We’re raising $100K from donors and foundations, in $10–50K contributions, to launch the OASA Village Fund and select its first cohort of ten villages. Every dollar you put in seeds a matching pool that roughly triples supporter contributions, is refilled by 1% of every transaction on Closer, and redeploys village after village — toward 100,000 hectares in trust by 2050.
Contributions go to OASA, a Swiss non-profit association. No financial return — returns are measured in hectares, water, species and villages still standing.
$100K
Seed · raising now
$1 → ~$3
Matched on Artizen
1%
Of Closer transactions → fund
10
Villages · fall 2026
$1 → ~$3
The fund launches on Artizen this fall. Sponsor dollars seed a matching pool; every dollar a supporter gives to a village project is matched from the pool and amplified by endowment prizes — roughly tripling the impact of each contribution. Matching runs until the pool is spent.
1%
Closer commits 1% of every transaction across all villages on the platform — carved out of its 5% fee — directly into the fund. Every booking, membership and event in the network tops up the pool. As the network grows, the fund refills itself.
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Catalytic capital seeds a commons, is repaid through community co-investment — token raises selling use rights and governance, never equity — and redeploys to the next village. One seed, a cascade of commons.
$100K
From donors & philanthropists in $10–50K contributions, to launch the fund and select the cohort.
10 villages
First cohort of strongly matched land projects receives funding plus the best digital tools available.
Token raise
A larger, token-based raise opens follow-on capacity for early supporters and grows the cohort.
OASA’s mission is 100,000 hectares under regenerative stewardship by 2050 — removed permanently from the speculative market and held in trust. Villages are the unit of scale. Each one is anchored by a real, diversified economy — hospitality, agriculture, education, energy — that makes the commons self-sustaining and feeds the fund that seeds the next one.
25 ha
Today · TDF
1,000 ha
2030
100K ha
2050
9–35 Mt
CO₂e over 30 years
Billions
Litres held in living soil
3–9K
Rural livelihoods
€100M
Annual commons revenue
Conservative, literature-based estimates for a mature 100,000-hectare Mediterranean footprint, from OASA’s impact thesis Regenerative Sovereignty at Scale. Ranges, not promises.
Land in perpetual commons — no individual title, no equity, no profit distributions. Utility tokens carrying use rights and governance, never financial returns. The seven principles of the OASA Constitution as the minimum standard, Guardians of Nature with veto power, every decision weighed against seven future generations. Open books to the network, annually.
The OASA Village Fund is a curated match fund on Artizen. Sponsors seed the pool and unlock a 2x match on every supporter contribution; Artizen’s endowment adds prizes and boosts on top. Villages in the cohort submit their projects to the fund and campaign against the pool. When villages use Closer for bookings, a 4% fee on commercial transactions funds the platform and 1% flows straight back into this fund.
2x
Match on supporter gifts
+
Endowment prizes & boosts
1%
Of Closer bookings → fund
10
Villages this fall
Traditional Dream Factory (Alentejo, Portugal) is the flagship — Europe’s first token-powered regenerative village: bird species returned, wells recharged, compacted clay turned to living soil. The land is in trust. It runs entirely on Closer, alongside multiple other communities on the platform. Closer has been supported by Regen Network and Climate Collective.
25 ha
In trust
300+
Token holders
€1.5M+
Raised via tokens
1.5M L
Rain harvesting capacity
Donors and foundations active in regenerative land, community ownership and climate — comfortable with $10–50K first checks, with appetite for larger follow-on tickets as the cohort proves out.
Prefer to give now?
Sponsor the fund directly on Artizen — your contribution seeds the matching pool immediately. Open the fund on Artizen →
Other ways to help: warm introductions to family offices, foundations and mission-aligned funds; nomination letters for grant applications. Email Sam directly or use the form.
Sam replies personally within a few days to set up a call.
A donation to OASA, a Swiss non-profit association. There is no financial return. Contributions seed the Artizen matching pool and the cohort’s legal and operational support. Returns are measured in hectares under stewardship, water retained, species returned and villages still standing.
Into the matching pool that backs the ten cohort villages’ Artizen campaigns, and into selecting and onboarding the cohort: legal counsel mapping structures onto local law, Closer deployment, and the annual reporting that keeps books open. OASA publishes the split to backers.
Two ways. Closer commits 1% of every transaction across all villages on the platform — carved from its 5% fee — directly into the fund, so network activity refills the pool. And catalytic capital deployed into a village is repaid through community co-investment (token raises for use rights and governance) and redeployed to the next one.
For villages using the OASA trust, the land stays in trust. It cannot be seized by creditors chasing equity or flipped by a majority faction. Stewardship transitions; the commons survives. Villages using another structure must disclose it openly to qualify.
In spring 2027 the cohort villages open a larger, token-based raise. Tokens carry use rights and governance — a night’s stay, a vote — never equity. Early backers of the fund get priority access to participate.
The Village Fund is the philanthropic first layer of the stewardship flywheel. The larger catalytic capital programme — completing the TDF prototype and securing new sites at scale — is documented in the catalytic capital deep dive.
$100K seed round · $10–50K tickets · first cohort fall 2026
Back the fundSam — OASA Village Fund Director · [email protected]