The Initiative Foundation believes the most enduring results are achieved when people are supported in their own efforts to help themselves. Our goal is to enable the communities and individuals in those communities to sustain their own projects themselves.

We expect each community network to be operationally self-funding after two years (although in some cases that is up to four years).

The process begins with the establishment of the physical network which is leveraged in many ways to support development and sustainability.

Over the initial 2-4 year period, ownership of the networks is transferred to the local community as milestones are reached. We encourage local representatives to use the network for commercial ends.

Eventually, the network may even become a profit centre, but a certain portion of revenue originating from these operations will always go towards underwriting the charitable operations of the local network.