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<p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>[spacer height="-59px"]<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #999999;">               </span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">* Draft 1.052  |   <span style="color: #999999;">Key Areas Below :</span>  The Access Fund  :  The Billion Trees Project<span style="color: #999999;">.</span> </span></span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">[spacer height="-22px"]</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size: 22px;">The Access Fund + The Billion Trees Project</span>[spacer height="2px"]Philanthropy &amp; social impact are part of the core mandate of Swerve &amp; Renaissance.
It's clear that our world needs a smart and concerted effort by people, orgs, business and gov to deal with key issues.[spacer height="-29px"]
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">[spacer height="12px"]<strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Access Fund</span>
[spacer height="-7px"]</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em> ~ We are in this together</em></span>
[spacer height="4px"]<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Tech Access</span>
</strong>We will be supplying discounted or free hardware and/or software to people, researchers and orgs that qualify.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong><span style="font-size: 18px;">Food &amp; Shelter Access</span>
</strong>We will make regular financial contributions to organizations that provide emergency food access and that address issues related to shelter / housing. As well, we work very closely with HM Seeds, and their mandate is to give a portion of sales from their seeds to food and shelter initiatives.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong>Work
</strong>The world of work, careers and entrepreneurship is going thru a tectonic shift. Part of our Convergence mandate is to highlight and discuss these issues within Convergence, and to create tools that create new opportunities in these areas. [spacer height="-29px"]
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">[spacer height="14px"]<strong><span style="font-size: 20px;">The Billion Trees Project</span>
[spacer height="-7px"]<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #000000;"><em> ~ </em></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #000000;"><em>Trees first appeared on Earth 385 million years ago</em></span><strong>
</strong>Our team understands the vital importance of trees for all life on our planet.
Being in nature connects humans to some important and beautiful core experiences.
Deforestation is a major issue that needs urgent action.
Trees help reduce CO2 emissions.
Our home, planet Earth,… needs more trees.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong>Phase 1 :  1 Million Trees
</strong>Our Trees Project mandate is to provide financial support to various tree planting Orgs, and facilitate the planting of one million trees. Tree plantings costs range from ten cents per tree, up to 1 dollar per tree. The tree planting Orgs names will be posted here shortly. 1 million trees planted, is the target for phase 1 of our Trees Project.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong>Phase 2 :  10 Million Trees
</strong>OAs we near our Phase 1 target of 1 million trees, we will ramp up our efforts and strategies to reach our Phase 2 target of 10 million trees.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong>The Billion Trees Project
</strong>Alongside of our own initative, we are going to partner with other companies and Orgs and work with them in developing or advancing their own tree planting campaigns. By working together, we will facilitate the planting of a billion trees.
[spacer height="9px"]<strong>Preserving Wilderness
</strong>Swerve &amp; Renaissance will also be making regular financial contributions to organizations that are preserving wilderness areas/wild spaces, so that they are not deforested. Let’s make sure we don’t turn this beautiful planet into a dystopian wasteland.[spacer height="-3px"]</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 90px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">[spacer height="-2px"]The tree which moves some to tears of joy
is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all.
But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
– William Blake
[spacer height="18px"]They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
– Joni Mitchell
[spacer height="18px"]At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together,
roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.
– Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta
[spacer height="18px"]Each moment is an opportunity to make a fresh start.
– Pema Chödrön</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #000000;">
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<p style="padding-left: 150px;">[spacer height="17px"]<span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://swerve.fyi/contact/">&gt; Contact us if you want more information about
The Access Fund or The Billion Trees Project</a></span></p>
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