Thank you for your information. To be honest, we might be new in DCL this is true! But we have chosen the Amount that works best for the project. Let me tell you why! First off all we will look and hire professional Designers, Developers directly within the DCL Community and we properly pay for the work, because they are Artists in our consideration and should be paid a fair salary for creating our Space. I am sure some will be very glad about this offer when they start working for us. Second, we going to cast and find extraordinary Artists out of DCL and inviting them to record Music in professional State of the Art Recording Studios with Top Engineers. The costs for such a production is high and with the requested amount of 240k we just could cover a few Artists including all the Marketing etc. so we invest just more then only this Grant. For the Artists, that means they get a chance to make a living from the own Music and will have access to our Artist development with Industry Pros. This is also something we focus with the Academy. We teach professional development in our future DCL Academy with interesting Guest Tutors. This might be a great benefit. We even going to paying the Bands and Musicians, playing on our Land, they don´t have to play for some Tips only, this Tips from the concert visitors are extra income for the Artists. Once we got this grant we even search for, hire and pay employees from inside of DCL to represent our Organisation in DCL. Also we activate somebody from our Team spending 8 hours o up to 5 days week to take care on the Place. This costs FIAT money. But it will give 3 persons a paid Job. As an extra benefit, we are endorsed and sponsored by Google. That means we have a dedicated Advertisement Budget. Once our land is ready we start Advertising on Google for this new project to attract more potential new Members to join DCL. The DCL Community can benefit form our project. This Amount does not lower the Grant, we all ready have this Budget and reaching around 5-6k new vistors on our website. In other words, once we are open in DCL, we include advertisement specialized on our DCL Project. This is some extra marketing for free for the DCL Community. In terms of learning more about DCL or your imagine that we might have not enough knowledge - you are right, the Management Team is new to DCL but it is in our nature to learn fast if we want to engage. I, personally have some more understanding for it. As an Artist i was playing around 700 Shows during the week, owned Land and sold my music over many years within another very popular virtual World that is operated by a company from the USA. I am sure you know about the virtual world i am writing. For me this was perfectly useing the days between the Weekend for the Second Life Shows, it was Marketing. Similar to that what Artists doing in DCL, trying to sell stuff and make some money. Our Organisation will give those Artists a stage and a place for free to get new fans and sell art but do not have to invest in a plot or any vendors to get the job done. Finally, Fundraising, exploring new projects and using opportunities in the digital world belongs to our objectives, and where we engage, we bring value and benefits. The Artist World of DCL, and even those we bring into DCL will be very grateful about our interest in DCL. As an Organisation we bring a great opportunity to DCL, so everybody especially the Artists should consider this grant to us. You supporting an Organisation that supports Artists and the Music Culture with all of its income, not a commercial Business or anybody who just is interested in making profit in DCL. SCF does not have any beneficial owners and we are a legal entity in the US in Ireland and in Germany. We who are working for SCF are either employees or volunteers. We partially work 8-12 hours a day but we all have the passion and love beeing a part of the SCF. And we all have something in common. WE LOVE MUSIC and we know that most of the Artists with great music struggle either to make a living or even do not earn enough to pay cover the invested production costs. Thats a Problem we solve at least for a few Artists worldwide. It depends always on the Donations, Endorsements and Sales of our projects. All Income from Music Sales ( our part of the cake) does NOT finance our lifestyle it finances the work and objectives of the SCF -> Finding, developing and supporting extraordinary Artists. Others like to earn profit - we like to solve a Problem that many artists know. We cant help and support all Artists, but at least a few of them. So let me close this answer with a quote from Sir John Templeton "The best investment with the highest return and the lowest risk is a donation !"

I would recommend applying for lower tier grant for significantly less $$$, and potentially familiarizing yourself and integrating into the DCL platform and community before applying for such a large scale grant.

Non Profit Organisation likes to create a Music & Art Place in Decentraland This proposal is now in status: REJECTED. Voting Results: * Yes 1% 3,043 VP (7 votes) * No 5% 441,316 VP (12 votes)