Description

Since June 2022 the Grant Support Squad has onboarded 100% of the grantees that entered the Grants Program at Decentraland. The team was able to understand their needs, identified in the last 6 month period 15 blockers and 55 requests (2 being solved by the team) and provided solutions to them. We wrote the [grant's FAQs](https://docs.decentraland.org/player/general/dao/overview/grants-faq/) to the DAO documentation, added [security recommendations](https://docs.decentraland.org/player/general/dao/overview/security-recommendations/), we contributed to [17 AskMeAnything sessions](https://www.notion.so/decentraland/Decentraland-Foundation-Technical-AMA-230fcf1ca1ec4d49922744fe91e6995d) to connect the community with the Decentraland Foundation since Oct 2022. More recently, in March 2023 we have launched the **Testing Tuesday Initiative**, to give the grantees a space to demo their projects and get feedback from the community. So far we have hosted 11 sessions, and we’ve given POAPs to the community as a way to acknowledge their valuable contributions. We would like to continue **updating the documentation** and fostering spaces of collaboration between the Decentraland DAO and Decentraland Foundation, and provide support to the grantees in these or other initiatives that might arise based on their needs. Another frequent request from our grantees has been **promotion**. We hired a copywriter (Luis Mienville) who so far had written [13 articles](https://decentraland.org/blog/author/decentraland-dao) in the Decentraland Blog about the amazing work our grantees are doing. We also encouraged grantees to show their progress in our **bi-weekly Townhalls**. Since September, we have an average of 3 grantees showing their progress in each Town Hall, who create videos and socialize with the community their advancements. We would like to continue nurturing these spaces of promotion, which are crucial to showcase their work. To take care of the community treasury, we have recommended to the DAO committee to revoke grants that were delayed, not delivering their grant projects, or unable to finish due to technical blockers, until they can deliver their commitment with the DAO. In our last grant, **we had recovered** $565.842, and since then, 3 grant vesting contracts were resumed as they resolved their blockers, recovering from legacy revoked grants $181.619, and $75.000 from the renewed grants program adding a total of **$256.619 to the DAO treasury** during this first year. We are creating a **Revocation Committee** to distribute this responsibility with selected members of the community. Last but not least, we have collaborated with the DAO Facilitation Squad and the DAO Governance Squad to provide them with continuous feedback and partner with them to generate synergy among our efforts to build transparency in the community via promotion and the governance dApp respectively. We’ve also collaborated providing insights to the DAO Committee to restructure the grants program. We’d love to continue improve our grants program not only with the grantees, but with the broader Decentraland systems, and applying ongoing changes to better serve Decentraland’s sustainable growth. [Here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15YQ3alNtXDXxehMRvgS5_ZOzMl_RgiMsGQ8IwOOJSmI/edit#gid=1600802421) you can see our financial report (jan22-apr23)