OpenCivics Genesis Round Eligibility

The OpenCivics Genesis Round is the first grant round of the OpenCivics consortium, and the first quadratic funding grants program focused on civics and advocacy projects. This funding is intended to help jumpstart the decentralized civics sector, with the consortium providing a hub for ongoing collaboration between participating projects.

Requirements

• Projects are creating impact through public goods, civic service, civic works, civic innovations or civic utilities.
• Projects exhibit clear relevance to the broad framing of civic innovation (What is civic innovation? https://go.opencivics.co/whatiscivics )
• At least one project steward is a member of OpenCivics consortium (Application link: https://go.opencivics.co/application )
• Project team size and skills correlates to use of funds and desired impact.
• Project demonstrates a clear track record of previous work.