Active Impact
The MAPS Fiscal Sponsorships program is proud to be working with these projects to make an impact through education, community, research, and advocacy. These projects are at the forefront of innovation in the dynamic world of psychedelics, propelling us toward a brighter future. Explore the transformative impact of these projects as they pave the way for the evolution of the psychedelic ecosystem through their groundbreaking work.
MAPS Fiscal Sponsorship program has hosted and incubated dozens of projects across the psychedelic field over more than a decade. It is an honor to act as a launchpad for educational, advocacy, and community-building projects that bring novel and nuanced issues to the forefront, and ensure that the emerging ecosystem is as diverse and dynamic as we all know it can be. We love hosting cutting-edge projects and look forward to continuing this service to the community.
Ismali Ali
Director of Policy & Advocacy
Ayahuasca Foundation
Iquitos, Peru
Carlos Tanner, Project Owner
Research
The Ayahuasca Foundation began construction in 2014 and opened its Riosbo Ayahuasca Research Center in 2017. They have been hosting plant medicine research there for the last six years. This research has produced several published articles investigating the effects of attending an ayahuasca retreat in the treatment of depression, anxiety, childhood trauma, and PTSD. Current research is being done in collaboration with Heroic Hearts to study the effectiveness of treating PTSD by attending an ayahuasca retreat.
Bluelight
Victoria, AU
Monica Barratt, Project Owner
Community
Bluelight is a harm-reduction community where people who use psychoactive drugs (including but not limited to psychedelics) come together through our web forum and Discord server to find and share information, gain support and connect with like-minded people. Bluelight focuses on reducing drug-related harms rather than requiring abstinence from drug use, although we do also have a recovery and health area. Bluelight is best known for providing non-judgemental and accurate harm-reduction advice through our peer led community forums. Bluelight also has one of the longest standing web archives of harm-reduction information, which are made available to the public as well as to researchers.
Brooklyn Psychedelic Society
Brooklyn, NY
Colin Pugh, Project Owner
Community
Brooklyn Psychedelic Society’s mission is to serve as a prototype of a psychedelic co-op. A psychedelic co-op is a democratically governed, community-based healing center that offers affordable psychedelic journeys alongside programming centered around human well-being. If our mission is successful, we hope our model can be used by other psychedelic communities across the country. Our vision is to make psychedelic healing a publicly accessible good by creating a nationwide network of community-based psychedelic co-ops.
Ceiba Foundation
Kanata, ON
Jonathan Dickinson, Project Owner
Community
The Ceiba Foundation provides treatment grants for individuals who are most able to benefit from ibogaine-assisted detoxification treatments. We work with community partners like front-line harm reduction groups to identify candidates in their service network who are most able to benefit, and provide full coverage for the cost of travel, coaching, and ibogaine treatment at Ambio Life Sciences facilities in Mexico. Ceiba is developing crucial data and experience about how ibogaine treatment can be implemented into front-line community initiatives outside of a private pay model.
D.C Friends
Washington D.C
James Moran, Project Owner
Community
The D.C. Friends of Psychedelic Science supports the professionals working in the field of psychedelic-assisted healing by organizing peer support groups and adjacent services, such that professional practitioners find the support they need, and clients seeking psychedelic-assisted healing are met by a thriving, soundly-woven professional ecosystem.
Deva Collective
Berkeley, CA
Melissa Whippo, Project Owner
Research
HEAL Program by CIT Clinics
N. California & San Francisco Bay
Adam Tibble, Project Owner
Research
CIT Clinics’ HEAL program provides comprehensive care for patients suffering from anxiety, depression, PTSD and chronic physical pain. We offer innovative, integrative programs that combine psychedelic medicine (Ketamine IV) with nutrient and vitamin infusions, ongoing behavior change and accountability coaching, and frequent touch points with a multifaceted team of experts. The initial results of this comprehensive approach are very positive with the vast majority of patients reporting significant improvements in their health and wellbeing. Our partnership with MAPS provides financial aid to patients that would otherwise not be able to participate in our breakthrough therapies.
ICEERS
Barcelona, Spain
Noel Garcia, Project Owner
Community
Since 2010, The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS) has studied the complexities and challenges of the globalization of traditional Indigenous medicines, such as ayahuasca, iboga, and others. We work globally for the health, safety, and fundamental rights of all communities involved. ICEERS has had United Nations Consultative status since 2016 and is based out of Barcelona, Spain. We are dedicated to building strong alliances between community representatives, Indigenous leaders, government agencies, the scientific community, and NGOs. Our goal is to evolve our relationship with these Indigenous medicines and traditional knowledge-holding communities, and together create systemic change and transform our relationship with Life.
Kosmicare
Ocuilan, Mexico
Guadalupe Sanchez, Project Owner
Research
Nierika AC, is a non-profit Civil Association, that has as its objectives the research and biocultural preservation of the indigenous traditions, rites and ceremonies in which sacred plants are used, as well as elaborating proposals of regulation for the use of this plants in intercultural medicine contexts. Nierika A. C. seeks the rescue and preservation of the indigenous wisdom and their medical and religious traditions, to build an academic multidisciplinary platform that allows the development of an intercultural medical model, that nourishes both from the traditional knowledges of the sacred plants in the western continent, as well as modern science.
Nierika AC
Ocuilan, Mexico
Guadalupe Sanchez, Project Owner
Research
Nierika AC, is a non-profit Civil Association, that has as its objectives the research and biocultural preservation of the indigenous traditions, rites and ceremonies in which sacred plants are used, as well as elaborating proposals of regulation for the use of this plants in intercultural medicine contexts. Nierika A. C. seeks the rescue and preservation of the indigenous wisdom and their medical and religious traditions, to build an academic multidisciplinary platform that allows the development of an intercultural medical model, that nourishes both from the traditional knowledges of the sacred plants in the western continent, as well as modern science.