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how to contact us
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Leif Smith
303-778-0880
Explorers Foundation, Inc.
PO Box 9100
Denver, CO 80209
USA
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Explorers Foundation ••• home page
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efBegin ••• top level for all outlines
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Vortices ••• list of all vortices
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Threads ••• traces of conversations
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Glyphs ••• list of fragments of Freeorder
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Investments ••• a table of all investments
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freeorder ••• the concept & vision
 
Something new or changed is indicated by a leading 🔹
 
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A table of our investments listing who, why, amount, and year
 
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freeorder : a vision & concept that guides our investments
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Each of our investments is made to provide grounds for discussion of an aspect of the emergence of Freeorder.
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Definitions of freeorder
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What’s good for explorers within each of us and among us.
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A balance among designed and spontaneous orders that serves quest, venture, and error correction.
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The idea of freeorder is simple. It does not require a complete exposition of all aspects of liberty, art, and learning to make the word useful. The world is rich with scholars and institutions devoted to every necessary aspect of freeorder. What has been missing is a concept to integrate them. The word freeorder provides that integration. Each investment made by an integrating forge (∮forge) should have a paragraph that explains how, from the point of view of that forge, the investment contributes to the emergence of freeorder.
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All the vortices among all the forges in the world sum, by more than addition, to a worldwide university of freeorder, entirely without central direction. Each forge is a managed enterprise, its own micro-freeorder, not a democracy. The result of the work of many ventures in freeorder is itself a freeorder, a spontaneous order that, much like a market, emerges from a complex of discovery processes and consequent trial, error, and new conjecture.
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See also: a list of all vortices, with explanations ••• — our investments are guided by discussion with participants in these vortices.
 
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🔹Explorers Foundation investments in 2024
 
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Who: Adnan Abbasi, developer of artificial intelligence conversational learning environments
What: Cobden-Bright Award for the creation of Professor A. I. Hayek
Amount: $500
 
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No investments in 2023
 
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Explorers Foundation investments in 2022
 
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Who: Sean Gabb, independent scholar, author of many books and articles
What: Cobden-Bright Award for writings on liberty and for the development of courses of instruction in classical Greek & Latin.
Amount: $500
 
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Explorers Foundation investments in 2022
 
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Who: Sean Gabb, independent scholar, author of many books and articles
What: Cobden-Bright Award for writings on liberty and for the development of courses of instruction in classical Greek & Latin.
Amount: $500
 
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Explorers Foundation investments in 2021
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CANZUK Space Policy Study (Part 1 & 2)
Who: James C. Bennett
What: Show the potential for collaboration among Canada, New Zealand, Australia,
and the UK in the provision of a superior environment for entrepreneurial space ventures.
Why: Jim’s study will reveal the freeorder generative qualities of the Anglosphere.
Amount: $11,500
News release: explorersfoundation.org/archive/bennettjc-canzuk-space-phase-one-nr.pdf
 
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Brownstone Institute
What: Writings on liberty by Jeffrey A. Tucker, George Gilder, and others
Why: To help get the Institute started
Amount: $1,000
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Mises Institute
What: Cronyism: Liberty and Power, Patrick Newman
Why: Helped to publish the book
Amount: $500
 
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Colorado Headwaters
Who: Jerry Mallett
What: Clean the headwaters of the rivers begining in Colorado
Why: Colorado Beaver Summit, ongoing work related to May Ranch
Amount: $500
 
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Alumni and Donors Unite (ADU)
Who: Linda Sweeney, founder of Alumni and Donors Unite
What: ADU will act in support of change agents reforming higher education.
Why: Quality education is essential to the preservation of civilization.
Amount: $2,500 + $500 in June of last year; and $1000 in August 2021.
News release: explorersfoundation.org/archive/ef-adu-nr.pdf
What guides our investment philosophy: The vision and concept of quest serving balances among designed and spontaneous orders within individuals and cultures. We call such balances freeorder and are intent on generating an emergent culture we call Freeorder.
What we look for in people with whom we invest: Passionate and durable interest in something contributory to the emergence of Freeorder, in every case requiring curiosity, wonder, imagination, bold conjecture, critical thinking, and energy.
If the Emergence of Freeorder is seen as a multi-faceted crystal, then each of our investments relates to one or more of its faces.
Our pattern of investments is intended to evoke curiosity about that crystal.
We are interested in your ideas. If you would like discuss our investment program please contact us.
We are a 501(c)(3).
 
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A complete list of our investments in random order.
 
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Adnan Abbasi ••• Thothica : For the creation of Professor A. I. Hayek (an AI)
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Sean Gabb ••• : Writings on Liberty; Courses of instruction in classical Greek & Latin
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Brownstone Institute ••• : The Anglosphere Challenge; A Time for Audacity; America 3.0; CANZUK Space Study, Phase One (September 2021)
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Jerry Mallett, Colorado Headwaters ••• : Care for the Earth in a way compatible with a freeorder civilization (See also Sand County Foundation)
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James C. Bennett ••• : The Anglosphere Challenge; A Time for Audacity; America 3.0; CANZUK Space Study, Phases 1 & 2, of 3 (March-November 2021)
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Linda Sweeney ••• : Alumni and Donors Unite, the reformation of higher education
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Spencer MacCallum (1931-2020) ••• : community, land, enterprise, special zones
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Michael Strong ••• : philosophy, education, special zones
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Alan Macfarlane ••• : origins of individualism and the modern world
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Gary Hoover ••• : history of American business, and of great entrepreneurs
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2019: Cobden-Bright Award of $250 to support Gary’s newly begun American Business History Center, Flatonia, Texas
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Irshad Manji ••• : Ijtihad - freedom of thought, Islam
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Mark Frazier ••• Openworld, Inc. : education, land grants, special zones
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Sand County Foundation ••• : conservation, ecology
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Ludwig von Mises Institute ••• : economics, marginal utility, subjective value
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Magatte Wade ••• : enterprise in “rich” Africa, Senegal, bias reduction
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C. S. Lewis Society of California ••• : philosophy, meaning
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Michael J. Lotus ••• : America 3.0 — the story of a great country in three phases
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Peter J. McLaughlin ••• : Feedback Revolution - communication in business
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The Independent Institute ••• : liberty
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Richard L. Bolin ••• Flagstaff Institute : special economic zones
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Seed Savers Exchange ••• : conservation of vital genome
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Liberty International ••• : was International Society for Individual Libery (ISIL)
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Centro Artistico y Cultural de Huachinera ••• : art, cultural renaissance, Sonora
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Grace Llewellyn ••• : education, spaces for adventurous children
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Windward Foundation ••• Walt Patrick : rural land development & community
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Jeff Rubin ••• : Wisdom of Age - being one’s best at any age
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Bloomsbury Review ••• Marylyn & Tom Auer : fine writing
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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ••• Tony Ryan : no prohibition
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Meg Biddle & Marcia Perry ••• : Youth Arts Collective - haven for creatives
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Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad ••• : Minaret of Freedom - liberty & Islam
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Max Borders ••• : spontaneous order in social systems
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Robert Haywood ••• : special export processing zones
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Foresight Institute ••• : nanotechnology, social and technological implications
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Ronald Gross ••• : life-long learning, Socratic practice
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K. Eric Drexler ••• : Engines of Creation, published 1986
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Centre for Playback Theatre, Jonathan Fox ••• : communication
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Henry Okiria ••• : Learning Empowers Uganda - African Cheetahs vCheetah
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Nandasiri Wanniniyaka ••• : Horizon Lanka Academy - education
 
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