501c(3) Fiscal Sponsor

Founded in 2011 by the grandson of a sharecropper, OurSpace World Inc. (OurSpace/OSW) is a small, Black-led nonprofit based in Southern Maryland. Its mission is to "cooperatively educate, organize, and support squads of land stewards and Earth healers."
OSW has three integrated and intergenerational programs that:
1) teach regenerative farming and natural building skills - Project Teach22;
2) cultivate and incubate cooperative initiatives around land, food, and healing - The Ujima Initiative; and
3) funnel resources and technical assistance to mission-aligned groups and organizations - Calabash.
OSW’s work is rooted in culture, history, land, healing, and sovereignty for those of the Black Diaspora and the Indigenous peoples and People of Color who are in solidarity. In 2017, OSW took a year-long planning hiatus. With an expanded mission, OSW has now provided hundreds of hours in skills education (including a farm- and forestry-based youth summer program); incubated an 11-member land collective of Black families; started a bulk-buying club (and soon to be mobile food hub), and funneled over six figures in fiscal sponsorship dollars toward land/infrastructure projects for Black farmers.
Through the Calabash program, OSW proudly supports the work of a growing number of mission-aligned groups and organizations like enBloom in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Fountain Heights Farms in Birmingham, Alabama, and the regional Virginia/Maryland Cold Chain Management Infrastructure Project.
OSW’s role with Calabash is to facilitate and amplify the crucial work of collective economic power building that solidifies a new self-sustaining reality that achieves liberation and sovereignty in harmony with the planet.