This page describes the interplay between the TEIKEI Fund, non-profit structure, Lightwave, operational support structures, independent projects, farms, communities, and supply regions.
It shows which level carries which tasks and how non-profit infrastructure, software and process development, economic operations, and funding structures can be separated from one another.
The target structure is not a final legal plan.
It serves as an orientation sketch for the next steps in the transformation.
The target structure distinguishes three central levels.
The first level is the non-profit structure with the TEIKEI Fund. It supports knowledge, education, documentation, Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, impact documentation, practice-based research, community foundations, and supply regions.
The second level is Lightwave. Lightwave will be established under steward-ownership and is intended to long-term hold, protect, and further develop the software, intelligence, and process structure. This includes digital tools, platform logic, interfaces, data models, operational process logic, and AI-supported tools for supply, coordination, and FairShare.
The third level consists of operational support structures. These organize concrete supply. This includes TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, and other supply projects with harvest shares, goods flows, payments, logistics, pickup locations, and contracts with farms.
These levels work together.
However, they remain clearly distinguishable in terms of responsibility, financing, and use of funds.
The target structure describes several levels that work together while remaining clearly distinguishable.
At the beginning is the funding structure with the TEIKEI Fund. It creates the financial framework for non-profit development work.
Building on this, a non-profit structure emerges that supports knowledge, education, documentation, impact work, and public learning spaces.
Lightwave forms the software, intelligence, and process structure. This level translates knowledge, values, and operational experiences into digital tools and processes.
The operational support structure carries out concrete supply. It handles goods flows, harvest shares, payments, logistics, pickup locations, and economic responsibility.
Independent supply projects such as TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, or other regional projects can be integrated into this operational structure.
Farms, producers, and operational partners form the agricultural and artisanal foundation.
Members, communities, pickup locations, and supply regions form the social foundation of supply.
These levels do not form a rigid corporate structure.
They describe a distributed structure in which different actors remain independent and can collaborate through shared values, tools, standards, and responsibility logics.
The funding structure enables the development of non-profit foundations.
It can be supported through the TEIKEI Fund, a foundation solution, a purpose-bound fund under an existing foundation, a funding circle, a non-profit support structure, or other funding partners.
The funding structure does not finance operational goods trading.
It supports tasks that serve the common good and produce publicly usable, transferable results.
This includes Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, documentation, wiki, educational work, practice-based research, impact documentation, FairShare foundations, community foundations, the development of supply regions, European networking, governance development, legal and structural clarification, and transformation support.
The funding structure thus creates the space in which non-profit work can be reliably planned, implemented, and documented.
The non-profit structure holds and develops the knowledge, education, and impact foundations of TEIKEI.
It ensures that central content, experiences, standards, documentation, and learning spaces remain publicly usable in the long term.
Its tasks include responsibility for Chapter 100, maintaining the wiki and knowledge database, developing Ethical Artificial Intelligence as a non-profit knowledge and learning space, educational work, learning materials, transformation guides, practice-based research, impact documentation, FairShare foundations, transparency logic, governance, use of funds, funding strategy, and foundation inquiries.
Supporting community foundations and supply regions also falls within this area, insofar as transferable knowledge, orientation, documentation, and non-profit impact result from them.
The non-profit structure does not own or control operational goods flows.
It creates the foundations that enable farms, communities, Lightwave, and operational support structures to work together more effectively.
Lightwave is being established as a structure for software, intelligence, and process development.
Lightwave will be founded under steward-ownership. This is intended to permanently bind the digital, organizational, and process infrastructure to its purpose: enabling community-supported supply, making supply regions operational, better integrating farms, and translating the network’s values into software, processes, and digital tools.
Lightwave is intended to bundle those assets that are directly connected to software architecture, digital infrastructure, operational process logic, and intelligence systems.
This includes software architecture, platform logic, interfaces, data and role models, operational process models, digital tools for organizers, producers, and members, FairShare logic in software, intelligence tools from the network’s practical knowledge, tools for orders, harvest shares, pickup locations, and delivery cycles, as well as technical further development, maintenance, and productive usability.
The software, intelligence, and process assets created so far should be legally cleanly assigned, transferred, or sold to Lightwave.
The TEIKEI Fund does not finance this asset acquisition.
The connection arises where non-profit knowledge from Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, practice-based research, and impact documentation is translated into software logic.
The operational support structure organizes concrete supply.
It carries those tasks that are connected to goods flows, harvest shares, payments, logistics, storage, pickup locations, contracts, and economic responsibility.
For TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, and other supply projects, a cooperative or a comparable community-supported structure is particularly suitable.
This operational structure is responsible for harvest shares, orders, payments, goods flows, regional bundling, logistics processes, pickup locations, operational communication, contracts with farms, projects, or service providers, economic responsibility, accounting, taxes, and legal obligations.
It can use the tools from Lightwave and the non-profit knowledge foundation.
It remains independently responsible for its economic processes.
Within an operational support structure or a regional structure, various projects can be integrated.
These projects remain clearly assigned in terms of legal and economic responsibility.
This includes, for example, TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, a potential project TEIKEI Hellas, the date project Tunisia, regional farms, CSA farms, artisanal businesses, and other community-supported supply projects.
A project can have different legal forms. It can be organized as a cooperative, GmbH, association, farm structure, project company, cooperation project, or in another suitable legal form.
The shared structure enables these projects to build on common tools, standards, FairShare logic, communities, and coordination processes.
It does not automatically replace the independence of the projects.
Farms, producers, and operational partners form the agricultural and artisanal foundation of supply.
They bear responsibility for production, quality, harvest planning, processing, operational costs, agricultural risks, collaboration with communities, agreed standards, and transparent communication about possibilities and limitations.
