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Vermont Research Farm

Vermont Research Farm

This page describes our open source regenerative agriculture project design to test climate-resilient farming techniques that restore ecosystems while producing food sustainably. In 2015 the first Good Ancestor Organic Farm was a research project sponsored at UNL’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources via a hoop house grant

Agriculture in the AI Era

Agriculture in the AI Era

As climate change, soil degradation, and fertilizer inputs challenge global food systems, the future of agriculture depends on scalable, efficient, and sustainable solutions. At the same time during periods of change and conflict, we need food systems are resilient, local, and robust for humans to stay free, autonomous and independent.

Can you imagine celebrating the upcoming end of the biosphere?

Can you imagine celebrating the upcoming end of the biosphere?

Imagine contemplating the destruction of all the plants, animals, people, and things that we care about – And after that, still being self excited about your book launch? It doesn't make a lot of sense right? Ray Kurzweil correctly predicted and warned of the ascendence of thinking machines decades

VIP Security Access

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VIP Security Access

Privacy Guide

Unfortunately simply making purchases online, browsing the web, using social media and credit cards, purchasing insurance, buying a house, signing up for banking or sometimes even registering for a state ID is enough to spread extensive personal information through ad-tech networks, and to aggregation services which combine this data with

Security and Privacy Grantmaking

Security and Privacy Grantmaking

As part of our internet security program we have made several supporting grants supporting general freedoms, and security for journalists and activists. This is not a major area of our grantmaking, but this area supports necessary tools and services of our ecosystem grantees, and our security volunteers. Targeted groups and

AI Supply Chain Observatory Hackathon

AI Supply Chain Observatory Hackathon

We participated in grantee AI Objective Institute's Supply Chain Observatory and it's extreme weather hackathon. Participating in this initiative is part of our AI and Critical Infrastructure project. We offered hackathon participants the opportunity to apply for small grants or collaborate with our related project: Emergency

Snowstorm beta nears release

Snowstorm beta nears release

Snowstorm is a potentially game-changing new distributed VPN type tool from the creator of the snowflake pluggable transport (now used in the TOR project). Fellow Serene accompanied us to the Oslo Freedom Forum last year where she played a duet with cellist Joshua Roman. We have been following her work

Prediction Markets and Civil Society

Prediction Markets and Civil Society

GoodAncestor recently met with Metaculus CEO Deger Turan and core team in Puerto Rico to discuss new collaborations and possibilities for using Metaculus prediction markets to improve the democratic process using bill and legislation data from WeVote. Deger was previously CEO of AI Objectives institute when Good Ancestor provided a

Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Open 2 Debate plans AI debate

Grantee Open2Debate has an amazing set of public debates online on many topics, and they are expanding their debate focus on incoming AI topics. Their tagline is "Expert moderation. Good-faith arguments. Reasoned analysis." and we believe this is absolutely essential to a functioning democracy and society. We support

Citizen Lab destroys spyware

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Citizen Lab destroys spyware

We are big fans (and small supporters) of Canada's Citizen Lab in Toronto, as part of our Internet Security advice for persons of interest. CitizenLab is perhaps most famous for their end to end investigation of NSO group's Pegasus spyware – originally found in a Human Rights

Guardian Project Grants

Guardian Project Grants

Guardian project apps have been used by Human Rights activists all over the world and we recently utilized their Butter Box project (the continuation of library in a box and internet in a box, and pirate box), and funded a developer grant to enhance synchronization tools via The Archive -

Hand in Hand Parenting Grant

Hand in Hand Parenting Grant

We are proud to support this grant to continue Hand in Hand Parenting's work and invite you to learn more about it at their website. HomeWe help parents when parenting is hard. A nonprofit you can rely on for information, support, and community for your parenting.Hand in

Sex Work and Human Trafficking Grant

Sex Work and Human Trafficking Grant

We provided a grant to the 501c3 Decriminalize Sex Work. Our prior work analyzing international human sex trafficking flows and the systems that support it showed us that current enforcement policy creates major impediments to stopping human trafficking of women from international countries. We are proud to support this grant

AJ Crabill releases book series on fixing American Schools

AJ Crabill releases book series on fixing American Schools

Board member AJ Crabill is one of the only (or perhaps the only) American to successfully turn around multiple US school districts. This earned him the nation's most prestigious annual educational award in 2019 from the US Education Commission. He has turned his learnings on effective board governance

IBB - New TED talk on rethinking aid

IBB - New TED talk on rethinking aid

Watch grantee Faisal Al-Mutar take the TED Stage explaining why our approach to international aid is a disaster and what can be done about it. See our grant at Ideas Beyond Borders - Ideas in the middle east for more.

All-Fed - Alliance to feed people in global disasters

All-Fed - Alliance to feed people in global disasters

Good Ancestor joined the advisory board of All-Fed recently and they were generous enough to donate volunteer and staff time to the some of our projects. We returned the favor with a small grant. See: Emergency Communication Satellite Launches in June 2025 and Geothermal Green House Prototype All-Fed worries about

Nuclear Energy - Improving Debates with Society Library

Nuclear Energy - Improving Debates with Society Library

One of our first supported donor grants was to assist the Benjamin Franklin Society Library in eliciting expert analysis on the topic of nuclear power, pulling together the best arguments for and against it. We were confused by the opposing narratives of Germany (and California) shutting down all their nuclear

Clear Health Costs - Investigations

Clear Health Costs - Investigations

Good Ancestor Foundation was gifted a 10% position in pro-consumer insurance price and quality comparison website Honest Policy. In addition to analyzing insurance industry rates and policies in contested markets where its difficult to get insurance, Honest Policy also built and provided funding to the technology behind Award winning ClearHealthCosts.

Transform Drugs UK Grant

Transform Drugs UK Grant

Legal and illegal drugs are one of the largest global problems both from drug harms, financing of criminal syndicates, and incarceration of non-violent citizens. We have been following UK Research since the release of Professor David Nutt's - 2010 Lancet Paper on Drug Harms. We are proud to

MAPS - Supporting veteran recovery from PTSD and concussion

MAPS - Supporting veteran recovery from PTSD and concussion

We provided a grant to the Multidisciplinary Association on Psychedelic Studies after seeing the incredible work they did with Veterans and Human Rights activists with PTSD. A land mark study led to more than 2/3 of veterans with treatment resistant PTSD being permanently cured after 3 90 minute sessions,

The Dissident - Ratings manipulation verified

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The Dissident - Ratings manipulation verified

Watch Beyond Utopia

Watch Beyond Utopia

In association with grantee Human Rights Foundation. Beyond Utopia now available on streaming platformsThe Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce that “Beyond Utopia,” a BAFTA-nominated and du-Pont-Columbia Award-winning film that follows the harrowing journeys of several individuals as they attempt to escape North Korea, is now available to

Irish Council For Civil Liberties

Irish Council For Civil Liberties

Irish Council for Civil Liberties - Is a famous human rights org since 1976, We supported their Enforce project on cell phone surveillance in EU/US and its groundbreaking work. For example: America’s hidden security crisisHow data about American defence personnel and political leaders flows to foreign states and

404 Media

Who We AreWho is 404 Media?404 MediaJason Koebler We gave a tiny microgrant to 404 Media - recent Electronic Frontier Foundation award winning journalists, and added them to our newsletter. If you like them you may also be interested in Naomi Brockwell's Ludlow Institute on privacy and