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2025-26 Hacking Wealth Challenge

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Wealth Hackers Initiative

Wealth Hackers Initiative

2025-26 Hacking Wealth Challenge

We are looking for promising wealth redistribution projects that can be significantly advanced with funding and participation in our collaborative cohort.

competition

Reduced InequalitiesDecent Work and Economic GrowthNo Poverty
K: Financial and insurance activitiesM: Professional, scientific and technicalN: Administrative and support serviceS: Other service activities

Closed

Closed on 10/24/2025, 10:59:59 PM

OverviewSubmissions
BUSTED: Breaking Up Sequestered Trusts & Endowments for Distribution
REDUCED_INEQUALITIES

BUSTED: Breaking Up Sequestered Trusts & Endowments for Distribution

BUSTED shares stories and facilitates story-telling practice as a tool for organizing. Through writing, workshops, and open conversation spaces, BUSTED uplifts narratives that challenge the financial status quo.

United States

SILT - Self-actualised Identity Layer Tool
GOOD_HEALTH_AND_WELL_BEING + 2 Others

SILT - Self-actualised Identity Layer Tool

SILT reclaims identity from states/corporations by flipping fiduciary logic, creating a trust-protocol and dApp for contracts, bonds, and rights beyond state control.

Auckland, AU, New Zealand

CoLiberate USA
NO_POVERTY + 2 Others

CoLiberate USA

As a social enterprise, CoLiberate USA improves individual financial health through financial education, skill-building, and investment opportunities.

Chicago, IL, USA

HandiMentor: Redistributing Skills & Income Through DIY Mentorship
QUALITY_EDUCATION + 4 Others

HandiMentor: Redistributing Skills & Income Through DIY Mentorship

HandiMentor connects householders with vetted tradespeople who teach DIY skills at home. We empower people, especially women, to gain confidence while creating flexible, fair income for skilled tradespeople.

London, England, United Kingdom

Employee ownership for Africa
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 2 Others

Employee ownership for Africa

We'd like more funds & entrepreneurs to embed employee ownership models into African companies -- we'll centralize key examples, expand understanding, and provide a toolkit to enable broad sharing

Game The System: The Entrepreneur Empathy Experience

Game The System: The Entrepreneur Empathy Experience

We're tackling Wealth Defence mindset by working with one of the most effective tools for changing thinking and behaviors: play. Roleplay is a proven method for getting past mindset barriers, and we take it into unexpected domains, using dynamics of fun to challenge old ways of thinking.

MezziCoin, an entry-level, risk-free crypto alternative for the masses.
NO_POVERTY + 2 Others

MezziCoin, an entry-level, risk-free crypto alternative for the masses.

A digital asset where each coin represents a real-world location. Free to collect, designed to generate income and trade, with none of crypto’s energy costs or complexity.

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

My test project
PARTNERSHIPS_FOR_THE_GOALS

My test project

Testing a usability issue

United States

Community Credit Lab
REDUCED_INEQUALITIES + 1 Others

Community Credit Lab

We facilitate catalytic capital and back office services to emerging funds and lending programs that increase affordability, increase access, and shift power

United States

JobLink – Investing in Jobs, Driving Sustainable Growth
NO_POVERTY + 6 Others

JobLink – Investing in Jobs, Driving Sustainable Growth

JobLink is an investment platform for projects that create jobs and stimulate sustainable economic development.

Idle Billions to Wellsprings: Turning Dormant Dollars into Regenerative Capital Systems
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 3 Others

Idle Billions to Wellsprings: Turning Dormant Dollars into Regenerative Capital Systems

A hack convening to unlock $250B in dormant DAF capital, transforming idle philanthropy into regenerative investments that build community ownership and advance SDG-aligned economic renewal.

Resourcing ecologies of care
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 3 Others

Resourcing ecologies of care

We are facilitating an exploration that asks: what does care look like when it is not a response to harm? And how might we resource proactive care practices that prefigure the world we long for?

United Kingdom

Financial Simulator
QUALITY_EDUCATION + 1 Others

Financial Simulator

An educational tool to help people understand how different decisions and scenarios can affect their long-term financial future, helping visualise the importance of saving, pensions and investments.

Ireland

The Value Translation Lab: fusing conversational design with polycapital accounting tools
GOOD_HEALTH_AND_WELL_BEING + 7 Others

The Value Translation Lab: fusing conversational design with polycapital accounting tools

This hack translates between real world value stewards and financial capital holders, using a blend of polycapital accounting and conversational design. It will prototype a ROPI (return on polycapital investment) tool.

United Kingdom

Opening the door from the other side: supporting wealth-holders
GOOD_HEALTH_AND_WELL_BEING + 3 Others

Opening the door from the other side: supporting wealth-holders

Supporting wealth-holders to find a more harmonious relationship with their wealth using systemic family constellations to surface hidden dynamics.

