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Strategic Roadmap for Philanthropy
About the Roadmap
PSFC’s Strategic Roadmap was initially developed in 2024-25 to provide insight and guidance to PSFC’s membership. We are pleased to make it generally available to others in the psychedelic field, and particularly to philanthropists whose actions will have significant influence on the future landscape.
The Roadmap outlines a strategy for advancing opportunities that are essential for the long-term goal of advancing access to psychedelic healing to all who can benefit, and balances a coherent set of core priorities with the acknowledgment of many other promising efforts across the field. And it makes clear that the work ahead requires a coordinated funding effort across diverse priorities ranging from research to access and safety initiatives, public education, and policy reform, among others.
Focus Areas
The Roadmap is meant to support emerging or established pathways to access psychedelics, including:
- As FDA-approved prescription medicines, delivered under professional supervision
- In state-regulated supervised use programs
- Via unregulated or self-regulated paths (including both Indigenous medicine traditions and other religious practices)
The Roadmap explores four focus areas for philanthropy to advance these pathways:
Expanding Legal Pathways
Psychedelic substances remain legally restricted in most of the U.S., but meaningful access is possible. A priority in this focus area is advancing state-regulated programs like those being pioneered in Oregon, Colorado and New Mexico. It also encompasses research and real-world evidence generation to sustain every legal path to access over the long term.
Medical System Integration
In order for patients to access psychedelics in clinical settings, infrastructure to support safe, effective care must be built within the healthcare system. This focus area covers training for practitioners, clinical practice guidelines, and reimbursement pathways. It puts particular emphasis on access for veterans and underserved populations that rely on Medicaid and community-based systems of care.
Communications and Public Health Education
Public understanding of psychedelics is at a critical juncture. Overly fearful narratives and overly enthusiastic ones both pose risks. This focus area highlights the need for accurate, nuanced messaging for different audiences and stakeholders, in order to build public trust, counter misinformation, and lay the groundwork for broad-based health education efforts.
Ethical Psychedelic Cultures
Broad, safe access to psychedelics will only be possible if the field is built on strong ethical foundations. This focus area highlights the need to establish clear norms and accountability systems for the field and to protect Indigenous plant medicine traditions that are at real cultural and ecological risk as a result of increasing global demand for psychedelics.
How to Use The Roadmap
The Roadmap reflects insights from more than 100 experts in the psychedelic field, in addition to numerous PSFC members. While we are grateful for their perspectives and expertise, the Roadmap is inevitably incomplete, given the vast diversity of activity and the dynamism of the field since its publication in early 2025. We therefore see this Roadmap as a living document, and look forward to supporting philanthropists in acting on its recommendations, while also gathering insights for its evolution.
