"WOWzers”…as Lauren’s mom would say, these past 3 months just flew by…so now what…welp, I guess ”Onward & Upward” or something like that.
Reflecting back on our first ever WG proposal, there was some really great stuff, a little bad / learning, but overall, some pretty damn epic, happy progress with what we did and accomplished. But enough looking backwards, lets peddle on ahead in our continued effort to “Fund the Commons” of Giveth.
Come along with me on this journey and lets get dirty in deets below!
Season 3 Review
In this section, I’m going to break down the deliverables from the past 3 months, and provide an update on it’s status and any relevant information. We’ll also cover our spending in Season 3 and compare it to our estimated budget we covered in the previous Season proposal.
| Deliverables | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Apply to around 15 L2 grants per season, as that is all Marcelo’s current part-time workload can handle | Missed  |
- Won ~ Kyoto ($130K+) - Applied ~ Taiko, Metis, Stellar & ARB - Will apply by end of June ~ BNB, ICP & Polkadot - Didn’t Win ~ LTIPP & XRPL |
| Limit our time applying to other types of fundraising / grant opportunities (not L2s), so maybe around 6 per season | DONE!  |
- Celo RPGF0 ~ 5,433.55 celo / +$3.5K - Octant EPOCH 3 ~ 13.3081 ETH / +$40K - Gitcoin Grants #20 ~ +$10K - Covalent ~ $15K in credits - MetaPool ~ round active now - Team declined to enter ENS small grants |
| Secure 4 new QF sponsors for the season | DONE! |
Brought 12 to the game!!! |
| Have a physical presence at BlockSplit (May 27-30) | DONE! |
Shilled, grinded and stayed under budget! |
| Work with Lauren to continue performing hand offs of her current fundraising activities (ie Octant, Gitcoin, Optimism, etc.) | DONE! |
Neil Diamond said it best “Hands, Touchin’ hands Reachin’ out…” hand off’s complete! |
| Finish the rest of the forum follow up posts for all our previous grant wins | DONE! |
Worked with Lauren to knock these out as well |
| Maintain the current amount of dedicated monthly hours by Jake (45’ish hours/month) & Marcelo (30’ish hours/month) | Missed |
Fundraising really has been ramping up for Giveth, so our hours have exploded: Jake - 100/hrs average /month Marcelo - 45/hrs average /month |
| Keep Griff’s current fundraising hours (around 40 hr per season) | DONE! |
For April & May Griff did 15 hours total, highly doubt he will do 25 hours just in June then |
| Bonus item: We needed a central library for our past, current and future grant applications, so Marcelo researched all of that and created a “Giveth Gardens Notion.” Now we don’t have to waste time!!! | BONUS DONE! |
https://www.notion.so/14ea4d97df77482ca24086b6a963acb8?pvs=21 |
Season 3 Spending 
Below I’m going to simply compare the forecasted spending with the actual funding based on available data in Clockify.
| Type | Estimated S3 Cost | Actual S3 Cost | Actual S3 Money Brought In |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contributor Costs | $11,800 | $13,757.03 | |
| Events | $2,500 | $1,879.70 | |
| Grants Won | $186,500 + $15,000 in credits | ||
| Total | $14,300 | $15,636.73 |
Season 4 Deliverables & Budgeting
There are 3 possible scopes that Fundraising can take in the coming Season, each with different deliverables and budget. The Season Snapshot vote will dictate the scope of this working group, depending on it’s signaled priority amongst other working groups, as decided by the Giveth DAO.
GROW 
Deliverables
What we will do
- Apply to around 15 L2s grants per season
- Apply to around 6 other type of fundraising / grant opportunities (not L2s)
- Hit $275,000 of “Grants Won Revenue” for the season
- Hire and add 1 new Grant Marketing Wizard, pushing our grant efforts to insane new heights and making Giveth profitable
- Secure 8 new QF sponsors for the season
- Have a physical presence at ETHCC (July 8-13th) & Futurist ETHToronto (August 12-16th)
- Up the stakes with our amount of dedicated monthly hours by Jake (125’ish hrs/month) & Marcelo (44’ish hrs/month)
- Incorporate designers into our grant applications to make our grants POP!, a budget of 20/hrs of design work.
- Continue to provide forum follow ups posts for all our previous grant wins
- Keep Griff’s current fundraising hours (around 30/hr per season)
 Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor costs | $23,000 |
| Events | $5,000 |
| Total | $28,000 |
SUSTAIN 
What we will do
- Apply to around 10 L2 grants per season, as that is all Marcelo’s current part-time workload can handle
- Limit our time applying to other types of fundraising / grant opportunities (not L2s), so maybe around 5 per season
- Hit $200,000 of “Grants Won Revenue” for the season
- Secure 6 new QF sponsors for the season
- Have a physical presence at ETHCC (July 8 - 13th)
- Continue to provide forum follow ups posts for all our previous grant wins
- Maintain the current amount of dedicated monthly hours by Jake (100’ish hrs/month) & Marcelo (35’ish hrs/month)
- Incorporate designers into our grant applications to make our grants POP!, a budget of 5/hrs of design work.
- Keep Griff’s current fundraising hours (around 30/hr per season)
What we won’t do
- Hire another Grant Marketing Wizard
- Attend a 2nd IRL event
| Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor costs | $15,500 |
| Events | $2,000 |
| Total | $17,500 |
SHRINK 
What we will do
- Apply to 7 L2 grants
- Limit our time applying to other types of fundraising / grant opportunities (not L2s), so maybe around 2 per season
- Hit $125,000 of “Grants Won Revenue” for the season
- No QF sponsorship work, leave it only to the QF WG
- Have a physical presence at ETHCC (July 8 - 13th)
- Continue to provide forum follow ups posts for all our previous grant wins
- Decrease the current amount of dedicated monthly hours by Jake (75’ish hrs/month) & Marcelo (26’ish hrs/month)
- Won’t incorporated designer work into our grant applications, therefore they won’t POP as hard
- Cap Griff’s fundraising hours to only 20 hrs per season (cutting down his review of grants and outreach)
What we won’t do
- Hire another Grant Whisper / Word Wizard
- No QF sponsorship work
| Breakdown |
Estimated S3 Cost |
|---|---|
| Contributor costs | $11,625 |
| Events | $2,000 |
| Total | $13,625 |
Next Steps
This proposal will remain for advice process until all other eligible Working Groups have posted their Working Group Proposals and minimum advice process (5 days) has been met for them.
A single Snapshot vote 
will be created to decide the final priorities and budgets for all Working Groups for Season 3. Keep an eye out for it!
