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Supporting highly-impactful, evidence-based solutions to the triple challenge of climate change, air pollution and energy poverty.

## The Founders Pledge Perspective

Climate change is one part of a triple challenge surrounding energy production. Not only does most current energy production lead to damaging carbon emissions, the effects of which are devastating ecosystems and changing our planet beyond recognition, it also pollutes the air and leaves many of the world’s poor without sufficient energy. This adds up to an environmental and humanitarian crisis.

Thus, we face a triple challenge: we not only need to drive down carbon emissions to near zero by mid-century, and drastically reduce air pollution, but we need to do so while supporting work to reduce global poverty that will often be accompanied, or even driven, by increased energy consumption.

We aim to take a holistic approach that recognizes the global nature of this challenge, as well as the fact that, despite its urgency, we are still in the early days of climate action. This means that the solutions that we focus on will not only reduce emissions now, but will do so in a way that avoids future emissions, while also creating opportunities for the world’s poor and eventually ending energy poverty entirely.

We aim to do this in three ways:

- **Audacious advocacy**: By focusing our grantmaking on organizations leveraging large amounts of money through policy advocacy. There are highly effective organizations with budgets in the millions of dollars which have influenced government innovation budgets, orders of magnitude larger than their costs. By looking for opportunities with leverage like this, we can have an outsize impact.
- **Accelerating low-carbon innovation**: By finding and funding advocacy opportunities that strengthen the energy innovation eco-system or promote particularly neglected technologies. As the success of solar has shown for electricity, the availability of cheap, low carbon alternatives to our current energy sources can make a very significant difference. Efficient, low-cost technology can spread around the world without inter-governmental cooperation or expensive policies to spread around the world, making it a more robust strategy in a world where climate action will often not be the first priority of policy makers and the public.
- **Focusing on blindspots and bottlenecks**: By focusing on areas neglected by other stakeholders, we can ensure that fund dollars make as much difference as possible. While some technologies, such as solar, enjoy widespread popularity and significant policy support, this is not similarly true for other approaches, resulting in a huge imbalance in resource allocation. By finding and funding advocates for overlooked solutions, such as carbon capture and storage technology, we can ensure we are making the most of every tool available to us in the fight against climate change.

Managed by two members of the Founders Pledge Research team, the Climate Change Fund identifies and supports sustainable, evidence-based solutions to the “triple challenge” of carbon emissions, air pollution, and energy poverty.

## Our Approach to Grantmaking

When evaluating potential grants, we consider several key points:

- **Counterfactual impact**. Our grants are designed to create a meaningful outcome that would not otherwise have happened. In particular, we aim to make grants that otherwise wouldn’t have been made, rather than those which just take the place of other philanthropists’ donations. This means that you can rely on the Funds to create meaningful, real change, rather than just maintaining the status quo.
- **Impact-driven philanthropy**. The goal of this fund is maximal positive impact, irrespective of this impact being “sexy” or visible. This means we will focus on opportunities that others focused on clear attribution of their work or shiny outcomes might neglect. For example, we are very comfortable funding organizations to increase their general capacity and strategy when we perceive this as their bottleneck to higher impact, rather than being tied to specific outcomes or deliverables.
- **The organization’s funding gap**. Not all organizations are set up to scale up their programming and many can’t productively absorb large amounts of unsolicited funding. We evaluate all potential grantees’ capacity for growth and consider how much money they could put to good use.
- **Organizational strength**. Particularly with unrestricted funding, it’s important to have trust in the leadership and capacity of the organizations we support. We look at their track record of success and their transparency about failures as well as successes, and we only support those organizations which are exceptionally well run.
- **Time-critical opportunities and funding certainty**. While Founders Pledge members give to our top climate charities regularly, sometimes there are time-critical opportunities which require fast decisions. Or there are needs for certainty of funding streams to allow new hires and start new campaigns and programs. We will use the Fund to make grants that enable such short-term opportunities and stability for high-impact funding opportunities thereby increasing the impact compared to individual giving to specific organizations.
- **Portfolio approach**. Because most climate damage comes from particular severe outcomes – with a world of 4 degrees of warming being much worse than twice as bad as a world with 2 degrees – and because every particular strategy – such as energy innovation – might underdeliver, we pursue a portfolio approach to maximize positive impact. This means we will diversify our bets in ways that, when one approach fails (such as energy innovation), the others we promote (such as carbon removal) can be expected to be particularly important and still available. This maximizes the expected impact of your donation in a world characterized by huge uncertainty about the success of different high-impact solutions.

## Frequently-Asked Questions

**Can charities apply for money from the Fund?**

The Funds do not generally accept applications from charities. If the Fund Managers choose to open up an application round, this will be publicized. Charities are requested not to send unsolicited applications for funding.

**How frequently will you make grants from the Fund?**

Fund Managers will review grant-making decisions on a quarterly basis. Decisions will be made based on the value of Funds and the available options for high-impact grant-making. We may sometimes delay grant-making if we believe that waiting for more promising opportunities will be more impactful. Conversely, we may disburse funds outside of our quarterly review dates if we become aware of a particularly promising and time-sensitive funding opportunity.

**How will my contribution be used?**

All funds are granted out. The Fund is not an investment vehicle. The Fund does not use any percentage of contributions to cover staff time or other overhead costs. Every dollar contributed to the Fund will be used to make grants directly to end-user organizations creating a real difference.

## More Questions?

To learn more about the Founders Pledge Climate Change Fund, please visit [founderspledge.com](https://founderspledge.com/funds/climate-change-fund) or email the Fund Managers at [funds@founderspledge.com](mailto:funds@founderspledge.com).

Climate Change Fund

Neuromatch is democratizing science by creating opportunities in education, networking, and scientific communication. 

Neuromatch enables more people to participate in scientific research by overcoming barriers in the form of education, social networks, and accessibility of science communication. 

Specifically, we find innovative new ways to allow collaborative access in these areas by enabling groups of scientists to work together to make these platforms as public goods that can scale up to be used by many. 

Our Academy provides live instruction, open source education that is contributed to by hundreds of researchers to provide always affordable education to people around the world. We are active in 15 different countries and teach undergraduate and PhD level science in 20 different languages. 

Our Community program creates online-first scientific conferences and community events that focus on human interaction, allowing us to leverage the equitable nature of online work without significant sacrifices in the networking and connection aspect of these events. 

The NMDA program provides researchers with real on the job experience in internships, job matching, and career guidance. 

Our large buy in to these communities we serve provides us the ability to conquer problems in science dependent on large network effects, such as issues in academic publishing, job matching, and large research collaborations.

Neuromatch

Our mission: catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society.

The Earth is facing a climate crisis, driven by fossil fuels.

At Climate Reality, we’re here to make urgent action a necessity. In politics. In business. In every aspect of our lives. Everywhere.

