Funder Guide
You can support a garden in two ways. Both go straight to that garden, with no middle step. Before you give, you can read the garden's approved work on its public page, so you know what you are supporting.
Choose how to give
| Donate | Endow | |
|---|---|---|
| In one line | A gift the garden can use now | A deposit that stays yours, whose earnings go to the garden |
| Where it goes | The garden's shared fund | The garden's endowment |
| Who uses it | The garden's gardeners claim from it, within limits the garden sets | Collected earnings go to the configured destinations, which can include the shared fund, certificate support and the protocol |
| Can you get it back? | No | Yes, by withdrawing. The amount is not guaranteed |
| Best for | Near-term needs: supplies, transport, thanking gardeners | Long-term support that keeps working |
Supporting a specific promise
A garden can coordinate specific work through Promises. A promise can carry a G$ reward, paid from the garden's own Safe on Celo after it's kept. A donation or endowment supports the garden through the flows below; confirming that a promise was kept does not itself release that support.
What you need
- A crypto wallet. Giving is done from your own wallet. There is no card payment today.
- DAI or WETH on the Arbitrum network, plus a little ETH there for the network fee.
What Green Goods promises, and what it does not
Money deserves plain words.
What you can count on
- Your money goes to the garden you picked. A donation goes into that garden's shared fund. An endowment goes into that garden's endowment.
- The record is public. A garden's approved work is on its public page, with the photos and details gardeners submitted and the steward's decision.
- An endowment has no lock-in period. You can ask for it back at any time.
What is not promised
- An endowment is not guaranteed. Your deposit is put to work to earn for the garden, in a lending market outside Green Goods. If that market loses money, or is short of funds when you ask, you can get back less than you put in, or have to wait and try again. If you endow in WETH, its value in dollars also moves with the price of ETH.
- Your deposit is not meant to grow. The earnings go to the garden and the protocol, not to you.
- Green Goods does not promise a charitable receipt, nonprofit backing or a tax deduction. Ask the garden about any separate arrangement.
- Approval is a local review. A steward from the garden has looked at the evidence and stands behind it. It is not an independent audit, and it does not by itself measure environmental results.
- Green Goods does not decide how a garden spends its shared fund. Gardeners claim from it under the garden's own limits and agreements.
Only give what you are comfortable giving on those terms.
The simplest way to help: a gift the garden can use right away.