Within Greenpill, we are coordinating an innovative program that encompasses not just financial, but also social, cultural, material, living, spiritual, experiential, and intellectual capital. We’ve observed over the past couple of years that merely allocating financial resources to Stewards doesn’t help them establish the deep local and global roots needed for sustainability and growth. By focusing on teaching, support, and on-ground coordination, regenerative initiatives will be better equipped to grow locally as they develop their strategy, funding structure, impact reporting framework, and other protocols aligned with their objectives.
Theory of Change
If local based regenerative initiatives are connected to a multitude of capitals, financial, living, social, intellectual, cultural and material with a focus on environmental and civic engagement then local regenerative initiatives will be equipped to establish deep roots in their communities and attract sustainable capital. Because when we support one another it builds trust, understanding and respect for each other, our communities and our ecosystem.
Outcomes
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Determine clear Network identity, protocols and structure for members, Stewards, Pods, Chapters and Guilds.
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Increase community awareness and engagement in regenerative Ethereum initiatives.
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Stewards establish connections and partnerships with local governments, NGOs, or non-profits within the selected areas of focus (living, social, financial, material, intellectual, spiritual).
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Secure local contracts and service agreements to ensure the continued growth and sustainability of the local initiatives and adoption of Ethereum.
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Successfully onboard individuals into the Ethereum ecosystem and grow their onchain footprint.
Eligibility Criteria
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Greenpill Steward (All active, inactive and those who previously applied to start a Chapter) or highly aligned individuals that are invited to the Season
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Complete program intake form by November 20th.
The Greenpill Steward initiative offers an alternative to requiring Stewards to have a Chapter or Guild. Many regens already belong to existing communities, may be nomadic, or lack the resources to establish a Chapter, yet they remain deeply aligned with the Greenpill ethos. This new approach makes Greenpill more accessible to all regens, fostering greater shared learning and knowledge creation.
Season One
The program will guide Stewards through strategies for their role related to the Greenpill Garden Theory of Change, mapping it to the Forms of Capital, concrete CIDS activities and outcomes, and finally to the Ethereum tooling that best supports their goals.
Simultaneously, the program will assist Stewards in establishing their operational infrastructure, with a focus on Ethereum DeFi/staking infrastructure and establishing an onchain impact reporting framework.
Participants
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Operators - Manage the season ensuring workshops are executed, providing Steward support and most importantly enshrining the success and learnings into a revamped Network identity, protocols and structure proposal.
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Stewards - Participate in the season and focus on completing the deliverables throughout each phase and growing maturity, collaborations and coordination amongst peers and local initiatives.
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Service Providers - Provide the expertise and knowledge across the different phases in the form of workshops and materials that help Stewards complete the deliverables.
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Sponsors - Align with the ethos and vision of the season and provide support in the form of financial and social capital helping to fund the season and promote it across the Ethereum ecosystem.
Operators
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Afolabi Aiyeloja - Core Steward of the Greenpill Network and Dev Guild with active involvement in public goods with Gardens, Regen Coordination and Gitcoin. Leader, builder and wearer of many hats focused on connecting and coordinating the 8 forms of capital.
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Caue Tomaz - Network Steward and GreenPill Brasil Steward, and Lead at the Dev Guild. Working at the intersection of public goods funding, regenerative systems, and Web3 governance. Hands-on experience in grant allocation, mechanism design, coordination tooling, and community-led governance models, primarily through Greenpill Network, Gitcoin, Gardens, and Regen Coordination. My focus is on building systems that empower collective action and support social and ecological regeneration across bioregions.
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Matt Strachman - Steward of the Greenpill Network, NYC Chapter and Writers Guild. Greenpill Dev Guild Lead and treasury manager. Public goods enjoyer, weaving with Regen Coordination.
Launch Date
November 21st, 2025 (Live at DevConnect)
Targeted End Date
April 3rd, 2026
Budget: $24,000
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Operations $8,000 - Managing the round and ensuring successful completions of each phase and outcomes along with hosting office hours and capturing protocol feedback.
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Writing Content $2,000 - Creating reports and writing pieces to capture the Greenpill Gardens impact and share with the wider regen space.
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Graphic Design $1,000 - Creating the marketing and branding for the Greenpill Garden to highlight program, sponsorships and create material to grow partnerships.
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Website Development $2,000 - Revamp of Greenpill.Network plus new content as the Season progresses, adding Chapter content, broader curation of resources, and an RSS feed.
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Workshops $8,000 - To host 5 workshops throughout the phases and edit the content to share on YouTube and socials.
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IRL Events $3,000 - DevConnect launch party and ETHDenver celebration marking the achievement of goals, acknowledging rewarding progress and facilitating the sharing of lessons learned.
