BioFi Cultivator
In January 2025, the BioFi Project began facilitating a learning, design, and capital raising journey with 22 bioregional organizing teams across the Americas.
Our Purpose
To work at the speed of trust to cultivate antifragile, investment-ready Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) that catalyze the transition to bioregional regenerative economies.
Our Journey
Through the Cultivator, the BioFi Project guided these teams to design, create, and capitalize the world’s first Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) based on a curriculum built from the framework and templates laid out in BioFi book. The Cultivator was enriched by the generous gifts of time and wisdom of many friends of the BioFi Project who attended as guest presenters. It also served as a container to facilitate peer-to-peer learning and collaboration between teams — many of whom generously shared their own deep wisdom gleaned from working in this complex field over many years and often decades.
We are particularly grateful for the Indigenous participants who generously offered their presence and perspectives in this space, including inviting the container as a whole into deep reflection on what it means to practice reciprocity and attribution — especially when facing the risk of bioregional and financial efforts perpetuating extractive dynamics even as they attempt to uplift and resource Indigenous community efforts and wisdom.
What did we create together?
Beyond all the learning and inspiration that grew within the container, we supported teams to share their bioregional work with the world! In June 2025, 18 teams each offered 8-minute presentations on their BFFs and other BioFi-aligned financing vehicles to an audience of potential funders, investors, and allies. As a whole, the sessions served as a platform to illuminate how different teams are designing financial processes, systems, and structures based on the uniqueness of their specific contexts.
Recordings of the entire presentation sessions can be found immediately below, and clipped recordings of each team’s presentations can be found further below along with their presentation slides.
Who was along for the journey?
22 teams were organized into two high-level continental practice groups:
South & Central America (Practice Group 1)
North America & the Pacific (Practice Group 2)
How can you support?
We encourage you to get to know these teams and their BFFs directly. Please listen to their presentations, learn more on their websites, and reach out to them if you’d like to build a relationship. Their contact info is available on the last slide of their presentations.
If you are interested in supporting multiple BFFs, and/or you would like assistance in discerning which may the best fit for the resources, services, or energy you are interested in offering — as well as how to engage with diverse teams in a reciprocal manner — we invite you to reach out to the BioFi Project so we can co-hold this inquiry with you (hello@biofi.earth).
What’s next?
The BioFi Project team is continuing to work closely with our two BFF Co-Design Partners who participated in the Cultivator to design, create, capitalize, implement, and evolve their BFFs. We will be sharing these learnings back with the full Cultivator community to serve the whole.
We are continuing to support the 22 Cultivator teams in the following ways:
- Connecting them to interested funders, investors, and allies that we come into relationship with
- Facilitating ongoing peer-to-peer learning and collaboration
- Connecting them to opportunities to showcase their work
- Supporting them with key design and implementation questions
We do not have a second BioFi Cultivator planned at this time, but we will announce the next one in our newsletter when we do, so stay tuned!
If you are a bioregional organizing team with a concept for a BFF and you want to request design support, please fill out this form and we will consider how we can best support you within our current capacity.