Since April 2022 we are creating a knowledge and networking hub for new impact project builders. Impact Academy was born in April 2022 as Impact NFT Academy and rebooted in late 2022 with an adjustment of goals, activities and outputs.

🌎 THE CHALLENGE

Impact creators have to learn from zero to orient themselves in the complex Web3 and Refi Space and learn about many subjects including marketing, strategic vision, networking, team building, business development, community management. The learning process, in this complex, fast growing space is time consuming and not doing it right can put the entire project at risk.

🌎 HOW WE PROPOSE TO SOLVE IT

Creating a vibrant knowledge and networking hub that allow new impact projects builders to save time and bend the learning curve with engaging educational activities including: A weekly series of Twitter spaces called Hot Seats. In these spaces the host, Claudio Cifuentes Lobo, has a grilling session where he respectfully touches on the challenging aspects of a project. The USP of this offering is the candidness and openness with which the conversation is held. It helps the backers and well wishers of the project to get a deeper insight into the founders mind. Active since January 2023 One to one impact calls. Free personalized calls by in house experts, about many topics including: strategic vision, Twitter growth, Gitcoin grant and more. Active since July 2022 and renamed in February 2023. Impact seminars: online lessons about the basics of Impact building, the ReFi Space, Climate solutions and the main tools used to accelerate an Impact Project. Launching in Fall 2023 Impact Guidebooks: educational books developed along the impact seminars and given freely to every participant. Launching in Fall 2023

🌎 WHAT WE HAVE BUILT UP TO NOW Since Gitcoin Beta Round

-Hot Seat Season 2 with 4 guests so far: Karla Córdoba (Cambiatus, ReFi Costa Rica) Carlos Melgar (Web3beach, Gitcoin Grants Ops) Nicolás Madoery (FUTURX, Enigma) Marco Bear (Solarpunk Nomads). More to come.

-1:1 personalized Impact Calls ongoing

Before June 2023 -Hosted 6 Hot Seats with various guests and subjects, including: Ben West (Gitcoin Grants), Emiliano Gutiérrez (Raíz Vertical), Harry (Plant Gang), Ana María Mahecha (KOKO DAO), Humberto Besso (Urbánika), Rod Mamin (LunCo), Irthu Suresh (Atlantis DAO) -Supported over 30 founders with 1:1 personalized Impact Calls -Built a Discord with 121 members and tested various formats for community building and engagement -Built a Twitter page with 1381 followers, and regularly published content since April 2022 -Participated successfully in Gitcoin Grant 14, June 2022 -Rebooted and adjusted goals and outputs for the project

🌎 WHAT WE WANT TO BUILD

Transform Hot Seat (so far hosted on Twitter Spaces) to a podcast show Expand the one to one Impact calls with new subjects and a larger number of builders supported Launch impact seminars Launch impact guidebooks

🌎 TEAM Earthbased soul, wildlife biologist and visionary changemaker. Co-founder of Solarpunk Nomads, Hyperchange.xyz, and Solarpunk Guild. Claudio Cifuentes Lobo, journalist and writer, cofounder of La Dream Machine, a public goods research hub with a latin, social & critical perspective.