This is the continuation of a discussion around this prop idea that was occurring in the Lil Nouns Prop Ideas section in the Lil Nouns Discord Channel here’s a link to that thread: Discord.
Title: “Get-By X Lil-Nouns - Let’s Put People to Work!”
- Create co-branded merchandise to proliferate the NounsDAO while also raising awareness around Get-By and fair-chance hiring.
- Support Get-By by funding launch expenses and initial Job Fair marketing efforts.
Summary:
Get-By connects formerly incarcerated and underemployed people with small business owners looking to fill on-demand shifts. Get-By operates a mobile on-demand marketplace with pre-screened and pre-vetted applicants, allowing managers to make quick and data-driven hiring decisions while alleviating the stress of finding workers urgently. Get-By serves as an opportunity for the underemployed to establish professional relationships, credibility and begin on a path towards long-term employment. Get-By is an Anchorage Alaska based Business to Business Software and Staffing as a Service business. This first proposal/grant application will support Get-By by raising awareness around fair-chance hiring, supporting the business with a Nounified launch and associating the NounsDAO with a social impact business.
The funds proposed will be used to launch Get-By and to integrate Nounish Branding into the display of the Initial Get-By Job Fair Booth. The intention for this proposal is to lay the groundwork for future collaborations between Get-By and NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO in terms of marketing and connecting Web3 employment opportunities to formerly incarcerated and underemployed job seekers. This initial proposal will allow Lilskrtskrt to inform potential job seekers that the funding to launch Get-By was sourced from this community!
Goal of Proposal:
This nounish proposal seeks to build collaboration between the Lil Nouns DAO and a social impact business Get-By, proliferating the Nounish brand while making the ecosystem and community more accessible to more of our formerly incarcerated community members, bridging IRL, Workforce Development, and Web3.
Detailed Explanation:
Through a CCO co-branding relationship lilskrtskrt.eth seeks to:
a. Proliferate the NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO Brand and Culture:
(Print T-shirts & other Merch, Banners, LoFi Noggles, Contest at Booth, IRL Giveaways)
b. Associate the NounsDAO with goodwill and building social capital in marginalized communities:
(Co-branded Merch, Get-By is a social impact brand, targeting formerly incarcerated/underemployed workers, mutually beneficial brand building)
c. Launch Get-By and onboard the first cohort of workers ready to fill shifts:
(Use Successful Prop Funding from NounsDAO/Lil Nouns to launch a business to create jobs for people who need them, “every time a prop builder gets funded, that’s a part time job”, educate workers on how they can find Nouns funding to pursue their own dreams)
Future Proposals:
Prop 2
- Use Nounish Discords and channel partners to connect formerly incarcerated workers to Web3 employment opportunities in the NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO:
(Try to source workers inside the Nouns/Lil Nouns ecosystem who are formerly incarcerated who need these opportunities, then look IRL too) - List accessible remote shifts available on the Get-By platform, connect workers from 1. with these shift opportunities and pay them using granted funds.
- Refine roles and responsibilities for these shift workers NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO/ Web3 Community, and iterate.
Prop 3
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Launch NounsDAO X Get-By Web3 Internship Program targeted at educating formerly incarcerated people and giving them an opportunity to be paid while developing skills in the NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO/Web3 ecosystems.
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Connect Interns with shift/contract work in Web3.
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Iterate.
Previous Press:
1MC April 2022: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=502612314984812
1 MC October 2022: https://fb.watch/gLZWcv7zcp/
Acclerate Alaska: Alaska Pitchfest November 2022: https://www.facebook.com/reel/635222938287066
Podcast: Arctic Entries Like a Phoenix Stories of Flaming Out, Giving In, and Rising Up October 2022:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dimitrios-alexiadis/id477943915?i=1000585407681
Proliferation/Utility:
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This proposal will proliferate the NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO Brand, Meme, and Culture by proliferating the DAOs and subDAOs through its aesthetic use of the noggles and Lil Nouns characgers. The Get-By logo is aesthetically similar to the NounsDAO logo, the two logos will be displayed together. The nounish merchanidise that will be funded through this proposal will aid Lilskrtskrt in successfully launching the business while also raising awareness about the Nouns/Lil Nouns/Web3 ecosystems. Any interested parties who approach the Job Fair Booth will have the opportunity to (win/receive) merchandise at the Booth by playing a game or hashtagging.
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The culture of nounishness is synonymous with the values of Get-By:
Get-By was founded an attempt to solve a problem that Lilskrtskrt.eth faces himself, he saw a void in available opportunities and decided to create a solution that mathces his lived experience. He has bootstrapped the business to this point and has found difficulty in accessing traditional funding, while being unemployed. This proposal and collaboration, if successful, would provide adequate funding to launch the business and recruit a first cohort of shift workers. This proposal could be a pilot for setting standards/expectations for the the NounsDAO/Lil Nouns DAO for working with marginalized entrepreneurs.
- In addition to proliferating the meme and culture, this proposal would add goodwill and social capital to the ecosystem. It would draw the attention of organizations already involved in fair-chance work to the ecosystem (including this list of business businesses from the Second Chance Business Coalition that have made the second chance pledge: https://secondchancebusinesscoalition.org/press-releases/major-u-s-employers-commit-to-advancing-second-chance-employment) This could be a new pathway to gain recognition from large stakeholders via building goodwill and being in the same room as people who care about change.
