Applicant Name: Spencer Saar Cavanaugh
Applicant ETH Address: clinamenic.eth
Organization(s) or Affiliation(s): Clinamenic LLC, OpenCivics Labs
Why do you want to serve as an Expert Evaluator for the Localism Fund?
I am deeply curious about how p2p attestations, using existing semantic web standards and novel distributed financial settlement layers, can facilitate the collaboration necessary to construct the digital public infrastructure we need to address systemic issues.
🪴 Grant-Making Expertise
Program Design & Management: ****2
Evaluation & Impact Learning: 1
Financial Strategy & Fundraising: 1
Governance Systems & Mechanism Design: 3
Experiences, Highlights & Evidence:
I have managed multiple quadratic funding grant rounds for OpenCivics, and I have served on the evaluation committee for Octant's first two community rounds. Additionally, I have conducted and self-published research on ecosystem funding in the onchain philanthropic sector:
https://www.clinamenic.com/writing/Progressive-Public-Goods-Funding