Description

Our daily tasks represent a continual dedication to supporting, guiding, analyzing, and ensuring accountability for grants. The Squad operates with 4 key objectives: **1) Support Grant Projects** - Periodic Follow-up with grantees to identify problems and requests, audit the grant projects with onboardings, updating roadmaps, monthly calls and facilitating contacts. - Analyze problems and requests, identify and solve them. - Ensure the accessibility of information about the grants program and promote grant work through blogs on the official blog administered by the Foundation. **2) Foster Transparency and accountability** - Write a status update monthly on grantees public roadmap, and provide spaces to share their work and gather feedback with Testing Sessions and Townhalls. - Provide information about the accountability of projects by publishing concerns raised, and analyzing the cases. - Maintain and update the DAO's Grants Github repo. **3) Take care of DAO Grants Treasury** - Analyze and elevate cases to the Revocations Committee and provide support to the RC. - Report on funds recovered. **4) General / DAO Participation** - Participation in DAO ceremonials and Core Units meetings - Bridge with Decentraland Foundation - Maintain Documentation Here you can see [the report](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JSQyFUhC0yIbXetDY2sdt_r7HZIkK6NPxYVm2YYMFyY/edit?usp=sharing) of the last 4 months of the H1 2024 Grant (our previous renewal is for 5 months and not 6, to align this renewal with the start of the Q Budget), and our [Financial Report](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ue4-OIkssfASlKV8LYp6lA0MqzdWliTDJTtFuD5d0CM/edit?usp=sharing). Additionally, after almost 2 years of the Squad's operation, we can highlight that in this last 4 month period there were no significant revocations, thanks to our diligent oversight in the DAO and the [ability to pause contracts](https://decentraland.org/governance/proposal/?id=d20c8871-b7b2-4a87-b692-b84ef3331c60) for better tracking and support, ensuring funds are only received upon progress. However, the DAO must continue to enhance the quality and alignment of funded projects with Decentraland's goals. That's why, for this renewal, in addition to the usual tasks, we propose to focus on the following process improvements: **1) Support - Improvements** - Systematize support flow for bids and tenders. - Automate processes (e.g., onboarding emails, discord channels, end reports). - Update the GSS Operational Manual. **2) Transparency and Accountability - Improvements** - Improve tracking and presentation of impact metrics for projects supported by the DAO Treasury. - Define the flow of how to review the Projects during their journey (adding technical reviews of projects with an Advisors / Board of experts). - Simplify the grantees' required tasks. **3) DAO Grants and Bidding + Tender care Treasury - Improvements** - Improve the Revocations Process. - Ensure project delivery before cash out. **4) General Improvements** - Analyze the value of projects funded per category and facilitate governance processes as needed (Categories and re-structure Budgeting). - Increase the visibility of the DAO Grants Program. Thanks for reading!