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The TEIKEI Fund enables the nonprofit establishment program 2027 for community-supported supply.
It creates a financial framework for tasks that are publicly usable, transferable, and oriented toward the common good: knowledge work, education, practice-based research, community foundations, regional supply spaces, Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, and digital infrastructure for transparency, orientation, and coordination.
The basic idea is simple:
Knowledge, values, software, regional bundling, and communal responsibility are interconnected in such a way that sustainable supply spaces can emerge.
This requires public knowledge work, shared learning, clear orientation, defined values, compelling narratives, and people who accompany communities. Equally important are digital tools that facilitate transparency, knowledge transfer, and coordination, as well as spaces where regional development can take shape in practice.
The TEIKEI Fund forms the nonprofit financing space that makes this work possible in 2027.
Over the past few years, TEIKEI has built many foundations: communities, pickup locations, relationships with farms, harvest shares, regional bundling, digital tools, an Agora marketplace, wiki and knowledge structures, and international networking.
In addition, there is practical experience with Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA), logistics, financing, community building, and the question of how responsibility can be shared between farms, members, regions, and digital tools.
From these experiences, a new context is emerging.
With Lightwave, a structure is to be created that will carry forward experiences, tools, and development logics in the long term. Lightwave will be founded under steward-ownership. This is intended to ensure that the digital and organizational infrastructure remains permanently bound to its purpose and is developed not as a private asset but as a responsibility-driven infrastructure for community-supported supply.
The TEIKEI Fund enables those nonprofit tasks that strengthen knowledge, education, value communication, community building, regional development, and publicly usable infrastructure.
At the center is the question:
How can knowledge, values, software, and community be connected in such a way that regional supply spaces can emerge, grow, and learn from one another?
Now is the right moment.
The idea is strong. The network exists. The experiences are there. The first regions are visible. The software foundations are in place. Knowledge work has begun. Lightwave is in preparation.
The next step is a fundable establishment phase.
An important lesson from previous discussions is:
Financing belongs at the beginning of the establishment phase.
Especially in the founding, concept, and establishment phase, foundations, funders, and supporters can help particularly effectively. At this stage, much is still malleable. The idea can be further developed together. The purpose can be clearly described. Resources can be targeted to create publicly usable foundations.
The TEIKEI Fund makes this start possible.
For the year 2027, the TEIKEI Fund aims to enable an initial nonprofit establishment budget of approximately:
200,000 CHF
This budget is intended for the development of publicly usable foundations.
It is meant to strengthen Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, the public TEIKEI knowledge database, community foundations, regional supply spaces, and transformation guides. At the same time, it will enable making practical knowledge publicly accessible, improving communication within the network, clearly communicating values, and building funding partnerships.
Another focus lies on digital tools for education, transparency, documentation, and coordination. This also includes the further development of Agora-related infrastructure that supports nonprofit tasks and translates practical experiences into transferable tools.
The 2027 establishment program is the first joint financing step for the common good-oriented knowledge, education, values, and infrastructure work around TEIKEI.
The TEIKEI Fund is part of a long-term common good cycle.
The nonprofit establishment work creates foundations that can benefit many actors: farms, communities, regions, educational institutions, cooperatives, future support structures, and digital infrastructure projects.
When Lightwave becomes economically viable in the future and generates surpluses, a portion of these surpluses is intended to flow back into the nonprofit structure.
This common good return flow will permanently strengthen those tasks that serve the joint establishment: knowledge work, education, practice-based research, Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, community foundations, regional supply spaces, public documentation, digital commons infrastructure, value communication, and funding and learning spaces.
This creates a cycle:
Nonprofit establishment work creates foundations.
Viable structures generate economic stability.
A portion of this stability flows back into the nonprofit foundation.
The TEIKEI Fund thus becomes a long-term resonance space between the common good, infrastructure, and economic responsibility.
The TEIKEI Fund enables nonprofit establishment work.
It provides resources for tasks that make knowledge accessible, strengthen communities, connect regions, and develop digital tools for community-supported supply.
This includes public knowledge work, educational and learning formats, practice-based research, Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, documentation, knowledge transfer, transformation guides, community foundations, regional supply spaces, communication, public relations, foundation inquiries, and funding partnerships.