Urgent action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and speed the global shift to renewables. Urgent action to halt the Trump Administration’s radical fossil fuel agenda. Urgent action to make world leaders strengthen and honor their Paris Agreement commitments.

Led by former US Vice President Al Gore and CEO and President Ken Berlin, we do it by empowering everyday people to become activists, equipped with the tools, training, and network to fight for solutions and drive change planet-wide.

The result is over 20,000 Climate Reality Leaders mobilizing communities in over 150 countries. Branches in 10 critical nations and regions around the Earth. 100 activists chapters (and growing) pushing for practical clean energy policies across the US.

Together, they add up to a powerful movement growing by the day. One by the people. Of the people. For the planet. Join us.

The Climate Reality Project

TerraPraxis designs and implements strategies that leverage science, technology and energy innovation for a prosperous planet

We co-founded TerraPraxis to design and implement strategies that leverage science, technology and energy innovation for a prosperous planet. 

Our special focus is on enabling high-impact rapid transitions for neglected parts of the decarbonization challenge. 

We work with an extensive global network to define, incubate and initiate scalable strategies that fulfil the twin missions of prosperity and decarbonization. 

TerraPraxis

The Fungi Foundation is a global organization that works for the Fungi, their habitats, and the people who depend on them.

Launched in 2012, the Fungi Foundation is the first NGO dedicated to the fungi kingdom. Since its inception, it has achieved numerous milestones while dedicating itself to exploring the fungi world in view of increasing knowledge of their diversity, educating about their applications, and recommending public policy for their conservation. As part of our ongoing 3F initiative, the foundation played a key role in enabling Chile to become the first country in the world to include protection of fungi in its environmental legislation. More recently, the foundation proudly announced the Fantastic Fungi Education Curriculum, the world's first mycological set of courses designed for schools.

In short, the Fungi Foundation envisions a healthy planet in which Fungi are recognized, protected, and embraced as the interconnectors of nature; a mission that would be impossible without the essential support of our kind, engaged donors.

Fungi Foundation

WRI develops practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive.

WRI is a global research organization that works with governments, businesses, multilateral institutions and civil society groups to develop practical solutions that improve people’s lives and ensure nature can thrive. We organize our work around seven global challenges: Food, Forests, Water, Energy, Climate, the Ocean and Cities. We analyze these issues through the lenses of our four Centers of Excellence: Business, Economics, Finance and Equity.

World Resources Institute

Join us in exploring and building AI for the common good.

Check out what your support makes possible at allenai.org. 

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) is a leader in the field of AI, and our mission is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research, engineering, and applied technologies. Transparency, accessibility, and collaboration are at the core of our work. As a nonprofit organization, we are able to take on research endeavors that universities can’t and private corporations won’t. 

Founded in 2014, AI2 is the largest 501c3 nonprofit AI2 research organization in the world. Our team is composed of 200+ world class AI researchers and engineers from around the globe, centered around our Seattle offices where collaborative problem solving drives our impact-related efforts. 

From making AI more accessible to underrepresented communities to protecting wildlife and our oceans, we have several teams at AI2 taking on some of the world’s biggest challenges.

Aristo: Building systems that can successfully interact with users and demonstrate a deep understanding of the world

AllenNLP: Improving natural language processing systems’ performance and accountability, developing state of the art models, datasets, and tools

Mosaic: Defining and developing common sense and ethics for AI systems to go beyond the narrow and brittle AI applications available today

PRIOR: Seeking to advance computer vision to create AI systems that see, explore, learn, and reason about the world

Semantic Scholar: A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, accelerating scientific breakthroughs by providing a better way to discover new knowledge and key insights

Climate Modeling: Creating faster, more efficient, modernized open-source models to advance the important research into global climate model projections

EarthRanger: A free software solution that aids protected area managers, ecologists, and biologists in making more informed operational decisions for wildlife conservation

Skylight: A platform that helps improve maritime transparency and combat illegal fishing by surfacing suspicious events and providing actionable intelligence to protect our oceans

Wildlands: Delivering AI-backed tools that improve the health and resilience of our wildlands by supporting fire management


Allen Institute for AI (AI2)

EDF delivers bold game-changing climate solutions to build a vital Earth, for everyone, with flourishing ecosystems and clean air.

Environmental Defense Fund is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems.  

Guided by science, Environmental Defense Fund evaluates environmental problems and works to create and advocate solutions that win lasting political, economic and social support because they are nonpartisan, cost-efficient and fair.

Environmental Defense Fund

We accelerate the success of local, regenerative communities that exist in harmony with the lands & waters that sustain us.

“Come into this canoe to explore a supreme, unknown journey that we
are going to take together. I am sure it will be beautiful, because we will
begin to understand one another.” —Wa’xaid, Cecil Paul

At times of great crisis it is stories that help us prevail. Stories of hope, stories of connection, stories about what works. It is stories that can transform how we see the world, and how we engage with it and each other.

Magic Canoe’s mission is to build a bioregional movement across Salmon Nation through storytelling. From the North Slope of Alaska to the shores of California, our interconnected story initiatives work to accelerate the success of local, regenerative communities that exist in harmony with the lands and waters that sustain us.

At the heart of this movement are people at the edges—in places often far removed from centers of power: rural and Indigenous communities whose importance is typically undervalued. But edges are innovative and diverse, holding profound stocks of human and natural capital resources which can lead a bioregional shift towards regenerative practices. After all, it is in the edges where myriad innovations began— off-grid solar, permaculture, microcredit, mobile payments, the Internet, and health breakthroughs to name just a few. Shifting resources and attention to the edges is an essential step in addressing climate change and cascading systems failure.

Magic Canoe supports edge communities in sharing ideas of importance to them. We provide resources to discover stories for and by neighbors connected through purpose and place. Amplifying traditionally under-shared stories and storytellers from the
edge reshapes the dominant narrative in our bioregion towards a future of reciprocity, celebration and local solutions.

Our name and inspiration comes from Wa’xaid, Cecil Paul, a Haisla and Xenaksiala elder who—against enormous odds, and with many partners—forever protected the Kitlope from logging. During this quest, Wa’xaid imagined a “magic canoe,” a metaphysical vessel with room for everyone who wanted to join his journey. Wa’Xaid asked the founders of Magic Canoe, our organization, to keep this idea alive, even after he left on another great journey after his time on Earth.

Magic Canoe

Future Earth generates meaningful engagement with the climate crisis through education on social media. 

WHERE YOUR DONATION GOES:
100% of proceeds go directly to our four stellar researchers and graphic designers, who create daily climate content delivered to you on Instagram.

WHAT WE DO:
We host interviews with our heroes⸺from national climate advisor Gina McCarthy to activist Wawa Gatheru, Kendall Jenner, and Dr. Leah Stokes. We amplify the experts, grassroots organizations, solutionists, and frontline activists too busy doing the work to also worry about getting their message across on social media. That’s what we’re here for.

