Introducing Impact Stream: A new non-profit that helps digital communities create IRL impact
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In this episode of Ventures, I (https://www.linkedin.com/in/wclittle) introduce a new non-profit called Impact Stream (https://impact.stream), which is all about creating transparent streams of impact between digital communities and real-life communities. Our first project - in partnership with Gitcoin, Supermodular, Prota Ventures, International Literacy and Development, and Primordia - will create a software application to onboard 100 Togolese (West Africa) into Web3 and allow them to create, submit, and vote on proposals to fund public goods in their community with a global matching pool.  Visit https://satchel.works/@wclittle/ventures-episode-151 for more information.  You can watch this episode via video here.  0:03 - Tee-up for the episode, audio/video options. 0:29 - Introduction to Impact Stream - creating transparent streams of impact between digital communities and real-life communities. https://impact.stream  1:45 - Local solutions to local problems -- with strategic injection of help from the global community 2:18 - Starting in Q3 we will onboard 100 Togolese into Web3 and allow them to submit proposals, vote on them, and get them funded by the global community.  3:11 - Quadratic voting as our mechanism for prioritizing projects  3:40 - Future vision about creating fractions of validator rewards to stream into IRL impact 4:15 - Give (impactstream.eth) and join our community on Discord --> https://discord.gg/we344V4QP7
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