Announcing the Commons Prize winner

The final results are in!

We are pleased to announce that Grassroots Economics has been awarded the Commons Prize. 🏆

Congratulations to Grassroots Economics and Will Ruddick for winning the hearts and minds of Trusted Seed. We look forward to working with Grassroots Economics to deploy a Commons to support their goals of empowering marginalized communities through taking charge of their own livelihoods and economic future.

Our team will advise the community leaders and greater community on how to deploy our unique cultural and technical builds which constitute a Commons. We will bring with us the tools, expertise, and experience from the first Commons deployment, the Token Engineering Commons (TEC).

Want to know more about Grassroots Economics?

Grassroots Economics is a non-profit foundation that seeks to empower marginalized communities to take charge of their own livelihoods and economic future. They focus on community development through economic empowerment and are dedicated to helping communities realize and share their abundance.

Their work builds on a rich history of community programs including the implementation of community currency initiatives in over 45 locations across Kenya and assisted with 2 in South Africa and helping more than 60,000 small businesses, churches and schools take an active role in their own economy and development. They are currently developing programs all over Kenya and providing technical support for those outside Kenya.

Grassroots Economics envisions a world where communities control their own financial instruments, a key ingredient for economic liberty and empowerment. They have been active since 2010 and have a long list of accomplishments.

Check out the latest information in their blog.

Recap of the Commons Prize

We announced the Commons Prize in April. It was to be a two-round voting process to choose the winner. The voters were active Trusted Seed members using their $TRUST tokens. In the first round, a shortlist of 5 finalists was chosen from 36 nominations! In the second round, the winner was chosen from those 5 finalists.

In the first round:

• There were 36 nominations.
• We used Quadratic Voting on Tokenlog.
• Only Trusted Seed members could vote.
• We had 95 unique voters!

You can see them in this playlist of the nominations and also in this Twitter thread.

In the second round:

• There were the 5 finalists chosen in the first round.
• We used Quadratic Rank Choice Voting on Snapshot.
• Only Trusted Seed members could vote.
• There were 91 unique voters.

You can watch the finalist videos on our Commons Prize finalists playlist. We also dedicated our May AMA to all 5 finalists!

A big “Thank You” to all Commons Prize nominees and Trusted Seed

We are grateful for all the communities who were nominated for Commons Prize! Your initiatives have been incredibly impactful and we have learned a lot from you. We are looking forward to continuing to work with you all in the future.

We’d also like to express our gratitude to the Trusted Seed members who participated in choosing the next Commons! Their participation is a huge part of the success of the Commons Prize initiative. If you want to learn about Trusted Seed and the benefits of being a Trusted Seed member, read here.

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