WHY WE DO IT:
The fossil fuel industry pours money to spread misinformation on social media because they know that polluting the collective conscience is an effective way to stall climate action. Big Oil spent $10 million on Facebook ads alone in 2020. In the decade from 2008 to 2018, they outspent climate groups 27-1 on ad campaigns—totaling almost $2 billion. It’s time to take a page from the devil’s playbook and harness it for good.

Future Earth Foundation

Protecting the rainforest and our climate by supporting Indigenous peoples.

Since 1996, Amazon Watch has protected the rainforest and advanced the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.

Amazon Watch partners with Indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. Our work focuses on three main and interconnected areas: stopping the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, amplifying Indigenous rights, resistance and solutions, and advancing climate justice. Amazon Watch accompanies Indigenous, forest, and traditional peoples - the best stewards of the rainforest - in halting and holding accountable the major drivers of Amazon destruction, defends the Defenders, and amplifies Indigenous solutions to permanently protect the rainforest.

The Amazon is the world's largest terrestrial carbon sink and plays a critical role in regulating the global climate. Yet this global treasure is at great risk – already more than 20% has been deforested, and new fossil fuel extraction, mining, and large-scale development projects cause even greater deforestation and result in high rates of violence against Indigenous peoples and their territories. The harrowing truth is that the tipping point for the Amazon rainforest is here. Bold and immediate actions are necessary to avert ecosystem collapse and move us from the tipping point a turning point.

To this end, Amazon Watch accompanies Indigenous peoples to provide security to threatened Earth Defenders; provides solidarity funding directly to Indigenous partners for a holistic range of initiatives and immediate needs; amplifies Indigenous resistance and solutions to the public, policymakers, and media; and calls out the corporations, governments, and financial institutions responsible for Amazon destruction, with proven success.

The knowledge, cultures, and traditional practices of our Indigenous partners contribute greatly to sustainable and equitable stewardship of the Amazon and all of Mother Earth. Amazon Watch promotes Indigenous-led solutions, such as green development and autonomous solar power, and expands capacity for Indigenous leaders, especially women, to maintain their autonomy and sovereignty for the stewardship of their ancestral territories.

Amazon Watch

A new breed of climate-focused NGO working to build a world that removes more carbon than it emits.

Reducing emissions is not enough.

We envision a world where climate change has been halted and economic prosperity is driven by innovative farmers, foresters, and businesses pulling carbon from the sky.

By partnering with experts and change-makers across industries, we elevate three essential pillars of economic transformation: accelerated research, smart business practices, and effective policies.

With so many solutions at our fingertips and so little time, we’re committed to motivating change widely — and fast. We work alongside people of diverse perspectives and backgrounds to build broad momentum for carbon removal.

Carbon180

We need an all-out mobilization of our economy and society to protect humanity and restore a safe climate.

We are already experiencing catastrophic climate impacts, and they are accelerating. Our climate politics have not kept up with the ever-worsening scientific reports and demonstrated reality. We don’t have 30 years to decarbonize.  We need to reach zero emissions and to reverse the 6th mass extinction through a just transition as quickly as humanly possible.

Climate Emergency Fund has been turbo-charging the climate movement by supporting its most brave and adamant activists since our founding in 2019. We support the people who tell the truth, demand transformation at emergency speed, and put everything on the line to protect humanity and the living world.

Climate Emergency Fund

We are a think tank dedicated to figuring out the best ways to make the world a better place.

Rethink Priorities is a research organization that conducts critical research to inform policymakers and major foundations about how to best help people and nonhuman animals in both the present and the long-term future.

Our research spans everything from animal welfare to the threat of nuclear war. We explore neglected but promising areas to improve the world and try to further build the community of researchers working on understanding how to do this most effectively.

If you'd like to support one of our fiscally sponsored projects (e.g. Epoch), you can give via Every.org, and let us know how to allocate your gift at info@rethinkpriorities.org.

Rethink Priorities

To cultivate creativity and grow mutual empathy as the building blocks for a prosperous, sustainable, and peaceful future.

We are planting the seeds of freedom by inspiring students to boldly step beyond the boundaries set before them and challenge the norm. 

Theory of Change
To transform children's self-identity through the arts for higher-order thinking and enhanced self-worth. 

The ICAF school art program (Arts Olympiad) has grown over the years into the world's largest. The program employs the arts as a dynamic physical activity to get to one of the leading causes of declining creativity and rising obesity: How children view themselves. 

The Arts Olympiad introduces students to the "Artist-Athlete Ideal" of the creative mind and a healthy body (mente sana in corpo sano). The structured lesson plans motivate students to think of themselves and others not as techies, nerds, jocks, or artsy but as artist-athletes. The coalescing of artistic and athletic mindsets sprouts outside-the-box thinking and instills healthy lifestyles. 

The Arts Olympiad requires students to visualize and depict themselves as artist-athletes in their paintings, drawings or digital art, to inspire creative thinking and instill healthy lifestyles. Under the Arts Olympiad, students depict themselves as artist-athletes in their paintings, drawings, or digital art, solidifying their revised self-image. For those at-risk and disadvantaged, creativity can blaze new trails to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. An increased number of artist-athletes transforms the school into a more integrated, forward-looking community.

To develop empathy worldwide, ICAF produces the World Children's Festival (WCF) across the U.S. Capitol on The National Mall. The Arts Olympiad winners from the participating U.S. school districts and countries come together at the WCF. The festival workshops, training, and activities are designed to provide a transformative experience that infuses children's creativity with empathy, inspiring them to become "creative-empaths" who can work together to make the world a better place.

To be a creative-empath requires a quality of character that can help overcome adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma and hatred that seeps into the young, like physical traits or melanin. The WCF is not only fun and entertainment but an effective intervention that makes it unlike any other children's festival, nationally or globally.

Impact
Over the past twenty-five years, ICAF has changed the world for children. More than five million schoolchildren have participated in and benefited from ICAF's free-of-charge programs. An estimated two million students, parents, and teachers have attended ICAF festivals, exhibitions, and conferences in over twenty major cities worldwide. ChildArt quarterly’s readership has grown to about 220,000. 

Funding
The National Endowment of the Art, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Skillman Foundation, and the Robert J. Bauer Family Foundation supported ICAF in 2022. ICAF is independently ranked among the 25 Top Children's Charities in the United States. The U.S. Olympic Committee has granted ICAF an exclusive license to use the "Arts Olympiad" mark. ICAF is raising funds to launch its 7th Arts Olympiad in June 2023 and produce the 7th WCF in June 2024.

International Child Art Foundation

Aquatic Life Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving the lives of aquatic animals in the global food system.

