Episode 45 - Untamed Elephants - Using NFTs to support elephant conservation
04/21/22 • 27 min
In this episode, we're excited to welcome Adam Ghahramani, Founder of Untamed Elephants, a community dedicated to using NFTs, art, and cutting-edge tech to raise money for African and Asian elephants. We discuss how they have raised nearly $75,000 for charities supporting elephants, how they are creating unique engagement opportunities for NFT holders, and the roadmap and long-term vision for this exciting project.
About Untamed Elephants
Untamed Elephants is the first mission-driven NFT PFP project. They have two NFT collections supporting their work - Untamed Elephants, the original, and the more recently minted Untamed Matriarchs.
They work closely with three key elephant charity partners, two focused on African elephants (Save The Elephants and Elephant Crisis Fund) and one on Asian elephants (Saving Ganesh). Rather than simply make donations, they foster a mutual, two-way relationships.
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In this episode, we're excited to welcome Adam Ghahramani, Founder of Untamed Elephants, a community dedicated to using NFTs, art, and cutting-edge tech to raise money for African and Asian elephants. We discuss how they have raised nearly $75,000 for charities supporting elephants, how they are creating unique engagement opportunities for NFT holders, and the roadmap and long-term vision for this exciting project.
About Untamed Elephants
Untamed Elephants is the first mission-driven NFT PFP project. They have two NFT collections supporting their work - Untamed Elephants, the original, and the more recently minted Untamed Matriarchs.
They work closely with three key elephant charity partners, two focused on African elephants (Save The Elephants and Elephant Crisis Fund) and one on Asian elephants (Saving Ganesh). Rather than simply make donations, they foster a mutual, two-way relationships.
Follow and learn more
Buy us a coffee!
Enjoy the episode? Crypto Altruism runs on the support of the community. Help us out by buying us a coffee:
ETH(ERC20) - 0xac5C0105914F3afb363699996C9914f193aeDD4A
Fiat - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cryptoaltruism
Brought to you by: Koinly
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*Please note - as an affiliate partner, we get a commission for new subscriptions which goes a long way in supporting Crypto Altruism.
--DISCLAIMER --
While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it’s important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.
Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide readers with referrals to high quality and relevant products and services.
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Episode 44 - Tokenizing Social Impact Pt. 2 - Fishcoin and "Best Fit" Tokens, ft. Michael Cooper from Panagora Group
In this episode, we welcome back Michael Cooper, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Panagora Group, to continue our conversation on Tokenizing Social Impact. In this episode, we use Fishcoin to demonstrate how tokens can be used to address specific types of social impact problems and the role of behavior change and adaptive management in finding the “best fit” token.
Part one of the conversation with Michael can be found HERE.
About Michael and Panagora Group
The Panagora Group is a leader in providing evidence driven innovation in social impact to the United States Agency for International Development and is actively building the tools for effective and ethical digital impact.
In his role with Panagora group, Michael works with foreign assistance providers from various U.S. federal agencies, the United Nations and World Bank in designing and learning from social impact interventions. His mandate is to build evidence to improve the design and management of social impact interventions using government funds. He has worked in 27 different countries and completed fellowships with the University of Notre Dame on the use of data science in decision making and is now focusing on building the initial learning agendas and protocols for optimizing the use of blockchain technology for social impact.
Social Links
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Follow Michael Cooper
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*Please note - as an affiliate partner, we get a commission for new subscriptions which goes a long way in supporting Crypto Altruism.
--DISCLAIMER --
While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it’s important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.
Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide readers with referrals to high quality and relevant products and services.
Next Episode
Episode 46 - Tokenizing Social Impact Pt. 3 - Smart contacts, impact tokens, and the oracle problem – how do we reconcile them? Ft. Michael Cooper from Panagora Group
In this episode, we welcome back Michael Cooper, Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning at Panagora Group, to continue our discussion on social tokens and how to effectively monitor impact, and breakdown the Oracle Problem, a complex challenge that can limit the potential of social tokens.
Part I - An introduction to social tokens
Part II - Fishcoin and “Best Fit” tokens
About Michael and Panagora Group
The Panagora Group is a leader in providing evidence driven innovation in social impact to the United States Agency for International Development and is actively building the tools for effective and ethical digital impact. Along with colleagues from the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics, Notre Dame and Cardiff Universities, Michael has recently published a paper that explores the use of tokens to achieve the behaviors necessary for social impact, which can be found HERE.
In his role with Panagora group, Michael works with foreign assistance providers from various U.S. federal agencies, the United Nations and World Bank in designing and learning from social impact interventions. His mandate is to build evidence to improve the design and management of social impact interventions using government funds. He has worked in 27 different countries and completed fellowships with the University of Notre Dame on the use of data science in decision making and is now focusing on building the initial learning agendas and protocols for optimizing the use of blockchain technology for social impact.
Social Links
Follow Panagora Group:
Follow Michael Cooper
Buy us a coffee!
Enjoy the episode? Crypto Altruism runs on the support of the community. Help us out by buying us a coffee:
ETH(ERC20) - 0xac5C0105914F3afb363699996C9914f193aeDD4A
Fiat - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cryptoaltruism
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Link to Koinly Cryptocurrency Tax Software
*Please note - as an affiliate partner, we get a commission for new subscriptions which goes a long way in supporting Crypto Altruism.
--DISCLAIMER --
While we may discuss specific web3 projects or cryptocurrencies on this podcast, please do not take any of this as investment advice, and please make sure to do your own research on potential investment opportunities, or any opportunity, before making an investment. We host a variety of guests on this podcast with the sole purpose of highlighting the social impact use cases of this technology. That being said, Crypto Altruism does not endorse any of these projects, and we recognize that, since this is an emerging sector, some may be operating in regulatory grey areas, and as such, we cannot confirm their legality in the jurisdictions in which they operate, especially as it pertains to decentralized finance protocols. So, before getting involved with any project, it’s important that you do your own research and confirm the legality of the project. More on the disclaimer at cryptoaltruism.org.
Please note: we make use of affiliate marketing to provide rea
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