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tags: Members
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# Membership Strategy MS1559

Heading into London hardfork we're at a challenging time to keep focused on buidling while fostering our beloved MetaCartel community. Increasing membership is a likely our highest leverage action to keep treasury balance growing with the grant funding schedule.

## Why

### Scaling to meet growth demands of the network(s) we participate

- Specifically targeting grantees with consumer facing applications looking for pre-pre seed investment

### Operations to support grants

- Vetting inbound leads
- Visiting hackathons to find new MC members/grantees (ambassadors)
- New initiatives

## Bottlenecks

### Becoming a new member is difficult

- intentionally tight nit, but desire to be inclusive
- protect give first culture
- proposal process is unclear
- next step? submit proposal or need values test?
- getting necessary invites and other on-boarding
- participate to show value alignment
- $CHILI
- highlight why being a member is so valuable (alumni/connections)

### Optimizing incentives in a bull run

- need to make sure values are aligned will all potential members and/or sponsors
- eth price is usually part of this equation which will make it more difficult but more valuable to find new members at this cost (that may have acquired earlier)

### Others?

## Actions

### Revamp website

- highlight grantees (check out raid guilds new portfolio for potential inspiration for this)
- highlight members
- founders
- ogs
- where are they now
- highlight hackathons and events we'll have ambassadors at
- headhunting strategy

### Update member onboarding

Current Process

- Land in #intros
- Proposal in Forum
- Values Test/Intro on Townhall?
- Proposal in DAO

Desired Process**

- Intros, Proposal, Townhall, Contribute/CHILI, DAO Proposal

### Foster $CHILI adoption and membership

- Incentivize participtation with $CHILI?
- bounty grant referrals
- give chili out to "grant council members"

- MetaFam rCHILI incentives

### Else

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