The Fund enables concrete work: writing, documenting, structuring, accompanying, translating, moderating, developing, communicating, submitting funding applications, connecting regions, and strengthening communities.
TEIKEI is working on a new form of supply.
Supply is understood as a relationship: between farms and people, between regions and communities, between financial flows and responsibility, between software and real practice, between knowledge and implementation, and between local supply and European collaboration.
The TEIKEI Fund helps make this connection visible, learnable, and developable.
Chapter 100 is the knowledge and orientation space for the in-depth work of TEIKEI and Lightwave.
Here, content is created on community-supported supply, steward-ownership, regional supply spaces, cooperative food economies, Community-Supported Agriculture, commons, ethical technology, artificial intelligence in service of communities, governance, decision-making processes, educational work, transformation, and Scaling Deep.
Chapter 100 is intended to become a living learning space.
A place where people can understand why TEIKEI works differently, how regional supply spaces emerge, and how they themselves can become part of this development.
Ethical Intelligence describes the work of using knowledge, technology, and artificial intelligence in ways that serve the common purpose.
At the center are orientation, documentation, translation, knowledge transfer, shared learning, decision-making capacity, and responsible data use.
Ethical Intelligence can help sort knowledge, make experiences accessible, document processes, enable translations, create guides, prepare decisions, support communities, make regional developments comparable, and embed values in digital tools.
This makes technology a tool for community, education, and responsibility.
The TEIKEI Fund supports Scaling Deep.
Scaling Deep means that values take deeper root in communities, regions, tools, and processes.
This includes responsibility, trust, transparency, fairness, regional embedding, communal learning, mutual support, relationship-building, good decision-making processes, knowledge sharing, and social and ecological orientation.
The TEIKEI Fund helps make these values effective in educational work, documentation, communication, software, community foundations, and regional practice.
An important part of the Fund is the accompaniment of communities.
Many people want to be part of a different form of supply and need orientation, materials, conversations, and examples for this.
The TEIKEI Fund can create spaces where new communities are introduced in an understandable way, accompanied, and connected with existing experiences. This includes initial conversations, orientation materials, moderation, role clarification, guides, examples from existing communities, support in setting up pickup locations, connections to farms, communication materials, decision-making models, and learning spaces.
The goal is to make communities capable of action.
They should be able to grow independently while also benefiting from the experiences of other regions.
TEIKEI works with regional supply spaces.
A supply space connects farms, communities, pickup locations, processing, storage, logistics understanding, knowledge, responsibility, education, digital tools, and communication.
Initial development spaces are emerging in various regions, including Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Europe, and existing TEIKEI communities that want to network more closely.
The TEIKEI Fund helps make these spaces visible, document experiences, accompany learning processes, and develop shared tools.
The Agora Marketplace is a digital and social infrastructure through which farms, communities, harvest shares, regional bundling, pickup locations, knowledge, and responsibility can be connected.
In the nonprofit context, the focus is particularly on Agora components that strengthen education, transparency, documentation, regional coordination, and communal capacity for action.
This includes developments that make regional supply spaces visible, facilitate community foundations, clearly communicate values in the supply process, keep producers visible, connect knowledge and products, provide orientation for members, enable communication between regions, support Chapter 100, integrate Ethical Intelligence, and enable open standards and documentation.
Agora is thus understood as an infrastructure that connects knowledge, values, and practice.
Lightwave is being founded as a new structure under steward-ownership.
This is intended to ensure that the software, intelligence, and process infrastructure permanently serves its purpose: enabling community-supported supply, making supply regions capable of action, better integrating farms, and translating the network’s values into digital tools.
Lightwave is meant to hold, protect, and further develop overarching infrastructure, software, process, and development logics.
This includes in particular the Agora Marketplace, process logic, database logic, governance foundations, development logic, knowledge architecture, interfaces, regional supply architecture, and tools for collaboration and orientation.
The TEIKEI Fund enables the nonprofit establishment work that strengthens knowledge, values, communication, education, community foundations, regional development, and public connectivity.
Lightwave will additionally require its own multi-year financing.
The TEIKEI Fund forms the nonprofit resonance space from which publicly usable foundations emerge and into which common good return flows can later be channeled.