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The ESG Reinvestment Engine
NO_POVERTY + 9 Others

The ESG Reinvestment Engine

Transforming ESG compliance from costly obligation to ethical opportunity through automation that redirects corporate spending toward sustainability, fair labour, and local prosperity.

London, England, United Kingdom

PurposeMint: The $280 Billion Opportunity
NO_POVERTY + 1 Others

PurposeMint: The $280 Billion Opportunity

PurposeMint is an early-stage fintech-for-good project designed to help underserved communities build emergency savings, reduce reliance on predatory lending, and create pathways to financial resilience.

United States

Metacrisis Response Financial Product
GOOD_HEALTH_AND_WELL_BEING + 9 Others

Metacrisis Response Financial Product

A collaborative endowment to fund responses to the Metacrisis that combines integrated capital and participatory governance to make it easy for a funder to support effective responses to global challenges.

carbon wealth
CLIMATE_ACTION + 3 Others

carbon wealth

Empowering rural youth to build wealth through carbon justice—training, reforestation, and digital carbon monitoring for equitable participation in climate finance and green job creation.

Senanga, Western, Zambia

Grace to Wealth: A Student Debt Reduction Pilot for HBCU Graduates
QUALITY_EDUCATION + 1 Others

Grace to Wealth: A Student Debt Reduction Pilot for HBCU Graduates

Grace to Wealth is a program designed to close the racial wealth gap where it begins at student loan repayment. We will equip users to reduce student debt during the six-month grace period before repayment begins.

Womens Paradise
AFFORDABLE_AND_CLEAN_ENERGY + 2 Others

Womens Paradise

Women’s Paradise empowers GBV survivors in Zambia through AI-powered irrigation and digital finance, transforming a safe-haven farm into a tech-driven, income-generating cooperative.

Senanga, Western, Zambia

The Cockpit - Research tool for money and behavior
NO_POVERTY + 3 Others

The Cockpit - Research tool for money and behavior

Cockpit is an interdisciplinary research engine enabling scientists to do quantitative research on monetary system characteristics and sustainability related outcomes.

Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium

Power to the People: Cooperative Energy Ownership for Shared Wealth
AFFORDABLE_AND_CLEAN_ENERGY + 3 Others

Power to the People: Cooperative Energy Ownership for Shared Wealth

Ecovolt empowers rural Zambian communities to co-own solar mini-grids, earning income and sharing profits through a digital cooperative energy ownership model.

Zambia

Inuka Capital
NO_POVERTY + 2 Others

Inuka Capital

Paving way for catalytic capital to reach emerging-markets through impact-proven data, enabling family offices and private wealth to track the impact of their investments and uncover opportunities in underserved regions.

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

EaseOnTrack Prototype
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 3 Others

EaseOnTrack Prototype

A digital finance and compliance platform empowering refugee and migrant entrepreneurs to access funding, automate bookkeeping, and expand their businesses across SADC borders.

Zambia

From Scarcity to Solidarity: Scaling Money Consciousness in the Spanish-Speaking World
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 2 Others

From Scarcity to Solidarity: Scaling Money Consciousness in the Spanish-Speaking World

We will translate and adapt ConsciousU’s transformative CU*money programme into Spanish, breaking down linguistic and cultural barriers to financial empowerment.

Berlin, Germany

Open-Source Impact Investing: Building a Shared Legal Infrastructure for Change
QUALITY_EDUCATION + 5 Others

Open-Source Impact Investing: Building a Shared Legal Infrastructure for Change

A collaborative project by the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL) and Empatthy to design an open-source legal tool that reimagines access to impact investing.

Chile

FLIT Financial Literacy
NO_POVERTY + 10 Others

FLIT Financial Literacy

Financial LITeracy training for women and families in our ever-digitized personal finance world. AI-enabled to alert clients about potential entitlements, benefits or supports - based to their lifestage and dependents

Ireland

CampAIgnsOS: Reclaiming Revenue for the Creator Economy
NO_POVERTY + 2 Others

CampAIgnsOS: Reclaiming Revenue for the Creator Economy

AI-powered platform that helps creators and brands save money, grow smarter, and own their marketing process.

San Francisco, CA, USA

A new model for arts & culture infrastructure
PEACE_JUSTICE_AND_STRONG_INSTITUTIONS + 2 Others

A new model for arts & culture infrastructure

The Cultural Partnership Group (CPG) for Barking and Dagenham is rethinking its approach around governance, to build on strong participatory work done by current project leads.

Barking and Dagenham, England, United Kingdom

Embodied Redistribution: A Resilience Toolkit for Wealth Holders
GOOD_HEALTH_AND_WELL_BEING + 5 Others

Embodied Redistribution: A Resilience Toolkit for Wealth Holders

Embodied Redistribution brings the Resilience Toolkit to wealth holders confronting how fear and false safety live in the nervous system, building resilience and trust so money, power and care can flow toward liberation.

