About

Move to Mutualism

It is a global movement connecting change agents and partners who want to contribute to our mission: incubating agency of impoverished communities across the globe to grow their own wellbeing, through community-based social ventures that connect income-generation or financial services with access to (or provisioning of) basic needs, like water, health, renewable utilities, housing, food, and so on.

We need to reimagine our economy, putting the agency back into the hands of the communities, empowering them to rebuild their own community economy as to grow the wellbeing of their community. Solutions (sanitation, housing, water, energy), as well as income and financial services (means to transact, savings, credits, insurances, mortgages and pensions) should be linked, adapted and supportive to the needs of the communities. We aim to empowering and include the impoverished communities around the world. Mind you, 73% of the worlds population is “underbanked”, 2 billion people are excluded from our global economy, this is fundamentally wrong and needs to change. We belief that the power to change lies in the community.

We are a Collective of community based change agents, social entrepreneurs and social innovators rebuilding community economies. We share a common goal of creating innovative, community-led approaches that provide pathways to grow into sustainable, self-reliant, flourishing communities. We’ll be doing so by being an academy for community-based change agents.

Timeline

2003
Drishtee, India
Working with rural communities
2018
Kula International, Netherlands
Working with community chests in Colombia, The Gambia, Niger, DRC, Bangladesh and India
2022
Ashoka Changemaker Summit
A handful of Ashoka Fellow's organisations working with communities to self-develop agree to participate in a series of learning circles
2023
Credits for Communities
Launch and host learning circles with community change makers
2024
Launch joint Resource Centre
Adding knowledge pieces and capturing insights from learning circles with community change makers
2025
Move to Mutualism
Re-brand, better equipping us to build the stage together with community change agents

Secretariat and Stewards

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