grants-in report

Sept-Oct, 2022

grants are incredibly important source of revenue for LexDAO
- a pro/con aspect of non-profit work in general
since forming mid-year 2022, the dedicated grant writing "grants-in working group"
- has been instrumental in LexDAO receiving donations of ~$60000
- with costs so far of only $3500
though more expensive than LexDAO's other recurring costs at the moment, the grants-in WG continues to be a high ROI replenishment fff by the Guild's treasury

At the beginning of September, I (bestape) was paid $3500 by LexDAO as the sole member of the grants-in WG.

I, bestape, am seeking another $3500 from LexDAO's treasury, this time retroactively, for my work as the sole member of the October grants-in WG.
I propose LexDAO continues to pay the grants-in WG retroactively after reviewing the grant-in WG's report in a LexDAO governance call.

participated in Panvala stamps pilot
participated in GR15, including a big marketing push throughout on various platforms
- LexDAO along with complementary hopefuls spoke on each other's Twitter Spaces
- https://lexdao.substack.com/p/aug-2022-newsletter
- multiple @everyone drives on LexDAO Discord
unfortunately, LexDAO was removed from crypto advocacy and A16Z rounds in the middle of GR15 so we didn't get nearly as much matching as in GR14
however, we did negotiate a consultation with Gitcoin about how to reenter GR16's crypto advocacy and we continue to plead the case for LexDAO's exceptional infra public good superpowers
moreover, at ~600 unique contributors GR15 had a x3 increase of unique contributors compared to GR14
- grassroots momentum, brand, continues to scale
- https://lexdao.substack.com/p/september-newsletter-2022

continued building relationship with enDAOment, learning more about 'fiscal sponsor'
General Magic (Giveth subDAO) joined LexClinic as a complementary service partner
consulted with Gitcoin and Alliance, determined spending our GR14 crypto advocacy grant on the DAO Coalition's Lummis-Gillibrand project would likely get us back into future Gitcoin crypto advocacy rounds
consulted Gitcoin on
- their decision not to run GR16
- putting LexDAO in one of the limited rounds Gitcoin will run instead of GR16
- LexDAO as a service provider for Gitcoin's protocol when it's ready
Public Nouns joined LexClinic as a client

created a grants-in working group in LexClinic's House Bestape
- Obeezer and bestape are on the team
- grants-in
created a verified grant at https://giveth.io/project/lexdao
Legal Hacks call for enDAOment <> KALI went very well, especially 'fiscal sponsor' plans
began the 501c3 tax deducible entity process with Fried Frank for LexClinic
started building a relationship with Giving Block