UNO-Income is a registered FEMI trust fund. In collaboration with organisations the fund advocates a global basic income and it conducts practical and theoretical studies to find out which options are available to implement a basic income. For this we have the availability of ‘t Veerhuis, the old home of Pieter Kooistra. FEMI also own many of Pieter Kooistra’s works of art, all of which support his ideas.

The fund also wants to be an international gathering point of innovative ideas on supplementary economy. This involves the opening of new economic perspectives in addition to the current economy that will enable people to improve their living conditions for themselves.

The fund has been inspired by the ideas and the works of art of its founder, Pieter Kooistra (1922-1998). The key point of his ideas was the realisation that all people may well be different in terms of gender, culture, talents, et cetera, but that they are also connected and equal. This equality is expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

It is also important that everybody is active and able to participate in political and economic decision-taking on the basis of equality. With regard to this topic, the fund takes sociocratic decision-taking as its starting point The UNO plan is a self-financing global basic income, as developed by Pieter Kooistra. The fund believes that a broadening of economic ideas will contribute to a society in which every global citizen will be assured of a dignified existence – this on the condition of equal participation in the economic – i.e. producer and consumer – and political – i.e. governor and citizen – decision-taking processes.