The Hopemakers elevates little-known heroes that are improving their communities & building a solarpunk future.

We’re a community-supported media organization dedicated to finding & amplifying people who are building a better future (Hopemakers).

🎥 Every day, we video-report real stories of progress to replace dread & fear with hope & action.

📰 Every week, we write a newsletter of what’s going right in the world.

🎬 Every month, we create a mini-documentary where we volunteer with a person who’s improving the world, and invest community membership contributions into helping their project.

👀 And there’s much more to come… :)

All of this is made possible by paid membership contributions, so…

By joining The Hopemakers, you’re helping a better future become a reality!

Together, we can change the world to resemble a solarpunk utopia (like the one pictured above) without waste, exploitation, or pollution… where humans, technology, and nature live together in harmony.

Become a member of The Hopemakers to learn about real stories of progress while directly elevating people and projects that are improving the world!

How does it work?

To break through the overwhelming majority of news that’s filled with doom and gloom, The Hopemakers looks for actual good news to remind us all that progress is still happening. These stories are told through daily videos, and are sent in a weekly roundup newsletter every Friday morning to all subscribers.

Every month, we also go on the ground to tell the story of an unsung hero improving their community (we’re calling them Hopemakers) through an awesome long form video. We then support these people with time, attention, and community-raised funding to elevate their project.

By joining us, you’re directly helping build a solarpunk world by supporting these solutions & projects. Your membership contributions help find, document, and elevate these projects. A monthly impact report explains exactly how your money is helping.

Subscribers to The Hopemakers get…

Free:

• A weekly roundup with dozens of good news stories & actions to take

Paid:

• The same weekly good news roundup, plus…

• Contributions go directly towards featured Hopemakers and their projects

• A monthly impact report showing how your contributions are used

• Access to our community chat (coming soon)

• The ability to ask questions for our monthly town halls with featured Hopemakers (coming soon)

• Supporter credits on monthly videos

Essential Supporter:

• Everything paid subscribers get, plus extra recognition in monthly videos

• This tier’s extra support is essential to keep The Hopemakers running!

+ If you don’t want to subscribe but still want to donate and help support this work, you can do so here (PayPal donation link).

+ The Hopemakers is led by Jacob from @jacobsimonsays. After years of reporting stories of progress from around the world, Jacob started this to help support and elevate those who are making a positive difference, while inspiring more people to follow in their footsteps.

+ The hero illustration is designed by the very talented Andrea Miralles.