Cooperative
Infrastucture for Collective Action
F E A T U R E D P R O G R A M
Applications are open for our next Regional Resilience Fellows cohort
The Regional Resilience Fellowship is a year-long program supporting community-rooted organizations and networks advancing resilience in food systems, ecological restoration, community wellness, and the built environment. Fellows gain access to shared tools and a global peer network while helping shape a digital commons of place-based solutions that can be adapted and scaled worldwide. This year, 10 new Fellows from diverse regions and sectors will join the program, guiding the systems that enable collective action to shape their futures on their own terms.
OUR WHY
Solutions to the world’s greatest challenges are all around us. But the most promising local efforts are often disconnected from one another, and from the resources they need to reach their full potential.
OUR WHAT
We build technical, social, and financial tools that support our ability to collectively innovate on, resource, and apply solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges—taking the tools of enterprise and making them accessible at the grassroots.
Featured Tools
& Programs
We leverage our own tools for sectoral organizing and bioregional demonstration projects, as we learn and model what’s possible.
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Open Impact Platform
Our first tool is Open Impact, a platform that coordinates and connects on-the-ground efforts, transparently measures their progress, and matches them with the resources they need to scale—whether it’s capital, skills, or knowledge. Currently in Beta, the platform has served 300 organizations across 60 countries in solving complex coordinative challenges, ranging from connecting smallholder farmers with peers, research, & technical assistance, to supporting large scale ecological restoration efforts and coordinating aid in times of displacement.
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Open Future Fund
Open Future Fund is a growing set of tools and practices for ecosystem approaches to funding. We convene, syndicate, support, and invest in local funds to apply the right resources at the right time while supporting the long-term resilience of on-the-ground efforts. We work deeply with our network and local communities to identify regions and sectors where projects and funders are already working together synergistically: matching them with contextual capital that supports their long-term growth and resilience.
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Regional Resilience Fellowship
Our Regional Resilience Fellowship program is focused on supporting, showcasing, documenting, and growing innovative, locally-driven projects, networks, & service providers operating within a particular geographic area and/or sector. With efforts spanning 16 countries, these fellows are recognized as playing a crucial role in fostering collaboration, solutions innovation, and knowledge exchange within their respective regions or sectors.
Partner with us
Everything we do is built through partnership. We welcome opportunities to advance tools and solutions in common. Please see below for a few immediate areas where we may be able to work together.
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Work with us on a project or tool
All of the tools we offer to our network are born out of partnership: often in response to a need expressed in a particular region or sector. By adapting our existing tools and pooling the shared resources of our network, we’re equipped to deliver technical, social, and financial infrastructures at a lower cost while making the outcome available to our wider network. We also provide direct support through mapping, facilitation of community processes and design sprints, governance, and financial innovation. To explore a collaborative tool or project, email [email protected].
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Become a Resource Partner on our Living Library
We are launching our multimedia Living Resource Library, in service to growing our collective capacity to advance locally led solutions and place based practice across the world, while fostering global learning and knowledge exchange across the impact ecosystem. If you are interested in becoming a content partner and being a part of the Living Library, send us an email at [email protected], with the subject line “Living Library.” Please include your organization name, your best point of contact, and a brief description of the types of content you would like to share.
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Use the Open Impact platform for your network
Grow your network by creating a branded, customized version of the Open Impact platform, where you can curate your communities while having access to the Open Impact Ecosystem. If you are interested in scheduling a demo and learning more, please send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “Network.” Please include your organization name, your best point of contact, and a brief description of your work and any current challenges you’re facing.