{"title": "GM GM: Grants Magic with General Magic", "logoImg": "bafkreifgha76qa27ogqzijqq3y3koytbavzjsrwkybt65tanvjjqxokuk4", "website": "https://generalmagic.io", "bannerImg": "bafkreic5n3sghiio5ohsmufyvfnas6jb5kq5cvvix5omcy672ou277kffi", "createdAt": 1723295719693, "userGithub": "GeneralMagicio", "credentials": {}, "description": "# What does General Magic do?\n\nGM is an elite squad of designers, developers, system architects, researchers, writers, and skilled Web3 professionals who support Public good-oriented crypto-philanthropic organizations and communities in reaching their full potential.\n\n## Grants management\n\nOne of the services General Magic provides is full service grant management as well as general education in the web3 grants ecosystem.\n\nSome of the activities that are related to the advancement of the web3 grants ecosystem include:\n- Grant research\n- Grant writing\n- Grant follow-ups\n- Grant advocation (encouraging projects in our network to apply for grants)\n- Grant education (creating free resources and marketing for various grants particularly the public goods and impact DAOs space, for mechanisms like RetroPGF and Quadratic Funding rounds).\n\n### Testimonials\nFrom our website:\n\n\"Translating between deeply technical core developers and DAO stakeholders, all while navigating the complexities of DAO governance and being consistent with deadlines is extremely hard. General Magic is doing a stellar job at this and at Brainbot we're very happy to be able to collaborate with them!\"\n\nLuis @Brainbot, building Shutter Network\n\n\"Thank you so much, you are giving me permission to dream. I am so so grateful people like you exist in the world. Now I can pay contributors. This is huge for us. Getting contributors settled into their local roles will allow us to focus on better product development, which is what you are helping with. It’s all coming together.\"\n\nV4N @ Upe\n\n\"General Magic team have helped us significantly improve our grant raising efforts. From identifying opportunities, writing grants, and working with potential partners, the GM team has been with us throughout the whole process.\"\n\nPhilip Silva @ BrightID\n\n## RetroPGF Community \n\nRecently, we expanded our focus by collaborating with the RetroPGF Community initiative, a project dedicated to amplifying the reach and impact of Optimism’s RetroPGF. This community-driven effort aims to bridge the awareness gap among potential contributors, thereby enhancing the visibility and effectiveness of RetroPGF’s funding rounds.\n\n- Research & Case Study Generation: Conducting targeted research to create compelling case studies that showcase the impact of RetroPGF, helping to onboard more projects into the Optimism ecosystem.\n- Educational Content Creation: Producing and distributing educational materials to raise awareness about RetroPGF, ensuring more projects are informed about the opportunities it offers.\n- Event Participation: Sponsoring booths at key Ethereum events such as ETHBarcelona and Funding the Commons at EthCC, where we onboarded 97 new projects that were previously unaware of RetroPGF.\n- Community Building: Managing the RetroPGF Community Twitter/X account and newsletter, creating a vibrant online community dedicated to promoting RetroPGF.\n- Web Presence: Developing and maintaining the RetroPGF Community website, which serves as a hub for funded projects, case studies, and educational resources, inspiring more projects to apply for future RetroPGF rounds.\n\n## Our Bragging Rights\n\n- We helped Giveth build & reach $2.5M in donations as a Non-profit.\n- Building @pairwisevote, a dApp that transforms voting in Retro Funding into an easy, fun and engaging experience.\n- Building @givepraise, a dApp that unlocks the full potential of communities with reputation scores, rewards and deep insights and builds community contribution graphs!\n- We helped dozens of public goods projects achieve funding of several hundred thousand dollars (through our direction involvement and indirectly through our educational efforts).\n\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "GeneralMagicio", "projectTwitter": "Generalmagicio"}