Decentralized, community-led climate action via the BETTER Climate Fund.

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Thank you to the Gitcoin community for your ongoing support GR15 - GR19 🙌

Fall/Winter ‘23 Update

🛒 Add to cart: Climate Action

When it comes to direct, personal, ground-level climate action, many people find it’s too inconvenient or difficult to participate. Throw web3, crypto, and ReFi into the conversation, and you’ve lost even more of the most well-intentioned folks.

But what’s more convenient and ingrained than online shopping? Introducing the BETTER Climate Store: Climate action from the comfort of your couch. Launched in September, thanks in part to funding from Gitcoin, the BETTER Climate Store proceeds go toward powering the BETTER Climate Fund, a decentralized, community-driven endowment supporting climate positive projects. What’s more, the store provides an easy web2 and ecommerce onboarding mechanism for those interested in the ReFi and crypto space. ㅤ

🌎 Meet the BETTER Climate Fund

In an effort to reach more people outside of web3, the BETTER DAO (previously at betterdao.io) can now be found at betterclimatefund.com.

The BETTER Climate Fund is a DAO-controlled, community-driven endowment supporting climate impact projects. The BETTER DAO has partnered with Spirals to raise and distribute funds to approved planet-positive initiatives. Find out more here.

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What we’re building Q4 2023

ㅤ 🤝 BETTER COLLABS New collaborations to feature climate-friendly brands and products in the BETTER Climate Store, delivering the best eco-friendly products to consumers and sending proceeds to the BETTER Climate Fund.

✌️ CLIMATE FUND ENHANCEMENTS Developing a front-end app and back-end enhancements to the BETTER Climate Fund as well as exploring new L2 solutions to incentivize participation, make it easier to deploy holdings for impact initiatives, and create frictionless and rewarding ways to contribute to the Fund and help govern it.

👋 WEB2 TO WEB3 ONBOARDING Building a pathway for simple $USD contributions to the BETTER Climate Fund through Shopify. Improving community organization and ease of participation for those outside of web3 and crypto.

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Climate Impact

BETTER is building an endowment for planet positive impact via the BETTER Climate Fund, which is governed by the community through a DAO. Our growing list of Climate Advisors helping to steward the best possible use cases for the Fund include policy and strategists from Climate Resolve, Toucan and MIT. 🤝

The future of the BETTER Climate Fund is in the hands of the community, meaning it could expand into any number of different areas including conservation, new forms of tokenized climate impact credits, individual donations to compelling causes, and more. 🌿

For more info on the DAO, our team, and our advisors, please visit our website.

Why Gitcoin Grants?

Grant funding goes towards Development, Business, and Marketing expenses. ​​Current GR19 funding will help:

✅ㅤ BETTER Climate Fund development costs, front-end and back-end support ✅ㅤ Production and marketing for BETTER Goods ✅ㅤ BETTER Climate Store web2+web3 integrations, front-end and back-end development ✅ㅤ Audit of existing smart contracts ✅ㅤ Fixed business costs

Thank You ✌️