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Matt Thomas

Matt Thomas

The Wonderment Cooperative, Salt Lake City, UT

Happy wanderer, Education and Partner Ops @ The Wonderment

Happy wanderer, Education and Partner Ops @ The Wonderment

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Path

Celebrating the 2025 Youth Refugee Leaders!

Congratulations to the participants and mentors of the 2025 Youth Refugee Leadership Training! We’re so excited to have many of you continuing your work developing your proj...
Project

IMILLASKATEPARK “skatepark olímpico y centro cultural de intervención psicosocial”

El proyecto IMILLASKATEPARK, busca promover la cultura urbana, brindando un lugar seguro para la practica de skateboarding y ofrecer asistencia psicológica a niños/as y jove...
Project

Project Wonder Costa Rica Cohort

Our second cohort of inspired youth is ready to start working together to find ways to learn business skills and employ them in community projects. Here is the documentation o...
Path

Ye Olde Future of Education Is Here

Neal Stephenson imagined an AI-powered future of education about 30 years ago that honestly felt quaint to re-read over the past few years. Until last year, when all of his sp...
Project

Establishing the World’s First Wild Bee Reserve

The great concern to me is that Bees are not understood as wild animals. In order to interact with a wild animal, one would think that one would need to understand the animal ...
Path

Why do we give the way we give?

Turned out that little book on mutual aid (see below) was just the entrance to the rabbit hole. And it should have come as no surprise that diving deeper into that rabbit hole...
Project

Building a visionary network

The process of surfacing opportunities and building relationships that will lead to unique visionary opportunities to create impact in conservation.
Path

Guatemala 2025 Hopes + Fears

That's Lake Atitlan and the surrounding volcanoes up there. Super cool. That's one thing I'm excited to see for the first time on this trip. What are you looking forward to...
Path

Start here, intrepid travelers!

Hey guys. Welcome to this work trip/adventure of a lifetime thing we're doing together. Check out my posts below to see a couple of quick tasks to complete in the next w...
Project

Connecting to the world through weaving

I was born in the Q’ero Nation high in the Andes mountains in Peru. I learned to weave from my grandmother, mother and other women in my community. The weaving that we did i...
Project

Building and Refining Wonderment Cooperative Processes

As the Wonderment Cooperative grows and expands beyond our initial close-knit group, we will need to have a keen understanding of our core processes together so that they can ...
Path

Finding Next Gen Small Scale Visionaries
Path

Can Good Ol’ MUTUAL AID Save Us Now?

Times are tough. And weird. Acts of governmental neglect and even abuse against the most vulnerable among us seem to proliferate day by day. And yet as these depressing storie...
Project

Lab 26

Our project aims to collaboratively design, fund, and execute a transformative dance intensive in the south of Spain, enabling us to train with leading contemporary artists an...
Project

Tilapia Project

This tilapia farming project, led by Mesoamericano students with big hearts and a strong sense of social responsibility, aims to provide nutritious food and demonstrate that c...
Path

Communities by The Wonderment
Project

Preserving and sharing the art of Q’ero weaving

This is where we will document and discover the needs and opportunities for Gloria to establish a weaving practice that can share this sacred art of the Q’eros nation wi...
Project

The Kashia Pomo Roundhouse

We need your help completing this project and weather-proofing the roundhouse before winter. This Roundhouse is much bigger than a building: it is a symbol of resilience and r...
Path

Can Nature thrive in an economy?

CRREAL is reimagining philanthropy in wildlife conservation. Together, we are exploring ways that all beings might share their abundance with one another so all can thrive as ...
Project

The Sea Mercy GIVE SIGHT Project

Imagine being able to give a student the ability to see the chalkboard in school, or a fisherman the ability to see to tie his line to a hook. What we might take for granted, ...
Project

The Amatasi Project: Connecting communities through the power of traditional sailing

Sailing catamarans in the South Pacific pre-date nearly all other civilizations by millennia. Their migratory voyages are legendary. Sail powered vessels and fishing tradition...
Project

Canadian Arctic Citizen Science Development Expedition 2022-2023

Beginning in June 2022, Hearts in the Ice will conduct a pilot project in Cambridge Bay and the surrounding communities to shed light on the power of collaboration by training...
Project

Girls’ Scholarship Program: Taman Bacaan Pelangi

In order to reduce the drop out rates on girls in Indonesia, Taman Bacaan Pelangi launched the “Girls’ Scholarship Program” on 21 April 2021. Our first target areas are ...
Project

“Knowing is Caring” Conservation Learning

I’ve spent years working with lodges and safari companies in Botswana to bring resources and services to schools and programs for children in Botswana. Continuing that w...
Path

Guardians of the Playground

Just like most of us, our friends at Colegio Mesoamericano in Guatemala are staying home from school right now. But check out who’s keeping on eye on their beautiful sch...
Path

Project Blue Sky

Imagine you have all the support and all the resources you could ever need to start a community project. What would you do? Why would you start with that project?

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