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Wealth Hackers Initiative
We are looking for promising wealth redistribution projects that can be significantly advanced with funding and participation in our collaborative cohort.
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Closed on 10/24/2025, 10:59:59 PM
We imagine a world where Wealth Hackers are encouraged to develop and launch their innovative solutions, supported through a combination of financial and social capital, and connected to an aligned community of changemakers.
To support this vision, WHI offers the Hacking Wealth Challenge to accelerate promising wealth redistribution projects that can be significantly advanced with funding and participation in our collaborative cohort.
Eligible projects develop innovative approaches to wealth redistribution, and include but are certainly not limited to:
Building a prototype of a product or service that supports funding to move more effectively
Adapting an existing intervention to another jurisdiction or language
Conducting applied research for a wealth redistribution initiative
Developing legal, policy, or advocacy proposals that enable funding to move towards social and environmental outcomes
Creating novel financial vehicles or cooperative resourcing structures
Eligible projects are sprints, not ongoing bodies of work. The funding from the Hacking Wealth Challenge helps them to get from 0 to 1, or reach a next phase or milestone. The funding is “but for”, and intended to provide the spaciousness to achieve a meaningful next outcome.
The cohort of 2025/26 wealth hackers will collectively decide how to allocate a total pool of GBP 150,000 through a facilitated democratic process. This approach ensures that funding decisions align with the Wealth Hacker Initiative’s community values.
The Challenge prize purse is a finite pool, and the assumption is that the funding allows selected projects to achieve a stepwise improvement or milestone by offsetting some of your or some of your team’s time and related expenses to get to that next phase. We imagine this to be on the order of one or two months of full time equivalent effort.
Participating in the Hacking Wealth Challenge means:
Actively developing your hack during the Challenge period
Attending monthly Cohort calls and engaging meaningfully with peers (see dates below)
Contributing insights, feedback, and support to the other participants
Willingness to have your hack shared with the larger Wealth Hacker community and in online materials
Joining the Liberating Wealth Gathering in June 2026
Sharing learnings and outcomes with the broader Wealth Hacker community
Participation in the Challenge includes:
Kick-off call to launch your cohort experience
Monthly check-in meetings for ongoing support and accountability
Participation in a collaborative funding process to allocate GPB 150,000 to teams and individuals
Feedback, mentorship, and connections from cohort members, the Wealth Hacker team, and the broader community
Invitation to the Liberating Wealth Gathering
Access to a network of innovative practitioners working on wealth redistribution
Welcome Call: December 4 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Budget Distribution Call: December 11 2025, 16:00-17:30 GMT
Monthly Cohort Meetings: January 12, February 9, March 9, April 13, and May 11, 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Liberating Wealth Gathering: June 3-5, 2026 location TBD
If you haven't already, create a profile on the Innovation Exchange
Create the organization you are working for, and invite other members to it
Create the project(s) you are working on
Cruise over to this opportunity, and hit the green submit button
Answer the additional questions!
Any problems? Contact us at info@hackingwealth.xyz
Applications are evaluated by a judging panel on:
Strategic Alignment: How well does your project advance the mission of redistributing wealth and power?
Team Capability: Demonstrated ability of the individual or team to execute the proposed hack
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Strength of the initiative’s commitment to JEDI principles
Resource Efficiency: How meaningfully funding can impact your project’s success and your capacity to implement it
Impact Potential: The hack’s potential to create outsized positive outcomes for wealth redistribution
Community Engagement: Your ability to contribute energy and insights to the cohort and wider community
Applications Open: September 8 2025
Challenge Info Call: October 6 2025, 17:00-18:30 GMT -- Please register here: https://luma.com/9vjjx1x7
Applications Close: October 24 2025, at 23:59 GMT
Winners Announced: week of November 17 2025
There are no formal reporting or communication requirements to receive or maintain funding. However, we expect at least one representative per group to join monthly virtual calls and attend the in-person gathering to build community and peer support among hackers. No formal written reports are required.
The application is concise and requires: Creating a profile for yourself and organization (if applicable) Describing your hack (approximately 1,000 words) Explaining what the funding will enable you to accomplish Answering short questions about location, industry, projected outcomes, etc.
We expect all Challenge Winners to reach a significant milestone to share at the next in-person Liberating Wealth Gathering. However, we follow a trust-based philanthropy approach—while we hope for meaningful progress, receiving and maintaining funds isn’t contingent on achieving specific results or deliverables.
We do ask that the Wealth Hacker Initiative team is able to share your participation and the existence of your hack with the broader community of practice and in online materials. We will work with you on the appropriate level of detail to share, given considerations around privacy and security, effectiveness of the hack, and commercial considerations. We do not expect you to give away your hacks for free, or to open-source them.
Yes! We encourage you to apply in whatever capacity feels most aligned with your project—as an individual, a team of collaborators, representing your organization, or as a coalition.
Yes, you can both submit projects that are already ongoing and ready to grow to the next phase, and projects that have not yet begun. In the flow for describing your project you'll have the option to add a start date that can be in the past, present or future.
The project information is generic to the Innovation Exchange, not specific to the Wealth Hacker Challenge. As such, please fill in all the required fields marked with an asterisk * For other fields, use your best guesses, for example, you can use a start and end date in the future, and if you haven't made a project budget yet, leave it empty or put in your best guess.
We’re looking for ways to subvert or reclaim existing mainstream instruments to shift systems toward a just and equitable future. The focus is on scalable interventions that go against the current system’s grain to rewire how capital moves and flows. Example hacks across five key domains: Legal/Governance: “Trust-busting” instruments for wealth expression, redefining “fiduciary duty” beyond private accumulation, alternative approaches to wealth guardianship Financial: Inclusive and democratic investment decision-making models, client service models prioritizing repair and redistribution, alternative fund designs building community wealth Digital: Spend-down redistribution modeling tools, holistic financial planning technology, platforms supporting alternative economy investments Accounting: Reimagined P&L capturing all forms of value, tax/regulatory policy reform, tax planning prioritizing redistribution through solidarity Behavioural: Tools for wealth holders to redirect wealth and manage family dynamics, alternative stakeholder governance approaches Think of Buckminster Fuller’s trim tab concept: a tiny rudder on a ship’s main rudder that moves first and causes the entire vessel to turn. Similarly, hacks are specific, small innovations with the capacity to turn the massive Wealth Defence Industry toward justice.