In the TEIKEI structure, farms should not only be seen as suppliers.
They are independent partners within community-supported supply.
The target structure aims to ensure that more resources, reliability, and attention reach the farms.
Members, communities, pickup locations, and supply regions form the social foundation of supply.
They enable harvest shares to be community-supported, bundled, distributed, and further developed.
This level includes members, pickup locations, organizers, local communities, supply regions, regional initiatives, cooperatives, CSA farms, educational sites, and civil society partners.
This level makes it clear that supply is more than just the transfer of goods.
It encompasses relationships, responsibility, planning, participation, and shared learning.
The non-profit level supports the TEIKEI Fund, Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, wiki, knowledge database, documentation, governance, educational work, practice-based research, impact documentation, cooperation standards, transparency systems, FairShare foundations, community support, community foundations, supply regions, and European networking.
It creates the foundations on which Lightwave, operational support structures, farms, communities, and regions can work.
Its task is to secure knowledge, make impact visible, and develop publicly usable foundations for community-supported supply.
The Lightwave level supports software, intelligence, process logic, digital tools, interfaces, data models, role models, operational platform logic, FairShare logic in software, tools for regional coordination, and productive technical further development.
This level makes day-to-day operations in community-supported supply structures more manageable.
It translates values, knowledge, and processes into digital tools.
Through its establishment under steward-ownership, Lightwave is intended to remain permanently bound to its purpose and further develop the infrastructure so that it serves the network, farms, communities, and supply regions.
The economic level handles goods flow, logistics, purchasing, accounting, operational responsibility, economic risk, concrete deliveries, storage, payments, operational project contracts, as well as tax and legal obligations of the respective structure.
This level must be independently organized and financed.
It is not replaced by non-profit funding.
This makes it clear which tasks serve the common good and which tasks belong to concrete economic operations.
The target structure requires a clear allocation of the assets created.
Software, intelligence, and process assets are assigned to Lightwave.
Non-profit knowledge, education, and documentation assets are transferred to the non-profit structure.
Operational project values, goods relationships, and supply processes are continued by a cooperative or suitable operational support structure.
This creates a clear order.
Lightwave holds software, intelligence, and process logic.
The non-profit structure holds knowledge, education, documentation, and impact work.
The operational structure carries out concrete supply, goods flows, and projects.
The TEIKEI Fund finances non-profit development work and impact development.
For the target structure to be viable, clear decision-making paths are needed.
It must be traceable who is responsible for the TEIKEI Fund, who supports the non-profit structure, who decides on funding, who reviews the use of funds, and who documents decisions.
It must also be clarified how software, intelligence, and process assets are assigned to Lightwave, which operational structure continues TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, and other projects, and who bears the economic risks of individual projects.
The involvement of farms, members, and communities, as well as the creation of transparency, are also part of this governance.
Governance here does not mean central control.
Governance means that responsibility becomes visible, verifiable, and collectively bearable.
In the long term, the target structure should create a common good cycle.
If Lightwave becomes economically viable and generates surpluses, a portion of these surpluses should flow back into the non-profit structure.
This feedback can strengthen Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, educational work, practice-based research, impact documentation, FairShare evaluations, community foundations, supply regions, public documentation, and non-profit learning and development spaces.
This creates a connection between economic viability, software development, and the common good.
The non-profit structure creates knowledge and orientation.
Lightwave translates this knowledge into operational tools.
Operational structures use these tools for concrete supply.
If economic viability results from this, a portion of the funds can flow back into the non-profit foundation.
In the long term, a structure should emerge in which tasks are clearly distributed.
The TEIKEI Fund finances non-profit knowledge, education, and impact work.
The non-profit structure holds Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, wiki, documentation, and impact logic.
Lightwave supports software, intelligence, and process logic under steward-ownership.
A cooperative or suitable operational structure carries out TEIKEI Olive, TEIKEI Fruit, and other supply projects.
Economic actors remain independent.
Funding flows into non-profit foundations, not into goods trading.
Responsibility is institutionally distributed.
Software, knowledge, standards, and operational tasks are traceably assigned.
Farms and communities benefit from transparent coordination.
Supply regions can collaborate regionally and across Europe.
Community-supported supply is thus structurally enabled.
The target structure can be understood as an open infrastructure for food coordination.
It does not belong to a single business, a single country, or a single project.
It provides a shared foundation on which many independent actors can work.
Like an open infrastructure, it enables connection, orientation, further development, and collaboration.
The concrete responsibility for goods flows remains with the respective operational actors.
The software and process logic are supported by Lightwave under steward-ownership.
The non-profit foundation is supported by the TEIKEI Fund and the non-profit structure.
The target structure connects four things:
non-profit infrastructure, Lightwave as a software, intelligence, and process structure under steward-ownership, independent economic actors, and community-organized supply.
The TEIKEI Fund enables non-profit development work.
The non-profit structure provides knowledge, education, documentation, Chapter 100, Ethical Artificial Intelligence, and impact logic.
Lightwave develops software, intelligence, and process tools.
Operational support structures organize concrete supply.
Farms, members, communities, and supply regions remain independent actors within a shared framework.
This creates a structure in which food sovereignty, regenerative agriculture, and community-supported supply are not just described as ideas but can be practically organized.
This page connects target structure, non-profit status, Lightwave, and operational support structures. The following terms are the most important points for further exploration:
One level up: TEIKEI Fund
Author: Felix Schröder, with the help of AI (ChatGPT)
Creation: written by Felix Schröder › formatted in Markdown by ChatGPT › published by Felix Schröder › layout adjusted by Claude
Created: 2026-05-06 · Last updated: 2026-07-10 · Questions or feedback? support@teikei.us