Living Presence Fund

Funding creators who deepen human presence through shared, embodied experience.

In an increasingly digital world, the rarest luxury is genuine human presence: a shared table, live music, storytelling around a fire, silence held together in nature. Living Presence Fund supports artists, musicians, chefs, filmmakers, storytellers, and facilitators whose work brings people into direct experience with one another, work that cannot be measured by algorithms or audience size. It invests in depth over visibility, backing practitioners of exceptional craft and the interdisciplinary collaborations that none of them could create alone.

Eligibility

To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Projects must create meaningful, embodied experiences that deepen human presence, connection, and aliveness.
- Bring people together through shared experience rather than passive consumption: art, food, music, storytelling, ritual, nature, and the shared table all qualify.
- Encourage meaningful participation, dialogue, or collective reflection.
- Be rooted in genuine craft, devotion, and lived experience, combining artistic excellence with care, beauty, and authenticity.
- Strengthen relationships between people, communities, and the living world, contributing to culture in a generous and life-giving way.
- Open to emerging and independent artists, musicians, storytellers, chefs, filmmakers, photographers, facilitators, and interdisciplinary creators. Depth and integrity matter more than audience size or commercial success.

Projects (6)

4 curated · 2 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
Rainbow Spider	curated	$111,620
the Living culture Project	curated	$49,595
Taghatt - Moroccan Leather Culture & Craft	curated	$240
Embodying Hope - A Journey Into Eco-Somatic Resilience	curated	$57,599
Brothers Beyond Borders	submitted	$72,801
Humanamente Vivo: Possibility Labs	submitted	$0