Exploring Systemic Investing & Philantrophy together.

WHAT WE DO/ARE The Explorers Club was born from a simple observation: pioneering systemic projects are everywhere, but navigating the global network to find the right investors and philanthropists is almost impossible. It can take years for bold initiatives to connect with adventurous capital holders ready to embrace something truly new. And vice versa for funders to find the right projects and learn how to build a systemic portfolio.

Progressive wealth holders often feel like scattered dots on a map. You know others are out there, people who think differently about money, who’ve already invested or donated in unusual ways, but finding them? That’s the tricky part. That’s why we built the Explorers Club. It’s the campfire (with werewolves) where the dots connect. A place where you meet fellow adventurers who share the same curiosity, courage, and desire to learn together. Because let’s be honest: none of us can do this alone. And it’s a lot more fun to figure things out side by side.

About the club

About the club

We are a club and a living lab. A place where capital, curiosity, reflection, and action meet.

How it works

How it works

Everything in the Impact Explorers Club starts with conversation. We grow through relationships.

Discover our fieldbook

Discover our fieldbook

The Explorers Club Fieldbook is created for anyone bold enough to explore systemic investing.

Ready to collaborate?

Ready to collaborate?

Roundtables, shared reflections, and peer exchanges often create more space for learning than one-directional talks.

Our Fieldbook

The Explorers Club Fieldbook is created for anyone bold enough to explore systemic investing. It’s written for our entire ecosystem: impact investors and institutions, wealth owners and peers, current and future Explorers, and the many allies who share our belief that change must be built together.

The spirit of this Fieldbook is learning by doing. Because systemic change is never the work of one author or one community — it is co-written by many. This is your Fieldbook too. More chapters will follow. Not just by us, but maybe also by you.

Capital Strategy & Stewardship

Capital Strategy & Stewardship

« Back to services WAIC helps families translate values, ambitions, and interests into a coherent capital strategy that connects purpose, portfolio construction, and long-term stewardship. Family wealth strategy & purpose alignment Investment Policy Statement...

Our services

Capital Strategy & Stewardship

« Back to services WAIC helps families translate values, ambitions, and interests into a coherent capital strategy that connects purpose, portfolio construction, and long-term stewardship. Family wealth strategy & purpose alignment Investment Policy Statement...

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Meet the projects

These are initiatives we are actively engaging with. Conversations are ongoing, relationships are developing, and Explorers are exploring how they might contribute through capital, connections, knowledge, or collaboration.

Resiliance Partnership

Resiliance Partnership

« Back to our projects This initiative integrates Wire Group's "Conscious Economy" impact finance expertise with the Bioregional Weaving Labs (BWL) Collective's "weaving" methodology to prototype a new model for financing bioregional transitions. By establishing...

Solhyd

Solhyd

« Back to our projects Solhyd is a deep-tech spin-off from KU Leuven commercializing a novel hydrogen panel technology. Unlike traditional electrolyzers, their system produces green hydrogen using only sunlight and ambient humidity, eliminating the need for liquid...

Leuven 2030

Leuven 2030

« Back to our projects Leuven 2030 is a mature non-profit organization founded in 2013 to lead the city of Leuven's transition to climate neutrality. Operating as a neutral convener, it utilizes a "quadruple helix" governance model that unites citizens, government,...

We Are Impact Collective

The Impact Explorers Club is stewarded by a small team within We Are Impact Collective who host the space and facilitate its evolution. At the same time, the Impact Explorers Club is shaped by its Explorers.

Astrid Leyssens
Suzanne Wisse-Huiskes
Jan Leyssens