Grants

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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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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