[Proposal] Gitcoin’s Citizen Grants program

[CoachJonathan]

Based on the comments above, I’ve made a few amendments to the proposal before taking this to a vote:

@rohit

Two suggestions here:

• Since the Program Manager is accountable for overseeing the deliverable schedule, we might need another hat to investigate the appeal to keep the process neutral. This could be conducted by the Council Member closest to the work, facilitated by data gathering from the Program Manager and Project Owner.
• The governance surface of the community votes for a grant clawback right after the investigation feels larger than what might be necessary. For example, here is an interim step before the vote can be deemed necessary:

Added these in.

@Viriya

I think focusing on funding fewer, really impactful projects for larger portions of the grant pools might be a way to incentivize high-quality builders to this program.

I haven’t added this to the proposal but would love for our Grants Council and applicants to take note.

@jengajojo

I do wonder if there is too much on everyone’s plate and if this may distract folks on focusing on their main roles.

Point taken, and after evaluating my capacity as program manager, I’m recommending @rohit start as Program Manager for the time being. He has been contributing to Gitcoin for almost a year and has more than proven his competence and reliability as a regular contributor at MMM. Aside from being a wonderful, curious and competent person, he comes to us from years of experience working in a fast-paced environment and within complex project at Deloitte. I’m confident that he will take this program where it needs to go. He will also be diligently tracking the hours he spends working on this project in an attempt to help us scope this role for the possibility of decentralizing it in the future.

@meglister

I’d love to see a plan for returning funds if the program proves ineffective.

I totally agree and realize I didn’t include this in my initial proposal, so I have added it in and will restate it here:

• Funds do not need to be spend if there are no solid applications coming in
• Any funds not spent during the pilot will be returned to the treasury