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These outcomes (such as resignations, court cases or resolution of community issues) are recorded onchain as Hypercerts (a web3 protocol for impact certificates),  becoming available for purchase by media funders. The solution ends the need for grant applications by creating a virtuous cycle where funders purchase outcomes from prior work to support your future work.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Summary (1-3 sentences for social media)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "August 2021", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Inception Date", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Devansh Mehta , https://twitter.com/TheDevanshMehta", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Team Members (plus social links)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Devansh Mehta", "hidden": true, "question": "Which project steward is a member of OpenCivics?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received a grant from OpenCivics previously?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "$55,000", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project has received to date?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "$20,000", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project received in 2023?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project has any public reports or documentation on its budgeting and finances, please share links here:", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our long term vision is to mainstream impact certificates as a way of funding public goods. First proposed in 2014 by Paul Christiano on the effective altruist forums, impact certs let donors purchase impact similar to how they might buy a t-shirt. Rather than make a donation and wait 6 months (or more) to hear back on its impact, impact certificates let you immediately buy positive outcomes created by an organization.\n\nThe current models for funding public goods are primarily service contracts like grant agreements. Impact certificates are products sold by organizations, which allow for more disruption by startups in the social impact space.", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project’s long term vision for civic impact?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Fundraising and resource allocation", "hidden": false, "question": "Which areas of collaborative infrastructure does your project address, if any? ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Evaluation and Quantification of impact\n2. Legal pathways for selling outcomes recorded onchain (the model requires public blockchains to prevent double selling of an impact certificate)\n3. Documenting and spreading awareness on these new models for funding public goods", "hidden": false, "question": "How would you classify the types of activities this grant will fund?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We have already launched on Sepolia testnet and are currently in code-freeze. Our primary goal is to properly finish testing, obtain appropriate legal assistance and launch on OP mainnet.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the first milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Contract address for OP Mainnet launch\n2. 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At the same time, such stories uncover new information and often lead to tangible progress on the issue they highlight. Which led us to ask a simple question - instead of having journalists write grant applications for every new story they want to pursue, can we just pay them after their past stories create impact?\n\n**History**\n\nVoiceDeck’s founder Devansh Mehta is a journalist with personal experience of the funding challenges in the media industry. In 2017, he did his master’s in investigative journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, where he worked with newsrooms like the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) that handled the Eurasia region for the Panama Papers. Despite OCCRPs massive impact (over $10 billion in asset seizures, 650+ indictments or arrests and over 1000 investigations or actions) they are unable to capture the value of the impact they create, outside of what is raised through grants.\n\nPost graduation, Devansh worked for 5 years with CGNet Swara, a citizen journalism platform operating in the Maoist affected regions of Central India. Local residents would dial in to a toll-free number and report longstanding community issues, which the organization would forward to government officials for their resolution. CGNet has solved over 1500 issues reported by the community but is unable to successfully raise grants without English speakers on the team.\n\n**Solution**\n\nIn the case of both OCCRP and CGNet, the root of the problem is same: the optimal strategy for nonprofit newsrooms is to sell the past impact from their stories multiple times, to as many funders as they can get an audience with, making impact marketing more important than its creation for fundraising.\n\nAt app.voicedeck.org, we record each impact from a journalist story as Hypercerts on Optimism (these are a web3 protocol for impact certificates). After the Hypercert is fully bought out by funders, newsrooms cannot raise any more money until they create their next impact.\n\nWe think this solution is superior to existing grant funding models for 3 reasons\n\n1. Moves past reputation or brand based giving. If you like the impact described in a Hypercert, buy it! Doesn't matter whether or not you have heard of the newsroom.\n\n2. Even with stellar marketing teams, newsrooms cannot raise more money than impact they have created. Each impact has a price and when fully bought out, cannot be sold again.\n\n3. Newsrooms have to account for their impact and have an incentive to stay with their past stories instead of moving on to the next one. Recording their past impact onchain adds discipline and history to their operations.\n\n**Traction**\n\nAfter first starting work on this idea in August 2021, we finally launched on Sepolia testnet! Ahead of our OP Mainnet launch, we can use all the support we can get. Even if not financial, feedback on our UI/UX would be great !\n\nOur pilot tokenized the impact reports of 3 citizen journalism outlets, including CGNet Swara. If we are maximally successful, newsrooms will regularly mint hypercerts of all outcomes arising from their stories and media funders will purchase them.\n\nOur North Star? Getting the Panama Papers onchain, a pivotal moment for our industry and the world.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "VoiceDeck", "projectTwitter": "VoiceDeckDAO"}, "recipient": "0xd1825Dd9a5e49791FB7961AC3c4170DeeD5710b4"}}