Shared Knowledge
Funding intelligence continuously maintained.
Capital Stewardship Commons
Capital should serve purpose.
Help organizations discover the right resources, prepare for funding, reduce unnecessary work, and stay true to their mission.
The problem
Organizations often pursue funding instead of purpose.
Purpose-driven organizations spend enormous time searching for grants, preparing applications, repeating documentation, finding partners, reporting, and navigating complex funding ecosystems.
Meanwhile many opportunities are missed.
01Searching for grants
02Preparing applications
03Repeating documentation
04Finding partners
05Reporting
06Navigating funding ecosystems
Our belief
Capital is a tool. Purpose comes first.
Funding should fit the organization. Not the other way around.
What the Commons provides
Shared infrastructure, not another funding portal.
Four parts, maintained together by the communities that use them. Each community runs its own desk on top of the same foundation.
Second Brain Integration
Work with an organization's existing knowledge.
AI Agents
Help prepare applications, identify opportunities and reduce administrative work.
Human Stewardship
Humans remain responsible for important decisions.
How it works
Six steps, always in this order.
Understanding comes before searching. Alignment comes before strategy. Preparation comes last, not first.
STEP 01Understand the organization.
STEP 02Explore resources.
STEP 03Evaluate mission alignment.
STEP 04Recommend the best capital strategy.
STEP 05Prepare applications.
STEP 06Support reporting and learning.
More than funding
A grant is one resource among many.
The right answer is sometimes a partnership, sometimes shared infrastructure, sometimes no capital at all. The Commons maps the whole ecosystem before recommending anything.
Purpose
Principles
Thirteen principles hold the Commons together.
Four of them are read most often. Each principle explains what it means in practice and how a desk applies it.
01Purpose before capital.
02Least capital necessary.
05Human agency.
10Transparency.
Communities
Every community can run its own desk.
A Capital Stewardship Desk sits inside the community it serves, with its own stewards and context, drawing on the shared knowledge of the Commons.
Planetir
Regenerative startups, local initiatives, pilots, cooperatives and research.
→GaiaNet
Climate and ecosystem organizations working across regions.
Quorum1
Professionals, consultants, leaders and entrepreneurs building more human ways to work.
→Governance
Owned by the communities that depend on it.
The Commons stays useful by making responsibility, reasoning and ownership visible.
Steward governed
Stewards hold responsibility for decisions and are accountable to the communities.
Transparent
Decisions, sources and reasoning are visible to the members they affect.
Mission first
The purpose of an organization sets the direction. Capital follows it.
Community owned, shared infrastructure
What one community learns stays available to all of them.
Bring it to your community
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