How to Donate to Gitcoin Grants: A Guide for First-Time Funders
WHAT YOU WILL NEEDYou’ll need a custodial Web3 Wallet such as Metamask. You can watch the video below if you need help setting this up: BEFORE YOU STARTHead over to the Gitcoin Grants website and sign in. If you don’t have a Github account, you will be prompted to create one.Once you are signed in, connect your Metamask wallet by clicking on the Metamask Fox icon in the top right-hand corner of your browser and following instructions to connect to the Gitcoin Grants site.Be aware that if a pa...

Why Crypto, Climate & Gitcoin Grants? And Green Pilled....?!
Since joining the Gitcoin Grants Climate team, I often receive incredulous questions from friends and family—even my dogs give me curious looks—all along the same lines: Why Crypto, Why Gitcoin Grants? Can Crypto really help address Climate and other in-real-life (IRL) problems? And what exactly do you mean by taking the green pill? I’m excited to be part of the Gitcoin Grant climate team for two main reasons: 1) web3 has the potential to actually create value for those who contribute meaning...
GR15: How to Donate to Gitcoin Grants
A guide for first-time funders especially those new to web3This document is a collaboration of efforts from several people especially Coleen Chase, Ben West & Ned Horning. Please send suggestions on how to improve this info to coleenchase@gmail.com.Get Ready to Donate to Public Goods & Experience the Power of Quadratic FundingDo This First: Get Ready to DonateGitcoin Grants offer a novel way to fund startup projects. Quite a few large projects got their start from a Gitcoin grant. We apprecia...
Passionate about climate action, public goods and social impact.

Written by Tarah Stafford
“Silvi is addressing the problem of habitat loss and degradation of ecosystem services, two of the biggest threats we face to the stability of our Planet. Trees are ancient, instrumental keystone species for life on land. They truly are a foundation to the rest of life on earth and planetary cycles at large. We can't afford to continue wiping out what remains of them.
If only we can recover them, nature will do the rest.” - Djimo Serodio, Silvi

Silvi is helping build economic and coordination tools to contribute to the trillion tree target through:
Upfront project funding (Tree-Commitments via Tree Forwards) to incentivize and reward performance-based tree stewardship
Extreme traceability and attribution of new trees, not just for accountability and inventorying, but to unleash the community effects needed for tree-planting to become a thing!
Silvi is also partnering with JustLearn to introduce reforestation to homes and schools.

During the first round while at Kernel block 5, a sister organization (AgroforestDAO) was unsuccessful in getting their grant approved on time so Silvi contributed to their project to get them up and running.
During the 2nd round of Gitcoin Grants funding resulted in work by DesignRegen, led by Adam French, on some incredible discovery work and an early version of the website. He has since done the same for dMeter.

The bulk of Silvi’s Gitcoin grant funding has gone to support field operations. Most notably in Kenya subsidizing and supporting Eliud, a former primary teacher turned reforestation champion, with technology and science. For example, some of the funds were used to equip him with a smartphone, internet airtime and transportation. Not only is this helping him build capacity with nurseries, but also helping him move around Kenya.
Silvi is also working in urban and rural centers on forestry programs.

Continued Gitcoin support will help scale these initiatives and ramp up technology grants as well as scale the economics of trees. Up until now the focus has been on building a stack to serve the human-centric stages of the tree lifecycle while setting a strong and reliable data foundation from which other Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) can happen.
Silvi plans to collaborate with other projects and technologies on techniques for statistical sampling of ground truth as well as remote sensing inference. And ultimately, to vertically integrate with carbon-certifying projects.
Here are some ways to learn more & to get involved:
Silvi Tree Stewardship Protocol - Gitcoin Grant
Website: https://www.silvi.earth
Twitter: @silviDAO

Written by Tarah Stafford
“Silvi is addressing the problem of habitat loss and degradation of ecosystem services, two of the biggest threats we face to the stability of our Planet. Trees are ancient, instrumental keystone species for life on land. They truly are a foundation to the rest of life on earth and planetary cycles at large. We can't afford to continue wiping out what remains of them.
If only we can recover them, nature will do the rest.” - Djimo Serodio, Silvi

Silvi is helping build economic and coordination tools to contribute to the trillion tree target through:
Upfront project funding (Tree-Commitments via Tree Forwards) to incentivize and reward performance-based tree stewardship
Extreme traceability and attribution of new trees, not just for accountability and inventorying, but to unleash the community effects needed for tree-planting to become a thing!
Silvi is also partnering with JustLearn to introduce reforestation to homes and schools.

During the first round while at Kernel block 5, a sister organization (AgroforestDAO) was unsuccessful in getting their grant approved on time so Silvi contributed to their project to get them up and running.
During the 2nd round of Gitcoin Grants funding resulted in work by DesignRegen, led by Adam French, on some incredible discovery work and an early version of the website. He has since done the same for dMeter.

The bulk of Silvi’s Gitcoin grant funding has gone to support field operations. Most notably in Kenya subsidizing and supporting Eliud, a former primary teacher turned reforestation champion, with technology and science. For example, some of the funds were used to equip him with a smartphone, internet airtime and transportation. Not only is this helping him build capacity with nurseries, but also helping him move around Kenya.
Silvi is also working in urban and rural centers on forestry programs.

Continued Gitcoin support will help scale these initiatives and ramp up technology grants as well as scale the economics of trees. Up until now the focus has been on building a stack to serve the human-centric stages of the tree lifecycle while setting a strong and reliable data foundation from which other Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) can happen.
Silvi plans to collaborate with other projects and technologies on techniques for statistical sampling of ground truth as well as remote sensing inference. And ultimately, to vertically integrate with carbon-certifying projects.
Here are some ways to learn more & to get involved:
Silvi Tree Stewardship Protocol - Gitcoin Grant
Website: https://www.silvi.earth
Twitter: @silviDAO
How to Donate to Gitcoin Grants: A Guide for First-Time Funders
WHAT YOU WILL NEEDYou’ll need a custodial Web3 Wallet such as Metamask. You can watch the video below if you need help setting this up: BEFORE YOU STARTHead over to the Gitcoin Grants website and sign in. If you don’t have a Github account, you will be prompted to create one.Once you are signed in, connect your Metamask wallet by clicking on the Metamask Fox icon in the top right-hand corner of your browser and following instructions to connect to the Gitcoin Grants site.Be aware that if a pa...

Why Crypto, Climate & Gitcoin Grants? And Green Pilled....?!
Since joining the Gitcoin Grants Climate team, I often receive incredulous questions from friends and family—even my dogs give me curious looks—all along the same lines: Why Crypto, Why Gitcoin Grants? Can Crypto really help address Climate and other in-real-life (IRL) problems? And what exactly do you mean by taking the green pill? I’m excited to be part of the Gitcoin Grant climate team for two main reasons: 1) web3 has the potential to actually create value for those who contribute meaning...
GR15: How to Donate to Gitcoin Grants
A guide for first-time funders especially those new to web3This document is a collaboration of efforts from several people especially Coleen Chase, Ben West & Ned Horning. Please send suggestions on how to improve this info to coleenchase@gmail.com.Get Ready to Donate to Public Goods & Experience the Power of Quadratic FundingDo This First: Get Ready to DonateGitcoin Grants offer a novel way to fund startup projects. Quite a few large projects got their start from a Gitcoin grant. We apprecia...
Passionate about climate action, public goods and social impact.
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