Regenerate Cascadia is honored to be part of the Bioregional Finance (#BioFi) Pathfinders funding round, part of the 22nd Gitcoin Grant cycle (#GG22), created through partnership between The BioFi Project, Open Civics, The Design School for Regenerating Earth, and Regen Coordination to support the most sophisticated Bioregional Organizing Teams around the world in developing, clarifying, and enhancing their BioFi vision, strategy, and capabilities. This invite-only round is aimed at advanced teams that are already practicing or actively developing their approach to Bioregional Finance (BioFi), with a focus on building Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) or bioregional funding ecosystems more broadly.
Support Regenerate Cascadia here:
https://qf.viaprize.org/biofipathfinders/12
$55,000 in Matching Funds Available
Follow the links below to donate! You can donate by credit card, PayPal, or other virtual currency. There is $55,000 in match funding available for all donations over $2. Funding is allocated using “Quadratic Funding,” which weights the number of donors over the amount given. This means that the number of contributions matters more than the amount funded and that a donation of $5 or $10 can have a huge impact, sometimes being funded upwards of x100. When you donate, you can see exactly what the “estimated match” is. To share a real-world example, this screencap w to the right was shared with us by Steven on our Telegram channel after donating Look at that match!!! Wow!!!.
Support Regenerate Cascadia here:
https://qf.viaprize.org/biofipathfinders/12
Spotlight on Other Amazing Projects in the BioFi Pathfinder Funding Round
The Bioregional Finance Pathfinder round features 14 projects from an amazing collection of bioregional teams, many of whom we have been working closely with. Here are just a few of the amazing other groups being featured, and that we are so excited to be named with:
- Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance: “Where Indigenous peoples live, there are forests, rivers, and abundance. Our relationship with our forests and rivers is not a relationship of 10 or 20 years—it is a relationship of more than 10,000 years. For thousands of years, we have preserved and defended nature through the strength of our cultures, worldview, and our respectful lifeway. Indigenous peoples do not talk about conserving nature; we talk about respecting nature because we see her as our family, we see her as the mother, we see her as our home.” – Gregorio Mirabal, Excerpt from the Forward to the Bioregional Plan 2030. Founded in 2017, the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (ASHA) is an Indigenous-led alliance seeking to permanently protect more than 86 million acres of tropical rainforests in the headwaters of the mighty Amazon River—the Napo, Pastaza, and Marañon Basins of Ecuador and Peru. The initiative has been building a shared long-term vision, capacity, and alliances for the designation of a bi-national protected region off-limits to industrial-scale resource extraction under Indigenous peoples’ stewardship. https://sacredheadwaters.org/
- Forests of the Northeast: The Northeast Bioregional Organizing Team is a collaborative effort working toward bioregional regeneration of the Northeast. Our principle proposed activities include co-developing a regional intertribal alliance for the regeneration of ancestral watersheds, drafting a bioregional regeneration strategy, hosting convenings, and creating a Bioregional Financing Facility to enable systemic and regenerative investments in support of bioregional regeneration. We are a diverse network, co-led by an intertribal alliance, working together to strengthen connections and enable resource allocation across communities in our bioregion. https://wellspringcommons.org/
- Reconnecting Northlands: Spanning 2.5 million acres by 2050, Reconnecting Northland supports remote communities in achieving sustainable environmental regeneration, enhancing biodiversity, and promoting economic vitality and social well-being. Northland boasts the highest biodiversity in Aotearoa New Zealand, but the region faces severe species decline, among the highest globally. By empowering communities with the right knowledge, tools, and resources, we enable them to lead the socio-ecological transformation through regenerative local economies. We believe in catalyzing the changes needed for our communities to become resilient and flourish in harmony with the natural environment. https://www.reconnectingnorthland.org.nz/
- The GTB (Greater Tkaronto Bioregion): 3 million hectares on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Canada. It has a population of 10 million people (a quarter of Canada’s population, including Canada’s largest city Toronto). It’s on the Great Lakes, which have 21% of the world’s fresh water. The GTB is organized by watersheds through 13 Conservation Authorities, and has the largest Greenbelt in the world. This diverse urban/rural bioregion is pursuing whole-systems work through both social and ecological regeneration. You can help us #ChangeTheStory for all generations now and into the future. The Legacy Project, a research and innovation group led by Brian Puppa and Susan Bosak, is the Core Team for the GTB – because this work is the legacy project of our time. The history of the local bioregional work goes back to a 1992 Regeneration report by former Toronto Mayor and federal cabinet minister David Crombie. https://legacyproject.org/7gen/index.html
- Salmon Nation Colabs: Our kin bioregional group!, Salmon Nation CoLabs is determined to address the polycrisis from the bottom up by transforming the system of finance. In flowing capital to support regeneration (instead of extraction) and prioritizing accountability to community and nature (instead of profit). To move our current economy towards valuing and rewarding regeneration – each of our Labs is focused on launching an initiative with one or more of these three key areas of innovation: the rights of nature to thrive, ecosystem service markets, and governance that is in service to life. https://www.colabs.studio/
- Barichara Regenerativa: Barichara Regenerativa includes three major river systems and a unique ecology like nowhere else on Earth – the “High Andes Tropical Dry Forest” severely damaged in the last 80 years. Barichara is in a region that is rapidly becoming a desert after more than 95% of the tropical dry forest was cut down to produce monoculture crops and introduce cattle and real estate development. Their local initiatives to organize at landscape scales use techniques from permaculture, syntropic agroforestry, and other relevant knowledge domains.
Their mission is to regenerate the regional climate system of the Northern Andes. https://www.regeneratebarichara.org/
Check out all the amazing 14 projects here: https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42220/18
Regenerate Cascadia, leading the pack!
This is also fun, but you can see stats on how all the projects are doing, and currently as of Sunday day 3, with all of YOUR amazing support… Regenerate Cascadia is leading the pack! We’re excited to keep this support rolling in 🙂
What is Gitcoin Grants?
The Gitcoin Grants Program is a quarterly initiative run by Gitcoin that empowers everyday believers in open source technology and regeneration to drive funding toward what they believe matters, with the impact of individual donations being magnified by the use of the Quadratic Funding (QF) distribution mechanism. QF was introduced in a paper published in 2018 by the founders of Gitcoin, Vitalik Buterin, Zoe Hitzig, and Glen Weyl.
Gitcoin’s mission began in 2017 by creating better incentives to support and fund open-source software developers. The mission eventually solidified to building and sustaining digital public goods. GR1, in 2019, saw 200 contributors and $38k raised. Since then, we have run two-week rounds once per quarter, with the most recent being GR15, which saw a total of $4.4M distributed to grantees. Across the first 15 grant rounds, $50.82M has been distributed in total.
Thank you for all of your support!
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