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Frontier Tech Community Grant

🌟 Introducing Frontier Tech Community Grant, a long-term initiative by DoraHacks designed to empower communities in frontier tech fields such as space tech, quantum computing, and beyond. The submission portal is always open, providing continuous support for community growth! 🚀

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Grant Pool

100,000 USD

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DoraHacks Team

@dorahacksteam

  • 6

    Applied BUIDLs

  • 1

    BUIDLs Funded

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Overview

Calling all frontier tech communities and organizations! We are excited to announce the launch of the Frontier Tech Community Grant. At DoraHacks, we are passionate about fostering innovation in frontier technologies, and we understand the vital role that community building and growth play in this endeavor. Our goal is to offer our support to fellow communities and organizations contributing to frontier tech innovation through our grant program.

With a grant pool of $100,000 available for each round, participating communities have the opportunity to win a minimum of $500 per round. The submission portal remains open year-round, providing continuous support for community development and growth. We are committed to standing by participating communities for the long term, providing further support celebrating new progress and milestones reached along the way. ✨

Eligibility

We support communities or organizations in various frontier tech fields, such as:

  • Space Tech
  • Quantum Computing
  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Biotech
  • and more!

(Note: If you are in Web3, please apply to our Multi-chain Community&DAO Grant instead.)

We welcome communities or organizations from diverse categories, including:

  • Media
  • Education
  • Event Organizers
  • Research Institutions
  • Nonprofits
  • and beyond!

Requirements:

  • Your community or organization must be operational for a minimum of 3 months.
  • To maintain eligibility for both initial and subsequent grants, completion of specified tasks is necessary.
  • Ongoing community activity is essential to remain eligible for continued grant support.

How to Apply?

When creating your BUIDL profile, ensure to include:

  1. Basic Information: Provide your community or organization's name, vision, and general description. Include team information and links to websites, social media, documents, videos, etc.
  2. Additional Details: Share the number of community members, member attributes (demographics, interests, skills, etc.), major activities organized and their frequencies (with examples if applicable), methods of member communication and notification, insights into the previous funding sources, and a clear future roadmap.

When explaining your Reason to Apply while applying, be sure to address:

  1. The expected grant amount.
  2. How you intend to utilize the DoraHacks grant effectively.

What’s Next?

  1. Submissions undergo prompt review by the DoraHacks team. We'll reach out if we need further clarification or when the grant is ready for distribution.
  2. For expedited reviews, don't hesitate to contact us using the provided methods below.

Grant Distribution

The grant program offers eligible communities both an initial grant and ongoing support based on achieved milestones. Here's how it works:

  1. Initial Grants: Upon review of community applications, successful applicants will receive an initial grant ranging from $500 to $1,000, determined by the review results.
  2. Long-Term Subsequent Grants: Grantees of the initial grants become eligible for ongoing support through subsequent grants. This means communities will continue to receive grants as they achieve specific milestones.
    • Setting Milestones: Milestones can be established in two ways. Communities can either select milestones from the task wishlist provided by DoraHacks or propose new milestones for discussion. Direct communication with DoraHacks is necessary for both options.
    • Flexible Grant Amounts: Grants in the long-term program are not fixed amounts. Grantee communities propose grant amounts based on their corresponding milestones, which are then subject to approval by the DoraHacks team.

Task Wishlist

Initial Grant Tasks: Share details of a recent community activity you plan to host. All types of activities are acceptable, such as workshops, lectures, meetups, demo days, hackathons, competitions, etc.

Subsequent Grant Task Wishlist:

  • Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to Dora Dojo by hosting topic-study sessions, inviting speakers, proposing new topics, and more.
  • Event Organization: Organize virtual or in-person events, including workshops, talk sessions, project demos, hackathons, challenges, competitions, and other relevant events.
  • Builder Referral: Refer builders to participate in hackathons, grant programs, or solve bounties on DoraHacks.
  • Other Initiatives: Open to communities with unique contributions not covered in the above lists. Propose milestones aligned with your community's strengths and goals.

Judging Criteria

  • Growth: Assess the growth trajectory of the community, considering both the number of members and the duration since its inception.
  • Vitality: Evaluate the level of engagement and activity within the community, including participation in discussions, events, and projects, etc.
  • Management: Examine the community's management practices and environment to ensure they are conducive to fostering a friendly atmosphere and are resilient against fraudulent activities.
  • Intention: Review the proposed utilization of grants and the community's commitment to sustaining its development over time.
  • Innovation: Assess the community's creativity and innovation in implementing new ideas and approaches to address challenges or opportunities.
  • Impact: Evaluate the tangible impact of the community's initiatives on its members and the broader ecosystem, including any measurable outcomes or achievements.
  • Collaboration: Consider the extent to which the community fosters collaboration and cooperation among its members, as well as its willingness to engage with external partners or stakeholders.

Contact Information

Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions, would like to explore collaboration opportunities, or share any additional ideas you may have.

About DoraHacks

DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and one of the world's most active developer incentive platforms. It creates a global hacker movement in space tech, blockchain and quantum computing, and provides a wide range of toolkits to help developers around the world team up and fund their ideas and BUIDLs via hackathons, bounties, grants, idea networks, developer games and more.

By far, more than 6,000 startup teams from the DoraHacks community have received over $40 million in grants and other forms of contributions from supporters worldwide. A large number of open source communities, companies and blockchain ecosystems are actively using Dora's infrastructure (http://dorahacks.io) for open source funding and community governance.