Connect
Bring aligned people and organizations into meaningful relationship.
Community-powered since 2006
Good ideas become real when people strive together.
WeStrive supports people, initiatives, and organizations working toward stronger, healthier, and more sustainable communities.
2006Founded
501(c)(3)Nonprofit
Co-creationAt the center
01 / About
A platform for possibility
Connection is the first piece of infrastructure.
WeStrive is a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening civil society by connecting and supporting socially and spiritually engaged people.
After working with small initiatives around the world, founder Matthew C. Temple saw that people with aligned values and ambitious visions were often missing one thing: one another. WeStrive began as a way to help those ideas find collaborators, practical support, and a wider reach.
Today, that purpose lives through creative projects, educational opportunities, fiscal sponsorship, and partnerships that help community-minded work move forward.
Strengthen
Help promising initiatives gain structure, visibility, and support.
Amplify
Extend the reach of work that contributes to social and cultural renewal.
02 / Current Project
Perseid School
A training ground for becoming awake to reality.
A new education initiative for young adults ages 20 to 30—created for those seeking to cultivate their capacity, clarify their thinking, and bring ideas into reality.
10-week pilot course
February 19–April 30, 2027
Participants will study, live, and co-create with a distinguished faculty, while pursuing individual study supported by mentorship and meaningful involvement in the community.
Apply nowOur Mission
Creating space for new forms of education to emerge.
Perseid is a youth-led response to a real and growing hunger for meaning, capability, and responsibility in one’s own life and in the world.
By overcoming the experience of separation between self and world, individuals can realize these qualities within themselves and develop the capacity to meet the world’s complex and pressing needs with clarity, warmth, and courage.
We create the context where this is possible by bringing together those who want to learn, teach, and co-create.
Curriculum overview
Learning grounded in attention, clarity, and real-world experience.
Courses rotate every two weeks and are designed to help participants observe attentively, think clearly, and engage meaningfully with the world.
Afternoons are devoted to a specialized track of study, an apprenticeship, or a mentor-supported project. Fridays feature practical electives such as blacksmithing, singing, and painting, with public lectures from inspiring people across fields of work and study.
Learn more and apply03 / Past Projects
Selected work
A history of creative work with social purpose.
These projects reflect WeStrive’s history of helping ideas create conversation, challenge assumptions, and connect communities.
Past project · Film · Community
Wandering Reel Traveling Film Festival
Wandering Reel brings meaningful short films to communities with limited access to compassionate, thought-provoking cinema—then opens the room for deeper conversation.
The belief: shared artistic experiences can soften boundaries, enrich culture, and inspire collaboration.
Selected work from the WeStrive project archive.
Past project · Documentary
Hardball: The Girls of Summer
A feature documentary about the girls and women who play baseball—against persistent and surprising odds in a world still wrestling with equality.
The game becomes a window into gender expectations, women in sports, and the freedom to pursue one’s own path.
Selected work from the WeStrive project archive.
Past project · Fiscal sponsorship
West Coast MegaGames
WeStrive provided a nonprofit home for this mission-aligned initiative while its organizers focused on delivering the work.
Large-format social strategy events that blend problem solving, negotiation, learning, and play.
04 / People
The humans behind the work
Experience across storytelling, education, and social action.
Matthew Temple
Founder · President & Treasurer
A filmmaker, storyteller, and social entrepreneur whose work lives at the crossroads of art and social action.
Leslie Loy
Vice President & Secretary
A nonprofit leader focused on youth, social technologies, leadership development, and forums for intergenerational action.
Start a conversation
Have a project worth striving for?
We welcome conversations with collaborators, project leaders, and supporters who share our commitment to stronger communities.
Get in touch
Matthew@westrive.org