Lil Nouns DAO

tl;dr

This is a proposal to create a Lil Sisters Fund (just like Lil Grants) to allocate fast capital to women and non-binary builders.

Lil Sisters Fund

As part of our mission of creating an accessible on-ramp to Nouns, we propose establishing a pool of funds to encourage women and non-binary creators, devs, and artists to build with Lil Nouns. This pool of capital will be sent to a Gnosis Safe controlled by a small group of Lil Nouners and Lil Nouns DAO.

Proposed budget: 38 ETH

The committee’s gnosis safe will require 3 of 6 Lil Nouners to sign, with Lil Nouns DAO acting as a largely symbolic owner and backup. We recommend keeping the signer group small with a team of experienced signers and then adding more as we scale up operations and the size of the pool.

The initial signers on the Safe will be:

• B | thebeautyandthepunk has been around since 2017. She is a co-founder of RiseDAO. RiseDAO aims to train and onboard women from developing economies to the web3 environment. She has been collecting art for many years, and the transition to NFTs was the obvious move forward. Twitter @beautyandpunk
• Kome is a member of Lil Nouns DAO and co-founder of RiseDAO and NounsDAO Brazil. Twitter @KOMESciArt
• mimix started her crypto/nft journey in April 2021, joined the Nounish ecosystem, and has fallen in love with it and the endless building possibilities that exist within it. Studies medicine, love dogs and enjoy forming part of communities in this amazing ecosystem. Twittter: @miagiulianag
• Pxlmnml she/her/they/them: has a long career in art and technology. A trained artist and designer, pxl has directed and managed creative teams for some of the biggest websites with global reach pivoted to create a successful jewelry line, has collected, sold, and curated fine art, entered the crypto world in 2017, and discovered the exciting world of NFTs in 2021. All around nounish designer and builder, you can find Pxl active in Nouns, Lil Nouns, Noun Punks, and Gnars to name a few. Twitter @pxlmnml
• Lil Noun 3006/3343 @profwerder ⌐◨-◨ FloriNouns/TheNounishProf.eth Prof Werder developed a Blockchain Applications and incorporated an NFT project based on & supported by NounsDao small grants called FloriNouns. She was the first woman on the Nouncil! See her pinned tweet for more info on her love for Nouns.⌐◨-◨ Twitter @profwerder @FloriNouns
• Al409 is the wonderful person who has helped make this project a reality. He has been building this community, and now is building us up. An honorary member of the Lil Sisters Fund. Twitter @al409.eth ⌐◨-◨

Why?

Womxn can find it intimidating to join tech communities for the lack of peers, and this fund would provide a welcoming entry to many that might find it difficult to integrate themselves into web3 communities, be them artists, or builders. Womxn have also been historically “late” to tech events (building web1 and web2), so usually have not been able to amount wealth to independently launch their projects. This fund seeks to include more womxn in the building of web3, changing to a more diverse cohort of people.

Current Progress

With the support of @al409.eth ⌐◨-◨ a discord channel for the Lil Sisters has been created, where we were able to find each other, connect and start planning on building. He has also created the multisig for the abovementioned community members. We are now creating a Twitter account to share our mission and updates on the project, so people can know about it and apply, and a Discourse to work on ideas and projects, just as Nouns and Lil Nouns already do.

Budget breakdown

• 20 eth to fund proposals of women and non-binary creators.

• 12 eth for social media management and regular meeting organization. The budget is for 6 months of work.

• 6 eth for administration services.

• 20 eth is being deployed to the Lil Sisters multisig which will be used for funding proposals.

• 18 eth will be sent to the Lil Sisters admin multisig which will be used to retroactively fund the lil sisters committee for marketing/operational costs associated with running the program.

Timeframe

• 1st week: Lil sisters’ grant proposal writing and submission on-chain.
• 2nd week: if approved, open dialogue with women and non-binary web3 communities.
• 3rd week: 1 eth x 5 first-round submissions with 7 days to propose.
• 4th week: voting and funding proposals

Rounds will run at the discretion of the Lil Sisters group ⌐◨-◨