Web3beach

$879.01 crowdfunded from 59 people

$15,167.22 received from matching pools

55%
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Fostering web3 education and real-world impact in underserved communities through environmental initiatives, health services, and micro-grants, while expanding Impact Onboarding programs in Latin America.

Accelerating web3 education and adoption through social and environmental impact. "Impact Onboarding" creates onramps and upward mobility in web3 for unbanked, disenfranchised, and historically overlooked communities. WEB3BEACH educates, coaches and empowers community leaders from diverse walks of life to use web3 tools in efforts to improve living conditions for all. This includes environmental impact, health services, education, recreation and the ability to carry out their own public goods initiatives through our mini grants program. As a byproducts, we're creating circular crypto economies in our communities.

Since GR15: We've launched programs in five communities throughout Honduras and will continue to expand in 2023. We're also advising projects in other countries so they can adopt Impact Onboarding strategies in their region.

🔍Transparency Reports: We include expense reports with all of our events and currently working towards creating a standardized grantee reporting process.

Our services include:

🌊Environmental Impact 🏥Health Services 👩‍🏫Education 💸Economic support for micro entreprenuers 🫰🏾Mini grants program

Community Services offered since GR15:

Environmental Impact - Beach clean ups https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1597629431597903872 https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1603773200017784833

Mental Health services - Therapy for Honduran buidlers https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1595500429898665985

Kids web3 education: https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1592969376051105792

Social Impact - Training local teachers in Emergency First Response because we don't have hospitals or ambulances on our island: https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1565425933686898688

Mini Grants Program - https://twitter.com/web3beach/status/1597670782121148416

Program Expansions We plan to continue expanding our programs in LatAm and other regions. . Ultimately we'd like to create a model anyone can copy and paste anywhere in the world to benefit their local environment, economy, and the lives of their community.

We're recently expanded Impact Onboarding to Colombia, Venezuela, and will soon begin working in Costa Rica and Peru.

We're also planning a Regen Rager event in Honduras.

Use of Grant Funding: We'll continue to use all of our funding for our community programs and will begin compensating our community leaders for their work. Web3beach founder (Carlos Melgar) will continue to work without pay or benefits from grant funding.

Web3beach History

  • accepted into Metacrisis 1 year ago. 13 people contributed $101 to the project, and $125 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into ENS Ecosystem 1 year ago. 6 people contributed $38 to the project, and $156 of match funding was provided.
  • accepted into Climate Solutions 1 year ago. 40 people contributed $741 to the project, and $14,886 of match funding was provided.

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