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.
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.
Chapter 1
An intro: who we are, what we do, projects, dots and more
Chapter 2
Systemic Infrastructure
Chapter 3
Systemic Mindset
Chapter 4
Embracing complexity with new tools
Chapter 5
There Is No Such Thing as a Portfolio
Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11 & beyond
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Starter kit- a living library
« Back to our fieldbook Systems Thinking for Impact Investing | Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Primer & Play book Investors Guide to Systemic Investing | CSP Case studies A Systems Change Framework to Impact Investing | SSIR Article Impact...
What we do
« Back to our fieldbook Guided Exploration: We guide the members of the Explorers Club in taking steps in building their own systemic portfolios through project studies, reflection, and peer exchange. We also draw on research to explore systems...
Our 3 dots
« Back to our fieldbook We work with three circles that turn a group of people into an ecosystem that learns, deploys, and changes systems for real. Systemic capital deployment is where resources move into action. We deploymulti-capital: economic,...
Where we act
« Back to our fieldbook OUR SYSTEMS LENS MODEL The dots shape how we act: the mindset, capital, and infrastructure that make systemic work possible. The next question is where we act. That’s where our Systems Lens comes in. Traditional impact...
How “we” diligence
« Back to our fieldbook HOW WE DO OUR SHARED DUE DILIGENCE FROM CONCEPTS TO LIVED EXPERIENCE To start deploying capital and get into action modus we shape a shared process. How do we look at systemic initiatives? How do we create a list of around 15...
Who do we team up with
« Back to our fieldbook PORTFOLIO OF POSSIBLE PROJECTS We work with pioneers reimagining finance, governance, ownership, and community from the ground up. What matters most is courage, kindness, and alignment with systemic principles. That’s how you...
Our wishes
« Back to our fieldbook Our short & long term wishes Short-term Explorers feel connected, inspired, and engaged. We think from risk/return tosynergies-return. Learningsloops are discovered. Begin Systemic Deployment with all four forms of...
What’s the explorer experience
« Back to our fieldbook Journey gatherings, learning We curate Explorers for their diverse perspectives, boldness and open mindness. They say Yes to not Knowing what is coming. Reading list is shared and added to by explorers Explorers gather in...
Invitation how to engage, join, co-learn
« Back to our fieldbook Ever growing group of friends and peers in the field The We are Impact Collective (WAIC) and the Impact Explorer Club are highly active in the field of systemic change. We are interacting and following asmany initiatives as...
What we want to add
« Back to our fieldbook We walk alongside projects and explorers for years, building trust before capital flows. Many of our projects come through explorers themselves, not an anonymous pipeline. We pay attention to the human side: relationships,...