Aquatic Life Institute was formed to specifically advance animal welfare for the nearly 500 billion farmed fish and shrimp, and 2-3 trillion wild aquatic animals in the global food system. 

At Aquatic Life Institute www.ali.fish we dedicate all of our expertise and energy to ensuring high impact results, and long-lasting positive change for aquatic animals. 

We operate in three primary program areas:
1) Coalitions: we are the hub for over 115 NGOs and stakeholders leveraging collective action
2) Seafood Certifier Campaign: Working with the world's largest seafood certifiers to strengthen standards for billions of aquatic animals every year
3) Policy Pursuits: working at the international and national government level to advance protections for aqua

Aquatic Life Institute Inc

Catalyzing resilient solutions, scaled to meet the climate challenge.

CATF is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing atmospheric pollution through research, advocacy, and private sector collaboration.

Clean Air Task Force

Sentient Media is a nonprofit journalism organization that is creating transparency around the use of animals in our daily lives.

In the last 12 months, we’ve continued to bring the truth about our food system’s impact on all sentient beings and our environment to global audiences.

We’ve published over 300 articles focused on our food system and how it impacts humans, nonhuman animals, and our environment. We've served over 4.2 million dedicated readers, and our content has reached over 52 million on Google and Apple News. We've trained over 100 individuals in 12 different countries through our Social Media Fellowship, and served over 300 members in 30 different countries through our Writers' Collective. 

We also launched our inaugural Sentient Media Journalism Fund, funded by Timi and John Sobrato and Stray Dog Institute, in which 18 applicants who are underrepresented in animal rights and/or journalism will receive specialized training and stipends to help them complete courses and tell their stories.

Sentient Media

We advocate for a new, Creative format of society, where Human Life and Human well-being are the highest priorities.

Our mission is to help Humanity evolve to a Creative format of society in which human life is the main value. The goal of society is to ensure and guarantee the value of each Human's Life. There is not and can never be anything else more valuable than a Human's Life. If one Human is valuable, then all People are valuable!

The framework of the Creative Society is based on the 8 Pillars:
https://creativesocietyusa.org/pillars

Creative Society USA

We want to make life better for wild animals.

We are dedicated to finding evidence-backed ways to improve the lives of animals in the wild.

We depend on individual donors to help us make life better for wild animals. To a small nonprofit working hard on a big problem, your support is more crucial now than ever!

Wild Animal Initiative

Drawdown is the world's most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming. Project Drawdown describes when and how humanity can reach drawdown, the point at which greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere begin to decline.

Project Drawdown is a broad coalition of researchers, scientists, graduate students, PhDs, post-docs, policy makers, business leaders, and activists who have come together to map, measure, and model the best available solutions that can cumulatively reverse global warming within the next thirty years.

Project Drawdown

Protecting land, restoring habitat, and connecting people to nature in southern Indiana since 1990.

Sycamore Land Trust is a 501c3 nonprofit conservation organization founded in 1990 to preserve the beauty, health, and diversity of southern Indiana’s natural landscape through strategic land conservation and environmental education.

Sycamore protects 10,319 acres of land on 121 properties by owning and caring for nature preserves and by holding conservation easements that protect privately owned properties. Stewardship of our nature preserves includes restoration projects to improve natural habitat for wildlife, planting over 85,000 trees since 1990, and building and maintaining over 30 miles of trails for free public use. We also operate an Environmental Education Program that connects people of all ages to nature and reaches more than 6,000 students a year.

Sycamore Land Trust envisions a future in which southern Indiana has diverse and abundant habitat for native plants and animals, as well as clean air and water, and people who embrace the connection between a healthy environment and our quality of life.

We are accredited and uphold the highest standards. In 2019, Sycamore became an accredited land trust through the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. Accreditation acknowledges the highest level of achievement in transparency, accountability, and longevity for land trusts across North America. We are also a Guidestar Gold nonprofit.

Sycamore Land Trust

Training and supporting regenerative ocean farmers in the era of climate change.


GreenWave’s polyculture farming system grows a mix of seaweeds and shellfish that require zero inputs—making it the most sustainable form of food production on the planet—while sequestering carbon and rebuilding reef ecosystems. Since our farms sit vertically below the surface, they produce high yields with a small footprint. With a low barrier to entry, anyone with 20 acres, a boat, and $20-50K can start their own farm. 

GreenWave

Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda.

Evergreen is leading the fight to put bold climate action at the top of America's agenda, implement an all-out mobilization to defeat climate change and create millions of jobs in a clean energy economy. We empower climate and community leaders, and advocate for policymakers to adopt the urgent climate policies that science demands.

The Evergreen Action Plan is a comprehensive roadmap for this national mobilization: investing in building a thriving clean-energy economy that strengthens communities, and building a future rooted in justice and economic inclusion. Read the Evergreen Action Plan: https://collaborative.evergreenaction.com/policy-hub/plan

We won’t defeat today’s urgent climate crisis with yesterday’s climate politics. The next decade will determine whether America rises to the opportunity of rescuing our future, or shrinks from the challenge of this crisis. We need bold solutions now.

Evergreen Collaborative

We are Palo Altans who care deeply about the future of Palo Alto. We fight for a more affordable, sustainable, and equitable city.

Ready for a new Palo Alto? We aim to end homelessness, promote racial and economic diversity, and amplify the voices of those impacted by our affordability crisis while prioritizing environmental sustainability. We believe Palo Alto can be a bike-able, walkable community where families, businesses, young professionals at all income levels thrive.

Palo Alto Forward

A singular focus: the wild as the most effective solution to the interconnected climate, biodiversity and pandemic crises.

We collaborate with individuals, communities, Indigenous peoples, governments, scientists, and businesses to drive the most pressing nature-based solutions to our planet’s urgent crises. Radical change requires radical collaboration.

Re:wild

Creative Commons (CC) stewards a universally accessible infrastructure for open knowledge, culture, and collaboration. 

Creative Commons is the global nonprofit organization behind the CC licenses and public domain tools, enabling the free and open distribution of otherwise copyrighted work. We give every person and organization in the world a simple and standardized way to grant copyright permissions for images, music, research, journal articles, educational resources, and cultural artifacts; ensure proper attribution; and allow others to copy, distribute, and make use of those works.

We've come a long way since we first got started in 2001. When Creative Commons was  founded, the internet was a budding universe with high potential, and platforms widely used today like Wikipedia and Google were only just taking off. CC’s founders were keen to ensure that, as the internet continued to grow, safeguards to knowledge, culture, and creativity were firmly in place, and the Creative Commons license suite was born.

Now more than ever, CC recognizes the urgent need for these licenses in advancing Better Sharing, key to preserving our global commons. As we look toward the next 20 years, CC seeks to fearlessly advocate for Open Knowledge to address the many challenges our global community faces today from the Climate Crisis and educational inequalities to the spread of "fake news" and barriers in access to cultural heritage.

