Thank you to everyone who contributed to Ma Earth Grants Round 2, supporting regenerative land and ocean projects around the world. In addition to the $200k matching pool, 931 donors gave over $30,000 to the 30 selected projects.
We are grateful to Biome Trust, Naia Trust, and Gitcoin for providing the matching pool, and to Gitcoin for hosting the round as part of #GG22, which took place Oct 23-Nov 6, 2024. We were pleased to see meaningful growth relative to our first round, including in project applications and unique donors. You can read more about the round results in our recap below.
The grants round used “quadratic funding” on blockchain tools. While web3 is still in its infancy, we are excited to support experimentation for real-world impact and place-based regeneration. (If you’re not familiar with quadratic funding yet, here’s a quick 30-second explainer of how it works.)
Shout out to our friends at BioFi Project and Regen Coordination, who also ran community rounds in Gitcoin Grants 22, for bioregional activation and individual community members.
Compared with Ma Earth’s first round, there was a greater variance in the second round’s final matching pool distributions. In the future, we will consider adding a minimum matching floor to mitigate this effect.