The funding logic of the TEIKEI Fund follows a simple idea:
It is clearly described what is to be created, which next phase is ready, what resources are needed for it, and what nonprofit impact can result.
Especially smaller and medium-sized funding amounts can quickly help build initial operational capacity, enable knowledge work, accompany community foundations, further develop Chapter 100, or facilitate regional conversations.
In the long term, larger funding partnerships are needed that can accompany the establishment over several years.
The exact allocation is described in a budget.
The important thing is to become capable of action and to build relationships with suitable funding partners.
For funding applications, clear and simple language is needed.
A good application describes the idea being pursued, the nonprofit purpose it serves, which next phase is to be financed, what budget is required, which people are involved, and what impact is expected.
Various versions can be created from this.
Funding partners can engage with this work from different perspectives.
Some foundations are particularly interested in education and knowledge transfer. Others focus on regional development, agriculture, nutrition, digital commons, social innovation, or transformation.
The TEIKEI Fund connects these approaches within a common framework: the establishment of nonprofit foundations for community-supported supply.
Funding is about relationship.
In addition to written funding applications, conversations should emerge.
Especially with larger funding partners, it is about jointly examining what purpose connects, what impact can be created, which phase is now ready, what form of accompaniment would make sense, and how an initial funding can lead to a long-term partnership.
The TEIKEI Fund thus opens a field in which foundations, funders, regions, and establishment actors can jointly contribute to a new supply architecture.
The TEIKEI Fund can be effective in various areas.
In the area of knowledge and education, it involves public wiki entries, glossaries, foundational articles, explanatory texts, guides, translations, educational formats, learning materials, and the documentation of experiences.
In the area of community and region, the Fund supports the accompaniment of new communities, regional conversations, the networking of existing groups, the establishment of pickup locations, orientation for members, connections to farms, and exchange between regions.
In the area of Chapter 100, it involves building a knowledge space, editorial work, structuring topics, ethical AI, library logic, orientation spaces, and educational and transformation content.
In the area of Ethical Intelligence, knowledge structuring, AI-supported documentation, translations, decision-making materials, orientation tools, tools for communities, and responsible data use are relevant.
In the area of communication, websites, public relations, videos, graphics, newsletters, presentations, foundation documents, project descriptions, and communication materials for regions are created.
In the area of Agora and digital tools, it involves nonprofit-oriented Agora development, tools for knowledge transfer, regional bundling, community organization, Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, education, transparency, and coordination.
For orientation, the TEIKEI context works with an asset logic.
For the public fund context, the following areas are particularly relevant:
These areas form the direct core of the TEIKEI Fund.
The Fund can also enable work connected to Agora, Lightwave, and regional supply architecture, provided it serves the nonprofit purpose.
This includes value communication, knowledge transfer, regional bundling, community foundations, orientation tools, software for Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, communication tools, public documentation, and educational and transformation work.
Operational supply areas such as TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, TEIKEI Bulk, or other product areas can later be integrated into regional or cooperative support structures.
The TEIKEI Fund focuses on nonprofit establishment, knowledge, values, and development work.
The TEIKEI Fund is to be accompanied by a fund committee.
This committee helps ensure that the use of funds is transparent, purpose-bound, and meaningful.
In the establishment phase, people are also needed who know and protect the TEIKEI core logic well.
Therefore, the committee should include people with experience in TEIKEI, community building, regional supply, knowledge work, communication, steward-ownership, funding logic, and practical implementation.
The formal handling depends on under which umbrella the Fund is managed.
Possible options include fiduciary management through a foundation or another suitable support structure.
Several variants are conceivable for implementation.
The Fund can be opened as early as possible so that funds can be received and used for clearly defined nonprofit purposes.
It is also conceivable that funds are already pledged or collected and disbursement only takes place after further formal steps.
Another possibility is to enable clearly defined pre-foundation and establishment costs. This includes applications, communication, Chapter 100, knowledge database, Ethical Intelligence, legal and structural clarification, regional conversations, meetings, tools, translations, and documentation.
It is particularly important that a foundation or fund-managing structure checks which form is legally and organizationally most suitable if the Fund is to be managed under an existing foundation umbrella.
