To nurture a just transition to regenerative, democratic economies through collaborative infrastructure building.
One Project is a nonprofit building infrastructure for a new economy where resources serve people and planet, not profit. We partner with the rising global movement for economic democracy to build core technology, mobilize catalytic resources, and show the world that a better system is possible today.
The Problem
Our current economic system incentivizes profit above all else. So when we see ecological degradation, addictive products, exploitative tech, and runaway inequality, these aren't just random problems. They're predictable outcomes of the system's incentives. Meanwhile, things that truly matter to people (safe and thriving communities, health, access to leisure time, a healthy environment) are chronically underfunded despite our unprecedented collective wealth.
Our Vision
A thriving, sustainable world beyond capitalism, where democratic human systems nurture diverse perspectives, cultures, and ecosystems. All enjoy abundance, none are structurally oppressed.
Our Mission
To nurture a just transition to a regenerative democratic economy.
- How do we approach this work?
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By working in deep collaboration with frontline communities and practitioners from across the ecosystem.
Movements for post-capitalist futures go by many names and have carried many lineages. Today, this work might look like work being done in the realms of solidarity economies, mutual aid, cooperatives, commoning, Just Transitions, participatory democracy, and broader global justice movements. In the future, it could take other forms that have yet to emerge.
- What is Economic Democracy?
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Economic democracy means we the people decide how resources are used to meet our needs.
It’s any system where everyone has a meaningful voice in shaping the economy through participatory tools and processes, ensuring decisions about land, infrastructure, and money serve the common good. By aligning economic incentives with human wellbeing and planetary health rather than profit, economic democracy creates just, desirable futures for all.
- How do we hold justice and racial equity?
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With deep reverence. We are in a period of learning, listening and developing how we can hold our practices in alignment with our beliefs.
One Project’s work is animated by a shared vision of a better world, held by many people, in many places. We understand that reckoning with problems of governance and economics is also reckoning with problems of colonization, race, gender, class, disability, sexuality, and various other facets of being. One Project strives to flow in just harmony with people and planet alike. We are in an active listening and learning posture as we develop our Justice, Equity, Decolonization, and Inclusion (JEDI) values. Our commitments and practices around these are a work in progress, and we look forward to sharing a more thorough overview publicly and soon.
- Why is our name “One Project”?
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In the words of the Zapatistas, the future we seek is “un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos” — one world where many worlds fit.
The name “One Project” is not about a singular vision, but instead speaks to the shared work of humanity in the collaborative project of building our world together. The vision of the world we seek precedes us, transcends us, and exists in variation and multiplicity — as will our future together.
What we do
One Project operates a set of key, interrelated programs to co-create and transition to alternative economic systems.
What We DoMeet the Team
One Project’s global team comes from a range of backgrounds, disciplines, practices and worldviews.
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One Project is committed to bringing together brilliant minds who believe another world is possible. Let’s work together.
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