SOFTHEARTED PRAGMATISTS
We’re a 501(c)3 scientific nonprofit deploying high-tech products & people for sustainable global impact. Make a splash!
We solve problems to meet basic needs.
Funds are 100% granting toward active projects. We generally give sustainable businesses, and/or technology that intelligently improves lives or ongoing access to resources.
All our projects are requested by, and co-designed with, local leaders for maximum outcomes.They are generally short-term, data-backed, OKR managed, and iterate rapidly for co-determined predefined outcomes.
What we’ve learned
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Clone and scale
Our most effective projects are small, and easily clone and scale to other sites with peer training, communities share what works.
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Recoverable grants
We’ve been experimenting with blended finance tools like recoverable grants to extend donor funding.
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Autonomy
Communities are increasingly demanding autonomy and are willing to listen about what will make them independent.
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Indigenous-led
This started as a high-tech community, but we learned Indigenous leaders give really intelligent aims!
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Financial independence
Creating high-tech micro-businesses for communities can yield immediate revenue for them, and leads to self-reliance.
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Rights of Nature
Rights of Nature is directly related to food security, environmental benefits, and land rights. Its a pillar, not a prop.
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Communications
Lots of charities spend a high operating margin on comms, we learned we’re more efficient by focusing on action.
Our projects
Homelessness
Digital donations for travelers. Give widely, help locally.
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The Empulse app is a joint venture between Todreamalife and Empulsive Ink.
Todreamalife develops and maintains the Empulse app & platform at the bottom tier of their sliding scale rate and processes micropayments for a 5% fee. Empulsive Ink recruits nonprofits to the platform and funds technology development.
Both organizations reinvest a portion of revenue to recruitment and training of formerly homeless and post-incarcerated consultants.
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Mobile technology makes it easier to give geo-coded charitable giving.
Digital payments allow anyone in the world to easily buy charitable services.
INCUBATION
Collecting, developing and funding ideas that help >1 billion people.
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International incubator based in Dubai, UAE. Promoting 100 prosocial ideas under construction and funding, 100 cafes around the glob crowdsourcing development and scouting). The mandate of the cafe is to collect, develop, and fund ideas that will help a billion people.
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100 Ideas Cafe is a experimental network for scouting and funding expert-endorsed innovations for futurist investors in the MENA and African ecosystems. Led by Nobel prizewinner Lameen Abdul-Malik.
RIGHTS OF NATURE NOW
Indigenous led tech-enabled advocacy for Rights of Nature.
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Rights of Nature NOW! is an Indigenous-led initiative to bring a modern twist to the age-old traditional respect for Nature that bases food security, ecosystem health, and planetary science characterizing Indigenous communities living relationship with their ecosystems.
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Empulsive Ink independently manages the Rights of Nature NOW initiative which is intentionally unbranded for public adoption and recirculation. Social media and viral network science was utilized to present traditional ideas in a modern YouTube format. Conferences used principles of design workshops to aid communication from traditional leaders. Behavior design science and legal innovators was used to rewrite the declaration to be accessible to a wider audience.
Technologists
Technologist apprenticeship. Cultivate talent, enable genius.
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Delinquent Savants Techrentice program is joint venture between Todreamalife consulting group and Empulsive Ink nonprofit.
Todreamalife offers work placements to talented people from groups with limited opportunity for advancement (e.g. formerly incarcerated, people of color, refugees, single moms, people experiencing homelessness). If these candidates need a training period prior to meaningful contribution Empulsive Ink pays their salary for the length of the internship.
Both organizations divert a portion of revenue to recruitment and diversification of this pool, and job placement following internship.
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The Todreamalife consulting company is 100% virtual and consultants work from >27 different countries with >15 native languages. Virtual work networks enable recruitment and retention of genius from areas of the world where there is severely restricted opportunities.
Distributed learning on the internet means we can train recruits real-time, on real-projects, and at their own pace. We utilize video clips, voice recording, digital translation, and screensharing for lateral transfer technological skills for free at rates far faster than traditional didactic schooling. This is ML-assisted education and opportunity.
PLANETARY SCIENCE
Indigenous co-designed projects for community health and wellbeing.
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Savimbo is a social enterprise made by, and for, Indigenous Peoples and local communities to access climate markets directly.
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Empulsive Ink independently manages the nonprofit arm of Savimbo. Charitable projects are initiated and co-administered by Indigenous leaders, open to the general public, and handle land rights, literacy, and living conditions for Indigenous and local communities engaging in ecosystem health and environmental defense.
AGAPE
We created Empulsive Ink because we were grateful. Really grateful for the abundance that surrounded us in friendship, intelligence, and nature.
Sustainability
We live in an era of intense technological change. But we truly believe that people can adapt and live sustainably within our biosphere.
consciousness
We value consciousness in all its myriad forms. Sensitivity to beauty, suffering, and other beings is not a weakness, it’s a superpower.
Our values
DO YOU SHARE OUR AIMS?
We’re a registered US 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our mission is effective altruism. We create and promote independence among people who are economically disempowered with revenue-generating high-tech projects that are designed to be self-sustaining, market-creating, globally beneficial, and transition to local self-governance.