0. Good Strategy, Theory of Change & Sensemaking
To set a strong foundation, Chapters and local initiatives will ground themselves in the Greenpill Garden Theory of Change (ToC). This grounding will help them understand and clearly articulate the effects and outcomes they are looking to achieve within their community. Theory of Change is a proven methodology, employed by organizations like the UNDP, to ensure that regenerative initiatives are strategically aligned with and effectively contribute to achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Building on this understanding, Stewards will then center on developing a strategy that best aligns with their skills and purpose, providing the clarity needed to effectively tackle their local issues.
Finally, to close this phase, Stewards will center themselves on the 8 forms of capital. These different forms offer a more holistic way to look at capital, moving beyond purely financial terms. Stewards will identify 3-4 of their core capitals and articulate how their strategy connects to each. This phase of the program will also serve to highlight similarities in capitals across local initiatives, allowing for the identification of commonalities and potential shared resources as we move into establishing the Structure and Protocols for collaboration.
Duration: 4 Weeks (November 21st - December 21st)
Regenerative Protocol(s)
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Greenpill IRL - Coordinates kickoff of the Greenpill Garden at the regen hub at DevConnect.
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Regen Reservoir - Facilitates GravityDAO providing its services in the forms of workshops, frameworks and mentorship tracked via commitment pools.
Events
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Greenpill Garden DevConnect Launch (November 21st)
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Theory of Change Workshop (Early December)
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Coherent Design Strategy Workshop (Mid December)
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Garden Office Hours #1-4 (November - December)
Deliverables
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Retro Reflection - Stewards share a personal response on the forum detailing their journey.
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Coherent Designed Strategy & Theory Of Change - Stewards craft a strategy and theory of change to ground their local initiatives and align with SDG goals.
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Local Initiative Core Capitals - Stewards share their core capitals on a dedicated thread in the Regen Coordination hub, and Chapter Stewards copy over to the Network Charmverse
Success Metrics
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92% completion rate of phase and deliverables
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50+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) across Workshops & Office Hours
Service Providers
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Gravity DAO (Workshops, Educational Material, Mentorship)
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Greenpill Network (Social Communications, Workspace)
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Greenpill Design Pod (Branding, Content Creation, Video Editing)
1. Structure & Protocols
After developing a clear strategy to tackle their local initiative’s problem and defining an identity consistent with the Greenpill philosophy, Stewards move into the next critical phase: establishing the initiative’s Structure and Protocols.
The Structure phase is dedicated to outlining the organizational relationships and roles within the initiative, much like the branches, roots, and leaves of a tree. In contrast, the Protocols phase focuses on the mechanisms for how these defined roles will communicate, resolve issues, solve challenges and coordinate efforts to achieve optimal balance and flow.
Given that this phase overlaps with the holidays, Stewards will be assigned async tasks to reflect and ideate on the best organizational structure for their initiative heading into 2026.
Duration: 4 Week (December 22nd - January 18th)
Regenerative Protocol(s)
- Regen Reservoir - Facilitates the workshops being hosted by GravityDAO and the commitments the Network will make for GravityDAO and vice versa.
Events
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Establishing Good Protocols Workshop (Mid January)
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Cell Structure Workshop (Mid January)
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Garden Office Hours #5-6 (January)
Deliverables
- Cell Structure - Stewards craft their cell structure for their local initiative and how it interfaces with other cells Stewards create.
Success Metrics
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92% completion rate of phase and deliverables
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50+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) score across Workshops & Office Hours
Service Providers
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Superbenefit DAO (Workshops, Educational Material, Mentorship)
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Gravity DAO (Workshops, Educational Material, Mentorship)
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Greenpill Network (Social Communications, Workspace)
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Greenpill Design Pod (Branding, Content Creation, Video Editing)
2. CIDS Activities & Outcomes
With their structure and protocols defined, Stewards next move to concretely mapping their strategy, forms of capital, and protocols to the Common Impact Data Standards (CIDS) framework. This process involves creating sets of activities with clear deliverables and metrics, which will allow them to measure success and growth based on concrete outcomes.
The Common Impact Data Standard serves as an ontology for impact measurement, informing how impact should be described in a standardized format. This phase is essential for grounding Stewards in the tangible, local actions required to establish roots and grow their impact.
Duration: 2 Weeks (January 19th - February 1st)
Regenerative Protocol(s)
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Greenpill IRL - Allocates for IRL events where Stewards implement CIDS at an activity level.
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Regen Reservoir - Facilitates the commitment of Regen Coordination to provide educational content and workshops for CIDS implementation.
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Greenpill Impact Framework - Supports Stewards in capturing their impact in a CIDS compliant structure and supporting the activities they want to track.
Events
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CIDS Activities & Outcomes Workshop (Late January)
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Garden Office Hours #7-8 (January)
Deliverables
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Local Initiatives CIDS Activities - Stewards define the concrete CIDS compliant activities they plan to complete for the season.
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Local Initiatives CIDS Outcomes - Stewards outline the specific outcomes that should happen based on activities and indicate growth.
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Chapter CIDS Update - Stewards of Chapters update their Chapter’s page in the Network Charmverse with activities and outcomes for Q1.
