Hope Fund for Collective Futures

Backing creative works that help people imagine a better future and feel their own agency in creating it

Hope does not mean pretending that things are fine. It means looking honestly at what is broken, while refusing to surrender the possibility of repair. Hope is not only a feeling, but a practical and imaginative capacity: the ability to see meaningful goals, discover pathways toward them, and feel enough agency to begin moving. Despair is free; every headline delivers it. Hope takes craft. This fund backs the creators who practice that craft: creative works and participatory experiences whose explicit goal is to raise hope, helping people imagine a better future and feel empowered to create it.

Eligibility

This fund welcomes artists, storytellers, activists, filmmakers, musicians, designers, organizers, educators, technologists, ritual makers, and community builders whose projects help people move from despair toward possibility, connection, and action. The medium is open. The mission is not: your work should leave people more hopeful than it found them, with somewhere real to put that hope.
To qualify for this fund, your project must have the explicit goal of sparking hope in individuals or communities, and do one or more of the following:
- Turn grief, fear, despair, or isolation into reflection, agency, or action
- Show real examples of courage, care, repair, solidarity, or transformation
- Create a shared experience of connection, healing, or collective possibility
- Invite people to participate, not only observe
- Be grounded in a real community or public context
Work that is hopeful in spirit but aimed at another primary goal (raising awareness, documenting injustice, protest, peacebuilding, education, wellbeing) does not qualify. Sparking hope must be the project's central, stated purpose, not a side effect.
This fund is the first act of something larger: a social movement about hope. Creators curated here aren't just funded, they become part of a growing network of practices proving that another future is possible. If your work helps people feel it, and act on it, you belong here.

Projects (29)

29 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
TUNER	submitted	$87,139
The Music Onboarding Machine	submitted	$13,499
Urban Ecology	submitted	$4,179
HOPE	submitted	$20,814
Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop	submitted	$1,522
Reset and Rise	submitted	$0
'When Brooklyn Was Queer' - VR Series Pilot	submitted	$2,611
Akuya	submitted	$234
SITIO-FLORESTA-ESCOLA	submitted	$29,340
Cacao Planting - Guajuvira Agroflorest	submitted	$90
NEPAL RISING - Restoring Home, Land & Livelihood	submitted	$22,291
The new album Peace Of Mind by Marie Chain	submitted	$41,998
Rainbow Spider	submitted	$111,620
Lab Rats Design Studio	submitted	$569
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Deliver Us	submitted	$679
Possibilia Magazine - Issue 0	submitted	$1,690
Element of Chawaza	submitted	$1,356
Vibe at Dusk	submitted	$13,575
Fashion For Hope	submitted	$10,409
Shine! / direct-to-fan music platform	submitted	$140
Closer - the operating system for regenerative communities	submitted	$118,444
In Bloom, A Macro Study	submitted	$4,751
Allfeat : A music-native L1 blockchain - immutable IP and AI protection	submitted	$123
The Hope lab: What If	submitted	$760
Senderos Vivos	submitted	$170
Sturbon: Mental Health for African Youth	submitted	$40
Humanamente Vivo: Possibility Labs	submitted	$0
Mental Health Reformation: A Civil Rights Moviement for the Soul	submitted	$30,429