Welcome toThe Project Moon Hut Answers

Our organization is a 501(c)(3) filed in the United States. The original work started in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley California. We’ve since set up our infrastructure in other countries around the world and our team has included people from Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa, North, Central and South America.

We are actively working to setting up nonprofit offices in 11 countries at the moment and we’ve already set up our Mearth Entities in Europe. We have already outlined plans to be around the world and in doing so continue to build a global team.

To answer this question there is one tradition answer and one not so obvious yet valuable to understand answer.

(1) The traditional answer is that Project Moon Hut Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organization and therefore has no shareholders [no owners]. As a nonprofit the organization raises funds through donations and in exchange for the donation the individual or organization is issued a receipt that they may or may not be able to use when filing taxes in the US.

(2) The no so obvious answer is that by asking about funding there is an inference as to how is the Foundation operating? We have had hundreds of individual and organizations volunteering their products or services to help us with our cause which means that products or services that often would require some form of payment have been donated as probono [no fee services], discounted, or free products enabling us to accomplish a lot with limited capital.

There are three answers to this question:

We are set up a US public charity 501(c)(3) corporation which means we are not funded by a single individual or organization or small group of funders. We rely on the generosity of people around the world to accomplish our work. At the present time we are also looking at establishing other nonprofit offices around the world so that we can attract a global audience to help us efforts.

We as an organization complete research, then seed fund the great ideas, incubate those that have merit, and act as an accelerator for all the work being completed. This is not unique. Nonprofits often invest in projects they feel are valuable through private placement or thought capital markets. A simple example would be that universities fund research all the time and these ideas often eventually reach markets.

We have a basic structure where we have an Executive Director and then individuals who are helping to work towards the cause like any other organization requiring basic functions from product, operations, accounting, legal, to administration activities.

The idea for Project Moon Hut was founded while at Scratch Restaurant in Silicon Valley while talking with a teams at NASA Ames. For five years we met every month to move the project forward.

We are not a “space project,” we are an Earth project leveraging the technology and human ingenuity to reach and live on the Moon to impact the future of all species on Earth.

Think of Project Moon Hut differently. If you were build a new office for your organization would this mean you are in the real estate business? No, you would be leveraging the real estate to create an environment where you can accomplish your organizational targets. The 4Phase development of the Moon is a part of a much greater set of activities that collectively will impact all species on Earth over the next 40 years.

We are just one project and we wish everyone well with all the projects that are happening. We believe in our project and if you feel this is not for you or that this will not work we hope that you can find a project that works for you. If you’re not working on anything yourself, maybe you might want to get involved so that you can be a positive force for change. You might want to watch the few videos on the previous page.

We have a 40-year plan with our Phase I to be completed in 10 years.

We are Moon or Mearth focused so Mars is not in our plans. Honestly, is this not big enough???

We will leave these initiatives to others. Let us also be clear, we also are not about science, research and exploration. We are about building Mearth, it’s ecosystem and it’s economic system.

Today there is an immediate need for $2 million dollars. The two million dollars is to expand our base team from over 50 volunteers and over a few hundreds since our inception to employing full time personnel.

If you’re looking for the bigger picture, we are a global cause if you think about it, $5 million or $50 million while it seems like a lot does not go far today if your cause is global. With all the work we have in progress we have calculated the need to raise $225 million for a two year burn. You might be thinking, “That’s crazy.” This all depends on your perception of the future. If you believe that all is going well the world over, we can take organizations and over 5-10 years have a slog growth with smaller amounts of money over a longer period.

Unfortunately, with some of our views on the 6 MegaChallenges we believe we need to progress faster. In some cases the more money you have the faster we can bring on the talent and then complete the work. We are a 40-year $1.6 trillion dollar project so in relative fundraising terms this is not excessive and the experts who’ve reviewed our plans agree.

Let’s try to break this down into bite size chunks. We are coordinating our activities through both centralized and decentralized structures depending on what is needed to be accomplished.

For example, our bookkeeping and accounting is centralized to be efficient with resources. We use a centralized data system with a standard operating procedure for all work for filing and storage so that we can all access the information we need quickly. We use decentralized system to work on the entities because each entity has it’s own needs to fulfill and focus is needed to ensure the right decisions are made for each entity given they are very different in their products and services, operational needs, expertise and work that needs to be accomplished.

We’ve broken all the down into white papers, guides, tools, charts to make onboarding and onramping efficient and productive.

Organizations don’t change if there are not people working on projects that transform the organization. If the project is to build new offices this will make the organization more competitive. If you install a new Learning Management System you now are a different organization. Some changes are large and some are small.

