Open Future Fund:
Contextual Capital
for Local Resilience

All over the world, community members, businesses, and funders are working together to address the unique challenges and opportunities of their economies and ecologies. Open Future Fund supports resource stewards in identifying, investing in, and growing the innate capacity of these communities to advance their own resilience. By working alongside local leaders, funders, and industry experts, we will model the greater acuity, creativity, and outcome that comes when resources are stewarded by and in alignment with the self-determined needs and capabilities of local communities. 

Over decades of atomization and runaway scaling, we have seen the investment industry lose sight of its wider context: the interconnectedness of economic, social, and environmental factors that influence long-term value creation. This level of specialization has fragmented decision-making and left an outsized focus on particular asset classes, at the expense of wider potentials to nurture the growth and long-term resilience of our investments. 

Some sectors and communities are already engaged in aspects of what we call “contextual capital”: using blended approaches to apply the right forms of financial and non-financial capital at the right time in the project lifecycle, while nurturing outcomes through the appropriate pre-development, community engagement, knowledge sharing, and common infrastructure. Our goal is to resource and expand these existing initiatives, providing the financial resources, knowledge and best practices, and financial innovation needed to nurture and grow these practices over time.