Living Water Legacy Fund

Remembering We are All Water - teaching w/ community-led regenerative storytelling, watershed restoration & agriculture.

Water is the Source of Life and Water is our common bond with All Life. Yet we humans have forgotten this truth. We are living through a strange species-wide amnesia—we have forgotten how to celebrate, honor and cherish that which gives us our existence. The Living Water Legacy Fund is formed to help us remember this: We are all in this game together. By backing, co-creating, and implementing community-led projects that restore remembrance and connection to our ourselves, each other, AND our watershed biomes, we strive generate the kinds of actions that will bring us hydrological, ecological and social balance—on behalf of present and future generation of All Life. The projects we are looking to support might include an artist creating an immersive art piece or group of musician composing a song sing their love of Water; a community cooperative ensuring access to secure clean water and food sovereignty; piece of software encouraging regenerative agriculture; or community establishing an archive for preserving their ancestral ecological knowledge before it disappears. We are emphasizing collaborative efforts: from the restoration of a 15-acre regeneration farm near the source of the Nile in Uganda to youth media studios inside Watershed Community Revitalization Centers throughout Guinea, West Africa; from the return of an ancient Water ceremony from the Indigenous People of Colombia to a simple video series sharing Water's beauty—the possibilities are endless. The fund is hosted by the WaterUnity Networks and a cohort of Water-loving curators led by Eliza Herald, who has spent over 33 years crafting stories and strategies that move humanity toward caring for our Water, land, and community resilience. We are guided by a simple principle: We are all Water, and those communities living closest to the Water and the land it nurtures must be empowered to shape the decisions that affect our lives.

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Eligibility

We welcome all activated Water Stewards striving to care for our Water: community organizers, regenerative farmers, water restoration practitioners, media makers, artists, musicians, educators, and technologists whose projects are Water-focused and community-led.
To qualify for this fund, your project must be, in some way, advancing the core truth of 'Water as the Source of Life', and be exploring the myriad ways in which humanity can be cultivating a community culture of caring for Water and watersheds in reciprocal relationship. Here is where your creativity comes in - there are an infinite variety of ways that we can be expressing our love for the Water's living systems, which sustain All Life, with a focus on how do we, as a species #GiveBack2Gaia.
Here are a few examples for one or more themes we are looking for:
- Watershed stewardship, restoration, and protection
- Clean water access, food security, and food sovereignty
- Regenerative agriculture and agro-ecology
- Community-led ecological resilience and climate-change adaptation
- Ethical, transparent, reciprocal value chains that strengthen local livelihoods
- Job and live training opportunities for Youth
- Media, education, and storytelling that amplify, document, or advance these efforts
- Voices of Water showcasing solutions, and showing pathways to the implementation of these solutions
Priority will go towards projects demonstrating meaningful community leadership and/or participation by women, youth, Indigenous Peoples, and other communities facing heighten social, and ecological vulnerability generating ways to improve their lives and livelihoods. We are particularly looking for works that will create intergenerational reciprocal benefit for local communities and ecosystems with the benefit of present and future generations of all life at the center of their vision.
NOTE: We all in this together! We're looking for active collaborative participation in co-creating a global community of Water Lovers, so our intention is strong actions.

Projects (28)

14 curated · 14 submitted

Project	Status	Raised
Izzy Swim With The People	curated	$2,289
Urban Ecology	curated	$4,179
Greenpill Nigeria	curated	$16,449
CEM1:Cleaning cenotes with effective organisms.	curated	$10,069
SITIO-FLORESTA-ESCOLA	curated	$29,340
Traditional Dream Factory	curated	$317,897
Swale Floating Garden	curated	$949
Be.Together for the Amazon	curated	$8,252
Nebular vortex	curated	$30,704
Youth's Evolution national NGO	curated	$455
OSWAA WATER PLEDGE	curated	$89,814
Ridge-to-Reef Africa	curated	$339
Kiwaatule-2030: A Bold Experiment in Urban Regeneration	curated	$252
Green Energy for Clean Water	curated	$744
Akuya	submitted	$234
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Co-Lab: Communal Laboratory	submitted	$4,858
Wild Roots, Kids Without Borders 🌿🌍	submitted	$38,480
Multidisciplinary Project: "La Historia tambien es Cueca"	submitted	$814
Circular Spa	submitted	$78,161
Crypto Endowment Network (MfT Studio)	submitted	$81,514
EthSafari 2027	submitted	$39,066
Hands of Hope Foundation	submitted	$0
Green Tea Party Kiln	submitted	$20,697
Local Food Local Growth	submitted	$30,608
Rabbit-Tobacco Ranch	submitted	$349,704
Dive Dojo Floating Community Lab	submitted	$46,485
My Forest Africa	submitted	$578