Description

Since Jun22, the Squad has worked with more than 190 grantees. We onboard them and provide support along the way. The team participated in governance processes updating the grants program, developed a grants landing page, published articles to showcase grants, provided transparency in public roadmaps, launched initiatives such as Testing Sessions, sent welcome kits to strengthen DCL brand awareness, and published a Manual of Operations. We have also created a Revocations Committee (RC), and so far we have recovered $433.778 DAI since this squad was created. **The GSS has been active and working under 3 main goals:** **1) For taking care of DAO Treasury**: [$433.778 has been recovered](https://www.notion.so/dcl-dao/edfd964a496942d4befa74d22f4ae26d?v=177d8ed6010f4efd9e96f8f14e7cf5a3&pvs=4). Before establishing the RC, were our squad revoked vesting contracts based on gather information, engaging with the grantee, and seeking inputs from advisors to confirm or refute our findings. This approach served as a double-check on the information available. After nearly a year of following this procedure, our team and the community began to recognize that it concentrated a significant amount of power within a single entity. As a response to this concern, the RC was established through a governance proposal. Its purpose was to review our recommendations and allow grantees to engage with an impartial third party, thus ensuring a more fair and transparent process. In this stage, funds related to 8 projects were revoked or recovered, totaling $291,330 (all made possible thanks to investigations or interventions by the GSS) and 13 cases were dismissed. **2) For supporting grantees**, we have onboarded 100% of the grantees that entered the Program. On our last renewal, while providing more than **784 hours of support**, we shipped more than 45 onboarding kits to raise brand awareness. Since the squad was created, we have solved more than **128 problems/requests** to lead grants to success. So far, we have also produced **20 articles**, published in the DCL Blog about the work our grantees are doing. More recently we have launched **Testing Sessions**, to give the grantees a space to demo their projects and get feedback. So far we have **hosted 27 sessions**. **3) For fostering transparency & accountability**, we have launched Public Roadmaps, to make a follow up on grants milestones and impact metrics to 100% of the projects (Grants' Framework 2023). We are proud of having built a grants program with community input, with 16 step-by-step guides to provide transparency about our work: [Grant Support Squad’s manual of operations](https://dcl-dao.notion.site/Grant-Support-Squad-Documentation-bc14cb2ffc0c4df18302bcffc6b60b2f). We've also created the [DAO Grants Github REPO](https://github.com/Decentraland-DAO/grants) to compile all the available codes from open sourced grants. And to make overall updates and changes to the grants program, we have published 11 governance proposals, and have done 9 pull requests made into docs.decentraland.org to update the Grants Program documentation. We have written security recommendations, and a sensitive data handling policy and we created the [Grants Program Landing Page](https://dao.decentraland.org/grants/) . [Here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P0TNgMW15zxQupKUVQUmYKTBNIzAn5g929kRuLInc4Q/edit?usp=sharing) you can see our financial report (Jun to Nov23). It continues in comments.