Empowering everyone to create a better world.
We focus on the “zero to one” stage of the innovation process to identify and remove risks while developing a minimum viable product or service. As a small, entirely volunteer-run organization, our strategy is to get projects to the stage where they can be adopted by larger organizations with subject matter expertise. Our team has extensive experience doing similar work in the for-profit and non-profit sectors as product managers at Google as well as at leading conservation organizations and foundations.
We forge novel partnerships between
visionary philanthropists and creative problem-solvers.
We align our work with many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We advance philanthropic and market-based projects that bring people and nature together because that’s what’s necessary for humanity to thrive in the face of climate change and population growth. We promote regenerative businesses and activities, because it’s not enough to just be “sustainable” any more. We envision joyful inclusive societies, robust healthy food systems, resilient biodiverse ecosystems, and a planet that is even better for future generations than it is today.
Building a portfolio, together, to solve the world’s biggest problems.
We are solvers and doers who identify, rapidly evaluate, and support scalable solutions to massive environmental and societal problems. We raise funding from foundations, high net worth individuals, and governments, which we then use to fund organizations who we believe are doing excellent work. Because of our network and experience, we know that we have access to capital that might not be available to other great organizations.
When there are proven methods that work to solve the problems we care about, we will help fund them and ensure operational excellence, transparency, and validation through data. When no viable solutions exist, we will catalyze innovation by funding multiple high-risk, high-reward experiments.
Our process promotes empathetic, data-driven, intellectually honest, transparent giving.
We’ve developed a process of rapid evaluation, experimental funding, and on-the-ground interventions through years of hands-on work. We bias towards action and working in equal partnership with those we seek to assist.
We know that it is very difficult to give away a lot of money to do good in this world and not create unintended consequences. And, we know that trust, transparency, and intellectual honesty are critical at every juncture, especially when trying risky things that might fail. We know from experience that our process not only meets these high bars, but that it can be done with a small, cost-effective run team.