BioFi Project

We are glad to announce the 12 projects that made it through the selection process and are now part of CER Iteration 2! Stay tuned for the next steps by subscribing to our newsletter ➡️ stats.sender.net/forms/bqvErd/v… Congratulations @DarkMatter_Labs @OpenFoodNet @BioFiProject @decidim_org @matrixdotorg @SwitchToBonfire @AnytypeLabs @Obol_Collective @RegenFdn @cyclesmoney @FundingCommons @dappnode

Emerging from a rich tapestry of local nodes and cultural traditions @Refi_Med stewards a vision to catalyze regenerative finance across the ancient lands surrounding Mare Nostrum, from Portugal to Turkey. Through their network of collaborative hubs, they're uniting indigenous wisdom with #web3 innovation to address critical challenges like rural depopulation and ecological decline. They've established eight active nodes - including @ReFiBCN cooperative model and @RifaiSicilia cultural regeneration work - while developing a comprehensive Bioregional Regeneration Strategy. Their approach weaves together ecosystem mapping, impact data commons, and a future Bioregional Financing Facility #BFF.

Getting back to my Texas roots and hosting a BioFi gathering in Austin at the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems to kick off my holiday tour of the South. Join us! #biofirevolution #regenerativeeconomies lu.ma/58qlb4q9

The Forests of the Northeast have banded together through a shared vision: a just transition toward thriving, resilient bioregions. The coalition is co-developing a regional intertribal alliance for the regeneration of their ancestral watersheds, drafting a bioregional regeneration strategy, and creating a Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF). Their growing constellation of representatives include the Mashantucket Pequot and Eastern Pequot Tribal Nations, the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC), Center for an Ecology-Based Economy (CEBE), Connecticut River Valley Bioregioning Collaborative, Design School for Regenerating Earth, Northeast Healthy Soils Network (NEHSN), Sirius Ecovillage, and Wellspring Commons. @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest

We're overwhelmed with gratitude for our grantees, donors, and broader BioFi community for the scope and scale of support generated by this initial experiment in quadratic funding for bioregional organizing teams! 55k $USDGLO in matching! $8.8k in crowdfunding! Major gratitude to our friends and partners @maearthmedia @MontyMerlin @cognitivepolicy @em_lyrogers @mathildawrites @owocki @RegenFdn @thetokenjedi @CeloPublicGoods @omniharmonic @matthewmonahan @samanthapower_ @glodollar @RegenCoordinate and many others for making this round a success. And of course, none of this would be possible without the amazing work of our grantees, building islands of coherence in bioregions around the world. Check out the results & retrospective below! 👇 gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg22-retrosp…

Gitcoin Community Rounds are funding #regeneration in naturally nested scales, from the individual (e.g. Regen Citizens @RegenCoordinate) to community (e.g. Ma Earth @maearthmedia) to bioregion (e.g. The BioFi Project @BioFiProject) to planet (e.g. Climate Coordination Network @climate_program). Collaborative mycelial weaving @GreenPillNet @ReFiDAOist @CeloPublicGoods @regen_network @LetsGROWdao @gitcoin + more. #FundWhatMatters #GG22 #BioFi #Regen Help grow the movement! grants.gitcoin.co

"Bioregionalism & Web3 - #BioFi is the Next Frontier for #ReFi" @FundingCommons lets gooo

Regenerate Cascadia (@CascadiaDept) was born out of a desire to connect and empower the good work already underway across the Cascadia bioregion, supporting landscape groups in identifying their own regeneration strategies and linking projects together through a unified vision and story of place. By serving as a scaffolding or backbone for the bioregional movement, Regenerate Cascadia is offering essential support structures for existing initiatives to work better together. They’re providing a mycelial network that allows the bioregion to self-organize and work towards shared goals and possibilities. By building the backbone of flow funding infrastructure, Clare, Brandon, and the entire team behind Regenerate Cascadia are focused on aligning funding ecosystems and building local investment opportunity networks, which will support all of Cascadia in self-determining and resourcing a holistic set of next steps forward, together. 🌱 Support their vision and participating BioFi Pathfinder Grants Round teams: Donate via PayPal/Card: explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42220/… Donate via Crypto: qf.viaprize.org/biofipathfinde… @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest

