Hey @walidmujahid! How are you mate 
Thanks for your comment, I appreciate it!
Short story, when I really started on Gitcoin to hack some codes and as a “Software Engineer” (A Rookie!!) I was pretty poor… Ive made my very first money (Ethereum) from @owocki, I think it was like 40$ to fillup a Excel Spreadsheet, I was just so happy to be able to contribute to something and at the same time I was making a bit of money.
Another short " " is that I was allowed 500$ from MakerDAO to make a presentation at home, with Pizza, drinks, and my ultimate goal was to give between 10$ and 25$ to every participant so they could have their first Crypto Wallet.
To Mitigate the risk, the project plan need to be well established from the initial planned budged and certainly need a follow-up from a mod or a leader here or a community leader, we could add this role in a near-by future if needed.
This could work as follow:
Part 1: Initial release of funds 50%
Part 2: Second release of funds 25% During the Meeting (Could be a timed Escrow)
Part 3: Third and last release of funds 25% when the meeting is done and we have some video/picture from the recording event.