Creative Commons

Halting rainforest destruction and its impact on climate change by working alongside rainforest communities.

Cool Earth shares the most effective conservation methods around the world and invests in those with the potential for best outcomes for people and rainforest. 

Innovation is the key to scaling up rapid rainforest protection and the lessons learned in one partnership can often be applied to benefit another. 

We work with communities who want to protect their forest. From setting up an in-country team to working directly with communities and local NGOs to develop their capacity, our partnerships are community-led and adaptable to each location.

Cool Earth

The mission of Coalition for Rainforest Nations (www.cfrn.org) is to slow, stop and reverse global deforestation.

The Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering rainforest countries to assume a leadership role in the fight against climate change. Through policy support, capacity building, and direct finance, CfRN incentivizes developing countries to slow, stop, and reverse deforestation through the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) mechanism. REDD+ is now universally recognized as one of the most immediate mitigation actions that preserves the planet’s rainforests and directly addresses the climate emergency.

CfRN’s Origins and the Promise of REDD+
Inspired by the call of Papua New Guinea’s former Prime Minister, Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, to equitably preserve the planet’s rainforests, CfRN’s Executive Director, Kevin Conrad, who grew up in Papua New Guinea, and Managing Director Federica’s Bietta, who is from Italy, lead the Coalition for Rainforest Nations. By advancing REDD+, their aim was to give rainforest nations a voice within international climate negotiations and define rainforests as worth more alive than dead. 

REDD+ was introduced in 2005 at the Eleventh Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by the newly formed Coalition for Rainforest Nations. Founding nations, Costa Rica and Papua New Guinea, envisioned REDD+ as a way to assign a financial value to forests for the role they play in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and not just as a source of logged timber, agriculture, or grazing lands.  REDD+ (Forestry) is the only sector to enjoy a unique article in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (Article 5).  Furthermore, REDD+ preserves forests at the scale and speed needed to keep 1.5 alive – the goal prescribed under the Paris Agreement of limiting temperature rise to 1.5°Celsius. 

The REDD+ mechanism was developed over the years at successive COP meetings, as shown in the timeline below. As a result of CfRN’s leadership, rainforests are now recognized as a critical climate solution under the UNFCCC.  

What We Do
CfRN’s work encompasses three key areas: policy support; capacity building; and direct finance. The collective goal of these programs is to effectively reward countries for the work they do to preserve their forests. The Coalition provides direct policy support during all UNFCCC negotiating sessions and works in-country to help develop conservation policies, laws, and national forest protection plans. CfRN also trains countries’ experts to build the expertise needed to gather data required by the UNFCCC to report forest conservation results. CfRN works to ensure that rainforest countries are compensated for verified emission reductions under REDD+, as promised under the Paris Agreement. 

Policy Support
As a UNFCCC-recognized Negotiating Group, CfRN establishes and advances positions on behalf of its countries – over fifty rainforest nations —at all UNFCCC sessions. In this capacity, CfRN strives to advance the REDD+ mechanism and ensure that climate finance is allocated equitably to rainforest nations. Currently, CfRN is working to ensure that REDD+ is fully represented in the rulebook of the Paris Agreement. 

Technical Training & Capacity Building 
Countries’ results are eligible for financial compensation through REDD+ only after rigorous measurement, reporting and verification data are submitted, reviewed, and deemed to conform to UNFCCC guidelines. REDD+ results are then registered on the UNFCCC REDD+ Information Hub and made available to the public to review in detail. In its capacity building role, CfRN helps countries develop national technical expertise to take stock of their forest resources, create national plans to preserve them, and submit their data to the REDD+ registry at the UNFCCC in a consistent manner with their climate pledges, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) to the Paris Agreement. 

Direct Finance
To date, rainforest countries have not been compensated for the majority of their REDD+ emissions reductions, as promised. Though certain governments including Norway, the U.K., and Germany, have paid bilaterally for some results, this is far from sufficient. CfRN’s finance work helps rainforest nations raise debt funding and receive performance-based compensation. The sale and trading of REDD+ Paris Agreement-compliant carbon credits is a growing source of climate finance. These credits are available for purchase through CfRN’s REDD.plus platform. Over the next few years, our member countries will bring a pipeline of sovereign carbon credits to market representing Paris Agreement-compliant emissions reductions, resulting from member country efforts to keep their rainforests standing. 

Coalition for Rainforest Nations

Creating a healthier, more equitable, and environmentally sustainable community.

The Climate Solutions Accelerator’s mission is to build a healthier, more equitable, and environmentally sustainable community by catalyzing local efforts to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and address the impacts of climate change.

Given the urgency and complexity of climate change, the Accelerator firmly believes that everyone has a role to play in addressing climate change. The Accelerator’s constituents, therefore, include any person or organization in the nine-county Genesee-Finger Lakes Region who is willing to work toward solving climate change, regardless of socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability, and language. Furthermore, we are committed to centering equity in our work and prioritize climate solutions that accelerate emissions reductions while also addressing other key community concerns (e.g., health disparities, access to jobs, affordable housing). We are firmly committed to ensuring that ALL members of our community have opportunities to benefit from, and participate in, climate action at the local level. Building a powerfully diverse climate movement across the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region that bridges political, economic, geographic, and racial divides is therefore a critical goal of our work. 

One of the Accelerator’s primary roles in the community is to facilitate collaboration between entities that are working to address climate change and related concerns. By coordinating and aligning the efforts of many local organizations, the Accelerator increases the effectiveness and efficiency of our regional climate movement by bringing together cross-sector stakeholders to work toward equitable, intersectional climate solutions.

A Collective Impact Initiative brings together a wide and diverse group of stakeholders to tackle an urgent, yet complex problem (like climate change) that cannot be solved with a single solution or from within a single organization or sector, e.g., non-profit or government. The Accelerator has convened a steering committee for this initiative, made up of key decision-makers from a wide range of sectors, including government, business, health, housing, transportation, and agriculture. This steering committee is working with consultants from the Stockholm Environment Institute to develop a climate action plan for the nine-county Genesee Finger Lakes region, and a shared measurement system to assess progress toward achieving the plan’s goals. The Collective Impact steering committee and issue-based working groups will coordinate mutually reinforcing activities to reduce redundancies, break down silos, and maximize the efficient use of resources.

The Collective Impact process will allow our region to move quickly towards carbon neutrality, through coordinated, collaborative action to end our dependence on fossil fuels.​​These efforts to implement systems-level climate solutions will enhance the quality of life for our region’s residents in a variety of ways, such as improved public health, energy affordability, opportunities for green job development, sustainable transportation options, access to public greenspace, neighborhood stability/resilience, and home comfort.