Foundations and funding partners can achieve a lot in this phase.
They can enable initial operational capacity, paid establishment time, clear project phases, better documentation, professional communication, shared learning processes, strategic accompaniment, larger follow-up financing, and long-term partnerships.
The TEIKEI Fund is therefore also an invitation to dialogue:
Let us jointly examine how a new supply architecture can emerge.
The first phase is the start and establishment phase.
It serves to make the next steps operational: clarifying the fund structure, writing initial funding applications, developing a budget for 2027, approaching foundations, conducting conversations, structuring Chapter 100, preparing Ethical Intelligence, expanding the wiki and knowledge database, and creating communication materials.
At the same time, regional spaces are to be addressed, Agora development with a nonprofit focus is to be prepared, governance for the Fund is to be developed, and the common good return flow is to be established as a long-term structure.
This phase is the starting point.
Here, the foundation for everything else is laid.
For 2027, a simple and effective funding strategy is to be developed.
This includes a clear basic description, a clear budget per phase, a list of suitable foundations, tailored applications depending on the foundation’s purpose, relationship building, evaluating feedback, and preparing larger partnerships.
In addition to smaller funding amounts, larger partners are needed in the long term who can accompany the establishment over several years.
The TEIKEI Fund connects agriculture, software, community, financing, regional supply, European perspective, knowledge work, education, steward-ownership, foundation logic, AI, ethics, marketplace logic, and value communication.
This is where its strength lies.
TEIKEI shows that nutrition is a question of relationships, responsibility, knowledge, culture, financial flows, soil, technology, and community.
The TEIKEI Fund makes this work fundable.
The TEIKEI Fund uses resources in such a way that publicly usable results are created.
These include wiki entries, guides, documentation, translations, reports, templates, presentations, project descriptions, learning materials, community tools, digital spaces, regional experience reports, open concepts, and transfer materials for new regions.
This creates knowledge that can be shared, further developed, and used by other regions.
The TEIKEI Fund is connected to the founding of Lightwave under steward-ownership.
Steward-ownership means:
A structure is bound to a purpose.
For Lightwave, this means:
The digital, organizational, and process infrastructure is to serve the common purpose in the long term. It is to support supply regions, farms, communities, and operational support structures while translating the network’s values into software, processes, and digital tools.
The TEIKEI Fund strengthens the nonprofit foundation of this purpose commitment.
It helps develop knowledge, values, communication, regional connectivity, educational work, and community building.
When Lightwave becomes economically viable later on, a portion of the generated surpluses is to flow back into the nonprofit structure.
This return flow logic connects economic responsibility with a common good orientation.
In the long term, regional, national, or European cooperatives can emerge.
These can take over operational supply: goods flows, communities, regional bundling, product areas, logistics, pickup locations, and concrete supply projects.
A European cooperative will emerge when several regional bundlings from different countries want to join forces.
The TEIKEI Fund strengthens the nonprofit foundation for this: knowledge, values, communication, community, regional learning processes, transformation capacity, and public documentation.
The TEIKEI Fund is an invitation.
It is directed at foundations, funding partners, communities, regions, farms, and people who want to rethink supply and enable establishment.
TEIKEI is at the beginning of a new phase.
The idea exists. The network exists. The people are there. The tools are emerging. The first regions are stepping up and want to take responsibility.
The next step is financing.
The TEIKEI Fund is meant to make this step possible.
The TEIKEI Fund is the nonprofit establishment program for TEIKEI in 2027.
It enables Chapter 100, Ethical Intelligence, public knowledge work, community foundations, value communication, Scaling Deep, regional supply spaces, communication, knowledge transfer, nonprofit-oriented Agora development, funding applications, foundation relationships, and the establishment of a long-term common good return flow logic.
The Fund stands for a simple, powerful idea:
If community-supported supply is to grow, the knowledge, values, software, communication, and relationships that make this supply possible must also be financed.
Now is the moment to begin.
This page connects the establishment program with nonprofit impact, Chapter 100, Lightwave, and regional supply. The following terms form the most important deep-dive points:
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Compiled by the TEIKEI editorial team with support from AI (ChatGPT)
Created on July 10, 2026 · Last updated on July 10, 2026
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