Collection: The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund

The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is about funding charitable 3D printing projects through filament philanthropy. You donate, we match, charities print, and we all further the cause(s)!

How? Choose a charity and donate money. We'll match every dollar. and donate filament at no cost to the charity. The community 3D prints, and helps to close the gap!!!

Why? Protopasta is a small company comprised of caring people who are environmentally conscious and community-focused. We're a little obsessed with the things that matter to us like quality, creativity, independence, and doing the right thing. We see physical and social well-being as key components to unlocking creativity.

We don't overcommit to mass produce for thin margins because we don't want to be consumed by making the same as everyone else, over and over again. We stay creatively limber by making new things every month, and we want to do the same by identifying causes we can impact with our competency in making unique, cherished filaments. Focusing on a cause, together we can achieve anything!

While goals and results matter, so does the experience getting there. Even through strife, binding together for good can be a positive and uplifting experience where we overcome fear-mongering fascists. Does that make us punks? Hippies? I don't know, but it's what makes us, us.

We do our best work outside corporate constraints, though this uncapped creativity can serve the corporate world as well. If you can beat 'em, work with them, but that shouldn't happen at the sacrifice of your values!