# Major Grants committee **URL:** \ **Category:** Governance\ **Created:** [January 29, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/major-grants-committee/35871 "2020-01-29T02:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 145
**Author:** ![Shawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/shawn/32/187_2.png) [@Shawn](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/Shawn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/major-grants-committee/35871/145 "2020-02-01T21:09:18Z")
> [@mika](#): > > I don’t think this is an acceptable reaction to criticism. > It prevents the community from speaking freely and making an educated decision. > It should not be tolerated at any point in time. I think @acityinohio is referring to the context of this thread. The point of this thread is to cover how a new Major Grants Committee as outlined in [ZIP 1012](https://zips.z.cash/zip-1012) and further refined in [ZIP 1014](https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/308/files?short_path=1a6b09f#diff-1a6b09f5224cd37433fd21d0d92223ce) will operate. As Zooko and Josh both mentioned the formation of a separate entity was not supported by the community polling process that chose ZIP 1012 as the model for moving forward with a future development fund. Which is now being distilled into ZIP 1014. There are plenty of other threads such as [Blocktowns](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/blocktown-development-fund-proposal-10-to-a-2-of-3-multisig-with-community-involved-third-entity/34782) and [Lex-Nodes](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/dev-fund-supplemental-proposal-enforce-devfund-commitments-with-legal-charter/34709) which discuss at great lengths the legal and decentralized virtues of a third entity and a legal charter, respectively, of which to continue the conversation in. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/major-grants-committee/35871)._