Kuno Foundation
The Kuno Foundation: Fostering love, scaling impact for Earth
The Kuno Foundation, a registered environmental charity, is a critical component of the Kuno model. The Kuno Foundation’s task is to ensure mission lock for Kuno, to keep a big strategic view of what life on Earth needs, and to deliver a ‘collective impact’ model for large-scale change for our planet.
The foundation's approach is not to run isolated projects, but to help empower the people and groups doing great work on saving Nature. We map and network the great work already happening, understand the gaps and needs, and enhance the collective impact of all through a tailored program of support.
“…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
The key pillars of saving Nature
Our program is designed to help empower local people and groups in each of the key pillars of every successful effort to save Nature:
People protect what they love: A group of people loves a place and is inspired to act
People share their love: Stories, knowledge and love of Nature are shared using technology
People build a community and networks for Nature: People use this love and stories to build a community and cohesive collective network for change
People harness resources, skills, tactics and strategy for impact: Effective advocates develop a big dream for Nature, and harness the resources, skills, strategies and conservation science needed to achieve it
A unique model to deliver collective impact for Earth
The Kuno Foundation seeks to fulfill a critical role in the global efforts for Earth.
Kuno Foundation is supported by our social enterprise, Kuno - the Nature platform, whose task is to provide the foundation and our conservation partners digital tools to help scale key elements of what is needed to save life on Earth.
For the Foundation, our pilot programs have started small, with defined locations, designed with the end in mind. Our work is focussed on supporting energetic local communities, highly effective people and small to medium-sized groups who have immense potential to make a positive impact for our planet. By targeting our program of networking and support to these energetic local people and groups, with them, we can deliver an outsized impact for Earth. The two overarching themes for the Foundation’s growing program in 2025-26 are:
Program #1: Fostering love of Earth, and
Program #2: Empowering collective impact
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