What We Do

Catalyzing a Generation of Place-Anchored Builders in Africa

We serve as a strategic learning ecosystem and consultancy, advancing a new class of place-based leaders and catalytic investments across African cities and towns.

Leadership

Training and resourcing place-anchored leaders to think long, act deep, and stay faithful to place.

Our leadership development programs are designed for those who are committed to particular places for the long term. We provide frameworks, tools, and community for leaders who want to develop the patience, wisdom, and craft of place-making.

  • Place-Anchored Leadership Cohorts
  • Mentorship Network
  • Place-Making Resources & Training

Enterprise

Supporting triple-bottom line ventures that make their place better—economically, aesthetically, socially, spiritually.

We work with entrepreneurs who see their businesses as vehicles for place transformation. Beyond profit, these ventures contribute to the distinctive character, resilience, and beauty of their locations.

  • Place-Based Business Model Development
  • Entrepreneurship Support & Advising
  • Triple-Bottom-Line Performance Metrics

Funds

Architecting place-anchored investment models in partnership with long-term investors and civic capital stewards to deploy catalytic capital that serve long-term place-shaping work.

We design and implement novel investment vehicles that provide patient capital aligned with the rhythms and requirements of authentic place transformation.

  • Place-Based Investment Design
  • Patient Capital Pooling & Deployment
  • Long-Term Investment Strategy

Praxis & Pilgrimage

Immersive journeys into cities and towns being transformed by visionaries who stayed. We learn from place and from those who have loved it well.

We create experiences that allow participants to witness, learn from, and be formed by extraordinary examples of place-making. These curated journeys combine site visits, storytelling, and structured reflection.

  • Place-Based Learning Journeys
  • Site Visits & Field Experiences
  • Mentorship with Place Visionaries

Pilgrimages & Programs

Current Journeys & Experiments

The Ogbomoso Residency

The Ogbomoso Residency

A 12-week immersive exploring purpose-built urban regeneration in one of West Africa's most quietly visionary towns.

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The Funds for Place Lab

The Funds for Place Lab

Designing capital structures that serve patient, regenerative growth in emerging urban centers.

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The Cartographers Series

The Cartographers Series

A documentation and mapping project spotlighting 100 under-reported transformative projects in African secondary cities.

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Join the Collective

We are curating a community of builders and believers—those who are not just passing through, but planting deep.

"I will build what I may not fully see, in a place that I will not leave."
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