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Governance and use of funds form the foundation of trust for the TEIKEI Fund.
This page describes how responsibility, decision-making processes, eligibility for funding, and documentation are structured to ensure that charitable funds are used transparently, purposefully, and effectively.
The TEIKEI Fund is intended to support tasks that serve the common good: knowledge work, education, practice-based research, Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, impact documentation, community foundations, supply regions, and common good-oriented infrastructure.
To ensure that this work remains eligible for funding, clear responsibilities and a clean separation from software assets, operational goods flows, and economic projects are necessary.
The TEIKEI Fund finances charitable development work.
It does not replace operational support structures, goods trading, or economic project responsibility.
The use of funds therefore follows a simple principle:
Charitable funds are used where publicly accessible, transferable, and common good-oriented results are created.
This includes in particular:
Operational goods flows, harvest shares, logistics, payments, goods procurement, and economic project risks are borne by the respective operational support structures.
The TEIKEI Fund requires transparent governance.
It describes who assumes responsibility, how decisions are prepared, and how the use of funds is documented.
Governance includes:
The fund committee ensures that funds serve the charitable purpose and do not flow ambiguously into operational goods flows, economic risks, or asset transfers.
For the use of funds, three levels must be distinguished:
The charitable structure supports knowledge, education, documentation, impact work, and public orientation.
This includes Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, the wiki, educational content, practice-based research, impact documentation, transformation guidelines, and materials for community foundations and supply regions.
Lightwave is being established as a structure for software, intelligence, and process logic.
This includes software architecture, digital tools, process models, interfaces, data models, operational platform logic, and intelligence tools.
Software, intelligence, and process assets can be assigned to, transferred to, or sold by Lightwave.
The TEIKEI Fund does not finance the acquisition of these assets.
Operational support structures handle concrete supply.
This includes TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, and other supply projects with harvest shares, goods flows, logistics, payments, pickup locations, contracts with farms, and economic responsibility.
These tasks are to be carried out in the future by a cooperative or suitable operational support structure.
Tasks that generate charitable impact and are usable beyond individual projects are eligible for funding through the TEIKEI Fund.
This includes in particular:
These tasks create a shared foundation for farms, communities, regions, funding partners, Lightwave, and operational support structures.
Operational tasks are financed by the respective economic support structures, projects, or cooperatives.
This includes in particular:
This distinction protects the funding eligibility of the TEIKEI Fund and simultaneously strengthens the self-responsibility of operational projects.
Some tasks affect multiple levels.
These include, for example, onboarding, producer support, training, FairShare evaluations, technical interfaces, regional coordination, or impact documentation.
In such cases, the purpose of the task determines its classification.
A task can be supported charitably if it creates knowledge, standards, education, documentation, practice-based research, or transferable infrastructure.
A task belongs to Lightwave if it involves software architecture, process logic, digital tools, or intelligence systems.
A task belongs to operational business if it directly concerns procurement, sales, delivery, storage, payment processing, or economic responsibility for a specific goods flow.
Borderline cases should be documented and decided transparently by the fund committee.
Each funding phase requires clear documentation.
This includes:
This makes it visible which work was enabled, what results were achieved, and how these results have a lasting impact.
Traceability is a central part of building trust between the TEIKEI Fund, foundations, funding partners, communities, and the public.
This page provides the framework for governance and use of funds.
The concrete distinction between charitable infrastructure, Lightwave, and operational business is described on a dedicated deep-dive page:
Governance and use of funds should create trust.
The TEIKEI Fund thereby becomes a clear, auditable, and foundation-suitable financing space for charitable development work.
Lightwave can develop software, intelligence, and process logic.
Operational support structures can manage concrete supply.
The charitable structure can strengthen knowledge, education, documentation, impact work, and supply regions.
This creates a structure in which each level fulfills its own purpose while contributing to the common development.
This page connects governance, funding eligibility, use of funds, and target structure. The following terms represent the most important deep-dive points:
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Compiled by the TEIKEI editorial team with AI support (ChatGPT)
Created on July 10, 2026 · Last updated on July 10, 2026
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