WHY

We envision liberated, joyful, and thriving lives for all. To achieve this vision, we must transition to a new economic paradigm.
In this work, we’re met with significant opportunities and challenges.

KEY OPPORTUNITIES

1_

We can collectively repair our past, reflect the present, and reimagine regenerative futures.

Artists and culture bearers can bring our past, present, and future together for impact, recalling ancient traditions and practices, reflecting current injustices and beauty, and bringing an reimaginative lens to how we move forward together.

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We can catalyze positive, local cultural, social, environmental, and economic impact.

Artists and culture bearers generate positive impact at every level - ecological, spiritual, individual, relational, communal, and systemic. They rematriate and steward land, cultivate mental health, foster social cohesion, inspire, and catalyze health, well-being, joy, and resilience.

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We can connect a community of pioneering investors to artists and culture bearers.

A global community of investors - including individuals, foundations, family offices, endowments, and fund managers - are shifting our current economic system and prototyping new investment models, practices, and ways of facilitating integrated, regenerative capital.

What is the opportunity
for positive social shifts
toward regeneration?

What is the opportunity
for positive economic shifts
toward regeneration?

Improved individual
mental health

Youth name social connection (e.g., culture) and engagement in music, writing, visual, and performing arts as their top tools for coping with mental health crises.
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Increased community
vitality

UPenn researchers have demonstrated that a high concentration of local arts leads to higher social cohesion, civic engagement, child welfare, and lower poverty rates.
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Higher cross-cultural
unification

72% of Americans believe “the arts unify our communities regardless of age, race, and ethnicity” and 73% agree that the arts “helps me understand other cultures better”.
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Driving local jobs &
small business benefits

The arts & culture sector creates
local economic benefits through
jobs, critical revenue for local
businesses, and attraction of visitors seeking art and cultural experiences.
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The U.S. arts & culture sector is
estimated at $876.7B or 4% of GDP
while bringing highly valued creativity
to sectors as 72% of business leaders
say creativity is of “high importance.”
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Contributing to national
economy & creativity

Unlocking integrative,
non-extractive capital

The $8.4T U.S. sustainable investing market, as well as innovations in
impact, community, and place-based
investing can be harnessed to bring values-aligned capital to arts & culture.
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KEY CHALLENGES

We face a global polycrises.
The World Economic Forum reports a poly-crises of interrelated environmental, social, political, economic, and technological risks relating to the supply of and demand for natural resources. This includes cost of living, extreme weather events, confrontation, erosion of social cohesion, widespread cyber insecurity, and more.
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We face a “crises of imagination.”
The United Nations exclaims, ”The world’s collective failure is not due to an absence of vision or imaginative skill, as much as [that] energy has been directed towards reinforcing a status quo…[instead of] harnessing its imaginative power to find the creative solutions that will deliver a sustainable, equitable future for all.
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We face a crisis of wealth supremacy and chronic disinvestment.
Within our current capitalist system, financial capital is necessary to advance solutions, yet capital currently exists in the hands of a small % of the world’s wealthiest people while systems chronically divest from the remaining population.
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What are the challenges
of a shift toward
regeneration?

Extreme wealth
accumulation & divide

The top 10 individuals in the world now own more wealth than 40% of the
world’s population, marking wealth accumulation and extraction of resources available for communities
to meet basic needs.
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Chronic disinvestment
& capital bias

U.S. communities face chronic,
systemic disinvestment, further
exacerbated by implicit and explicit biases in capital access across philanthropy, banking, and investment that restrict the flow of capital to marginalized groups.
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Disproportinate polycrises impacts

Based on many factors - age, health, ethnicity, geography, and more - vulnerable people will be disproportionately impacted by the polycrises and require a different set of solutions to mitigate harm and design for health and well-being.
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