Stockholm, Sweden
A prototype for redistributing wealth and power – transforming intergenerational assets into youth-led regeneration.
Development & Testing
1 - 6 months
$37,000.00
Last update: October 05, 2023
In Sweden, as in much of the world, wealth has piled up and stopped moving. Enormous pools of money sit in private bank accounts and investment portfolios, accumulating financial value while draining social and ecological vitality. When wealth stops circulating through communities, relationships, and ecosystems, it stops generating life, becomes static, extractive, and disconnected from the future.
At the same time, young people are losing access to the wealth-generating opportunities of previous generations and, increasingly, their hope for the future. As AI and automation replace jobs and ecological and social crises deepen, there is an urgent need to reconnect youth with value-adding, meaningful work.
In Stockholm’s suburbs, youth from immigrant and low-income backgrounds face systemic exclusion, high unemployment, and pressure from criminal networks that offer identity and belonging where society has not. Gang violence is rising, and rates of anxiety and depression among youth have more than doubled in a decade.
Beneath these symptoms lies a crisis of circulation. Circulation of wealth, power, belonging, and meaning. Our economic systems concentrate capital upward while cutting off new generations from the resources needed to regenerate the world. The Regenerative Commons Fund (RCF) exists to restore this flow.
Funding regeneration is no longer optional; it is essential for the continuity of life and society. Decades of extraction have eroded the foundations of our shared wealth: the health of ecosystems, the trust between people, and the possibility for coming generations to thrive. Traditional philanthropy often treats symptoms while leaving the root systems of scarcity untouched. Regenerative funding, by contrast, restores the capacity of people and places to generate value over time. It treats money not as an end, but as a nutrient that can circulate to renew nature, culture, and community.
In Sweden and globally, we now face a simple choice: allow capital to decay in accumulation, or set it in motion to grow life again. The Regenerative Commons Fund exists to make that motion possible.
We apply to this funding opportunity to hack how to engage intergenerational wealth holders and activate their will to fund a generation of young regenerative practitioners via the RCF.
Traditionally representing how societies preserve and transfer value over time, intergenerational wealth in the modern world has become unequal and static:
Concentrated in older generations and among the already wealthy
Often remains locked in financial systems that benefit a few
Perpetuates scarcity and exclusion for younger generations who inherit consequences, not resources
When we talk about rewiring intergenerational wealth, we refer to transforming inherited assets (financial, relational, and influential) into regenerational wealth: wealth that circulates across generations and communities, put toward renewing life instead of being hoarded.
We see regenerational wealth as the answer to this challenge. This is the understanding that wealth grows stronger the more it circulates, and true wealth is created through cycles of renewal and reciprocity. Instead of being accumulated and stored, regenerational wealth is:
Circulatory – moves through people, projects, and ecosystems to create new value.
Relational – strengthens trust, belonging, and builds collective capacity.
Restorative – replenishes what has been depleted (social fabric, ecological health, and hope in the future).
Our prototype (the RCF) is designed to transform one into the other and move dormant capital from the old system into living, youth-led cycles of regeneration to seed new solutions and systems.
The purpose of the RCF is twofold:
1) to prevent young people from being pulled into and perpetuating systems of scarcity; and
2) to empower them with the power, agency, and resources to regenerate human society and ecosystems.
During the Hacking Wealth Challenge, our focus will be to hack the engagement and participation of intergenerational wealth holders (individuals and families whose assets remain idle within the current system).
We will experiment with new forms of communication, storytelling, and engagement that awaken their will to participate in regeneration. Our goal is to identify the emotional, cultural, and relational keys that can unlock their will to circulate wealth and transform their passive ownership into active stewardship.
This is not traditional fundraising. It is behavioral systems change. We wish to turn the results of this work into a playbook for how wealth holders can meaningfully transfer power, not just money, into youth-led regeneration.
The RCF operates not a one-way fund, but as a circular flow:
1) capital enters from regenerative allies (primarily private individuals and family offices)
2) youth collectively co-steward the fund and decide how to redistribute resources for regenerative purposes
3) value returns to the fund through reciprocity: voluntary contributions from those who benefited from and got value from the regenerative interventions/projects (financial, social or ecological).
Youth apply to access resources in the fund in various ways, for example: prototype and test a regenerative idea or enterprise; support local initiatives with strong regenerative potential; or engage as funded regenerative practitioners within organizations to renew existing systems and cultures from the inside.
