Small Grant Proposal Template
Use the following template when submitting your proposal.
- Proposals must be in this format in order to be considered.
- Read this entire template before submitting.
Introduction
Project Name:
Review our brand guidelines when considering your project name. Note: you may not use 'Sia' or any similar name.
Applicant Information:
Applicants are required to provide their name or organization, links to previous projects/work and/or GitHub, brief background information in 50 words or less, and links to previous experience building on Sia (i.e. a small demo of something built on Sia Storage).
Describe your project.
Answer here in 150 words or less.
How does the projected outcome serve the Foundation’s mission of user-owned data? What problem does your project solve?
Answer here in 150 words or less.
We cannot provide grants to residents or bank accounts of jurisdictions in the following list.
Are you a resident of any jurisdiction on that list? Yes/No
Will your payment bank account be located in any jurisdiction on that list? Yes/No
Grant Specifics
Amount of money requested and justification with a reasonable breakdown of expenses:
Consider the following when submitting your budget.
- The Foundation can only pay out grant funds in $USD via ACH or wire.
- Grant payments will be made monthly.
What is the high-level architecture overview for the grant, i.e. how does your project build on Sia? What security best practices are you following? Please review our Development Guide for further details.
What are the goals of this small grant? Please provide a general timeline for completion.
Provide monthly measurable and easy to understand milestones with clear coding deliverables so progress can be evaluated. Research or learning milestones will not be accepted. Milestones may be modified or rejected to ensure they’re reasonable and effective evaluation checkpoints. Missed milestones may result in further payments being withheld.
Who is the target user for your project?
What are your plans for this project following the grant, including development, maintenance, and adoption?
Potential risks that will affect the outcome of the project:
Development Information
Will all of your project’s code be open-source?
[Projects can use closed-source components, but can’t develop closed-source code. If any of your project’s code is closed-source, please describe what code and why. If utilizing code from a third-party, ensure it is appropriately licensed as open source and acknowledge which code you are planning on using here.]
Leave a link where code will be accessible for review.
Links.
Do you agree to submit monthly progress reports?
[Progress reports must be submitted monthly here in the forum.]
Contact info
Email:
Any other preferred contact methods: