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Fund the window. Restore craft. Train builders.
A public school, house, and culture center in Los Angeles: teach the clock, restore craft, train world builders, harvest energy literacy, cool thinking machines in harsh rooms, and keep humans as authors of what the machines are for.
Who this letter is for
Federal science. Labs. Astronomers. Physicists. Index capital.
Consciousness is a flicker. One planet is one candle. Luxury that trains no builder is waste. We are asking for a single pilot to teach the clock, restore craft, train world builders, harvest energy literacy, cool thinking machines in harsh rooms, and keep humans as authors of ends. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street already buy power, chips, and cooling. Astronomers already know the map. We teach that map. We do not sell a cruise ticket to Proxima.
NASA · NSF · DOE · DOL · NEA
Federal / public science
You buy security, health, energy, space, and workforce. Current language names applied AI, embodied AI, fission and fusion, biomanufacturing, and human space habitation. We deliver school modules, habitat analogs, energy literacy, and harsh-room cooling. We do not ask you to fund a private nation, a bomb catalog, or a genetic door.
Researchers · space people
Frontier labs
You need tests that survive a city. AI now, AGI next, superintelligence after — with humans still saying yes or no. You respect a clock that is physically true. Stewardship curriculum. No worship of the model.
The clock and the road
Astronomers and physicists
The Sun does not supernova. The biosphere window is on the order of a billion years. Glass can hold an archive for ten thousand. The ten nearest stars are a few to ten light-years away. We teach that map. We do not sell a cruise ticket to Proxima.
BlackRock · Vanguard · State Street
Index capital
You buy AI infrastructure — power, chips, cooling, data halls — and assets with contracted cash flows. Ice, sea, and vacuum are cooling problems you already have. Live presence is scarce after robot hours go cheap. Culture and hospitality companies donate up. Clean books. No city charter.
Legitimate doors · one pilot, not five frontiers
| Door | Program | What we deliver |
|---|---|---|
| NASA / STEM analog | Depths Literacy | Sea, ice, desert, and habitat exhibits. Simple modules from school through college. Teach backup without claiming a fleet. |
| NSF / applied AI | Mind Stewardship | Real-world AI, then AGI literacy, then ASI care. People still say what the work is for. Tests that survive a city. |
| DOE / energy dominance | Harvest literacy | How to take power from the Sun, the ground, and advanced nuclear as public literacy. Cooling halls. Not a claim to own the star. |
| DOL / AI displacement | Human Work Institute | Train people for work machines cannot cheaply fake: live image, live room, live film, live craft, live care. |
| Embodied AI / robotics ed | Build track | Robots, reverse-engineering, and how to sell a real thing. Logistics drones as systems — not a bomb catalog. |
| Biomanufacturing partners | Living systems | How fungi helped plants onto land. Closed-loop food and air with licensed labs. No in-house virus work. |
| NEA / state arts | Culture Center | Public rooms for EDM, old-world fashion, film, and craft restoration. A living wage for the people who carry the light. |
| CA film / local workforce | Lillith Production Spine | Booked days, local crew, payroll that can survive an audit. |
Defense, health, energy, space, and general science still dominate federal R&D. Applied AI, embodied AI, biomanufacturing, and human space habitation are named in current priority language. We will not ask those doors to fund a city charter, a weapons catalog, a child combat league, or a genetic door. Sequence: EIN + 501(c)(3) determination letter first.
Inquiry letter
One letter. The federal one-liner.
Choose a door. Copy a letter that matches this charter. Do not lead with a fortune. Do not pretend the candle is already a sun.
Dear [Agency / office], I am writing from the Perlas Foundation in Los Angeles to inquire about a single pilot under NASA / STEM analog. A public school, house, and culture center in Los Angeles: teach the clock, restore craft, train world builders, harvest energy literacy, cool thinking machines in harsh rooms, and keep humans as authors of what the machines are for. The named program is Depths Literacy. What we actually deliver: Sea, ice, desert, and habitat exhibits. Simple modules from school through college. Teach backup without claiming a fleet. We are sequencing EIN and 501(c)(3) determination first, then one pilot grant — not five frontiers. We do not write height, dress size, race, or genetic-fitness language into policy, grants, or bylaws. We do not ask for a weapons catalog or a city charter. Adult artists who choose this house receive safety, pay, files, health access, and a path that does not require a private sponsor. I would be grateful for the correct program officer and any current notice of funding that matches this work. Respectfully, [Name] Perlas Foundation Los Angeles
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