One of the most valuable aspects of our work is in the building and maintaining of relationships. It can take many years to build mutual trust, understanding, and collaboration, but once established the value is incalculable.  

We believe in the potential for a "seed to canopy" fund, a complete and contained ecosystem across five stages of growth. Having already invested the time, effort and due diligence into partners and their ideas, we want to be able to offer further funding when the need to expand and scale arises. 

Several of the partners for whom we provided initial seed philanthropic capital have gone on to achieve remarkable success.

Charlot Magayi, Founder and CEO of Mukuru Clean Stoves: Earthshot Prize Winner, 2022 in the Clean Our Air Category and Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst. Rockflower provided Charlot with the first funding for proof of concept for 200 stoves in 2017. Since then Charlot and the team at Mukuru have gone on to receive numerous awards and successes. This year they will have sold 500,000 stoves across Africa. Charlot sits on the Board of Directors for Rockflower and is able to provide unique insight into why Rockflower's support was so timely and critical to her ongoing success.  

Las Tejedoras, El Astillero, Nicaragua, are a group of 17 women who have been removing plastic bags from the beaches and turning this waste into beautiful artisanal products. In 2017, Rockflower provided seed philanthropic capital to Casa Congo, who worked with Las Tejedoras to develop a business model that would propel them into the global marketplace. With continued investment into Las Tejedoras, Rockflower has seen their hard work rewarded with a partnership with UniSpace. Their rugs are now sold globally and adorn the walls of corporate offices everywhere. 

As we look for the right partners and structures to create this new funding platform, we continue to employ the Currency of Mind™ in the knowledge that if the idea exists, then the means to make it a reality are already present.  We look forward to building a trusted fund for transformational and exponential growth for us and all of our partners.