Organizations Filed Purposes:
Our mission is to provide artists, makers, dreamers, and social innovators from developing countries the access to the skills, resources, and opportunities necessary to generate their personal, community, and global economic well being by creating sustainable, collaborative, and ethical revenue streams. We support learning through arts and technology. We develop new models of collective ownership, democratic management, and open source markets that empower people to find the economic well being they deserve. Our main mission is to provide artists and creators the personal empowerment they need to make personal, community, and global impact ethically, sustainably, and collaboratively.
The establishment of The Cyrcle Collective, a physical and digital shared economic platform, that provides the education, resources, and opportunities to generate revenue sustainably, collaboratively, and ethically. The Cyrcle is a independent non-profit collective located in Kathmandu, Nepal and is a community resource and business library. It is part university, part jobs platform, and part means of production. Combined these three components comprise a circular wealth collective that provides members and beneficiaries the necessary ingredients to create their own economic well being. Revenues created through the functioning of The Cyrcle Collective is reinvested back into community resources to help each other generate revenue. 1. Skills: We invest in quality teachers and facilities and have developed a new type of gig based education that teaches only relevant and useful skills. Basic classes and introduction to autodidactic learning are free, with upper level classes that require highly qualified mentors to teach. Our grant has created 8 full time positions in the country, pays facility rents, purchased technology (3d printers, VR gear, and fab lab), and has developed an online education and work platform known as www.thecyrcle.org.
Art Bike Relief is a collaborative project established to assist a local non-profit deal with thousands of littered bikes after an art event. The project is an example of circular and collaborative economics and is intended to turn damaged and orphaned bikes into social impact around the world. We collect membership fees from volunteers who help us repair bikes and distribute them to their communities. In total we have collected over 1200 bicycles and 700 non-voting honorary members have joined our collective as a result of this project. With the damaged bikes and the membership dues we have been able to bring in artists from Nepal, France, Italy, Israel and the US together to design and build art installations from recycled materials.
Home Plastics Recycling Factory and Research Lab: This project is intended to design and build small scale plastics recycling machines that can be used to produce almost any kind of plastic materials and products. The intitial lab consists of shredding machines, an extrusion machines, a plastics bike powered washing machine, and an injection molder. The machines are designed to be low cost and create a business with machines that cost under $1000 to produce. In addition to machine development and prototyping, the project also includes creating a local network of trash collectors, and waste collection programs that would enable people to clean up their neighborhoods and get paid for collecting their plastics.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Sajal Pradhan | CSO | 1 | $0 |
| Dinesh Lamsel | CTO | 1 | $0 |
| Gautam Shah | CFO | 1 | $0 |
| James Mcfinn | COO | 40 | $0 |
| Matthew Rockwell | CEO | 40 | $0 |
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