Description
🌱 Turning regen philosophy into real-world action one person at a time 🌱 🔗powered by crypto, inspired by human potential 🌎
Based in Ottawa, Canada, we've already achieved many things, including hosting educational workshops, creating a 'getting started in web3' guide, hosting community meetups, partnering with other web3 protocols to support local impact and donating to local causes.
Our upcoming plans involve continuing to run meetups, and workshops, and collaborate with local web3 groups. We are seeking funding to sustain our chapter's growth and support the larger GPN ecosystem.
Since GG19 (Dec '23) we have:
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hosted a regenerative crypto + greenpill presentation with the Nimiq Community (https://www.nimiq.com/) exploring DePIN, how web3 tools can help foster decentralized collectives, support local communities and more.
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was a community partner and speaker at Innovator and Creative Social - discussed the power of crypto in coordination, the GreenPill Network, gitcoin and other regen web3 tooling (https://lu.ma/InnovatorCreativeSocial-Denver2024)
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Partnering with Silvi for #OperationWebTree (reforestation project) to grow and plant White Pines in the Ottawa region (https://x.com/greenpillottawa/status/1760784630628692049?s=20)
Donated to web3 communities:
- Impact Summit (Nigeria)
- Japan earthquake relief
- Denver GP summit
Donated to local non-profits:
- ecology Ottawa
- Parkdale Food Market x2
Continued to Incubate RootedLABs + bring web3 tooling into the project
⁃ Urban (Shipping container) engineering specs complete for unit 1 - to be minted on-chain
⁃ Founding member nfts distributed
⁃ Will be distributing on-chain credentials to students who help
To date we have also accomplished the following:
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Hosted educational workshops and events, helping first-time web3 users earn their first bit of crypto for successfully setting up their EVM wallets and learning how to use them.
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Developed a comprehensive 'getting started in web3' guide and resource booklet, offering step-by-step instructions to assist individuals in securely establishing, funding, and using their wallets to explore web3. Most attendees were artists and public goods-focused individuals.
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Donated to Ecology Ottawa, which supports tree-planting initiatives in the city.
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Wrote the 'Touch Grass' guide for V2 GreenPill.
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Collaborated with PizzaDAO to organize an in-person Ottawa Bitcoin pizza day, providing practical demonstrations of DAO functionality and organization (attended by over 150 people).
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Co-hosted an official side event for EthWaterloo with PizzaDAO, where more than 150 participants networked around the theme of Public Goods, while also mentoring 5 hackers during the hackathon.
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Hosted an introductory workshop on decentralized social media, led by our Chapter Lead.
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Are incubating RootedLABs to help spearhead the establishment of a network of decentralized Urban Farms and agriculture AI solutions (since July '23)
These accomplishments showcase our dedication to community-building, education and onboarding within web3, as well as our focus on making a positive impact in our local community.
In the near future, our focus will be on:
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Continuing our series of meetups, workshops, and talks aimed at fostering community activation and education.
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Running an intro into defi and web3 workshop at : https://growthweeklive.com/growth-week-2021 (https://growthweeklive.com/growth-week-2021)
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Hosting a follow up workshop for people
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Continue to make donations to our local food banks for the upcoming holiday season.
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Strengthening partnerships with local non-profit organizations, providing support and guidance to facilitate their onboarding into the web3 ecosystem. We want to eventually run a QF round within our community and this will require us to onboard these organizations into the space. We'd also like to get some set up on Giveth.
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Running more community activiations with other web3 groups like PizzaDAO, EthGlobal etc.
We are seeking funding to continue growing and expanding our chapter, as well as continuing to support the larger GPN ecosystem. Thank you so much for your support.
Here is a link to our hypercert (proof of impact) data from April 23'-Nov '23 - https://hypercerts.org/app/view?claimId=0x822f17a9a5eecfd66dbaff7946a8071c265d1d07-15974895997470377105751584320491790455013376
