Bellevue, Washington
A programme of GSBP
Practice-based · Indigenous-centred
iSEED — Innovation for Social Entrepreneurship and Environmental Development — is a practice-based university centred on Indigenous values: food sovereignty, sustainable construction and architecture, renewable energy, and holistic health. You do not study a subject and then go and apply it.
Every programme sits on one or more of these. They are not subjects you read about — they are the practices the university runs on.
Soil, seed, season and the logistics of getting food from a plot to a plate.
Build with what the place already has. Shelter as a skill, not a purchase.
Power a kitchen, a cold store, a workshop. Enough engineering to run a venture on it.
Food, rest, land and community treated as one system, because that is how bodies treat them.
Degree programmes
Certificate through to doctoral
Courses and seminars
In the current catalogue
Academic centres
Teaching and applied research
Open-access deposits
Free to read, free to publish
Why this exists
“I believe in the power of young people and the power of community. We want to give them the resources to create the future that they dream of.”
Narima Amin, founder — who started this after her own childhood of food insecurity.
The whole storyWhat you can study, what it takes, and what you leave with.
From Professor Muhammad Yunus, whose social business model GSBP adapts. They are not a mission statement — they are the test a venture has to pass.
Food Systems Logistics is taught from operating records rather than textbooks — including the week the numbers went wrong.
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Commercial kitchen, farm-to-table café, marketplace and a floor given over to youth entrepreneurs — the building where the curriculum happens.
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Nine years of continuous records make the food sovereignty track one of the few that can teach from a long series rather than a snapshot.
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Launched in 2018 as a platform for youth-driven innovation. The summit is now the entry point for most of our certificate students.
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Supporting an immigrant farming venture in 2015 taught us more about permitting than about soil.
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No embargo, no fee, no account. Including the work that did not hold up.
Next intake
You do not need a business plan, savings, or anyone’s permission. Fee support is assessed before you pay anything, and asking for it has no bearing on whether you get a place.