Hypha Accelerator Program for Exponential Impact (APEX)

Introduction

One of the challenges for Hypha is to grow the ecosystem in a healthy and sustainable way. The dominant strategy so far is to build a large-scale movement (our own Seeds movement) or movement-of-movements (uniting other movements) through an extensive network of ambassadors and word-of-mouth activities (such as events and campaigns). While this strategy leads to a potentially large influx of new users, it has to overcome the Chasm between Early Adopters and Early Majority. In order to cross the Chasm, we must come together and find real and meaningful ways to collaborate. This is where a new (complementary) strategy comes into play, called the Accelerator Program for Exponential Impact (APEX). 

This new growth strategy creates a special funding/grant program for "XOs", special organizations that act as accelerators or incubators with exponential impact. This new kind of organization is using a highly tuned socio-ecological awareness (e.g. bioregion), socio-cultural awareness (e.g. community) and socio-technical stack (e.g. commons platform) that allows them to rapidly scale the ecosystem and activate hundreds, if not thousands of new local pilots around the planet. The delivery method for this organization is an "Organization-in-a-Box", "Marketplace-in-a-Box", or "Village-in-a-Box", a simple way to bundle our knowledge artifacts and recipes, to deliver it as a (digital or physical) box, and to capture the feedback in a loop that Cheryl Heller calls the Social Design Process.