Team/Qualifications:
Lilskrtskrt.eth has spent the last 7 years living in Anchorage as a reintegrated citizen. Post release he decided to formalize his technical abilities, learning to use data to inform decision making while performing database management and modeling analyses in life sciences and blockchain applications. He did so to be more competitive in the workplace. Ultimately Lilskrtskrt was not able to transition into professional roles due to a lack of credibility. Instead he has hopped from one small business to another working as a busser, dishwasher, delivery driver, food production assistant, server, cold caller, accounting technician, and data entry specialist. Get-By is the answer to this inefficient and ineffective pattern of employment, and his passion for technology and social justice. if you would like to hear more about Lilskrtskrts’s personal reentry story, please listen to the podcast posted above.
Lilskrtskrt.eth is active in reentry advocacy in Alaska;
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serving as a Steering Team Member for the Anchorage Reentry Coalition, Get-By listed here: https://www.anchoragereentry.org/who-we-are
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volunteering as L.I.O.N member with the Learning Inside Out Network, engaging with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated Alaskans to collect stories and spread empathy and understanding through literacy and increasing educational opportunities.
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volunteering as a member of the ACLU of Alaska Prison Reform Action Network, advocating for criminal justice and corrections reform, pursuing just equitable and humane treatment of offenders before, during and after their experiences with the system.
Lilskrtskrt.eth will be involved in every phase of the proposal.
Cheffo has agreed to be an advisor on the prop.
Social Media Handles:
Twitter: @dimitriosak
Discord: lilskrtskrt#5446
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-alexiadis-92a01944
Get-By LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/81303788/
Get-By Facebook: Redirecting...
Get-By Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getby.work/
Budget:
Funding Channel: NSFW or On-Chain?
Job Fair & Merch Expenses: 3.5ETH ~ $4,000
Launch Expenses: 3.0 ETH ~ $3,600 for launch phase.
Total Prop Ask: 7.0 ETH ~ $8,000 + (30% for taxes?)
Timeline:
Prop 1: Launch Get-By, 2+ IRL Activation Events at AK Job Fairs
Phase 1: Prop Approved, ETH sent to wallet
Phase 2: Merch and Job Fair Prep, (Offer POAP at the Job Fair?) + 30 days.
Phase 3: Job Fair Participation and OTG IRL Nouns Activation (Scope out best Job Fair) + 30 days
Phase 4: Incentivize job seekers (& general job fair attendants) to post using a (hashtag), drawing?
-give out merch at job fair booth
-run a contest or game at booth for noggles (photo booth area?)
Phase 5: Onboard cohort of (___) Get-By workers before Jan 30.
Phase 6: Lilskrtskrt.eth will compile social media engagement over the course of a 3 month
period and curate a video that shows nouners, lil nouners, and Get-By workers wearing the new merch and spreading awareness
around both nounsDAO and Get-By. This may also include Get-By workers working shifts with Client Businesses while wearing this nifty new merch.
(While Lilskrtskrt continues his work in advocacy and launching Get-By he will meet many people involved in the small business ecosystem, the reentry services ecosystem, and the venture capital ecosystem. There are opportunities to discuss the Nouns ecosystem and the democratization of community funded projects along the way, this has already begun.)
Phase 7: Video and content will be sharable no longer than 1 month after the first Job Fair.
This video and all engagement will be CCO.
Phase 8: Apply for follow on funding.
Next Steps:
Lilskrtskrt.eth uses raised capital to raise awareness and launch Get-By. Q1 2023 Get-By intends to recruit it’s first cohort of shift workers, no less than 10. These workers will have the option to commit to different shifts listed on the platform.
If opportunities arise for Web3 “shift” or contract work, those opportunities can be listed on the Get-By platform with payout denominated primarily in USD. This could present a marketing opportunity for projects looking for work who are willing to source through the Web3/NounsDAO ecosystem, in doing so we could prove that they are employing marginalized folks which improves “DEI” efforts.
In future rounds Get-By may return to the DAO for further support and assistance. This may vary from grant funding for Web3 shifts, to proposals requesting funding for training for workers, to additional merchandise, to developing piloting and implementing a Nouns based Web3 workforce development internship program.
The scope for future funding requirements has not yet been determined. The total cost to operate the business for a year while employing 10 workers is no less than $30,000 (23.8ETH at time of writing 11/12 4:07p.m.)
Potential future revenue streams for the project may include integrating Lil Nouns or other Nouns subDAO tokens as incentives for shift workers, boosting proliferation, onboarding, and participation and involving a marginalized group of Americans who are often unheard from. There will be opportunities to receive certifications based on skill development such as the Nounishdojo, if integrated, these certifications could drive revenue back to the DAO and provide a training mechanism for underskilled potential workers to upskill to provide more value to the DAO, and Web3 as a whole.
For future proposals: There may be future potential to create a subDAO around community driven proposals and participation that boost the stories of the formerly incarcerated and work to direct proposals in ways that are mutually beneficial for this group of potential community members.
Transaction Information/Wallet Information:
Wallet: 0xD639Eec00d734de2c2a3c88a6b35f911a87583f6; lilskrtskrt.eth
Proposal Sponsor: Chefo, open to more.
This Proposal Draft was submitted at Nov 28, 4:52p.m. the running draft can be found at this: Google Docs Link.
Your feedback is very appreciated and will be integrated into new iterations of the Proposal!