in collaboration with Gimbalabs and recorded it on Discord and Dework.

Join us Cardano4Climate: 

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Catalyst-Community-Network/events

Telegram: https://t.me/ClimateChange_THEChallenge

Discord: https://discord.gg/gUP26qyqpe

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cardano4Climate

Dework: https://app.dework.xyz/cardano4climate 

YouTube:

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

KPI to measure

• The monthly growth rate of our Telegram channel & Discord Server of 5% per month
• The average number of participants in Cardano4Climate events by 15% per month
• Number of Followers on Twitter
• Number of Views, Likes & Followers on YouTube

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

We had a related proposal for Fund7 https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/384076 and in Fund8 https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/404994

The proposal funded the 'Sustainability Events' held monthly by the C4C. The Fund8 proposal funded the creation of a group of community members committed to creating impactful events. This Fund9 proposal will expand the scope and focus to include the developer community.