Success Metrics
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90% completion rate of phase and deliverables
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50+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) score across Workshop & Office Hours
Service Providers
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Greenpill Network (Social Communications, Workspace)
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Regen Coordination (Educational Content, Workshops, Community Engagement)
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Karma (Karma GAP, Tech Support)
3.Web3 Tooling Implementation
Following a month of foundational work translating abstract concepts into concrete plans, the program now enters the Web3 tooling phase. This phase is dedicated to implementing and reporting outcome fulfillment on-chain, leveraging regenerative protocols with a particular focus on impact reporting and public good staking. This approach provides a minimal financial capital infrastructure while the initiatives’ roots are still developing. Stewards will utilize the Web3 tools best suited to complete their outcomes and capture data on-chain.
The midpoint of this phase is marked by ETHDenver, an ideal space for an in-person progress check-in, real-world tool implementation, and collaborative learning to build improvements. Upon completion of this phase, Stewards will possess a clear regenerative stack they can continue to apply and grow within their local initiative.
Duration: 8 Weeks (February 1st - March 22nd)
Regenerative Protocol(s)
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Greenpill IRL - Support Stewards in hosting local events to grow adoption of web3 tools.
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Regen Reservoir - Provides the infrastructure for Stewards to support one another during the phase with services and skills.
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Public Good Staking - Establishes Ethereum staking and DeFi infrastructure for Stewards to create a passive source of funds to support their initiatives.
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Greenpill Impact Framework - Captures onchain the activities Steward complete to accomplish their defined outcomes and craft dashboards to illustrate impact.
Events:
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Season Harvest at ETHDenver 2026 (Late February)
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Garden Office Hours #8-14 (February-March)
Deliverables
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Regen Stack - Stewards outline their regenerative stack of web3 tools they use in their local Chapter or initiative and for what use cases.
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Karma GAP CIDS Impact Reporting - Stewards report the CIDS activities as they complete them.
Success Metrics
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80% completion of CIDS outcomes established by Stewards
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50+ Net Promoter Score (NPS) score across Office Hours
Service Providers
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Greenpill Dev Guild (Green Goods, GreenWill, Tech Support, Community Engagement, Educational Content, Workshops)
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Flow State (Flow Councils, Flow Streams Tech Support)
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Atlantis (Impact Miner, Impact Foundry, Impact Foundations, Tech Support)
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Gardens (Gardens App, Tech Support, Community Engagement)
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Grassroot Economics (Sarafu Network, Tech Support)
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Karma (Karma GAP, Tech Support)
4. Outcome Evaluation, Retro Rewards & New Season
The program will conclude with a dedicated week focused on celebrating outcomes, reflecting on implementation, and recognizing Stewards through funding and acknowledgment. Stewards will be supported to host an IRL closing event and have space to share their learnings, challenges and wins throughout the Season. We will then look forward to doing another Greenpill Garden Season with refined structure and growth.
Duration: 1 Week (March 31st - April 3rd)
Regenerative Protocol(s)
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Greenpill IRL - Support Stewards in hosting events in their community to celebrate the completion of the season.
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Greenpill Impact Framework - Utilizes the impact generated with the protocol to determine retro rewards and support evaluations.
Events
- Closing Ceremony (Early April)
Deliverables
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Steward Program Reflection - Stewards share on the Regen Coordination Hub a reflection of the season shared learnings and looking forward.
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Paragraph Season Recap Article - The Greenpill Writers Guild will craft a report sharing outcomes of the Greenpill Season and next steps.
Success Metrics
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80% of Stewards host an IRL closing event
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90% retention rate of Stewards committed to go through or support another season
Service Providers
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Greenpill Network (Social Communications, Workspace)
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Greenpill Writers Guild (Articles, Case Studies)
Greenpill Design Pod (Branding, Content Creation, Video Editing)
Closing Words
The Greenpill Steward Season is more than a program; it is an invitation to grow a living, regenerative network rooted in many forms of capital, not just financial. By grounding Stewards in a clear theory of change, coherent strategy, resilient structures and protocols, CIDS-aligned activities, and a practical Web3 regenerative stack, we are creating the conditions for local initiatives to take deep root in their communities while plugging into a global, onchain ecosystem of support. From DevConnect to ETHDenver and beyond, this Season will transform abstract regenerative ideals into concrete practices, agreements, and impact data that can be shared, iterated on, and scaled.
With the collaboration of Operators, Service Providers, Sponsors, and Stewards, Greenpill Gardens becomes a commons for shared learning, civic and ecological engagement, and Ethereum-native public goods experimentation. The outcomes of Season One, including a refined network identity, stronger local infrastructures, CIDS-compliant impact reporting, and durable relationships across regions, will seed future Seasons that are more accessible, more coordinated, and more capable of attracting sustainable capital. By supporting this initiative, you are helping regens everywhere move from fragile projects to rooted, interdependent ecosystems, growing a garden that season after season enriches our communities, our bioregions, and the Ethereum commons.
