Future Builders Academy - How It Works

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Over the last 20 years, we have been working on the Global Village Construction Set. 2025 was historic, in that we have achieved an important funding milestone. We have developed a boostrapping funding mechanism enabling us to take this work to scale. This mechanism centers on efficient production, and it involves education to spread our work to global impact. The production model that we have developed is the swarm build of the Seed Eco-Home. With trained cohorts of 24 apprentices, we will be able to build each house in only 5 days - which is a breakthrough that allows bootstrapped funding by building homes.

What exactly did we solve for? We solved a way for people to get involved in OSE work for the long term - as our Future Builders Academy Apprenticeship involves two days of work per week - as work study for which students are paid. This allows our students to pay their way through college. Because our program cost includes housing, utilities, and internet - teh cost of living for each participant is low. The goal is that our apprentices pay their own way for the program, without incurring debt.