# \[Request for Guidance\] Can Zk Av Club Foundry team be paid from the grant's community prize pool?

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**Created:** [September 5, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/request-for-guidance-can-zk-av-club-foundry-team-be-paid-from-the-grants-community-prize-pool/52085 "2025-09-05T10:57:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/request-for-guidance-can-zk-av-club-foundry-team-be-paid-from-the-grants-community-prize-pool/52085/1 "2025-09-05T10:57:03Z")

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Hi Zcashers! We’re rolling out community-led workshops for the Zk Av Club Foundry @ZCG grant and want to sanity-check compensation rules with you all, the Zcash community.

From the [accepted proposal](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/grant-proposal-for-zk-av-club-community-support-2025/49622/22):

- **Services (community prize pool): $8,000 in ZEC** — for community contributions replacing “cloud” services and incentivizing engagement.

- **Compensation: $40,000** — for the core team’s curriculum design and production work, paid per module.

- It also notes that **advisors may produce supporting content and receive compensation from the community prize pool.**

- This would not pay retrospectively for workshops that the Zk Av Club Foundry team members have already delivered.

**Question:** If a _core team member_ delivers a community-led workshop, should they be eligible for payment from the **community prize pool** , or should that pool be reserved for non-team community members (with core team compensated only from the $40k line)?

If you think team members _can_ be paid from the community pool, what guardrails would you expect?

We’d appreciate your perspectives so we can publish a clear, transparent policy that aligns with the intent of the grant and community expectations. Thanks!

— [Zk Av Club](https://zkav.club/): Don’t just watch.

## Past workshops created by your Zk Av Club Foundry team:

**Spanish**

- [Editing for clip contests and content creation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mhv220YyMw)

- [Basic video editing with Kdenlive and Adobe Premiere](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-cft5Ir9s)

**English**

- [Archive Like a Hacker-Librarian: Internet Archive with Command Line](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pr05zlXdlo)