PORTFOLIOS
We back portfolios, not one-off projects
A single project can do real good and still stall — because the thing holding it back sits one step up or down the chain. So we don't fund efforts one at a time. We build portfolios: clusters of connected initiatives that work at different layers of the same system and make each other stronger.
Take a food hub. It's only as strong as the farms that supply it, the buyers committed to it, and the cold storage and processing that move food from field to plate. Fund the hub on its own and it struggles. Support the whole chain together and all of it holds. That's a portfolio.
Why we fund the in-between
Some initiatives in a portfolio earn revenue. Others do the quieter work — building trust, sharing infrastructure, training people, shaping policy, coordinating everyone else. These "in-between" layers are often what everything else depends on, and they're exactly what traditional funding skips. We support them as part of the whole.
How we build a portfolio