If you work on a project for a customer and you are paid for the work, your organization does not change. You have capital now to make change which is important yet it’s not how to build.

Within Project Moon Hut Foundation we have all sorts of projects always in the works. We also have within each Entity their own projects. At any given time we might have 20-30 projects at various stages of progress.

For example we have an Ongology project withing MearthLink. If you don’t know what ontology is, in short, “a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.” If while growing up you used the terms, Kingdom, phylum, species, you are using an ontology. We have a team of five people plus others coming on board to create a Mearth Ontology which will be extremely value not only in software design, it’s also important in generating a common language across the Project Moon Hut team and when we interface with individuals and organizations all over the world.

Our priorities vary as we’ve grown. In the beginning there was a tremendous amount of work focusing on projects that helped to generate a strong foundation for our future growth. These included seeing up the nonprofit then the 501(c)(3), the development of white papers to describe the MearthLink paper and over 23 hours of videos, the establishing of the entities, creating branding materials, generating budgets for multiple organizations all at once, designing the 4Phases in detail, structuring our accounting, legal, operational standard procedures, etc. A strong foundation means one can build upon the work being performed and if done right future decisions are easier than would be otherwise.

Today our work has shifted. We are getting deeper into design work, frameworks, filing patents, trademarks, copyrights, fundraising and capital raising, bringing on Talent, Networks, and Capital. This means everything from establishing a Code of Ethics, generating ITAR, EAR, and CYFIUS programs, working with educational organizations to structure our outreach programs.

That’s a huge answer so much so that we have over 23 hours of videos, white papers and so much more already completed. In short, we are creating an innovation engine that will have multiple benefits. Our focus is to accelerate alliances, generate community engagement, and to define our future governance (not government) coordination.

Yes, the classic investment, banking, venture, hedge fund question. How many people often means to people if their ideas are valid which is such a false narrative. If you have a company with 10 people and you are up against a company with maybe 300,000 employees who might you put your money on as an investment?

In 1976 Apple was founded with 10 people and IBM had 291,977 people. Apple has done fairly well for itself. IBM has today 345,000. Yet IBM too has a story when they were founded as a merger of three manufacturing businesses.

The challenge then becomes, what if we had two people design the 4Phases of the Moon Hut. Are we two people? Do we include the teams of people who’ve helped us from KPMG, Deloitte, Maples Group, Kirkland and Ellis, JP Mogan Private Banking? Do we include the people working with us at Intertrust or the people at White and Case that brought us over the line in Luxembourg to complete a project or Dor from VRAR.co.il who’s done an amazing job cleaning up the audio on over 50 podcasts over the years? Then there are hundreds each helping where they can.

Maybe a better question might be, what work have you accomplished to date?

We are not naïve to believe that one day we will be approached by governments because of the work we are creating and yet our focus is to bring in individuals who can help from profit, not for profit, and education. When governments come knocking we hope they will be willing to reach across the aisle for the purposes of the cause. We already have a global team from Singapore to Italy, South Africa to Canada, and we hope to continue on our journey for our ourselves, our children, and our children’s children.

We are not a political organization and our intention is to complete the work necessary to redefine tomorrow.

No, we have not nor have we reached out to them. It’s a very common question. If either one calls us, we will talk with them. We hope to also speak with so many other people who can help the project.

OMG yes.

No one owns the Moon. In 1967 an Outer Space Treaty was created that stated that no nation can claim ownership of any celestial body. The people who drafted this treaty where not able to forecast far enough into the future to believe that individual organization will also be looking to build on the Moon.

Additionally, the Moon Treaty has not been ratified by any state that engages in self-launched human spaceflights, such as the United States, Russia (its predecessor, the Soviet Union), or China, therefore the treaty does not have the ability to stand on it’s own.

Please, change your perspective... it’s actually one project and we’ve broken down the needed activities to meet the Desired Outcomes.

Maybe we should ask you a question, Why do you believe we can’t?” We are working on the project so maybe we believe we can.

We wish everyone well in their efforts because their successes help us to move forward. We want to work with anyone making progress moving us forward. That said, here is data point that might be useful. In the history of all travel Beyond Earth there has never been more than 13 people above the Earth’s atmosphere at any given time. This has happened twice. Yes, only twice as of 2022. We are looking to be pragmatic in our efforts with scalable benchmarks over time.

We supplied three videos on the website. The third video outlines the initial story.

How do you define big names? We have a lot of extremely talented people who are experts in their industries, successful, and hard working.

We’ve been funded by our team members in multiple ways, both cash and the work that’s been accomplished that would require us to pay someone do to the work therefore this is funding in the form of help.