Beyond the Accelerator’s primary collective impact initiative, other current programs include:

- Amped: a collaboration with nearly 20 prominent local institutions to promote beneficial electrification (the use of cleanly-generated electricity to meet energy needs) and encourage organizational leaders to electrify their buildings and vehicle fleets.

- Color Your Community Green: a volunteer-driven initiative that connects and organizes concerned individuals, by municipality or neighborhood, to form a network of climate-focused citizen action teams that (1) identify locally-relevant, high-impact climate solutions and develop implementation strategies using the CYCG “Toolkit,” and (2) advocate for environmental justice and equitable climate solutions to be implemented at the municipal level and in schools.

- HeatSmart Monroe: an initiative that educates, encourages, and incentivizes homeowners to transition from gas and oil heating systems to cleaner, greener heat pump heating and cooling systems.

- Connected Communities Resident Ambassador Program: outreach and education initiative in partnership with Connected Communities to help tenants, landlords and homeowners in the City of Rochester’s EMMA and Beechwood neighborhoods reduce their energy usage—and energy bills—by making weatherization improvements using NY State home energy efficiency grants.

Climate Solutions Accelerator

A growing community of inheritors committed to doing the most good.

Generation Pledgers work collectively to reduce suffering, increase flourishing and reduce environmental, social and existential risks.

To join Generation Pledge, inheritors must commit to:

1. Donate at least 10% of their inheritance to effective causes within the first 5 years of inheriting
2. Mobilise their financial, social, career, and political capital to generate the greatest impact, before and after inheriting

We connect pledgers with peers and vetted organisations, thinkers and doers who can amplify their impact.
We introduce pledgers to world-class ideas and research to help them do the most good with their unique resources.
We help pledgers stick to their intentions and provide them with the tools to track and improve their lifelong impact.

Generation Pledge Inc

Transforming the global energy system to secure a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future for all.

RMI — a global, independent, nonprofit organization — combats the environmental and humanitarian crisis of climate change by focusing on energy. Energy production and use — specifically, burning coal, gas, and oil to power industries, buildings, and transportation — accounts for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. 

RMI designs and implements clean energy solutions in the places where we can make the biggest, sustainable difference the most quickly. Our experts analyze and test how powerful market catalysts — like policy, technology, and finance — can be used to decarbonize electricity, buildings, transportation, and industry. We then partner with companies, cities, and countries to scale these solutions worldwide.

Philanthropy powers our big ideas and ensures everyone can enjoy a clean, prosperous, zero-carbon future. Join us as we accelerate today’s climate solutions for tomorrow. There’s no time to waste.


RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute)

Permanently ending food waste/hunger by enabling 8K food pantries nationwide to receive surplus harvests from 62 million gardeners

“AmpleHarvest.org is the answer to the classic ‘excess supply not reaching the demand’ dilemma that has up to now resulted in vast amounts of food wasted in millions of gardens across America, while the needy in the community remained malnourished and hungry” Gary Oppenheimer, Nov 2010.

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LATE BREAKING NEWS:  AmpleHarvest.org has launched "AmpleHarvest.org in Indian Country" to help food pantries across Reservations nationwide to receive/distribute fresh food.  More at www.AmpleHarvest.org/IndianCountry.
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AmpleHarvest.org is a one of a kind nationwide nonprofit that is eliminating the waste of locally grown fresh food, the outcome being a reduction in hunger and malnutrition along with an improved environment. It is accomplished by educating America's 62 million home/community gardeners that, despite the food drive "jars, cans, boxes" mantra, they can actually donate their surplus harvest, and they by providing a specialized food pantry search engine that enables them to make the donation to one of 8,000 AmpleHarvest.org local food pantries spread across all 50 states. These food pantries help nourish the one out of six Americans (including a quarter of all kids under six ) that rely on these pantries.

AmpleHarvest.org guides the gardener to donate just hours before the hungry families come in to get the food - meaning the food pantry does not need costly refrigeration or storage, and the families get to take home food that was harvested only hours earlier.

We work with the entire Feeding America food bank network, the Master Gardener program, and other partner nonprofits with the goal of helping to assure that food donated reaches a hungry family in the community - quite possibly - right next door.

AmpleHarvest.org has been highlighted on CNN Heroes, it won Points of Light, and was nominated for the World Food Prize.

Because we're addressing a misinformation as well as a missing information problem, this information based solution is both sustainable and sustained.  

You can visit www.AmpleHarvest.org/impact to understand the impact of your donation - this year and for the next 20 years.

Learn more here:
CNN Hero - www.AmpleHarvest.org/CNN
TEDx talk - www.AmpleHarvest.org/TED
Points of Light - www.AmpleHarvest.org/POL
PBS's Growing A Green World - www.AmpleHarvest.org/PBS
Defining The Difference - www.AmpleHarvest.org/definingthedifference


AmpleHarvest.org

Students come to HMI for life-changing experiences from our campus high in the Rocky Mountains to the wilds of Patagonia. 

The High Mountain Institute engages students with the natural world. Our school boldly unites rigorous intellectual inquiry, experiential learning, wilderness expeditions, and shared responsibility in a strong community. Our students realize their potential—as leaders, independent thinkers, and thoughtful citizens.

High Mountain Institute

Supporting young people to make climate change an urgent priority, and exposing corruption of the fossil fuel industry.

The Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. We’re building an army of young people to make climate change an urgent priority across America, end the corrupting influence of fossil fuel executives on our politics, and elect leaders who stand up for the health and wellbeing of all people.

We call ourselves Sunrise because we know this dark hour in America, when fossil fuel executives and climate deniers run our government, cannot last. The sun will rise again.  We have a 4-year plan to make climate action an urgent priority in every corner of the country, expose the fossil fuel executives who have purchased politicians and blocked progress, and lift up champions who will work for the people at every level of government.

Sunrise Movement Education Fund

Our mission is to make California and affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. 

Californians have inherited a system of high costs and underutilized land that has become a cornerstone of the ongoing homelessness, displacement, unaffordability, and racial wealth gap crises. 

California YIMBY is a community of neighbors who welcome more neighbors. We believe that an equitable California begins with abundant, secure, affordable housing. We support responsible development focused in the places people want to live in: job-rich, transit-accessible areas with good essential services and amenities. Unfortunately, building affordable, dense housing is currently illegal in the majority of California. 

By building the YIMBY movement, conducting policy research, and educating voters and legislators, we can help pass policy that could build millions of new homes in existing urban areas without displacing incumbent communities. Your donation will help us build the case and the political power to end our housing shortage and affordability crisis! 

Help us put California back on a path to economic prosperity and build inclusive, vibrant and livable communities for everyone. 

California Yimby Education Fund

We work with local leaders to determine, organize, and implement appropriate solutions that build community and solve problems.

