Foundation Activities

The Foundation will offer support towards the realization of community projects throughout their development:

Outreach: Identifying opportunities for future community projects and outreaching to grassroots community organizations.
Dialogue: Engaging in dialogue around community needs assessments and possibilities, and supporting internal community visioning and assessment processes.
Definition: Supporting communities with defining the specific scope, economic and project plan, technical requirements, and organizational infrastructure.
Realization: Supporting the realization of the community projects through a combination of loans, grants, technical support, education and training.
Long-term Support: Supporting communities in addressing the economic, social, and technological transformation required for long-term project development, and helping to identify future projects.

The Foundation will support participatory and mutual processes of education. These processes will start with communities explaining their political, social and economic realities, as well as their particular expertise, and educational needs and desires. Topics covered may include technology; project management; financial and economic skills; and community participation and organization.
This can be achieved through exchanges, training courses, workshops, fellowships, internships, training for trainers, and regional and global skill-sharing conferences.
The Foundation will place special emphasis on facilitating the education and leadership development of women and other individuals from under-represented and oppressed groups.
In addition the Foundation will support the development of global, regional, and local learning centers.

The Foundation will support the development of technologies that can be freely used in the public domain, which support the principles of the Foundation and the needs identified by communities.
The Foundation will also support networks involved in strategic thinking and technological development in direct support of the Foundation’s objectives and educational work.

The Foundation will support communication and information sharing through conferences, electronic communications, publications and translations, and strategic exchanges.
The Foundation may also support other activities focused on issues related to the Foundation’s objectives.