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Founding Philanthropic Round

The Cosmolocal
Foundation

Building coordination infrastructure for regenerative, commons-based local economies — connected globally.

"What is heavy should be local, and what is light should be global and shared."

The operational wing of the P2P Foundation  |  cosmolocal.world

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The Challenge

Regenerative communities are everywhere.
But they are isolated.

On the ground

Eco-villages, transition towns, cooperative networks, community land trusts, regenerative farms, and mutual aid networks are building real alternatives to extractive economics — in every bioregion on earth.

But they remain fragmented, underfunded, and disconnected from one another. Each reinvents the wheel. Each struggles alone for funding. The whole is far less than the sum of its parts.

In the funding landscape

Values-aligned philanthropists and angel funders want to support systemic transformation — but find few credible vehicles at the right level of abstraction.

  • Project-level grants create dependency
  • Market-rate impact investments demand extractive returns
  • Traditional nonprofits absorb overhead
  • Commons infrastructure — the shared coordination layer — barely exists
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Our Approach

Four Pillars of Cosmolocal Infrastructure

Physical production stays local. Knowledge and coordination tools are shared globally as a commons.

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Open Knowledge Commons

Curated global repository of regenerative methods, governance models, and circular economy blueprints from 20 years of P2P Foundation research.
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Cosmolocal Coordination

Global network connecting locally rooted projects — mycelial infrastructure that helps communities learn from each other across bioregions.
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Commons-Compatible Finance

The Cosmolocal Financing Facility channels capital through commitment pooling — vouchers backed by real goods and services, not extractive debt.
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Participatory Governance

Transparent, community-led decisions using cooperative traditions and Web3 tools — conviction voting, quadratic funding, DAO coordination.
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Evolutionary Purpose

Built on Teal Principles

This is not a traditional nonprofit asking you to fund a fixed program. It is a living system asking you to nourish the soil from which many programs will grow.

Self-Management

We build infrastructure for distributed autonomy, not top-down control. The Foundation itself operates as a self-organizing team with distributed authority. Local communities coordinate on their own terms using shared tools.

Wholeness

We refuse false separations — between economy and ecology, between local identity and global solidarity, between productive work and care work. We design for whole systems, whole communities, whole people.

Evolutionary Purpose

Strategy emerges from sensing what the ecosystem needs, not top-down planning. We launch pilots, measure impact, share findings openly, and let the next phase emerge from what we learn.
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People & Partners

A Lean Team, a Deep Network

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Michel Bauwens
Founder
Founder of the P2P Foundation. Led the Ghent Commons Transition Plan. Advisor to Ecuador and the Vatican on commons policy. 20 years of research and global network building.
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Jeff Emmett
Technology & Operations
Infrastructure architect and token engineering practitioner. Maintains the Foundation's self-hosted tech stack and designs the Cosmo-Local Credit protocol. Commons Stack background.
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Bryan
Editorial & Communications
Community communications lead and newsletter editor. Manages publishing, stakeholder engagement, and translating systems thinking into accessible narrative.

Ecosystem Partners

P2P Foundation Grassroots Economics Commons Stack GAIA Commons Trust Crypto Commons Gathering
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The Ask

$10,000 / Month

Funding a lean, self-organizing team to build commons infrastructure for regenerative economies. 6–12 month commitments. Full transparency on every dollar.

$6K
Core Team

Stipends for 3–4 members covering ops, tech, comms, community
$1.5K
Infrastructure

Self-hosted servers, CRM, automation, email — all open-source
$1.5K
Pilot Seeds

Direct grants to partner community demonstration projects
$1K
Convenings

In-person gatherings, conferences, partner visits
No executive salaries No office overhead No consultants 100% mission-aligned
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For Funders

What Your Support Creates

You receive

  • Full financial transparency on every dollar spent
  • Quarterly impact reports with open metrics
  • Optional governance seat in our advisory circle
  • Direct access to the P2P Foundation global network
  • Founding supporter recognition (or anonymity — your choice)
  • Potential tax advantages (consult your advisor)

The world receives

  • A fully operational commons coordination foundation
  • Pilot programs demonstrating cosmolocal economics
  • Open-source tools and published research as global commons
  • Infrastructure connecting regenerative communities worldwide
  • A bridge between global capital and local regeneration
  • The soil from which many future programs grow

Ready to support the commons transition?

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