Project i61

Kingdom builders are already out there.

Our job is to make sure they don't build alone.

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Hear it from the people doing it.

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Stand behind it

Be one of the first roots.

We are looking for a small number of founding partners — people willing to put strength underneath this work before it is obvious, and stay close enough to see what it becomes.

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Our mission

Equip small but strong local initiatives — and keep the relationship at the centre.

Works led by people who know their town, love it, and have already started. Change that lasts comes from people who do life together in a place.

Hands running a plane along a board at the bench
Kids riding bikes under mature oaks
A shallow creek running over pale stones
Plainly, then

What i61 is — and is not.

i61 is

✓ An equipping mechanism for local works already under way

✓ Built on relationships that outlast any single project

✓ A supplier of skills, tools, counsel and connections

✓ Small on purpose, and intending to stay that way

i61 is not

✗ A headquarters, a franchise or a network with a logo pack

✗ A grant portal with an application form

✗ The owner or operator of the works it serves

✗ Finished when the money is spent — we stay

Tools passed hand to hand on a job site
Adults in a circle of folding chairs under a tree
A live oak backlit at golden hour, shadow toward the camera
An apprentice standing back to look at finished work
A shared meal at a long table under an oak
Where we are

Early, and honest about it.

Project i61 is organizing as a nonprofit in South Carolina; our federal tax-status determination is in process. Our first connection project is live in Dawsonville, Georgia.

The big door open at Shiloh Collective, lamps lit inside
A footbridge

Built to lift

The tagline is the test: if what we do does not lift the people doing the work, we stop doing it.

See the work.

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