NAIA Fund for Childhood Learning

Supporting visionary creators reimagining childhood education through nature, play, emotion, creativity, and purpose-driven technology.

The NAIA Fund for Childhood Learning backs projects that restore joy, curiosity, and emotional wellbeing to education. From outdoor schools crafting nature-based curricula, to ethical AI tools enabling child-led exploration, to programs teaching emotional resilience, we support innovations that let every child learn in wonder, safety, and freedom.

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Eligibility

We support creators advancing experiential, emotionally grounded, and nature-rooted education. Projects must align with NAIA’s pillars—play, nature, emotion, creativity, and ethical technology—while demonstrating sustainability, real impact, and a clear plan forward.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Integrate NAIA’s core pillars: play, nature, emotion, creativity, and purpose-driven technology.
- Deliver ethical, sustainable solutions that strengthen children’s wellbeing and educational ecosystems.
- Present a clear, realistic, and actionable execution plan.
- Cultivate environments where children connect with themselves, others, and the natural world.
- Demonstrate measurable benefit for learners, educators, families, or communities.

Projects (57)

33 submitted · 13 funded · 11 curated

Project	Status	Raised
FutureZoo	funded	$215,046
Empowering Youth Through Digital Skills & Innovation	funded	$6,911
Sharkwatch Cozumel	funded	$9,112
unlocking children’s potential through AI	funded	$43
NAIA GO	funded	$5,557
Demos Voz al Agua	funded	$457
Jasiri Creations	funded	$2
Somatic Regeneration: A Maasai Girls Initiative	funded	$0
Butterfly ཐི༏ཋྀ󠀮 Effect	funded	$2
Live or Die	funded	$0
TEENTOK - Future unlocked	funded	$9,731
The Dream Seed	funded	$10,762
Rise Of The Witches	funded	$153
Mango Magic Movement	curated	$28,679
Gut Instinct	curated	$19,590
Izzy Swim With The People	curated	$2,289
Building Tomorrow: A Web3-Powered Community Learning Centre	curated	$33,654
Unfold - The Human Curriculum	curated	$23,929
Wild Voices: Conversations with AR animals	curated	$42,361
SUANI — A Living Media Library of Indigenous Knowledge	curated	$1,120
Fashion For Hope	curated	$10,409
Speech Safari	curated	$5,088
Hands of Hope Foundation	curated	$0
Comfy Critters: Make a Cozy Home	curated	$50
Locus	submitted	$8
adopt a tree	submitted	$14,777
Kawagumba village community farming project	submitted	$558
Augmented Reality On-Chain	submitted	$10,787
Solar clean water	submitted	$765
Chessaiarm	submitted	$0
GreenPill Uganda: Uganda's Regenerative Agriculture and web3 mission	submitted	$11
Ocean Therapy with Whales	submitted	$80
CALMA sound bank	submitted	$1,293
Labour Union of Higherdimensional Shapeshifters	submitted	$360
Rubikcon Games	submitted	$0
Museum of Microalgae	submitted	$0
elimu.ai Sponsors🫶🏽	submitted	$10
NextChain IRL Campus Education	submitted	$70
Rubikcon Games	submitted	$0
Akuya	submitted	$234
Children's Radikal Freedom	submitted	$4
Back to school	submitted	$24
Reimagining The Village	submitted	$60
ChicasTech Rural – STEM Access for Rural Girls	submitted	$10
AI & Coding for Rural Girls	submitted	$0
Unplug to Upskill: The Card Game That Brings AI Literacy to Every Child	submitted	$62,725
You Are the Next Generations ChildhoodDefense.com	submitted	$0
Wordsmith's Corner ✒️	submitted	$23,751
Self=Directed learning Permaculture centre	submitted	$0
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
Plantamor Regenerative Community	submitted	$49,636
Element of Chawaza	submitted	$1,356
EthSafari 2027	submitted	$39,066
Chiropractic care in primary schools	submitted	$2,292
Terra Quanta - Education and Community life	submitted	$765
Regenerating Roots: Reimagining Childhood Beyond Behavior and Performance	submitted	$0
The Almasi Project	submitted	$1,306