Moving Windmills Project envisions a future where talented youth design and co-create solutions that directly respond to the real-world needs of their communities. To achieve this vision, Moving Windmills works with local leaders to determine, organize, and implement appropriate solutions that build community and solve pressing problems. We value:

Human-centered design: People know their own problems best. The only true solution is one that at every step involves those who face the challenge.

Appropriate Technology: Designs that use local, repurposed materials and are easily replicable and locally made.  

Local Knowledge: Moving Windmills is in constant contact with ways of knowing and doing that are unique to Malawi. We are adaptive, observant, and community-centered. 

Ever Learning: We believe wisdom comes from the joy one takes in being constantly open to growth and innovation and from seeking mutually beneficial partnerships with individuals and organizations. 

Talent is universal, opportunity is rare: Good ideas can come from anyone. We all have a role to play and a story to share. We need opportunities to share our gifts.

Malawi is a young country—over 50% of the nation is under the age of 15 years old. The populace is expected to double in the next 20 years. The growing population will test an education system that is already over-enrolled and under-resourced. In 2018, 31% of eligible Malawian students completed primary school, 15% completed secondary school; this represents the lowest rates of access to education in East Africa. For those who can access schools, they are likely to learn in settings without electricity, running water, or trained teachers. The educational infrastructure in Malawi is not enough, and the need is growing. 

At the same time, Malawians who can access education face irrelevant and outdated curriculums. According to the Ministry of Education, when we eliminate financial barriers, the number one reason for student drop-out is “lack of interest.” For decades development specialists have promised Malawians that more education means better-paying jobs, but in a fragile economy based on small-scale agriculture, this is not true. Over 80% of Malawians are subsistence farmers, yet agriculture curriculum in schools is limited to multiple-choice test questions that are more likely to test a student’s English ability than improve their farming practices. 

Agriculture in Malawi is increasingly fragile, and climate change is predicted to have devastating effects on the landlocked nation. Unpredictable rain seasons cause floods in some regions and long periods of drought in others; the invasion of foreign pests has ravaged staple crops, and the price of vital fertilizers has skyrocketed for those who most need it. Malawi needs an education system that empowers individuals to respond to growing environmental hazards and encourages. The challenges of the future require communities of enabled problem-solvers, and that starts with an education that addresses Malawi’s reality, a system that emphasizes secure livelihoods through improved agricultural practices. 

We have the knowledge to help shape resilient farmers who can problem-solve through Malawi’s challenges and secure viable futures for their families and communities. For example, small-scale drip irrigation systems, natural crop defenses against invading pests like Fall Armyworm, and locally processed fertilizers are all viable, low-cost solutions. Malawians are still farming with hand tools designed centuries ago. Now is the time to transform agricultural practices from hand hoe and plow to simple machines with the power to change lives


Moving Windmills Project

A "home for meditation in nature" featuring low-cost retreats in a stunning wilderness setting just 30 min west of Boulder, CO.

Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center

Accelerates the development of sustainable animal-free materials for the fashion, automotive, and home goods industries.


From your car seat to the clothes on your back, the materials we interact with every day have a profound impact on the environment. Animal-based materials are linked to climate change, chemical waste, and resource depletion, and many current animal-product replacements are made from petroleum and don’t meet consumers’ needs. Consumers and companies alike are searching for sustainable solutions that are functional, fashionable, and cost-effective, but today’s options are few and far between.
The Material Innovation Initiative accelerates the development of sustainable materials for the fashion, automotive, and home goods industries, with a focus on replacing animal-based materials with high performance, more sustainable materials.

Material Innovation Initiative

Seeking economic justice for the family-scale farming community. Through research, advocacy, and economic development our goal is to empower farmers - partnered with consumers - in support of ecologically produced local, organic and authentic food.

The Cornucopia Institute

We work to end hunger & poverty in partnership with the communities we serve. Our programs create lasting change around the world.

Heifer's programs and success begin with a seed investment of livestock or agriculture, followed by mentorship to help project participants build a business, and ultimately to gain access to supply chains and markets.

These families are able to earn a living income and continuously lift up their communities as they train the next generation of leaders.

By supporting and training the world's farmers, ranchers, and female business owners, we're investing in a new breed of success. Our community development model focuses on building social capital by increasing income and assets within farming families, improving their food security and nutrition, and protecting the environment - with women's empowerment and connected communities at the very center.

Heifer Project International

Protecting everyone's right to breathe clean air!  www.CleanAir.org

Clean Air Council is a member-supported, non-profit environmental health organization dedicated to protecting everyone’s right to breathe clean air. The Council works aggressively to improve the Mid-Atlantic region’s air quality through public education, outreach programs, community advocacy, and government oversight.

Clean Air Council

Health In Harmony's mission is reversing tropical rainforest deforestation to halt the nature and climate crisis.

WE ARE A CLIMATE SOLUTION.
Health In Harmony is an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity. Using the innovative process of Radical Listening, we collaborate with the experts – rainforest communities – to create the change the planet needs. We do not wait for others to act but hold ourselves accountable for the planet’s future. Humanity must halve atmospheric carbon by 2030, and we are committed to making a significant impact on this drawdown. In order to scale, our work is deeply rooted in monitoring, data, and evaluation. A study on our innovative model was published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Health In Harmony

We protect and steward threatened farmland, and keep land in production by making it accessible to a new generation of farmers.

Local farms are essential to our daily lives. Investing in Washington farmland means healthy food for our children, thriving rural economies, and fertile, productive soil. Simply put: farms make our communities better.

But the future of farming is threatened. Over the last four decades, some of Washington’s best soils have been irreversibly lost to development. In the next ten years, 70% of local growers will retire without a successor in place, and new farmers face countless barriers to accessing land, from affordability to systemic racism and discrimination. As land prices skyrocket and climate change threatens our landscape, we are working to protect farmland, support farmers, and chart a new path for the future of farming in Washington State. 

We see farmland conservation at the nexus of many important issues, from rural economic development to local food production and climate change. By working in partnership to protect farmland and prioritizing the needs of local farmers and the community, we are creating a more sustainable and resilient future for our state.

We are a statewide organization, prioritizing farming communities based on a set of conservation criteria. We conduct technical mapping to understand where soil quality is highest, and use factors like development pressure and climate impacts to help us identify the most urgent threats to farmland. We typically protect farms in close proximity to one another in order to strengthen the fabric of the rural communities where we work. Threatened farmland sometimes needs direct intervention to ensure it stays available for future generations of farmers. We use tools in different combinations, depending on the context and needs of each specific project. Each tool ensures the permanent protection of farmland.

Through our Farm to Farmer program, we help farmers find the land opportunities they need to grow their businesses, and help landowners sell or lease their land to keep it in farming. We offer personalized technical assistance to current and aspiring farmers, farming and non-farming landowners, veterans, real estate agents, and organizations looking to expand their incubator or agricultural park programs, which are areas set aside specifically to encourage continued farming operations.

