Fund
land, stewardship, capital
Developmental spaces need places, and places need capital. This is the real-estate and finance layer: how conscious communities get funded, owned and structured.
The problem
Initiatives lack capital. Investors lack initiatives.
Community-scale properties need substantial capital; groups pool money slowly and borrow badly; and the people best suited to this life are rarely the highest earners. Meanwhile investors who want a stable, ethical home for capital cannot find vetted projects. Bridging that gap, bringing confidence to capital and capital to conscious communities, is what this stream is about.
From fund to platform
Between 2019 and 2021 we designed a real-estate fund for conscious community. It did not launch, for reasons of capacity rather than conviction, and the thinking became something lighter: a matching point between projects seeking capital and people who want to invest. That deal-flow is now emerging, and we publish it here.
The fund archive
We published everything: the 2019 to 2021 fund materials, open for anyone working on capital for community.
- 2021The prospectusStrategy, offers, projects, financial structure.
- 2020The original SCQHThe strategic analysis.
- PersonasWho invests in conscious community?Including the exit and stake-imbalance insights.
- GovernanceStrategy and mindful governanceThe thirty-year aspiration and the launch checklist.
- TemplateProject application questionnaireStill useful if you are raising.
- BrandBranding a conscious capital fundFrom Wise Living to True Home.
Investing or giving?
If you want to put capital into these kinds of spaces, as investment, philanthropy or land, we would love to talk.
developmentalspaces [at] lifeitself [dot] org
Raising for a project?
Tell us about your community or space. The application questionnaire is a good way to structure it.
Same address. Say hello.
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