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    Grants provide direct donations to hyper-local, grassroots, and community-led organisations and projects with particular emphasis on the work and needs of marginalised groups. Our grantmaking focuses on three areas of practice: Social Participatory Education; Collective Ownership; and Intersectional Biodiversity & Climate Care.

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    Action & Application

    We support community-led solutions to boost architects, designers, and movement builders’ capacity to work toward planetary well-being.

    We pursue movement-wide efforts to innovate, deploy, and scale proven solutions to the climate crisis and social inequality.

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    ArhiPeraRomania2022Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
    Arquitectura na PeriferiaBrazil2022Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
    BaneGaardenCopenhagen2022Biodiversity & Climate
    Build UpLondon2022Participatory Education
    CLIMAGlobal2022Biodiversity & Climate
    Caño Martín Peña Land TrustPuerto Rico2022Ownership & Organizing
    Girls GarageCalifornia2022Participatory Education
    Programa VacaMexico2022Participatory Education
    SUGiGlobal2022Biodiversity & Climate

    ArhiPera

    The ArhiPera Association aims to improve the living conditions of vulnerable groups within communities in extreme poverty through an integrated approach.

    ArhiPeraRomania2022Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
    LOCATION: Romania
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
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    Arquitetura na Periferia

    Located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Arquitetura na periferia aims to empower women to build, restore, and reform their own homes. Through receiving technical assistance in project design, planning, and microfinancing from Arquitetura na periferia, women from the community are able to create more liveable and sustainable spaces for their families.

    Arquitectura na PeriferiaBrazil2022Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
    LOCATION: Brazil
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Participatory EducationOwnership & Organizing
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    BaneGaarden

    BaneGaarden is a Copenhagen-based space of nine old wooden barns converted into a cultural hub for food, culture, and ecology.

    BaneGaardenCopenhagen2022Biodiversity & Climate
    LOCATION: Copenhagen
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Biodiversity & Climate
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    Build Up

    Build Up runs practical construction projects for young people aged 10 – 23 to design and build structures in their local communities, with a goal to enable young people to take on roles and skills they never have had access to before.

    Build UpLondon2022Participatory Education
    LOCATION: London
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Participatory Education
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    CLIMA

    The CLIMA Fund is a collaboration among four public foundations with over 115 years of collective experience reaching Indigenous, women, youth, and peasant-led climate justice movements collectively supporting an ecosystem of movement infrastructure.

    CLIMAGlobal2022Biodiversity & Climate
    LOCATION: Global
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Biodiversity & Climate
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    Caño Martín Peña Land Trust

    Caño Martín Peña Land Trust is helping transform an informal settlement around a polluted and flood prone river channel into a sustainable community. It provides a new model for improving informal settlements in cities without them then becoming unaffordable for the original residents.

    Caño Martín Peña Land TrustPuerto Rico2022Ownership & Organizing
    LOCATION: Puerto Rico
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Ownership & Organizing
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    Girls Garage

    Founded in 2013, Girls Garage is a Berkeley-based nonprofit design and construction school for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9-18 - the first of its kind in the United States.

    Girls GarageCalifornia2022Participatory Education
    LOCATION: California
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Participatory Education
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    Programa Vaca

    Programa Vaca is a sustainable community construction platform using natural materials to combat housing poverty in rural areas and indigenous territories through participatory and inclusive design.

    Programa VacaMexico2022Participatory Education
    LOCATION: Mexico
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Participatory Education
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    SUGi

    SUGi is a global platform fully dedicated to building biodiversity and ecosystem restoration through the SUGi Pocket Forests. SUGi utilises the Miyawaki method, which is an approach that prioritises the natural development of forests using native species and has a proven survival rate ensuring that they act as an oasis for biodiversity.

    SUGiGlobal2022Biodiversity & Climate
    LOCATION: Global
    YEAR: 2022
    TAGS:
    Biodiversity & Climate
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