How it works
Everything in the Impact Explorers Club starts with conversation. We don’t operate through application funnels or deal platforms. We grow through relationships. Slowly when needed, quickly when it makes sense, always through dialogue. Whether you’re a progressive wealth owner curious to explore systemic impact, or a project working at the frontier of systems change, the first step is simple: we talk.
Becoming an Explorer
There is no fixed pathway or cohort moment. People join when there is resonance.
Sometimes it begins at an event. Sometimes through a shared connection. Sometimes through a direct message saying, “I’ve been following what you’re building, can we talk?”
We take time to get to know each other. Not in a formal intake, but in real conversations about intention, motivation, experience, and curiosity. What does systemic change mean to you? How do you relate to capital? What are you hoping to explore?
Joining the Club means taking an active role. This is not a passive membership. Explorers show up, reflect, contribute, bring questions, and engage with each other and projects. The spirit is learning by doing, stepping into real conversations and real decisions together.
If that resonates, the door is open.
Getting on our radar as a project
Most projects enter the Club through trusted networks.Explorers bring initiatives they are already involved in. Partners introduce organisations they believe align. Relationships often precede formal conversations.
We don’t run a high-volume open call. The Club is curated, not exclusive for the sake of it, but because systemic work requires attention and depth. If you feel strongly aligned with our approach, you are welcome to reach out. A thoughtful introduction goes a long way.
°1 - First conversations
Before anything formal, we take time to understand each other.
- What system are you trying to shift?
- Where are you in your journey?
- What kind of support are you actually looking for?
These early conversations are not pitch sessions. They are moments of context-building and shared inquiry. We are as interested in your worldview and posture as in your model or metrics.
°2 - We Diligence: A shared exploration for alignment
When alignment feels possible, we move into what we call We Diligence.
This is not due diligence in the traditional sense. We are not vetting a project for the sake of ticking boxes. We are exploring how deep that alignment is.
- Does this initiative resonate with the Club’s systemic intent?
- How does it relate to our broader portfolio?
- Is the timing right?
- Where could real value be created, for the project, for the Explorers, and for the system it operates in?
Our We Diligence is a dialogue. A dual diligence. It’s not only about whether a project fits the Club. It’s also about whether the Club fits the project. The goal is clarity, not validation.
°3 - Working through our lenses
We strive for systemic impact. That means we look beyond isolated outcomes. We explore projects through four interconnected lenses:
- Economic: financial viability, ownership structures, capital flows
- Ecologic: ecological regeneration and planetary boundaries
- Social: inclusion, wellbeing, governance, power dynamics
- Narrative: the stories, beliefs, and cultural shifts shaping the system
At the same time, we think in terms of polycapital. Support is not only financial. It can also be: Social capital (introductions, alliances, partnerships), cultural or narrative capital (visibility, storytelling, positioning), symbolic capital (credibility, endorsement). We’re always looking for the most effective ways to increase the impact of the individual projects and the bigger field.
Our shared goal is systemic impact, not individual success in isolation.
Capital decisions
There is no pooled vehicle in the Explorers Club.
Each Explorer decides individually where and how to invest or donate. Often, multiple Explorers converge around the same initiative. Sometimes they don’t. What matters is that these decisions are informed by shared reflection and portfolio awareness.
We pay attention to balance. To how different initiatives relate to one another. To where we might already have strong exposure, and where new lenses or themes need more exploration.
Capital deployment is part of the learning journey, not separate from it.
Learning in public
Everything we do feeds back into reflection.
We document our questions, insights, tensions, and learnings in our Fieldbook. Not as polished success stories, but as an evolving record of exploration. We believe systemic change is co-written, and our role is to share what we are discovering along the way.
Learning by doing. Building while doing. Reflecting while acting.
That’s how it works.
