NEAR Community Fund

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NEAR Community Fund

Are you an Ecosystem Contributor?

Are you seeking funds?

Do you have a project and need support?

Are you ready to submit a proposal?

If the answer to any of these questions is YES, then you are in the right place!

NEAR offers incentives that empower communities and projects to achieve their goals.

We, the NEAR Community Squad, have completed our transition to using community-driven Sputnik DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) as governance structures of the NEAR Community Fund and our treasury. Through DAOs, the NEAR community both efficiently and effectively supports an ecosystem of many guilds and projects.

Streamlined Rewards for Guild Contributors

Streamlined Rewards for Guild Contributors This post will explain how (and why) guild leaders may create Sputnik DAOs and request budgets for distribution to individual contributors. While teaching others about our new process, you can help our community experiment with decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). Earlier this year, we introduced a more open system for guild reports on the forum. However, payouts are still managed through a centralized process that relies on traditional invo…

Now, the Community Fund is managed by several Community Councils, including these two dedicated v1 Sputnik DAOs:

Community Squad DAO

This council represents the official NEAR Community Team, and our purpose is empowering active guilds and project leaders to reward contributors, provide support, incentivize task completion, and organize special projects in the community.

Community Squad

Read this guide for a walkthrough of the process, and you can reference our model of a proposal to increase your chances of success:

[Guide] CommunitySquad DAO Proposal Submission

Hello and welcome to the NEAR Community Squad https://sputnik.fund/#/communitysquad.sputnikdao.near. The NEAR community is invited to submit payout proposals to the DAO in order to fund monthly Guild tasks/activities. Please keep the funding amount, that is being requested, to less than 300 NEAR per payout proposal. Purpose This DAO’s purpose is to empower communities of the NEAR ecosystem by rewarding positive contributions and helping to grow a network of meaningful projects within the NEAR…

Creatives DAO

The Community Fund offered through the Creatives DAO is meant to support all kinds of creative contributors and communities, including artists, designers, video producers, musicians, and VR enthusiasts ~ exploring the dimensions of NFTs and Social Tokens.

Creatives

Please read this guide to find out who qualifies for payouts from this DAO, and see which creative DAOs are being funded:

[Guide] The Creatives DAO Funding

[CreativesDAOheader_yellow] How to apply to the Creatives DAO The NEAR Community is streamlining rewards for our Guild contributors and guild leaders can submit proposals to any DAOs on behalf of individual contributors, or ask them to submit on their own. A DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) is an on-chain governance mechanism to help decentralized organizations make decisions in a trust minimized and open way. All of the council members (those that vote on proposals), proposals, a…

Learn how to submit a proposal to the Creatives DAO:

[Guide] How to submit a funding proposal to the Creatives DAO

[CreativesDAoheader_green] Step-by-Step: How to apply for funding from the Creatives DAO This is the process for how a proposal should be submitted for funding from the Creatives DAO: Posts a “New Topic” in the NEAR forums (please use the “creatives-dao” tag), within the Creatives DAO - NEAR Forum category, outlining: What project(s) you are requesting funds for (this should be the title of the post) – Guilds and DAOs should bundle all open creative project proposals they have voted thr…

Guide for monthly reports:

[Guide] How to submit monthly reports to the Creatives DAO

[CreativesDAoheader_green] Tell us how it all went! Between when a Guild or DAO submits their payout proposal for a month’s worth of projects and activities to the Creatives SputnikDAO and when the next monthly proposal is posted on the Forum, we want to know how those initial projects went or are progressing. We therefore request that between one payout from the Creatives DAO to the next, there is a brief reporting on the success of the project(s) ongoing or accomplished successfully in a r…

Transparent Collaboration Facilitates Coordination

We believe DAOs are an important tool for autonomous, purpose-driven communities and projects. If you want to learn more about how the Sputnik DAO framework benefits communities in our ecosystem, this blog post is for you.

Sputnik DAO: Empowering Communities

Together, we will continue to experiment with v2 Sputnik DAOs, along with other frameworks.

near-daos

Let us know any ideas or questions! Your feedback is much appreciated

Funding Proposal Template

Below are the suggested components of a project proposal. You can find this template by creating a new topic in the “Community Fund” subcategory of the forum.

Be sure to include the ‘proposal’ tag!

To: DAO

To which community council are you planning to submit a proposal?

From: Project Name

How should we refer to your project proposal?

Summary / Purpose

Try to explain why this proposal exists in a few sentences.

Description

Give more details regarding the motivation, strategy, or any other context.

Team

List NEAR account IDs of you and your teammates, and please tag them here on the forum.

Feel free to share any background information that could help inform the council to make their decision regarding your proposal. Links to past proposals are helpful!

Goals / Objectives

How is your project going to fulfill that purpose? What are you hoping to achieve?

Milestones / Key Results

Carefully describe your plans with specific ways to measure success.

Needs

Resources our community can provide, including advice, funds, connections, etc.

Other Materials

Link to any supporting documents, including relevant sample work / portfolios, research, detailed plans, mock-ups, prototypes, demo videos, code repos, etc.