Grant Support Squad

Start date: December 2023

End date: April 2024

Some impact Metrics from this Grant

Goal 1: Support the grantees

• 100% grantees were onboarded (18 new grants + 1st project from bidding and tendering process)
• 322.5 hours of support of the last 4 months
• 3 (23 total historical) of blog posts produced.
• 11 (46 total historical) Testing Sessions hosted
• 20 (148 total historical) blockers/requests solved

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Goal 2: Foster transparency in the grants ecosystem

• 100% of grantees with a public roadmap created & updated to make process transparent
• 18 Grant Support Squad's Processes Documented.
• Testing Sessions Open Roadmap.
• Grantees Concerns Public Notion with status updates for accountability and transparency.
• DAO Grant's Github repository maintenance.

Goal 3: Guarantee an efficient use of the community treasury

• 2 cases generated and closed through our formal request
• 1 were closed by Grant Support Squad for lack of objective arguments.
• 1 of cases elevated to Revocations Committee
• $36.700 recovered to the DAO treasury ($470.478 total historical - goal is to decrease these metrics) Public View

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Goal 4: Make a better Grants Program

• 29 onboarding kits for brand awareness and warm-welcome during this period (74 total historical).
• 3 pull requests (12 total historical) made into docs.decentraland.org
• 3 Governance proposals (14 total historical)
• Sensitive Data Handling Policy
• Grants Program Landing Page updated

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IMPACT OF THE GRANTS PROGRAM

Grants Framework (30)

Ended between November and March

🕹 Platform (9):

• Invested: $663,520
• 2 contributions to Decentraland’s main repository, 5 apps deployed, 6 tools deployed, 10 new features/ improvements.
• Unique visitors 10K, page views 30K, 30 studios onboarded, 74 worlds deployed,

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🌍 In-World Content (11):

• Invested: $743870
• Events held: 432
• 24,885 attendees to events (7,114 Returning users)
• Wearables: 9 designed, 14 minted, 169 claimed�

Social Media content (4)

• Invested: $81,404
• 1357 pieces produced, 25 mentions in media outlets, 521 ig posts/stories, (437K reach), 55 linkedin posts (7K reach), 580 X/tw posts (280K reach), 15 tiktoks (16K reach), 20 YT videos (22k reach)

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Grants Framework (35)

Ended between November and March

Accelerator (1):

• Invested: $100,000
• 6 month after the project is finished, we’ll have metrics. �

Documentation (1):

• Invested: $2100
• Total of pieces published: 50�

Core Units (4)

• Invested: $432,604
• FacSquad: 133 new members fully onboarded, 2 community pulses, 3 RFI rounds, 23 IG pieces, 47 stories, 57 youtube videos (4,9k views), 741 twitter posts (425K impressions, 18K engagement),
• GSS: 34 grantees onboarded, 784 hs of direct support, 67 problems and requests solved, 9 articles, $291,330 recovered, 4 governance proposals.

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FEEDBACK FROM GRANTEES

*Dec 23’ to March 24’

What do grantees learn?

39% Project Management Skills, 30% SDK development.

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What changes from initial proposals?

21% Broadened scope, 21% changes on community feedback, 21% +hours than expected.

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What had helped them thrive?

52% Grant Support Squad, and 39% the DAO

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How can we make a better grants program?

26% nothing, 26% Mitigate community toxicity

How would you rate the Decentraland DAO grants program?

4.6/ 5

Grantees next steps

21% Maintenance mode, 13% Marketing for what’s delivered, 13% Expand project

3 LEARNINGS FROM THIS GRANT

�LEARNING 1:

Reduction of duplicate information

We will work during the next 6 months on the merging of these processes to reduce reporting time.

Today grantees for transparency purposes are reporting at least two reports: the monthly updates on the GovApp and updates in their roadmaps on our monthly check-ins.

�LEARNING 2:

Improve impact metrics

We have started tracking impact since month 1, and we are working on governance proposals to measure impact for a set time of months after a grant is over.

We have measured impact from the grantees when the grant is over and even though is good, some of them end their grant when the impacts are only starting.

�LEARNING 3:

Improve technical reviews

We will define the flow of how to review the Projects during their journey (adding more technical reviews of projects with Advisors / Board of experts)

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We have found room for improvement on the accountability of projects funded, specifically for technical projects.

We have posted our renewal

Grant Support Squad

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Thank You!

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You can reach us on Discord

(@palewin / @zino / @fifitango / @yararasita)

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