$50,000 Grant Budget Breakdown
|
Expense Category |
Allocation | Amount |
Purpose & Deliverables |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Software Engineering | 45% | $22,500 |
Contracted mobile/web developers to fully build out and integrate the background check search features, token balance infrastructure, and automated verification funnels. |
| Data Broker API Data Pipeline Fees | 20% | $10,000 |
Bulk purchasing of lookups and API calls through verified public records data brokers to subsidize early-stage screening tokens for users. |
| Advanced Privacy & Security Auditing | 15% | $7,500 |
Hiring a third-party cybersecurity firm to audit the offline local storage mechanics, ensuring no public record searches leak external web links or compromise user identity. |
| Legal & Compliance Infrastructure | 10% | $5,000 |
Drafting user terms of service, checkout refund policies, disclaimer language for criminal registry lookups, and specialized App Store review documentation. |
| Hyperlocal Launch & Marketing Outreach | 10% | $5,000 |
Targeted grassroots safety campaigns, campus-level advocate materials, and digital onboarding guides focusing on women and teenage girl safety. |
| TOTAL | 100% | $50,000 |
Result: Fully live deployment of all safety features and the Background & Predator Screening feature on both iOS/Android apps and your Shopify website ecosystem. |
A $50,000 grant will completely fund the end-to-end deployment of Guardian Circles' proactive safety layer. By financing core software engineering and covering heavy upfront API pipeline costs, this capital allows us to transition from a reactive emergency platform to an active preventative shield. Furthermore, it ensures we can conduct rigorous third-party data privacy audits, honoring our strict promise to users that their safety data will remain decentralized and entirely their own.