Open Future Coalition

Solutions to the world’s greatest challenges are all around us. But the most promising local efforts are often disconnected from one another, and from the resources they need to reach their full potential. Open Future Coalition builds technical, social, and financial tools that support our ability to collectively innovate on, resource, and apply solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges—taking the tools of enterprise and making them accessible at the grassroots. 

Open Future Coalition


The Regional Resilience Fellowship project is hosted by the Open Future Coalition and is fiscally sponsored by the Buckminster Fuller Institute. In this moment of great urgency and potential, we believe that much of our collective capability to solve the world’s most pressing challenges lies in local communities. The Regional Resilience Fellowship program is focused on supporting, showcasing, documenting, and growing innovative, locally-driven projects, networks, and service providers operating within a particular geographic area and/or sector.

The first cohort of fellows includes 20 organizations in 16 counties representing 35 regional demonstration efforts across the areas of Ecological Restoration, Regenerative Agriculture & Food Systems, Community Wellness, and Infrastructure & Built Environment.

Among the outcomes of this year-long program will be the launch of a “Living Library,” enabling existing community sourced solutions to scale, replicate, and learn forward together. Made possible through philanthropic support from the Cisco Foundation and the insights of our Regional Resilience Fellows, we’re expanding the Open Impact platform to source community-published resources, templates, and curricula from projects across our network, which we will refine together as a global community of practice.

Together, we will build a global dashboard that shows real-time progress across our efforts, populated by locally sourced data, stories, & adoptable solutions—growing communities’ agency over their own resilience and resourcing transparent local impact at a global scale.

With efforts spanning 16 countries, these fellows are recognized as playing a crucial role in fostering collaboration, solutions innovation, and knowledge exchange within their respective regions or sectors. With efforts ranging from the application of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to mitigate fire risk to strengthening the financial resilience of small farmers, these organizations are modeling practices we are thrilled to learn alongside and share with our wider network.

Open Future Coalition also hosts Open Impact, a platform that coordinates and connects on the ground efforts, transparently measures their progress, and matches them with the tools need to scale – whether it’s capital, skills, or knowledge; and Open Future Fund, a growing set of tools and practices for ecosystem approaches to funding.

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