The Founders Circle
The Stær Collective (stay-er) is a global alliance advancing citizen-powered solutions to humanity's greatest challenges. Its premise: we must learn to act collectively-leveraging diverse talents across every sector.
Rooted in Right To Play's legacy-which transformed millions of children's lives through play-Stær scales that same spirit of coordination and creativity. Its work spans education, energy, environment, democracy, and conflict through a philanthropic foundation, an AI research center, and one of Africa's largest nature conservancies.
The Stær Seventeen
The Stær Collective today comprises of 17 distinct organizations, all working together to solve some of humanity's greatest challenges.
- The Sunstone Institute
- The Archipelagus Foundation
- The Manda Projects
- The Manda Conservancy
- Lamu Culinary Institute
- Mwendo Bora School
- Noramber
- Circmar
- Trust Here
- Right To Play
- Manda Bay Lodge
- North Coast Conservancies
- Manda Old Town Archaeology Project
- Factiverse
- House 21
- Mapana
- The Aeolian Islands Project
Ways to Be Involved
- Help us identify the right people Share innovators or projects that would strengthen the Collective.
- Guide the model with us Your insight matters as we refine our approach.
- Stand with us at launch Join us next fall for the formal launch.
The Stær Collective (stay-er) is a global network of individuals and organizations aligning to confront to advance citizen-powered solutions to humanity's greatest challenges. Its premise is simple yet profound: to meet these challenges, humanity must learn to act collectively-leveraging our diverse talents, knowledge, and creativity across every sector of society.
Rooted in the legacy of the globally recognized humanitarian project Right To Play, which used play to transform learning and well-being for millions of children worldwide, Stær carries forward that same spirit of coordination and creativity at scale. Its work spans education, energy, environment, democracy, and conflict, connecting initiatives that strengthen human capacity and shared resilience. Its anchor programs include a philanthropic and investment foundation, an AI-driven research center, and one of Africa's largest nature conservancies-each demonstrating what's possible when science, culture, and community move together.
The name comes from the Old English word for starling-the bird famed for its murmuration, a living cloud of thousands moving as one. Across centuries and skies, the starling has symbolized intelligence in motion: harmony born not from hierarchy, but from awareness, trust, and shared rhythm.