Alliance for Global Regeneration: How to get a grant for regeneration!
Get financially rewarded for contributing to a regenerative movement to create a healthier culture for all life on our beautiful earth!
Note: If you haven't already, take a pledge to the regeneration of our earth and apply for a grant for your organization!
SEEDS exists to serve the global movements, organisations and businesses that are creating a more just, connected and regenerative society.
SEEDS is a financial ecosystem that not only recognizes and rewards the contributions that you as planetary healers make, but also amplifies your efforts.
SEEDS is meant to serve as the financial and governance layer for this transition.
It’s a system that allows us to opt-in to an economy that provides people and planet more voice and more real value!
The purpose of these grants is to give all the diverse organisations and movements a financial stake in this regenerative movement and to reward you for the work you’re doing to make it happen.
This helps us unite our various causes under a unified and regenerative financial ecosystem.
Earn Seeds
SEEDS is designed as a financial ecosystem that rewards regenerative behaviours and finances the creation of a more beautiful world.
SEEDS has reserved ~377M Seeds for gifting to organisations who offer value to the SEEDS community and our planet.
Note: If you’re gifted these Seeds, they are held in an escrow account until the “Go Live” event is triggered (estimated late 2021). At this point the Seeds will slowly be released to your organisation to use, hold or exchange.
Example organisations and movements
- Peer to peer exchange platforms
- Festivals, events and gatherings
- Positive movements and charities
- Regenerative, sustainable (or eco) businesses
- Food systems, farms and co-operatives
- Renewable or regenerative energy
- Whole systems designers / think tanks
- Sustainable and regenerative housing
- Conscious media and social platforms
Aligning the movements and our shared interests
Shared prosperity
The more SEEDS grows, the more valuable your grant becomes. This shared prosperity, by nature, aligns the interests of all the organisations in the SEEDS alliance who are thriving to create a healthier society.
When we grow as one, we all prosper. Seeds have been consistently growing in price! See here for the latest prices.
Since we all share in the prosperity of SEEDS we now have financial incentives to help all the other organisations and movements within SEEDS thrive.
A Cooperative Global Economy — By aligning financial incentives to reward cooperation
With this added incentive we may make our purchases from each other, share in the costs of marketing, supply chain and platform development. Hypha (an organisation behind SEEDS) will actively market all alliance members and seek to open new markets and grow the collective movement.
This embodies the truth that we’re all in this together and creates the conditions that support cooperation over competition.
Tools built by Hypha are open source — such as the DHO (Decentralized Human Organisation) tools that alliance organisations can use to decentralize their governance and value distribution at scale. This allows organisations to create equity tokens, your own currency, manage governance and engage your global community in a more robust and holistic way.
As they succeed, you succeed. As you succeed, they succeed.
Our regenerative financial ecosystem
SEEDS directs value towards the activities that are healing our planet and making a more beautiful world for us (and all life on this planet) to enjoy and pass on to our children.
How to apply for a grant
Notice: Seeds “Staked” for an Alliance proposal will be returned to you if the proposal is successful! If the community votes it down (usually only if they feel it’s fraudulent) you’ll lose this stake. Connect with Hypha if you want to apply for a grant to cover this!
Step 1: Get the Passport (If you don’t already have it)
Get invited
Get an invite from an existing member (whoever shared this article with you). Being invite-only is to prevent spam and abuse and to cultivate strong trust in the community at this stage.
If you don’t know any yet. Click here to go to the community and ask for one.
Step 2: Create an organisation account
After you’ve created your personal profile, create an organisation profile and account for the organisation you’re applying for.
You can find this in the top right menu.
- Click on your account name on the top right.
- Click “Organisation / Business”
- Click “Create organisation account”
Note: There is a nominal requirement of 200 Seeds associated with creating an organisation account. Buy the 200 Seeds or apply for a scholarship to have Hypha gift you these Seeds. These Seeds will be “planted” in your org account and you can reclaim them if you close your org account — this exists to prevent spam or abuse.
Step 3: Cultivate a proposal for your grant
This grant is to acknowledge the value you bring to the movement and recognize any actions you’ve already taken to create a regenerative and thriving global society. The Citizens of SEEDS are the ones voting on what proposals are funded.
You need to get 80% of the votes in favor of your proposal and at least 5% of the active Citizens voting for you in order for it to pass!
Proposal fee
No organisation needs to ask permission to submit a proposal. However, there is a proposal stake requirement of %5 (with a max of 11,111 Seeds) of your requested amount. You’re encouraged to do research before making a proposal.
Note: This staking is to reduce spam and abuse and encourage well-considered proposals. If your proposal passes you will get this back!
3.1 Research
Look at previously passed proposals, discuss with the community in the Forum and engage with the Hypha team to find out what the community is supporting and what to ask for.
Best practice is to create a forum proposal discussing your grant and engage first with the Citizens before submitting a grant request.
3.2 Recommendations — Offer value!
You will increase the chances of your proposal passing if you offer value to the SEEDS community. This could be value you’re giving indirectly (through serving people or planet) or it could be discounts on products and services or any other gift you can offer to the movement.
