Naia Trust

"Founded in 2024, Naia Trust is a steward of capital committed to serving economic, cultural and spiritual renewal during a time of great transformation.

We are funded by individuals and families moved by the urgency of our times and who are committed to employing approaches that are unconventional, catalytic, worldview-inspired and in service to all life. Naia Trust grew out of years of work initiated by Ground Effect, honoring and continuing its legacy." https://www.naiatrust.com/about

"Naia Trust is an animist steward of capital dedicated to creating the conditions on Earth for all beings to thrive. Our mission is to reunify humans as “nature” and to advance a worldview of interbeing.

Naia Trust invests with a philosophy: with every flow of capital, we enquire as to whether it may bring those it touches into a meaningful, engaged and potentially enchanting relationship with the more-than-human-world.

We are passionate about equipping human and ecological communities with inner and outer resilience, empowering them to live in dignity and act with agency within the context of the current polycrisis. This could manifest in qualities such as regenerative agricultural systems, thriving exuberances of biodiversity, the advancement of scientific knowledge, empowered local governance systems, innovative jurisprudence models, and poetic spaces to breathe and heal.

It pains us to bear witness to the widening fault lines and rifts in our society; the ‘othering’ that arises from a psychology that perceives duality between self and world; the multiple planetary boundaries that we are treacherously exceeding; and underneath this all, a profound estrangement of humanity from a living, sentient and sacred Earth.

Yet amidst times of great upheaval rests extraordinary potential. The world is pregnant with narratives waiting to be written. Our hope is rooted in an active engagement with the world, despite unknowable outcomes. We believe that what is ours to do is to help foster islands of coherence, tangible and embodied existence proofs that sow the seeds of cultures to come." https://www.naiatrust.com/#hero

Key People

Alexa Firmenich, Founder and Principal

Learning Resources

Podcasts and articles: https://www.naiatrust.com/thoughts#hero