Pushing the frontier of philanthropy.

A multidisciplinary database of visionary philanthropic experiments, advancing current social practices and rules for collective good.

Think different. Build different too.

“The failure of philanthropy is its failure to stay relevant,
to inspire us with what's possible”, Nadia Asporouhova

The non-profit sector is gaining increasing significance in the modern world, and it is currently one of the fastest-growing industries. From an economic standpoint, non-profits play a crucial role in addressing the issue of information asymmetry, which means they're highly valuable for our economy.

While all forms of charity are commendable, it is essential not only to provide direct assistance to individuals and communities during crises but also to focus on updating current social structures and rules to achieve far greater public benefits. Take, for instance, Dr. Kariko, a recent Nobel laureate, who faced significant challenges in securing funding for her groundbreaking research on mRNA. If the funding mechanisms for scientific work were different, we could have not only accelerated the development of her innovation but also facilitated numerous breakthroughs by other scientists.

Proposition of new funding mechanisms by independent organizations such as the Institute for Progress or Fast Grants perfectly illustrates the essence of philanthropy which involves “using private assets to experiment with public goods” to identify unique ideas and solutions to implicit but important problems.

And while startups are ceasing to be the most ambitious and promising avenue for young people, philanthropy is beginning to be so. In fact, any social institution like governments, academia, media, education, technological labs, democracy and others need to be updated to address contemporary global challenges like climate change, the shift of geopolitical power to New Axis, degrowth, the emergence of new risky technologies, and more. Technical progress alone cannot resolve these challenges, so updating our institutions should become a central mission of the 21st century.

That’s why we believe that the true potential of philanthropy and more generally institutional experiments is greatly underrealized.

We have built this website to convene unique projects that aspire to reimagine particular public goods and provide contrarian insights about the world. We’re trying to build something that can bring those to you, to help you find inspiration, original ideas and interesting areas for making an impact. At the same time organizations would find new donors, followers, participants and even employees.

So, let’s start diving down those rabbit holes through the filters in the top right corner!

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Ultimate guide and community platform for helping of immigration to the US.

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inspirational and knowledge tool for immigration

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A think tank researching policy reforms to unlock bottlenecks to economic growth.

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applying effective altruism approach, i.e. doing research only on most valuable topics like metascience, immigration, biosecurity

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Boom is a campaign launched to build the case for a UK where it is easier to choose to have children for everyone, because that's good for us all, socially and economically.

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British response to population decline

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Pronatalist Foundation is working to find a way for prosperity, gender equality, education, and technlogy to coexist with stable populations.

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Fight for a Soft Landing on Demographic Collapse

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The Institute for Family Studies is dedicated to strengthening marriage and family life, and advancing the well-being of children through research and public education.

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systematic support of families

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Network of people who advocate for abundant, affordable housing and inclusive, sustainable communities across the United States.

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one of the biggest YIMBY organizations in the US

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Foundation offering technical assistance and policy support to create housing with lasting affordability and to build equitable neighborhoods.

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development of new financial schemes like shared equity for more affordable housing

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Media about nuclear energy to support vision of it as a primary solution of planetary crisis.

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rigorous approach and evaluation of energy crisis

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Distributed Energy Resources Task Force is an organization supporting distributed energy systems as tremendous opportunity to improve our energy system.

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broadens the pool of solutions to the climate crisis

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Project InnerSpace is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on expanding the use of geothermal energy globally.

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ecosystem work focused on promotion of geothermal energy

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Civic Future is a British organization dedicated to identifying and educating talented young people in early or mid-career, as well as established leaders in the public, private and social sectors.

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platform for development of officials' skills

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The Build Nuclear Now campaign is prioritizing specific policy solutions America can tackle now — essential to license and deploy new advanced nuclear reactors in the U.S. by 2030.

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discovery and covering of safe and powerful alternatives of alternative energy sources

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Organizations pursuing national prosperity and power
National challenges
Organizations building new corporate models
Ownership structures
Organizations trying to radically change or re-imagine current model of city and nation state
Cities, states and geographies
Organizations experimenting with new formats of media
Media
Organization and tools for radical enhancing human’s thinking and cognitive capabilities
Thinking
Organizations developing new educational social technologies
Education
Organizations trying to achieve more democratic society
Democracy
Organizations re-imaging capitalism economic model
Beyond capitalism
Organizations studying and building new institutions
Institutions
Organizations trying to unlock bottlenecks for creating radically new technologies
Technological progress
Organizations making philanthropy more effective and unique
Philanthropy
Organizations trying to disrupt financial institutions
Finance
Organizations trying to re-imagine mechanisms of talent discovery and support
Talents
Organizations trying to change social processes and rules in academic institutions
Academia
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advocacy
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expertise
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extensions
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exit to new emerging “market” which became possible due to social and technological changes in the industry
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AI
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family
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justice
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institution
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infrastructure
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policy entrepreneurship
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new corporate structures
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cooperative ownership
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externalities
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public goods funding
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market-making
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citizen science
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crowdsourcing
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quadratic voting
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retroactive funding
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private philanthropy
built around a new way to do an existing activity
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new model
establishing a unique organizational structure
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organizational form
creating an overview of some industry or ecosystem
#
mapping
creating art as a main activity of the org
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art
prioritizing concrete action for tangible outcomes
#
actions
a collection of resources
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aggregator
support and care about Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities
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BIPOC
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open-source
building a community around a shared interest or project
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community
Here is a helpful tid bit to assist the user in understanding how a certain feature works.
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crowdsourcing
uses blockchain technology
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blockchain
public or state funding in the form of procurement, grants, etc.
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government funding
creating or changing an established cultural phenomena
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culture
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advocacy
inventing new financial contracts
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new contracts
re-purposing existing expertise in a field
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expertise
existing of grounds in the form of an emerging theoretical or empirical mainstream
#
extensions
creating new ideas in particular niche
#
new ideas
discovery some existing phenomena which can be reused in a very unique way
#
repurposing
using technologies of VR/AR
#
virtual reality
unique ways of making money (e.g. voluntary prices)
#
revenue model
development and implementation of new standards for particular industry
#
new standards
production of new kind of goods/services
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new good
developing new rules of governing people’s interactions
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new rules
a residence-based program
#
residency
financed via venture capital from investors
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venture capital
using a not-for-profit business model
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non-profit
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education
public-facing content production
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content
#
research
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digital
exit to new emerging “market” which became possible due to social and technological changes in the industry
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new niche
new tools for some use case/industry
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tool-driven
Tools for academia
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Investigations
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Energy
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Residency
Official cities
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Financial mechanisms
Financial institutions
Policy research (del)
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Pro-reforms
Pro-energy
Pro-housing
Pro-people
Technologies for democracy
Diversity
Alignment
Startup cities
Teaching
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Space governance
Solidarity economy
Sea cities
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Progress studies (del)
Private cities
Policy entrepreneurship (del)
Platform
Personal projects (del)
Parallel academia
Optimism
New economies
Metascience
Learning
Mapping institutions
Creating institutions
Progress promotion
Insitutions' proposition (del)
Infrastructure (del)
Green economy
Futurism
The Web
Studying institutions
Science funding
Funding
Support
Effective donations
Donation innovations
Funding R&D (del)
Technological breakthroughs
Digital states
Crypto cities
Ownership
Cooperatives
Community (del)
Co-living (del)
Career development
Thoughtful discussions
Book publisher
Better cities
AI
Academia re-structure
Way of thinking
Tools for thinking