Est. 2014 · Community & land foundation
We fund the people who tend the common ground.
Commonfield backs small, local crews who replant hillsides, fix water points, teach adults to read and cook for their neighbours. We stay small so more of every gift reaches the field.
Fig. 01 — Planting day on the northern ridge, spring 2026
The field ledger, 2025
Independently audited. Counted the slow way: on foot, village by village.
184k
young trees planted and still standing at year two
62
villages with a working, community-run water point
3,400
adults who finished a full reading cycle
91%
of every gift spent directly in the field
Programs
Four programs, one patch of ground.
Each program is designed with the people closest to the work and handed over to them within five years.
01
Living Ridges
Native-species planting on degraded hillsides, tended by village crews for five full years.
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02
Open Pages
Evening reading circles for adults, led by local facilitators in community halls.
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03
Wellspring
Clean-water points built, repaired and owned by the households that use them.
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04
Clear Rivers
Seasonal river clean-ups and waste routes shared with upstream towns.
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Where a gift goes
Ninety-one cents of every dollar reaches the field.
We publish an audited ledger every spring — line by line, including the projects that didn’t work and what we changed because of them.
Field programs
78%
Local partner grants
13%
Operations
6%
Fundraising
3%
Field note No. 14 · Community kitchens
The Thursday soup that kept a street together.
When the bakery on Orchard Row closed, two retired neighbours started cooking on Thursdays. Three winters later, the kitchen feeds forty households and runs entirely on volunteer shifts.
Written by Leyla Aras, field coordinator · 6 min read
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People in the field
The work is local. So is the team.
Robin Calder
Field coordinator, Living Ridges
Tomas Reyes
Program lead, Wellspring
Hana Okafor
Co-founder & director
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Plant something that outlives you.
$40 a month keeps one village water point running for a year.
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