The Nectary is researching an economy of love.

Through experiments in gifting, economic intimacy, and shared-risk, we are rigorously exploring pathways for exiting the economy of fear, separation, and control. 

The Nectary is a sponsored project of the Raft Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Gifts that you make to us are tax-deductible.

The Nectary is a sponsored project of the Raft Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Gifts that you make to us are tax-deductible.

We make our expenses and income visible on a public ledger with Open Collective. We are so grateful in advance for any financial gift you wish to make to support the Nectary’s material needs and the material needs of its hosts and fellows.

“... If you do still believe in love, then you can create unbreakable bonds between individuals, and levels of trust that are really high – and therefore, forms of coordination and organization that can actually outcompete those forms of organization that are based on mere contract. The people who are most confused, who are driving the world towards its end, are actually not capable – given their worldview – of creating organizations as powerful as the organizations that could be created by this other class of people. This class of people who are seeking the value of love, friendship, and trust as primary. In the battle between devils and angels, the angels win because they can cooperate.”

— Zak Stein