About

Launched in January 2025, The Hopeful Encyclopedia is in its infancy. Please, bear with us me while I, the founder of this new living thing, nurture it to maturity to the best of my singular ability. You can learn all about me, Rachel Yves, by clicking my name to visit my website.

Mission

The Hopeful Encyclopedia’s mission is to centralize good new projects that address our greatest contemporary crises to inform decision-makers and remind folks that a brighter future is already underway.

Phase 1: Data Entry for the Soul

Goal: Publish Digital Pathways ✓

Does any good new project exist without a website, social media account, or at least a form? Not really, so let’s acknowledge the effort writing, researching, and designing all this takes. For example, The Hopeful Encyclopedia chose Jotform for the “Add an Entry” journey because it’s one of the most secure digital form tools out there.

Goal: 500 Entries in 3 months

To date, I’ve already curated hundreds of hopeful things from social media. But, true to my nature, I don’t venture where there isn’t mutual intent and enthusiasm. I have a tremendous amount of passion and believe this project possesses an even bigger purpose, but I need to vet my gut by seeing if the public sees the value and need as clearly as I do. If we can collect 500 or more entries via our “Add an Entry” form and via social media tags by tax day (April 15th), we’ll move on to Phase 2.

Phase 2: Partners and Productions of Hope

Goal: 1 Organizational Data Source Partnership

The Hopeful Encyclopedia isn’t the only entity centralizing hopeful information, technology, innovators, or organizations. There are global do-gooder awards with thousands of nominees every year. There are speculative fiction writers with years worth of world-building research. There are optimistic media outlets spotlighting good people and projects. But, as far as The Hopeful Encyclopedia’s SEO-savvy founder can find, it is the only one seeking to democratize this information with and for decision makers of all missions and levels of impact. The Hopeful Encyclopedia aims to nurture a symbiotic partnership with at least one established organization who has collected similar data to support the hopeful database’s growth.

Goal: Produce 3 top-priority articles

Based on data analysis from information gained during Phase 1, we’ll prioritize 3 articles to publish in the project’s second quarter. Content production is old hat around here, but you can learn more about the process below.

Phase 3: To Infinity & …

We’ve got big hopes around here. A community-centered database organizing solutions by concern is no small feat. But let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. If you’d like to learn more about how I envision the interface and final product, or its vision, mission, goals, and procedures, contact me via email or social media DM to set up a casual coffee chat or discovery call.

How it works

Sourcing: I’ve trained my social media algorithms to do much of the work for me, bringing optimistic content to the top of my feeds to save, bookmark, and painstakingly enter into a database. But this is meant to be a community-built resource. I’ve put out a call for folks to share hopeful things on TikTok during its final days, and created a secure, Add an Entry form.

Production: Drawing on my experience as a corporate content marketer and editor with dozens of articles in production and publication every month, and utilizing modern tools like ChatGPT, items from the hopeful dataset will be parsed for matched intent of technological or organization mission and vision and included in thorough, topical articles inspired by the accessibility and helpfulness of The World Book Encyclopedia. Published on site and dispersed via email to subscribers and social media followers, articles will enter a searchable archive and be target marketed toward decision makers in their respective spheres.

Overall: None of this works without you. My intent alone is not enough to build this thing. Please share the hopeful things you find and consider supporting The Hopeful Encyclopedia on Patreon.