Gitcoin Governance Manual
  • 📖Gitcoin Governance Manual
  • Introduction and Overview
    • ⭐Gitcoin's North Stars
    • 📏Code of Conduct and Rules of Engagement
    • ⏫2025 Revamp
    • ⌛DAO Cadence
    • 📘Gitcoin Glossary
      • Gitcoin Grants Program Definitions
      • All Other Definitions
    • 💰DAO Finances
  • Governance Roles
    • 🏛️Gitcoin Council
      • How to Become a Gitcoin Council Member
    • 🧙Steward
      • How to Become a Gitcoin Steward
    • 🥷Delegator
    • ⚔️Matching Pool Guardian
    • 👷Core Contributor
    • 👷Citizen
  • Governance Processes
    • 👀Governance Overview
    • 🗨️Discussions
    • ❓Proposals
    • 🗳️Voting
      • Off-chain voting
      • Onchain voting
      • Delegation
    • 🔑Units
      • How Units Work
      • Gitcoin Foundation
      • Grants Lab
  • Miscellaneous
    • oSNAP
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  1. Introduction and Overview

Gitcoin's North Stars

Gitcoin's Purpose, Mission, Vision and Values

Purpose

Gitcoin exists to empower communities to fund their shared needs.

Mission

Gitcoin creates technologies and opportunities that enable communities to build, fund and protect what matters.

Vision

Gitcoin inspires a world shaped by community-led positive change.

Values

Gitcoin set of organizational values that guide day-to-day decision-making, including:

  • Empowerment: We define empowerment as giving others the tools to step into their power and do something

  • Impact: We define impact as having a measurable effect or influence

  • Mutuality: We define mutuality as the sharing of feeling, action, or relationships

  • Trust: We define trust as the belief in the reliability and intent of someone or something

  • Forward Thinking: We define forward thinking as favoring innovation and progress as tools for building a better future

Separately, there is a set of governance-related values, including:

  • Decentralization

  • Transparency

  • Community inclusion

  • Accountability

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