Example 1: Gifts to the community
Discounts on products and services— with the added benefit that these discounts are compensated in Seeds from the network (up to a fixed value). This way value is offered to the community and you’re able to gain more value in Seeds!
Example 2: Regeneration efforts
Dedication to healing people and our planet (such as tree planting initiatives, restorative land projects, regenerative food production education and more.) These organisations can request a grant that acknowledges the efforts they have already taken to heal our planet and continue to do.
3.3 Constraints & best practices
This grant is designed to reflect the regenerative impact and potential of an organisation.
To offer a guideline and best practice the bands below can guide your grant proposal.
These bands reflect how much your organisation is leading the regenerative movement and the size of your economy & community.
- Band 1 $2,500 to $5,000 USD in Seeds — Sole owners |Start ups|
- Band 2 $7,500 to $10,000 USD in Seeds — 5K+ Active members|
- Band 3 $15,000 to $20,000 USD in Seeds — 100K+ Active members| Established organisations |Proven regeneration & impact|
- Band 4 $25,000 to $30,000 USD in Seeds — 500K+ Active members|Planetary organisations |High impact regenerators|
Note: These are rough bands — use your best judgement to determine at what scale and impact your organisation is serving this movement.
3.4 Proposal template and guidelines
Example
Who are you
We’re a local food marketplace and permaculture consultancy firm. We make it easy, fun and rewarding to grow all things local food.
What do you do to serve this regenerative movement
We make it easier and more rewarding to set up local food networks. We operate in over 1000 cities across the world and have sold over 500M seeds to people to set up their first gardens.
What value are you offering the SEEDS community or Regenerative Movement
- We’ll implement Seeds as our preferred payment method.
- We’ll give a 3% discount for those who buy in Seeds (this is just the savings for us not paying the payment processing fees).
- We’re supporting the movement towards local food and empowering people to grow food.
What would you do with this grant and why are you asking for the # of Seeds you are?
We’ll use this grant to grow the local food movement — empowering our local community with additional tools, seed banks, and features to make it easier and more rewarding to grow, share, eat and make local food. We’re asking for 800,000 Seeds as this was in the band for our active community size and we believe we have a really regenerative impact!
NOTICE: GRANTS ARE IN SEEDS!
Ultimately how much your organisation requests is up to you. Then, it’s up to the Citizens of SEEDS whether or not they will pass it.
Grants are paid on a first-come-first-served basis and paid out referencing the USD value of Seeds at the time of application.
This means the sooner your grant is proposed the more value you’re likely going to get (as the value of Seeds increases).
Step 4: Apply in the Co-op
(See video for walk-through tutorial)
After you’ve cultivated your proposal, it’s time to plant the idea.
4.1 Create a Proposal
- First, make sure you’re using your organisation account. Click on the top right menu and click on your organisation account name.
- Then head over to the Co-Op tab inside your Passport and click the open button on the bottom right to create a new proposal.\
- Select “Alliance Share”!
- Fill out the form.
4.2 New/Full Moon — New Proposals
New proposals are released at the beginning of each new and full moon. Your proposal will go live for the community to vote at these points and will close at the next new/full moon.
Step 5: Promote
Now that you’ve submitted, you can engage and share with the SEEDS community so that they will vote on your proposal if they like what you are offering.
Join the SEEDS Discord for announcements and to connect with the community
5.1 Proposals with Purpose
Attend a “Proposals with Purpose” powered by the SEEDS Ambassadors to promote or pitch your proposal! This is the best way to gain more support!
Click here on your laptop to download the SEEDS calendar and when the next calls will be.
Help the community see the value you’re bringing to the movement and to creating a healthier planet.
Feel free to post in the Forum that you’ve got a proposal that you feel strongly about.
Step 6: Follow through
If your proposal passes, make sure you follow through and are integral with your offerings to the community. Citizens are able to reverse their votes and retract the offer in Seeds (up until go live when the Seeds are released). If this happens your organisational and individual reputation will be reduced!
It pays to stay in integrity and keep your commitments.
Frequently asked questions and conditions
- Can I spend these Seeds right away?
Alliance Share Seeds are locked in escrow until “Go Live” (estimated mid 2021). These Seeds aren’t meant for immediate “cashing out” but are designed to tie your financial success to the success of the whole movement.
As the movement grows the value of your grant grows with it.
This helps all organisations doing good to get a piece of this pie and to earn value as it spreads. You’ll be able to see your Seeds in escrow in the “Future Harvests” section of the app.
1.1 Do I lose my grant if I don’t follow through with my offer to SEEDS.
Yes! If you make an offer to the SEEDS community in your grant and you fail to follow through with this offer, the grant can be returned to the Citizens of SEEDS. It pays to follow through with your offers.
2. Is this grant supposed to be given to my community?
What you do with your Alliance Share is up to you. For further proposals to activate your community towards regeneration — you can also submit a “Campaign proposal”. These Seeds would be in addition to your grant and can reward your community. We encourage organisations to do both!
3. How long does the process take?
Voting starts and ends on each new and full moon. Each proposal may take anywhere from 2–4 weeks from proposal to payout.
