{"title": "💰 Register for Matching Funds", "description": "![](https://imgur.com/HNrFYzt.png)\n\n*Welcome to the main event!* \n\n*Here you can register your organization for matching funds in our GG23 community round, bringing the magic of conviction voting, bottom-up governance, and community-directed money to your community 🔮*\n\nThis isn’t your typical Gitcoin matching round. You’ll be creating a funding pool for your own community on Gardens, which you can design to allocate funding to your organization based on your org's needs. The Gitcoin Grants Garden will then match directly into funding pools.\n\n**Conviction Voting on Gardens is challenging for community admins to learn**, but once unlocked it can be enormously rewarding for your community - and we’re here to help!\n\n### To be eligible for matching funds:\n\n1. [**Create a funding pool**](https://www.notion.so/1c5d6929d014800a9672f3073a6fb43e?pvs=21) for your community on Gardens (if you don’t have a community on Gardens yet, [create a community](https://www.notion.so/Create-a-Community-10ed6929d014802da8cfe05bff4ddce7?pvs=21) first). This can be for operations, community grants, contributor expenses - whatever will be most impactful (see our [Governance Pool Library](https://www.notion.so/17bd6929d01480c298d9e562a8eb51cc?pvs=21) for inspiration). **Remember, no one knows your community’s funding needs better than your community!** \n2. **Create a proposal** below to register your funding pool in the round. Include a link to your funding pool in the proposal description.\n3. **Add funds to your pool!** Contributions made between April 2 and May 7 will be matched. \n\n### Matching Funds Available:\n\nThis round will distribute a total of $17,500 in funding - paid directly into your community’s funding pools in the token and network set by you, distributed as follows:\n\n- **$13k** split among all eligible registered funding pools.\n- **Minimum Contribution** - each registered funding pool must reach at least **$500** in funds added to be eligible for matching.\n- **Maximum Contribution** - communities can get matching for up to $3k in funds added to funding pools in their community.\n- **Linear Matching** - matching funds aim to encourage contributions between $500-$3k equally and proportionally, so more funds added in this range will earn proportionally more matching funds.\n- **Bonus Matching** - thanks to sponsorships from Celo and 1Hive, an extra $3k will be split between funding pools of communities on Celo network, and an extra $1.5k in matching will be split between funding pools of pop-up cities and intentional communities.\n\n### Who is this round for?\n\n- Open source software projects\n- Chapter / node-based network organizations\n- Pop-up cities and intentional communities\n- IRL Communities, Clubs, Activists, and Doers\n- Builders and maintainers of the world’s non-private value\n\n## 🌱 Goals\n\n- Foster the healthy growth of organizations in the Ethereum ecosystem.\n- Introduce best practices in bottom-up governance, efficiently directing resources without the bottlenecks of a top-down grants programs.\n- Help ease the friction and learning curve of setting up effective funding pools on Gardens.\n\n## ✅ Eligibility Requirements\n\n- Organization has a community on Gardens with a clear Covenant, reasonable settings and parameters, and active membership from real people.\n- Funding pool clearly defines the purpose of the funds and has reasonable and secure parameters.\n- Proposal includes a link to the funding pool in the proposal description.\n- Proposal accumulates at least 1% conviction from voting weight in this pool by May 7.\n- Any member of the Gitcoin Grants Garden can dispute proposals. Disputes are arbitrated by the Council Safe, and proposals will be blocked if they don’t meet this eligibility criteria or if they violate the Gitcoin Grants Garden community Covenant.\n\n## ✋ How to Register\n\n- Join the [Gitcoin Grants Garden](https://app.gardens.fund/gardens/10/0x1eba7a6a72c894026cd654ac5cdcf83a46445b08/0xd3345828914b740fddd1b8ae4f4d2ce03d1e0960) - when registering, you’ll need to sign the community Covenant and stake 1 $GTC.\n- **Create a Proposal on this page** with your community name as the title and a link funding pool in the description. Feel free to include a short intro, but the description in your funding pool can cover this on its own too.\n\n## 🧪 Pool Parameters Explained\n\n- **Pool Type**: *Signaling* – no funds distributed. This pool determines eligibility for funding only. Matching funds will be distributed by the Council Safe.\n- **Voting Weight**: *Fixed* – all voters have the same voting weight. Only Council Safe members can vote.\n- **Conviction Growth**: *3 days* – the longer you support a proposal, the stronger your conviction becomes. Your conviction grows to meet support at a rate of 50% every 3 days.\n- **Tribunal Safe**: *Council Safe* – any member of the community can dispute proposals they feel are abusive or don’t meet eligibility criteria. The Council Safe rules on disputes in this pool.\n- **Proposal Collateral**: *0.002 ETH* – a small stake to prevent spam and encourage quality proposals.\n- **Dispute Collateral**: *0.003 ETH* – required to challenge a proposal via the Tribunal, also deterring frivolous disputes.\n\n## 🔗 Relevant Links\n\n- [What is Conviction Voting?](https://blog.giveth.io/conviction-voting-a-novel-continuous-decision-making-alternative-to-governance-aa746cfb9475)\n- [Gitcoin Grants Garden - GG23 Community Round Details](https://www.notion.so/Gitcoin-Grants-Garden-GG23-1b6d6929d0148057ab81c0dbee6475ba?pvs=21)\n- [Telegram Support Channel](https://t.me/+Hbz7rRQNwn0wMDJh)"}