Amid the rolling hills of France's Tarn-et-Garonne, a quiet transformation is taking root. Once-abandoned land is stirring with new purpose as #Théra's Bioregional Learning Center emerges as a living laboratory where farmers, ecologists, and builders are reimagining rural regeneration. Here they are pioneering initiatives from waterway restoration, affordable eco-housing, to the Théra Bébinet Buildathon event and development of elegant.capital, a new financing platform designed to streamline funding for regenerative projects across their bioregion, which spans from the Pyrenees to the Atlantic Ocean. 🌱 Support their vision and participating BioFi Pathfinder Grants Round teams: Donate via PayPal/Card: lnkd.in/gueFqAJG Donate via Crypto: lnkd.in/gT3hshgg @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest

Check out the inspiring work of land and ocean regenerators participating in Ma Earth Grants Round 2. We're adding featured profiles on our website. ➡️🌐 maearth.com/grants 🌐⬅️ 5 days left to submit contributions and unlock quadratic matching for your favorite communities. @creesfoundation @lakehaweafarm @landwellian @earthguardianz @agroforestDAO @proecoazuero @ayowecca_uganda @grassEcon @AgrarianTrust @felixderosen

@SalmonNation CoLabs emerged from 30+ years of @Ecotrust's pioneering work with a vital mission to transform how capital flows to support bioregional regeneration across the traditional extent of wild Pacific salmon, from California to Alaska. In their first phase, they've launched two groundbreaking initiatives: 🐟The Okanagan Catalyst Network, which helped restore sockeye salmon populations from 3,000 to 800,000 🐟The Rematriation Fund convening indigenous women across the Salmon Nation bioregion and beyond to innovate governance values, principles, structure, and processes that honor the rights of nature 🌱 Support their vision and participating BioFi Pathfinder Grants Round teams: Donate via PayPal/Card: lnkd.in/gueFqAJG Donate via Crypto: lnkd.in/gT3hshgg @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest @gitcoin

Salmon Nation CoLabs is a part of the @gitcoin #BioFi Pathfinders Fundraising Round—an amazing collection of groups that are flowing funds to bioregional regeneration. #GG22 All donations will be matched! CreditCard: qf.viaprize.org/biofipathfinde… Crypto: explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42220/… 📷

We are so inspired by our friends from @maearthmedia and are learning so much from the @gitcoin path they are forging for bioregional regeneration projects! 🌱Each of the 30 projects they have selected for their GG22 round are incredible and worth learning more about! We are grateful to @matthewmonahan and his whole incredible team for playing such a critical leadership role at the #BioFi x #Web3 intersection and for being such catalytic supporters of @BioFiProject from the start! #regeneration #refi #biofi #web3 #investinlife

Re/Village Green Valley began late summer of 2023 with a bold vision: transforming a former gas station into a vibrant town square and commons in the heart of West Sonoma County. In just their first year, they've engaged over 1,000 community members and are now co-creating a Seven Generations Village Vision and Green Valley Bioregional Regeneration Strategy. 🌱 Support their vision and participating BioFi Pathfinder Grants Round teams: Donate via PayPal/Card: lnkd.in/gueFqAJG Donate via Crypto: lnkd.in/gT3hshgg @wheremattisat @s_honeyman #MichelleLee @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest

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The BioFi Pathfinders Grants Round is in full swing on @gitcoin! 🙌 ⭐ We curated this cohort of 14 grantees to show the world what stellar #BioFi organizing looks like and to build coherence across #web3, #ReFi, @Gitcoin, traditional #Regen/sustainability fields, and traditional finance/philanthropy. 🌍 Your donation is more than just funding, it is part of this story of interconnectedness we are weaving together! This is just the beginning 💚 This has been such a joyful team effort🌱 Thank you to our #GG22 team @OpenCivics @RegenCoordinate @Celo @cognitivepolicy @regen_network @RegenFdn @maearthmedia @thetokenjedi @omniharmonic @em_lyrogers @MontyMerlin @erde_kette @matthewmonahan @edwardwest Donate via PayPal/Card: lnkd.in/gseCS49W Donate via Crypto on Gitcoin: lnkd.in/g_qPRGcg

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📣 Special Guest Announcement 📣 Let’s GROW Live GG22 It is a great pleasure to welcome @BioFiProject and @RegenCoordinate to come speak about the many ways they are GROWing the Refi, Regen, and Public Goods funding ecosystem You don’t want to miss it, just come to @LetsGROWdao at 5pm UTC You know we are here Live 24/7 for 🫵 If you want you can sign up to make sure you don’t miss it here👇 lu.ma/cv2ixdbq

The BioFi Pathfinders Round is in full swing on @gitcoin! 🌍✨ Bioregional Finance - #BioFi - is emerging as the next frontier for ReFi. Explore the intersection of #Bioregionalism & #Web3 this GG22! 👉 explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42220/… /1