By protecting farmland forever, we are creating access and affordability for a new generation of farmers. By removing development potential from farmland, the purchase price becomes much more affordable — often by as much as 50%. With access to land being the number-one hurdle that new and beginning farmers face, we aim to address this barrier by protecting land and making connections to land opportunities through our Farm to Farmer program.

Land is the foundation of our food system. We need your support to sustain a future for farming in Washington before it’s too late. Join us.

Washington Farmland Trust

We believe every child deserves a quality education. We transform lives in Zambian communities through education and innovation

We believe every child deserves a quality education. We transform lives in rural Zambian communities through education and innovation, at a fraction of the cost of other alternatives.
Over the last decade, thousands of schools have been built in Africa with the goal of providing universal access to education. However, without trained teachers, strong management, and high-quality learning materials, many of these schools are failing to produce quality results.   
Our focus is beyond the build. One of our key programs, the eSchool 360, is a holistic education program centered on empowering teachers with tablets, activity-based lessons, support and weekly coaching. We developed the eSchool 360 model as a way to sustain high-quality education for less than $5 a month per student. We serve over 6,000 students across 43 schools, covering early childhood through seventh grade.   
Our work also extends beyond the lines of traditional education, towards a shared mission of improving the overall lives of rural children in Zambia.  We design and implement a variety of projects that aim to help all of our students, including early childhood education, financial literacy, child protection, girls and women empowerment, environmental sustainability, and life skills and sexuality. With the school as a starting point, we are able to make broad changes across families and communities to improve not only their educational outcomes, but also their overall wellbeing.
Currently, we are part of a large-scale randomized controlled trial evaluation across 30 schools and 3 districts, conducted by American Institutes for Research. The initial results after one year of our program show impressive results in literacy and math – compared to a control group, our schools increased math achievement by 55% and literacy achievement by 103%. At the end of grade 1, our students were 12 months ahead on numeracy and 22 months ahead on literacy. 


Impact Network


Sociocracy For All promotes effective, egalitarian governance (decision-making, organization structure, and feedback processes).

Everyone should leave a meeting feeling more connected and more refreshed!
If that’s not true for your meetings, maybe it’s time to use some tools that are new and very old at the same time - for example rounds!
If you’re curious about more tools to improve your collaboration and make sure all voices are heard and work can flow, check out #sociocracy! A good way to learn is http://www.sociocracyforall.org/content

Sociocracy For All is a membership organization with more than 200 members worldwide. We're member-run and decentralized, which means that those members are decision-makers in their domains. 

What we offer:
- free and accessible resources to learn - in a growing number of languages
- training and coaching for implementation of sociocracy
- networking and communities of practice

We reach thousands of people every month who care about effective governance that includes all voices. 

Your donation supports our different impact areas:
- affordability: allowing affordable access to training
- localization: translating our resources so people can learn in their first language
- sector support: networking and continuous learning of people who are in similar sectors and can give each other meaningful support, for example eductors in sociocratic schools, activists in climate action, humans in sociocratic communities or coops, facilitators and leaders. 

Read our social justice statement: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/sociocracy-for-all-social-justice-statement/
Read about our members and impact: http://sociocracyforall.org/sofa

Institute For Peaceable Communities AKA Sociocracy for All

With ayahuasca being used now in more than 65 countries, Ayahuasca Diaries is for both the curious and the well initiated. 

Join director Maxi Cohen in finishing Ayahuasca Diaries.  It will help to heal and awaken people, honor the sacredness of plant medicines and indigenous elders, make a difference in saving our environment, and inform policy decisions in the US and internationally. 

Small or large, all donations make a difference, and they are tax-deductible through MAPS. If you’d like to use that gift to honor a friend or loved one, please consider giving over $100. Every gift above $100 will appear in the credits of the film. Contributors of $75,000 will get producing credits at the beginning if listed and at end of the film. 

Ayahuasca Diaries, in a distinctive style going far beyond any film yet made, anticipates the future.  How ayahuasca is used by Amazonian tribes, the on-the-ground protectors of the Amazon who are being annihilated* to scientists who have FDA approval to conceive these “plant teachers" as a medicine, the film testifies to what is mind-bogglingly humanly possible, delivers the science, calls for sacred reciprocity and shows how ayahuasca plays a role in saving the Amazon and transforming world culture.

Maxi's documentary feature films, cited for being ground breaking in form and content, have played in theaters and on television internationally. As a student/practitioner of ayahuasca for more than thirty years, she has decades of trusted relationships with ayahuasca shamans, scientists, tribes, churches, authorities and leaders.  From Shock to Awe*, which Maxi executive produced, has changed and saved many lives from suicide and has been viewed in 65 countries!  

*From Shock to Awe is available on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.  
"If you have an interest in psychedelics, ayahuasca, veteran affairs, or healing, take a look at this documentary. I’ve watched it 3x already and highly recommend it."  -  Tim Ferriss   
"A must-see"  -   Michael Pollan  


Ayahuasca Diaries 

We're on a mission to save and protect bonobos and their rainforest home - forever. 

Friends of Bonobos works with Amis des Bonobos du Congo in the DR Congo to save bonobos and their rainforest home. 

We do this through rescue, sanctuary, and rewilding, by partnering with local communities to tackle root causes and save rainforest, and by raising the profile of bonobos locally and globally.

We have a comprehensive approach to bonobo conservation. We're in this for the long haul.

--We rescue endangered bonobos that have been orphaned by the illegal trade in wildlife.
We give them essential care and sanctuary as long as needed, and then, when possible, release them back to the rainforest.

--We partner with and support Congolese communities near bonobo habitat to save rainforests. We manage and protect the forest preserve, ensuring wildlife and their rainforest home are protected for the long term.

​--We raise global and local awareness of endangered bonobos and the root causes that threaten their survival. We work with local and international authorities to uphold and strengthen the laws supporting endangered wildlife.

Friends of Bonobos

Supporting solar energy for a more equitable world. ☀️

The Honnold Foundation supports solar energy access— solar everywhere, for everyone. 

That means a donation to the Honnold Foundation could help a low-income family in Sacramento cut their energy bill in half, or pay for solar technician job training for a high schooler on the Navajo Nation. Or, your gift could help fund Puerto Rico’s first cooperatively managed, community owned microgrid, pioneering a new way to access and control energy in communities around the world. 

No matter who you are, we believe that energy should be clean, easy to access, and affordable. When you give a gift to the Honnold Foundation, you help us advance solar energy access worldwide.

Honnold Foundation

Founders Pledge is a global nonprofit empowering entrepreneurs to do the most good possible with their charitable giving. 

We equip members with everything needed to maximize their impact, from evidence-led research and advice on the world’s most pressing problems, to comprehensive infrastructure for global grant-making, alongside opportunities to learn and connect. We’re grateful to be funded by our members and other generous donors. 