HOME PLANET FUND
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Mission Statement
Indigenous-led solutions work. This is why we fund Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities living in frontline regions with the biggest potential to address the polycrisis, including remote communities, fragile ecosystems, and areas in conflict. We work in places that others can’t or won’t. Given that our partners have always lived what are now referred to as “nature-based solutions,” these solutions are available now, but they’re underfunded. Investing in them will have tremendous impact on the environment. Home Planet Fund ensures 100 percent of all funds received go directly to work led by our partners—an investment in local knowledge that generates a global impact.
About This Cause
Home Planet Fund leverages the power of nature and the stewardship role of Indigenous People and Local Communities. We support a focus on the intersectionality of people and planet, rebuilding local systems, and centering the knowledge of and implementation through Indigenous People and Local Communities. A portion of this work is now called Nature-Based Solutions, as defined by The International Union for Conservation of Nature: “Nature-based solutions are actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously benefiting people and nature. “Nature-based solutions address societal challenges through the protection, sustainable management and restoration of both natural and modified ecosystems, benefiting both biodiversity and human well-being. Nature-based solutions are underpinned by benefits that flow from healthy ecosystems. They target major challenges like environmental degradation, disaster risk reduction, food and water security, biodiversity loss and human health, and are critical to sustainable economic development. They build up existing local knowledge and are designed and implemented with the full engagement and consent of local communities and Indigenous Peoples.” Where We Work The science and data are clear on what ecologies are critical to global environmental degradation. Many of these places are places that are hard to work in or fund, because they are rural, fragile, or in conflict. We target our funding here because we can have a proven, outsized, global impact on sequestering carbon as well as regeneration of lands and waters. Our Approach HPF gives directly to communities to lead and implement projects. Our approach not only recognizes their personal knowledge, institutional memory and experience, but also how to translate and apply regenerative principles in their unique intersectional context of people, culture, geography and history. This means there is less waste, and it takes far less time to get work underway and at scale. Local ownership also ensures durable, long-term change. Why We Do It Environmental work traditionally hasn’t recognized the critical and positive role of humans within ecosystems. Instead, it has traditionally created conservation systems based on the exclusion of people from “wild” lands. But people are a part of nature, and we are dependent on one another. To serve our home planet, we must begin by changing how we see the role of people in nature. By investing in community and tribal structures, funding goes further. These structures have the same operations and mobilization as international entities and governments, but without the large overhead costs. They don’t need to spend time on costly mistakes because of a lack of knowledge of local customs, politics, or languages. They have built-in access to local knowledge and trust. They also have a vested interest in the success of this work, ensuring durability and continuity. How We Do It Because our minimal overhead costs are already covered, every dollar donated supports work led by our partners – an investment in local knowledge that generates a global impact. Our vision is to build a collaborative fund to which multiple funders can contribute for the purposes of funding community-led and Indigenous Peoples-led solutions. We aim to provide multi-year core and flexible funding to enable our partners to become more sustainable through predictable, longer-term funding, giving them the flexibility to use the resources in the way they believe will make the most impact.