United Kingdom

From Privilege to Potential: Making Career Access Fair for All Students
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 3 Others

From Privilege to Potential: Making Career Access Fair for All Students

Gradwhiz wants to make access to entry level opportunities fairer for all students, surfacing hidden opportunities and helping those without connections build wealth through meaningful early career experiences.

Hack the DAF: Redirecting billions from idle capital to ownership investing
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 1 Others

Hack the DAF: Redirecting billions from idle capital to ownership investing

Cracking open the donor-advised fund system to unleash trapped charitable billions into the Ownership Economy through an applied systems hack powered by graduate interns from top business and professional schools.

United States

Addressing entrepreneurship finance gap and wealth inequality using Alt-SFT method
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 3 Others

Addressing entrepreneurship finance gap and wealth inequality using Alt-SFT method

My hack harnesses AI technology to advance artificial liquidity by executing an alternative securities financing transaction (Alt-SFT) mechanism. This transaction integrates barter-style trade and SFT-style trade.

United Kingdom

Redistributing Tourism Wealth through First-of-its-Kind Digital Infrastructure
NO_POVERTY + 7 Others

Redistributing Tourism Wealth through First-of-its-Kind Digital Infrastructure

Equera is a digital wealth-redistribution platform connecting global travelers directly with community-owned tourism organizations - unlocking tourism’s $11T potential to build just and equitable local economies.

Uganda

Financial Abundance
NO_POVERTY + 4 Others

Financial Abundance

Financial Abundance is redefining how people think about money. Using AI and behavioural science, our coaching platform empowers individuals to understand their spending, set goals & build lasting financial freedom.

London, England, United Kingdom

Invictus Records: Growth & Implementation
GENDER_EQUALITY + 4 Others

Invictus Records: Growth & Implementation

Rewriting the Future of Music 100% Woman-Owned Record Label with Equity for Artists

Massachusetts, USA

Sovereign Community Finance
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 5 Others

Sovereign Community Finance

Sovereign community finance: Human‑validated identities bringing capital to projects united in purpose while assets stay in your wallet and idle reserves earn. Lets re-write the rules of investment and money!

Berlin, Germany

Justice starts with funding the experts - and that means Experts By Experience
NO_POVERTY + 2 Others

Justice starts with funding the experts - and that means Experts By Experience

Equitable distribution of funding requires a co-production approach where people are asked what they need and are equal partners in creating and evaluating the solutions. We call this 'Funding Justice.'

United Kingdom

Hopeful Finance: New financial instruments for pioneers
DECENT_WORK_AND_ECONOMIC_GROWTH + 1 Others

Hopeful Finance: New financial instruments for pioneers

Hopeful Finance redesigns investment for creative and social ventures, aiming to make capital flexible and fair, broadening value, and co‑designing, piloting, measuring and sharing models that fit real‑world cadence.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

A Regenerative Investment Engine
CLIMATE_ACTION + 3 Others

A Regenerative Investment Engine

Prototyping a catalytic, evergreen, steward-owned investment engine that orchestrates capital into Africa’s regenerative food economy to fund the root systems that align wealth with ecological and social renewal.

Western Cape, South Africa

Raf'a
NO_POVERTY + 3 Others

Raf'a

Raf'a is developing a catalytic equity investment vehicle to fund purpose-led ventures and global majority founders.

United Kingdom

The Life Capital Circulator
REDUCED_INEQUALITIES + 3 Others

The Life Capital Circulator

A redistributive insight system enabling measuring and mirroring of wealth flow across 9 forms of capital.

Switzerland

Narrative Disruption for Wealth Flow: Unblocking the Stories that Block the Money
QUALITY_EDUCATION + 3 Others

Narrative Disruption for Wealth Flow: Unblocking the Stories that Block the Money

We’re creating a framework and toolkit to identify and overcome narrative barriers that block funding, unlocking wealth flow through accessible "story hacking:" a process of story diagnostics, reframing and reauthoring.

The PhotoBridge Project: The Throughline Platform for Redistributing Visibility and Wealth
REDUCED_INEQUALITIES + 2 Others

The PhotoBridge Project: The Throughline Platform for Redistributing Visibility and Wealth

The PhotoBridge Project’s Throughline platform reframes wealth redistribution through visibility—linking storytellers, local initiatives, and investors to ethically shift how understanding, trust, and capital flow.

United States

Regenerative Commons Fund
NO_POVERTY + 4 Others

Regenerative Commons Fund

A prototype for redistributing wealth and power – transforming intergenerational assets into youth-led regeneration.

Stockholm, Sweden