With time, the Fund will grow not through accumulation, but through renewal and relational trust. The idea is to have capital behave more like a living ecosystem than a financial instrument.
The Regenerative Commons Fund is an initiative from Human Abundance Lab (HAL), a movement dedicated to transitioning society’s scarcity systems into systems of abundance so humans and nature can flourish and co-evolve.
We currently have an ongoing collaboration with Fryshuset (fryshuset.se), Sweden’s largest youth hub, with whom we are launching an immersive Abundance Training for youth at risk of being recruited into criminal gangs. This training is designed to build their capacity in regeneration – regenerative principles and development – as well as conflict mediation, systems thinking, and community weaving.
We see the RCF as the next step in our work with youth – a pathway for them to move away from scarcity and operate from abundance. With the support of the Hacking Wealth Challenge, we plan to introduce the concept of the RCF within this training to co-design the Fund’s structure, values, and governance model together with these youth. In parallel, we will work to identify and engage with early regenerative allies (wealth holders and family offices) to build out the fund.
Within the timeframe of this hack (6 months), our ambition is to:
Hack the engagement with intergenerational wealth holders, testing new ways to align their capital, trust, and participation with our mission of regeneration.
Evolve our youth training with Fryshuset to include principles of wealth management and distribution, to eventually onboard youth as co-stewards of the RCF.
Document our process in a practical playbook, sharing our insights, methods, and outcomes with the broader Wealth Hackers community.
The next step after this hacking and prototyping period will be to facilitate a first prototype cycle of wealth redistribution to test our model in real time with a first small cohort of young regenerative practitioners.
The team brings together expertise spanning regenerative design, impact finance, youth engagement, systemic innovation and prototyping.
Joe Coppard
Innovation Director at Another Tomorrow and co-founder of HAL. Joe will lead the prototyping process and serve as the primary community weaver. Critical for this project is Joe’s experience in setting up and running Youth Advisory Groups together with Fryshuset.
Lisa Stenvinkel
Co-founder of HAL and regenerative practitioner, Lisa brings over a decade of experience in impact strategy, prototyping, and facilitation. She holds the regenerative vision and will lead the engagement with wealth holders, serving as a bridge between them and the young practitioners.
Community Partner
Critical for the success of this prototype is the social work and trust already existing between marginalised youth and Fryshuset. Fryshuset is Sweden’s largest youth hub, which has a wonderful team of authentic and genuinely caring adults with whom we are already partners. They bring deep relational capital, local legitimacy, and decades of experience in youth empowerment and violence prevention. Our collaboration with them allows the RCF to be prototyped and developed in a space where young people already feel safe and respected.
(Names not disclosed due to privacy)
UK-based fundraising expert supporting the design of engagement strategies with wealth holders.
Specialist in impact finance and regenerative capital, advising on funding design and value flow mechanisms.
Blockchain and digital finance expert, exploring technological pathways for cooperative and transparent fund governance.
Legal partner and specialist in cooperative and trust-based models supporting the development of the Fund’s legal and governance framework.
Through the Hacking Wealth Challenge, we are seeking USD 37,000 to support this 6-month sprint. This covers a small core team part-time in Stockholm; remuneration for advisors and collaborators; hosting gatherings with youth (venue, food, facilitation materials, travel stipends, etc.). Additional costs include prototyping and program materials, digital tools, documentation, and basic operational expenses.
This funding would create the necessary spaciousness to design and test our engagement model with intergenerational wealth holders, co-develop the Fund’s initial governance structure with youth, and produce a documented prototype for replication and further investment.
1. Tested Engagement Model
A tested engagement model for activating the will and participation of intergenerational wealth holders in societal regeneration.
2. RCF Prototype Design
A prototyped first version of the RCF governance model.
3. Youth Engagement
15–20 young people get introduced to the idea of managing shared capital and directing resources toward regenerative projects in their communities, and are invited to shape how the RCF develops.
4. Open-Source Playbook
A digital, open-source Playbook documenting the process, principles, and tools for creating a similar regenerative commons fund in other contexts, offering a practical roadmap for replication across the Wealth Hackers network.
Additional: Systems Learning
Early insights into how wealth can circulate regeneratively — creating social and ecological value rather than financial return. Findings from the prototype will contribute to the emerging global field of regenerative capital and participatory wealth governance.
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