[IMPACT]

Cardano and Impact

Impact is a key element of the Cardano philosophy. The first sentence at Cardano.org is “making the world work better for all” and you can see this line in practically every video of Mr. Charles Hoskinson as well as many of the Cardano ecosystem activities.

Following fund 6 we have conducted the research matching Catalyst proposals with SDGs and the results were very promising. This research showed that 27.5% of the funded proposals directly connect to impact the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and 68.5% indirectly connect to impact the SDGs. This is not a surprise as blockchain technology has the potential to have an impact on financial inclusion, governance, education, and other areas which comply with SDGs objectives.

This is a huge opportunity for Cardano to continue to be the leader in philosophy, technology, and initiatives that support the growing number of government initiatives, investors sentiment, and company projects aiming to “make this world better for all”.

Many purpose driven newcomers are therefore having an interest in Catalyst and Cardano. This proposal will focus on how we can support easy onboarding for those people and build a framework around it that could be shared with other communities as well.

Proposal for this challenge:

Use the Cardano4Climate community, network to the catalyst & Cardano ecosystem, and projects in order to build a model for onboarding new members through a catalyst active community.

The solution will includes:

Cardano4Climate is already welcoming newcomers and contributing to the onboarding process through our media channel, info sharing and meetups.:

• Preparing educational materials of why Cardano - the work already started with a dedicate telegram (C4C Education Collaboration) and a dedicated discord channels (<https://discordapp.com/channels/886330927628820522/941068294625054850>) both in collaboration with communities teams from WADA (www.wada.org), SustainableADA (www.sustainableada.com), and Climate Neutral Cardano (www.climateneutralcardano.org).
• Dedicated meetups and breakout rooms for purpose driven newcomers sessions for example after town hall, Cardano4climate weekly meetup and other community meetups
• Internal marketing - reach out to the community with information about the service to direct impact related initiative to Cardano4Climate so we could support with the onboarding
• Use of media channel to reach out to a greater audience

Build the model for newcomers (main work for this proposal):

A 3 month process to collect information

• New members survey: Conduct a survey with a minimum of 50 newcomers about their motivation and onboarding process. Understand how they got to Cardano, Catalyst and Cardano4Climate. Understand also their areas of interest and availability to dedicate to the ecosystem
• Record weekly engagement touching points with the Cardano4Climate and catalyst community of newcomers
• A monthly follow up survey
• A monthly meetup to discuss newcomers engagement

Model development

• Based on the information collected we will develop a model to onboard newcomers and evaluate what are the activities and interactions that helped to develop a successful onboarding process
• Define a successful onboarding process
• Test assumptions on a monthly basis

How might we make it easy and fast for dApps and other projects to expand or completely move from Ethereum to Cardano?

By providing moderation, facilitation, coordination, knowledge sharing and guidelines through an active community will facilitate the interest and onboarding of new projects.

Why is it important? Many projects are stuck on EVM-based blockchains like Ethereum and are looking for an escape. Cardano can be faster and cheaper to use.

Knowledge sharing and guidance is important to achieve it.

Risk: The external community may not see how Cardano can help impact initiatives better than other block chains

Mitigation: We will undertake extensive educational opportunities to gather the evidence of Cardano’s energy efficiency, strengths in traceability and transparency, and use this material to educate the external community.

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

Mitigation: We will train and on-board more people that are able to do community management and meeting facilitation. We will seek to train within our existing community first, and hope to draw more qualified people from other blockchain communities as well to fill these roles.

Risk: There are many industry sectors that are related to climate change, and we risk being ineffective by being spread too thin.

Mitigation: we will develop educational materials and focus on key areas of expertise

Risk: ineffective onboarding and connection to the right community channels

Mitigation: continue to promote coordination and sync within the community, Cardano projects IOG and CF

Risk: some of the Cardano tech tool are less mature than Etherium

Mitigation: we will guide newcomers through available solutions and coordinate with IOG tech teams

[FEASIBILITY]

References:

We are a global community of over 200 members, grown in 6 months around communication channels, meetings & 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 all becomes activate members in the 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

We organized, hosted, & recorded three "Catalyst Sustainability Goals" events in the last 4 months:

• Cardano & Climate Change:
• Cardano & Trees:
• Regenerative Agriculture:

Clearly have demonstrated the ability to grow the number of members and create a platform for collaboration and interaction.

The work will be on going as we have in the last 6 months but will also include:

• Enhancement for specific knowledge materials (week 0-4)
• Promotional materials for internal and external use (week 0-4)
• Assign a dedicated team to lead this initiative (week 0-1)
• Meetups, one on one meetings, info sharing and knowledge development will be an ongoing effort

Deliverables and KPIs

• Knowledge center with research, docs, ppt focus on the Great Migration
• Promotional materials
• 24 sessions
• 24 one on one meetings with projects
• The goal is onboarding at least one project per month

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Budget

• Educational resources
• Education lead: USD 500 per month for 6 months USD 3000
• Education support: USD 500 per month for 6 months USD 3000 (based on engagement and work of team members based on 25USD per hour for 20 hours per month)
• Communication
• Communication lead (managed social channels and first interactions with leads and newcomers) USD 500 per month for 6 months USD 3000
• Preparing promotional materials USD 1000
• Meetups & session management including hosting, post hosting admin (followup, recording…) USD 200 x12 sessions (minimum once every two weeks for 6 months) = USD 2400
• One on one meetings USD 120 x 24 months (4 per months for 6 months) = USD 2880
• General management of the project plus any admin needed = USD 750 per month for 6 month = USD 4500

Total budget USD 19780

USD 19780 for estimated over 20 potential projects represent less than USD1000 per project

The core team members is 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

We will coordinate the activities and work In collaboration with Catalyst and Cardano communities such as WADA (www.wada.org), SustainableADA (www.sustainableada.com), and Climate Neutral Cardano (www.climateneutralcardano.org), Cardano Foundation and IOG impact teams.

[AUDITABILITY]

Transparency

We are committed to improving the transparency of our process & decisions with increased accessibility of this information to all of our stakeholders.

Deliverable will be presented at the Cardano4Cliame media channel

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>

GitHub: <https://github.com/Cardano4Climate>

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

On YouTube:

Ongoing:

• Weekly meetups - recorded
• presence at Catalyst Townhalls - - recorded
• Create forms for community input & feedback
• Coordinate times with Eastern & Western hemisphere to host C4C meetups

https://www.youtube.com/embed/channel?start=/UCBEnbwS_KKCl-yt4uXMTsMg

• Becoming the reference point for the community and CF (Cardano foundation) and IOG to welcome Ethereum based projects looking for more info regarding how Cardano could support their work.
• Connecting with 10s of projects and onboarding at least one per month
• Knowledge base that will be available for the community as all

Related to our core work at

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

Cardano4Climate Community Events (ideascale.com)

SDG Rating

The work we are doing basically covers all the SDGs, depending on the specific project. Here are few key SDGs

SDG goals:

Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere

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

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

#proposertoolsdg