DAOlationships Guild Season 4 Budget Proposal

Grants/Funding Season 4 Guild Proposals
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Authors: Ernest of Gaia & thinkDecade

Date Created: March 22nd, 2022

Date Posted: April 18th, 2022

SUMMARY

The core mission of the DAOLationships Guild is to facilitate and coordinate relationships between external organizations and BanklessDAO. When other guilds in the bDAO need support from external organizations, they come to DAOLationships to help understand and navigate the personal connections we have. When other orgs want to establish a connection with bDAO, the DAOLationships Guild helps to coordinate those efforts for maximum mutual benefit.

In Season 3

We clarified our Guild’s mission to include generating both cross-DAO relationships and generating revenue for BanklessDAO. We refined the process of DAO-to-DAO relationship building through discovery calls and AMAs that culminated in value-added information sessions that we host within BanklessDAO Discord. We completely rebuilt our Notion pages, and added new onboarding sessions to attract and retain guild contributors. We increased the number of active guild members in the face of an overall decline in BanklessDAO activity.

Season 4 Overview

We have created a budget of 361,000:
Season 3 Ending Budget of 191,061

Total Requested from Grants Committee 253,939

  • 129,969 BANK and an equivelent amount of BANK in USDC or Ethereum, 50% of BANK value

Daolationships Budgeting

SEASON 4 Activities

Our goal was to facilitate relationships between BanklessDAO and other leading Web3 organizations, while enhancing our own processes and capabilities.

Supporting the needs of bDAO members

When other guilds in the bDAO need support from external organizations, they come to DAOLationships to help understand and navigate the personal connections we have. We serve this function by utilizing our old-school CRM and good-old-fashioned institutional knowledge.

Supporting the needs of external DAOs

When other organizations want to establish a connection with BanklessDAO, the DAOLationships Guild helps to coordinate those efforts for maximum mutual benefit. Our primary collaboration system will continue to be presentations, AMAs and cross-pollination meetings that are held for the edification of the entire BanklessDAO community.

Our specific goal in this area is to build a rigorous and repeatable process to introduce leading Web3 organizations to the BanklessDAO community through a variety of activation types (including presentations, AMAs, cross-pollination meetings, challenge-iteration meetings etc.). Activities include due diligence, activity scheduling & execution, and feedback loops with NPS. We have made good progress on this front in Season 3 and plan to continue the effort in Season 4.

Supporting the growth of our guild

We will enhance our own processes and capabilities by focusing on effective onboarding, training, relationship tracking, talent coordination and coaching. We have established two dedicated Talent Scouts to assist coordination & collaboration. This will become a salaried position with KPI including member recruitment and retention, and guild NPS.

Next Section Financial History

Financial History

Season 3 Budget

We requested and were granted a budget of 373,000 BANK, which included:

  • 252,000 for two salaried positions (Guild Coordinator & Governance Coordinator & Talent Scout)
  • 46,000 for bounties, including note-taking, activations and apprenticeships
  • 75,000 for Coordinapes.

Season 4 Budget

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We are requesting a budget of 361,000:

Season 3 Ending Budget of 191,061

Total Requested from Grants Committee 253,939 BANK

  • 228,000 for Primary Roles
  • 88,000 for talent development
  • 129,000 for Buidling

Daolationships Budgeting

SUCCESS METRICS

Our goal is to achieve the following during Season 4:

  • Introduction, education, and testing of using Snapshot
  • Build 1 Workstation in other DAO and moderate communication by DAOplomats
  • Design an incentive for new members to build Dao2Dao relationships
  • Introduce at least (6) leading Web3 organizations to the bDAO community.
  • Host (3) events to introduce Web3 organizations, e.g in the form of an AMA.
  • Increase the average number of active guild members to (9), as reflected in attendance at our weekly guild calls or actively introducing relationships for bDAO.
  • Continue to develop Apprentices for Role Support & Talent Development
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I really like the three part focus on proving proposals mentioned in this :arrow_up: post …

Are we able to introduce this focus during season 4, @ernest_of_gaia , or maybe for next season?

The comments on the post suggest this might not be everything needed, but I think it will begin to help bring DL some focus on activities that can help us become self sustaining.