ZCG Community Group Funding 2025 - New Approach

[ZCG]

Zcash Community Grants (ZCG) is refining its approach to funding Zcash Community organizations in 2025 in order to create stability and certainty for well-established and proven community projects. This effort focuses on ensuring impactful contributions, while streamlining the process for everyone involved. This new approach is being implemented in cooperation with the Financial Privacy Foundation (@FPF), which is providing a matching contribution to the funding pool.

Approach: Eligible Zcash Community groups are being invited to submit full-year 2025 funding requests to ZCG. Eligible groups can propose monthly or quarterly milestones for payout. No additional funding for community groups will be made available by ZCG in 2025.

Funding: FPF will contribute $75,000 to the funding pool and ZCG will provide the remaining funds (amount TBD depending on the value of approved grants).

Eligibility: Groups aligned with ZCG’s recent statement are invited to submit full-year grant requests: “Moving forward, ZCG will apply strict criteria for community-focused grants, prioritizing established communities with a proven track record of delivering impact in regards to community building, effective organization, and collaboration with external entities. We will also favor communities recognized and valued by key members within the ecosystem.” Additionally, ZCG further defines “established communities” as communities that are administered and sustained by individual contributors, both volunteer-based and compensated.

In line with this statement, the following groups are invited to submit full-year grant requests:

• ZecHub
• Zcash Global en Español
• Zcash Brazil
• ZK AV Club

Process and Timeline:

1. Submissions from eligible organizations are due December 6th, submitted via the standard grant request process. All requests must be for a full-year (starting January 1, 2025), with either monthly or quarterly milestones permissible.
2. ZCG to conduct a standard grant review process with a final response date no later than December 30th. Note: FPF will not have input into funding decisions.
3. Approved grants to be monitored and paid out as per standard grant processes.

FAQs:

1. Is funding for the “eligible” groups guaranteed? No. ZCG will review the grant proposals, revert with questions and/or concerns, and ultimately determine if funding is warranted at the level requested. The act of submitting a grant request doesn’t guarantee funding.
2. How will new Zcash communities gain funding if ZCG isn’t funding any additional community projects in 2025? New or less-established community projects have the ability to request funding via ZecHub, Free2Z, and other similar platforms for funding outside of ZCG.
3. What is the total value of the funding pool available for this project? The amount is to be determined based on the value of the final approved grants. FPF will be contributing $75,000 to this project regardless of the final funding amount.
4. What if grantees don’t deliver on their grant? Like any grant, ZCG (via ZF currently and FPF post-halving) has the right to cancel non-performing grants under the standard terms and conditions that all grantees agree to when they submit a grant request.

Please post on this thread or reach out with any questions. Thank you!

[gordonesTV]

What good news and what a good approach!

This demonstrates a change, at least in intent, from within the ZCG. Changes that the ECC has also demonstrated and the ZF will soon (I’m sure) begin to demonstrate.

This is a great commitment for those of us who do community building, those of us who do training and are activists/evangelists.

Come on Zcashers, let’s keep proving that we were right when we said Zcash needs to push its community further!

[therise]

I don’t like governance is just a lot of bureaucracy, that is not cyberpunk but I had a Luma with record events made by me and my collaborator in Cartagena Colombia with base, arbitrum before the dao, pizzadao, optimism and some other… some times autofunding by community members others by key players that the mention before I have been with the idea to make some event to help spread the voice in a formal and structured way. We have discords and socialmedia accounts with a number of users and a background creating and helping from a growth marketing perspective but this governance process are a shit show and sometimes very closed to the same persons. However I also create a financial game and I have been doing championship in the city and in the cryptocurrency sector is the zcash logo I can connect this with some kind of event not to go all in as a contributor but I can make 1 or 2 events per year for start. I’m close to start working as a Skale Ambassador in the country but if that happen is easier to me to contribute to zcash because of more funded spaces or having a bigger community by then here some pictures of the last 2 meetings in 1 month in the next post the link

[gordonesTV]

Just to clarify: cyberpunk is different from cypherpunk.

I applaud your initiative. It would be great to see how many people/attendees/interested you have in your community (if you have created or are creating one). And to see what educational/informative content you are creating.

I suggest you get in touch with the Zcash en Español community for more details or questions.

Greetings and welcome!

[FPF]

@ZCG

ZCG to conduct a standard grant review process with a final response date no later than December 30th.

ZCG discussed this final response date and they’ve decided to extend it to January 20th which will be the second meeting of the updated committee (with any approved grants retroactive to January 1st).

The reason for this extended period is to give the new ZCG committee (post elections) the opportunity to review and vote on these proposals. All requested proposals under this funding approach have been received.