FtC's initiatives are valuable to the Zuzalu community as they foster innovation, collaboration, and the development of digital public goods. The organization's emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, integration of technology with global challenges, and nurturing of a sustainable digital infrastructure for public goods funding aligns with the Zuzalu community's values of governance, coordination, AI, and longevity. 

Funding the Commons residencies fulfill a specific vertical that is of value to the Zuzalu community: public goods. FtC residencies both foster the development of public goods, and create more cohesion and collaboration amongst the open source & public goods builder communities through meaningful personal and professional relationships that develop throughout the residency. FtC residencies are an avenue that Zuzalu community members can walk as their desire grows specifically to contribute to the community by working on open source public goods amongst a community of dedicated and mutually supportive peers.

The proposed Funding the Commons residency would be in temporal and geographic alignment with other Zuzalu-inspired events, and we’d be willing to co-facilitate a summit that would see the physical intersection of various Zuzalu-inspired residencies in a single location for 2-3 days.

Furthermore, FtC links Zuzalu’s community to a broad cross-section of real-world public goods funding partners outside of web3 such as UNICEF, public sector officials, the movement within web2 to fund open source, academia, etc. As FtC was incubated by Protocol Labs, its residencies are also an opportunity for cross-fertilization between the Ethereum Community and the Protocol Labs/Filecoin/IPFS communities.