Elephant in the Room Strategic Climate Solutions
Decentralized organization promoting climate solutions through partnerships with Indigenous groups, leveraging blockchain, creating multimedia campaigns, and mobilizing communities for urgent climate action.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 03:00 PM
Projects must be at least 3 months old. Newer projects should establish themselves and submit to the next round.
The Elephant Room has been active for over 25 years, indicating that the project exceeds the minimum age requirement.
The Grant must be primarily focused on climate solutions (the group may do other work but the grant proposal should be directly related to climate solutions). The proposal should explicitly outline how this project will help reduce GHGs or is an important core infrastructure for web3 climate solutions.
The Elephant Room's description indicates a primary focus on climate solutions, with activities and campaigns designed to raise awareness and spur action on climate change, potentially reducing GHGs through societal change.
Grantees who received funding in previous rounds should report on project progress since GR15 or the Alpha round. We understand that some projects may have less progress given the timing of Alpha round disbursements. This will ensure accountability to supporters and also help encourage contributors by showing what you’ve been accomplishing.
The GR19 update provides an outline of project progress since the previous funding rounds, indicating compliance with the reporting requirement.
All returning grantees are expected to update their proposal, in addition to project updates the proposal should include lessons learned from previous work and how they will use the additional funding from the upcoming round. The updated proposal should indicate how additional funding will help the project meet its goals, and include a rough timeline for the project overall.
While project updates are provided, there is no explicit mention of lessons learned or a clear outline of how the additional funding will be used. A rough timeline for future work is also not provided, thus making it uncertain if this requirement is fully met.
There is a general expectation that projects are within the “realm of viability”. Even if a project may be at a very early stage, it still must seem credible to the average person with an understanding of web3 technology and climate solutions. Grantee founders must genuinely intend to build the project, and the project must not broadly be considered an impossibility.
The project appears to be within the 'realm of viability', with a credible history of campaigns and actions taken towards climate solutions. The project addresses real-world climate issues with tangible activities, indicating a genuine intention to build and develop the project.
Grantees can be eliminated from consideration in the round if they are found to be encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.
There is no evidence or indication of the project encouraging or enabling Sybil attacks or other forms of malicious manipulation of the grants platform or the Gitcoin community.