Progress on grant work from the last GG 20 https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/36/14 :
✅ Organising a volunteering visit to the Boruca Project.
(WIP) Created documentation of the visit 
✅ Funding materials for local cultural & environmental infrastructure:
Raised $1111 for:
Repairing the sacred malocas of Boruca community members to host eco/cultural interactions and engagement
Purchase of trees and materials for initial reforestation and syntropic agroforestry planning
Also we realized this land is in a legal dispute and it's owned by Inder since the United Fruit Company (UFC) left the area and its workers abandoned in 1999. There as an article from Inder here and you can find a chronological explanation of the events here. Also there’s a Repositorio Kérwá Archive, from the University of Costa Rica, where you can find more academic research around this topic for free. 
The farm we are supporting is owned by an indigenous leader from Boruca Nation.
✅ (& ONGOING) Production of short videos for storytelling
✅Co-ran a workshop on Giveth onboarding for NGOs May 12-15
✅ Donated $300 ($100 per month) from our GG 20 funding to initiate legal action to protect nature’s rights, support legal frameworks for environmental justice, and empower environmentalists on the ground whose efforts have already helped prevent harmful activities:
https://delfino.cr/2024/06/fiscalia-paraliza-construccion-de-torre-de-apartamentos-que-se-levantaba-en-manuel-antonio
✅ Allocated 5% of the grant to support GrowNations for next GG21, fostering the growth of regenerative projects (c.a 300$)
(WIP) Providing ongoing fundraising support for regenerative projects to ensure sustained impact and growth.
(WIP) Webinar for the Commons / Taller de Economías Regenerativas: An onboarding framework for rural & indigenous communities to raise funds using Web3 technologies.
(WIP) Onboarding framework/process for rural & indigenous communities to raise funds including Web3 fundraising e.g. Giveth.io & micro-lending e.g. EthicHub.com
(WIP) Initiating a Regenerative Finance Program for commons stewards (Web2/Web3 Fundraising -> more complex initiatives e.g. eco credits and community currencies)
(LONG-TERM & ONGOING) Research, documentation & expansion of dMRV methodologies, regenerative and collaborative finance mechanisms, emerging technologies and biodiversity credits.
(LONG-TERM & ONGOING) Research and relationship building to support land repurchase.
(LONG-TERM & ONGOING) Support existing initiatives for land repurchase and the development of syntropic agroforestry and regeneration of degraded former banana plantation land.
