For People Who Want to Strengthen Community-Led Systems
Platform One exists to safeguard community-led initiatives and uphold the values that protect community wellbeing, independence, and long-term stewardship.
Supporters are people who share these values and choose to stand with the kaupapa in an active, aligned, and responsible way.
Becoming a Platform One Supporter is not a membership, subscription, or transactional relationship.
It is a commitment to values, integrity, and community-first stewardship.
Supporters contribute to maintaining the conditions that allow Platform One to remain independent, protected, and focused on its charitable purpose.
What It Means to Be a Platform One Supporter
Supporters uphold and embody the principles that define Platform One:
- community-first benefit
- non-extractive practice
- independence from political and commercial capture
- consent-based governance
- values and ethical alignment
- long-term stewardship over short-term gain
Supporters stand with Platform One not to receive benefits, but to strengthen the environment in which community-led systems can exist safely and with integrity.
Who Becomes a Supporter?
People who:
- care deeply about community-led development
- want to see values-based governance protected
- understand the importance of long-term stewardship
- support independent, non-extractive structures
- recognise the need to safeguard essential systems
- wish to strengthen ethical, community-designed pathways
Supporters come from many backgrounds — community members, researchers, practitioners, local leaders, and aligned collaborators.
Ways Supporters Contribute
Upholding Values in Practice
Supporters model Platform One’s values in their own engagement and community work, helping reinforce alignment and integrity across the wider ecosystem.
Contributing Skills and Capability
Supporters may offer capability in areas such as:
- governance and values practice
- digital and data ethics
- research and documentation
- systems thinking
- community development
- engagement and facilitation
All contributions occur within Platform One’s ethical boundaries and consent-based processes.
Supporters do not hold governance authority and do not make decisions on behalf of Platform One.
Supporting Stewardship and Continuity
Supporters may assist with strengthening the long-term stability of the Platform One framework, including governance continuity, documentation, and stewardship capacity.
Values-Aligned Financial Support
Some supporters choose to contribute financially to assist stewardship functions.
Any support must remain:
- values-aligned
- non-extractive
- influence-free
- directed solely toward public benefit and long-term protection
Platform One will only consider support that maintains full independence and integrity.
The Platform One Blueprint — How Supporters Relate to It
The Platform One Blueprint is the evolving governance and systems framework that enables communities to design, lead, and steward their own essential systems safely and with integrity.
It is a living framework, refined through:
- learning from Community Project Circles
- governance practice
- ethical analysis
- community participation
- documentation and modelling
- intergenerational stewardship thinking
Supporters do not control, direct, or determine the content or evolution of the Blueprint.
Their role is to help protect the conditions under which the Blueprint can be responsibly stewarded over time.
What the Blueprint Enables
The Blueprint allows Platform One to:
- host community-led initiatives across multiple domains
- protect communities from political, commercial, or institutional capture
- support responsible replication in other contexts
- maintain consistent values, ethics, and governance
- safeguard kaupapa across generations
- keep decision-making close to lived experience
What Supporters Are Not
Becoming a Platform One Supporter is not:
- a membership programme
- a governance role
- a right to influence decisions
- a commercial relationship
- a status or identity marker
- a pathway to endorsement or advantage
It is a relationship grounded in kaupapa, ethics, and responsibility.
How to Explore Becoming a Supporter
If your values align with Platform One’s purpose, the next step is a values-alignment conversation.
This conversation helps ensure:
- shared understanding of the kaupapa
- clarity about non-extractive boundaries
- alignment with Platform One’s stewardship approach
- mutual fit and long-term responsibility
To explore alignment, please contact us.
A Community of Values — Not Membership
Supporters form a loose network of people who understand the importance of protecting community-led systems and ensuring they develop with integrity.
Together, supporters help strengthen Platform One’s capacity to remain:
- independent
- values-aligned
- resilient
- future-ready
- capable of supporting multiple Community Project Circles over time
This is stewardship, not membership —
a collective commitment to the long-term wellbeing of communities.