{"round": {"name": "OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round", "support": {"info": "team@opencivics.co", "type": "Email"}, "roundType": "public", "eligibility": {"description": "OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round\n\nThe OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round is an exciting opportunity for innovative projects to advance public good through Creative Commons licensed research. This round is designed to foster collaboration among researchers, civic innovators, and community organizers. By participating, projects will be contributing critical research into the commons within a dynamic, cooperative environment that emphasizes shared learning and collective impact. This third round offers a new experimental context to evaluate how grant funding can catalyze on-chain collaboration and develop open-source civic engagement research.\n\nResearch Focus Areas: \nProjects must conduct research within one of the following categories:\n- Impact and contribution measurement, reporting, and valuation\n- Commons governance, self-organization, and decision-making\n- Collaborative knowledge management, learning, and sensemaking\n- Open protocols, community templates, and coordination infrastructure\n- Community currencies, cooperatives, and alternative economics\n- Decentralized project management, roles, and certifications\n- Resource allocation, funding mechanisms, and funding sources\n\nCollaboration and Showcase: A key aspect of this research round is the emphasis on collaboration. Participants must agree to coordinate and collaborate with other grantees during and after the research round. This collaborative effort will enable the sharing of knowledge, resources, and best practices, fostering a supportive network of researchers and practitioners. The culmination of this collaboration will be the Grantee Impact Showcase prior to GG22, where all grantees will present their research findings, highlighting the collective achievements and insights gained through their cooperative efforts.\n\nFunding and Governance: Grant applications must direct funds to a multi-signature wallet. Projects must also specify the collaborative mechanism they will use to govern, evaluate, and compensate participant contributions. Accepted mechanisms include Coordinape, DeWork, Charmverse, Notion, DAO Haus, Google Docs & Sheets, and others. This ensures transparency and accountability in the management of funds and contributions.\n\nMilestones: Projects must outline reasonable and verifiable milestones for low, medium, and large funding outcomes. These milestones will help track progress and ensure that projects remain on course to achieve their goals.\n\nExperimental Context: We will iterate based on insights from our last round, including a smaller matching cap (15%) and exploring solutions for processing credit card donations.\n\nAlignment with Gitcoin’s Mission: This round supports Gitcoin’s mission by empowering communities to use web3 coordination tools for civic engagement and collective action. The research will be shared as a public good, providing educational resources and foundational explorations that support civic innovators and local community organizers.\n\nImpact and Accessibility: The research aims to increase accessibility to web3 tools for community organizers engaged in civic initiatives. This applied research will help communities self-organize and expand blockchain network effects by broadening the scope of web3 tools in civics and community organizing. Documented case studies, curricula, and research will help communities coordinate to meet their own needs without relying on large centralized bureaucracies.\n\nImpact Attestation Program: OpenCivics will continue to develop its impact attestation program with Karma Gap and the Quadratic Funding Impact Alliance. Grantees will be encouraged to identify research-oriented attestation schemas to document their impact. 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