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title: Community Team Budget Request

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# Community Team Budget Request

| **Team Name**|  Community Team | 
| -------- | -------- |
| **Quarter** | Q4 2022| 
| **Payout Address** | TBD | 
| **Total USD Value Requested** | $43.403,62 | 

## **Team Purpose**

The community team is responsible for stewarding, instilling, and nurturing the culture and contributors around the protocol. Its work ensures the ethos of PoolTogether stays strong as the protocol grows. The team’s areas of focus are:

- **Identity**: Facilitate and foster events, vibes & values
- **Spaces**: Manage & maintain community spaces
- **Content**: Create & promote content such as newsletters, guides, articles and user documentation
- **Engagement**: Empower community members to take ownership & help grow PoolTogether
- **Relationships**: Cultivate trust, coordinate actions, and collaborate for change

### **Objective**
PoolTogether is perceived the most wholesome, welcoming, and secure community in DeFi.

## Performance Goals
1. **Maintain a strong and engaged community.**
    - Shape community-first vibes through events, bounties & other fun activities
    - Promote the PoolTogether values and nurture our community identity
    - Ensure the the community is a safe space for its members
    - Bootstrap a community-led events program
    - Conduct audit for community spaces
    - Conduct DAO-Health Survey
    
    **Performance Metrics**: DAO Health Survey results, number of events, grow # of event participants by 5-10%, Community growth (Discord Members) – Grow community sustainably by 2%
    
2. **Increase the level of ownership taken by protocol contributors through Community Experience.**
    - Increase transparency & awareness of key community activities
    - Create entry points for contributors to play a role in growing the protocol
    - Spotlight contributors and their work
    - Revamp onboarding calls
    
    **Performance Metrics**: Number of Coordinape members & teams, unique voters, number of members who made their first contribution
    
3. **Increase awareness & affinity for savings, the no loss spirit, and PoolTogether’s role in Decentralized Finance.**
    - Be a reliable news source around the PoolTogether protocol and its closer ecosystem
    - Create educational content around PoolTogether, & savings: visuals, explainers and videos
    - Actively work on creating spaces for cross-community activities in an effort to unite communities
    
    **Performance Metrics**: Content reach (Recipients, Open Rate, Click throughs) – Grow reach by 10%, maintain an open rate ≥18-20%, facilitate at least one cross-community opportunity
    
4. **Improve coordination, mutual learning, and flow or resources and information**
    - Host meetings & workshops to share and apply our learnings
    - Create playbooks to garner and share best practices
    - Maintain spaces for knowledge exchange
    
    **Performance Metrics**: Built Context (Number of created/updated documents, formalized processes), host at least 3 workshops, deliver a Community Dashboard

Here is [an overview](https://pooltogetherdao.notion.site/Community-Team-Home-131b41549b4b4f29a9f96db60758463d) of current projects the community team is working on to achieve these goals.

### **Metrics**
The following metrics will be used to measure the team’s success:

| Baseline Data (as of 30. September 2022) |  |
| --- | --- |
| Discord members | 11,905 |
| # of members who made their first contribution | not tracked |
| Token holders (>1 POOL) |  |
| # (%) of holders verified on Discord | 443 (x%) |
| Twitter followers | 47,387 |
| Lens followers | 40 |
| Mirror subscribers | 27 |
| Substack subscribers  | 2,212 |
| Events (#, month) | 15 |
| Teams (#) | 8* |
| Coordinape Contributors (#) | 48 |

## Budget for Quarter
### Summary
The requested funds in summary:

| Token     | Amount  | USD        |
| --------- | ------- | ---------- |
| USDC      | 7,500.00 | $7,500.00   |
| POOL      | 36,439.35  | $35.903,62 |
| **Total** | –       | $43.403,62 |


### Team Members

| Role | Yearly USD Compensation | Commitment Percentage | Quarterly USDC | Quarterly POOL | Contributor | Contributor Discord |
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- | ---- |
| Community Builder | $94,000 | 100% | 0 | 3,959.20 | Tjark | Tjark#0815 |
| Coordinape Manager | $90,000 | 7.5% | 1,418 | 274.03 | Lonser | Lonser#7584 |
| Language Advocate | $60,000 | 20% | 2,655 | 350.15 | **Open Role** |  |
| Language Advocate | $60,000 | 20% | 2,655 | 350.15 | **Open Role** |  |


**Note**: The USDC compensation for the Community Builder position is currently covered by PoolTogether Inc for this quarter.

### Team Expenses

The Community Team expects the following expenses to incur during the quarter:

| Description | Amount |
| ----------- | ------ |
| Coordinape | 31,579 POOL |
| Bounties & Contests | 1,500 POOL |
| Delegation Budget | 100,000 PTaOptUSDC | 

The Coordinape budget is capped at $10,000 worth of POOL per month. $400 per active circle member is being distributed per month. Any leftover funds will roll over into the next quarter.

The Executive Team should hold custody of the Delegation budget. This budget is not intended to be spent but to be used as contributor incentives and contest rewards via the PoolTogether delegation feature. A member of the Community Team will serve as a representative and provide a quarterly report on how the delegation budget has been used. 

All the funds not used at the end of the quarter will be rolled over to the next quarter in case the team gets approved. If it is not, all unused funds will be returned to the PoolTogether treasury.




# Appendix
Note: Token prices at time of the budget request are used for standardization. For simplicity, the relevant token prices are provided below.

## Token Pricing
| Token | USD |
| ---- | ---- |
| USDC | $1 |
| POOL | 0.985298 |



