Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
The rationale and templates for a critical layer of place-based financial institutions. Free download, in English and Español.
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Lecture2025The Promise of Bioregional Economies
The 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield.
Guide2026Donor Advised Funds
A practical guide for place-based organizations on how Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can be used to source, channel, and govern capital for their work.
Guide2025A Guide to Bioregional Mapping & Planning
Ecological Design for Place-Based Regeneration. A method for mapping a region's assets, actors, and flows before designing a facility.
Case study2026ASHA: Building an Indigenous-Governed Bioregional Fund
An alliance of 28 Indigenous and civil-society organizations across Ecuador and Peru building a multi-jurisdiction fund with five investment windows under Indigenous governance.
Case study2026Relationship is the Strategy: Hawthorne Valley's Living Approach to Finance
How Hawthorne Valley in New York builds its finances on long-term relationships.
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A Self-Assessment Framework for Bioregional Organizers
Thinking about designing a BFF? This spreadsheet helps you see your initiative's strengths, areas for growth, and next steps. Also available in Spanish.
Video2026Returning to Place: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Samantha Power in conversation with Katie Teague Films.
Essay2026Becoming Inhabitants
After seventeen years, the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress reconvenes.
Case study2024Regen Network and Eco-Credits
A novel funding mechanism for regeneration.
The full library.
Activation Guide for Bioregional Organizing Teams
How to create the enabling conditions for BioFi, and then design and implement a Bioregional Financing Facility.
ASHA: Building an Indigenous-Governed Bioregional Fund
An alliance of 28 Indigenous and civil-society organizations across Ecuador and Peru building a multi-jurisdiction fund with five investment windows under Indigenous governance.
Becoming Inhabitants
After seventeen years, the Turtle Island Bioregional Congress reconvenes.
Beneath Our Feet
With Samantha Power, Austin Wade Smith, and Daniel Christian Wahl.
Blue Ridge Foodshed Commons: Building a Commons-Held Food Economy
A Western North Carolina design for food infrastructure held in a perpetual purpose trust, separating control, profit, and capital, starting with a farmer-designed creamery.
Bosque Fractal: Investing in the Infrastructure for Landscape Regeneration
A biohub in Colombia's Zaquencipá Valley using patient family capital for land, restoration, mapping, and relationships: the groundwork that comes before a fund or an investable pipeline.
Boston Ujima Project: Democratizing the Flow of Capital in a City Economy
A community-governed fund where Boston residents set business standards and vote on investments, pairing professional underwriting with notes sized for every level of wealth.
Catalyzing Bioregional Economies
A session hosted by Ma Earth.
CEDPO: Turning Community Priorities into Investable Projects
On Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, a locally governed association develops small, community-nominated projects and channels right-sized grants to them through a participatory territorial council.
Donor Advised Funds
A practical guide for place-based organizations on how Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can be used to source, channel, and govern capital for their work.
BioFi Community of Practice Deep Dive recordings
Recordings of the monthly Deep Dive calls, organized into playlists on the BioFi Project YouTube channel.
Ecotrust / Salmon Nation: Thirty-Five Years of Building Bioregional Financial Infrastructure
How philanthropy acted as venture capital for a network of institutions, from a bank and a CDFI to tax-credit and working-forest funds, financing a bioregional economy across Pacific North America.
Hawaiʻi Investment Ready: Coordinating Capital for an Island Economy
A Native Hawaiian-led nonprofit that grew from a social-enterprise accelerator into capital-system coordination, funder cohorts, and a first-loss-backed patient debt fund.
Igiugig: Using Capital to Return Land and Build Tribal Wealth
A Bristol Bay Tribe combining Landback acquisitions, a Tribally governed philanthropic fund, and a proposed salmon-business buyout to keep more of the salmon economy in Indigenous hands.
Relationship is the Strategy: Hawthorne Valley's Living Approach to Finance
How Hawthorne Valley in New York builds its finances on long-term relationships.
Returning to Place: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World
Samantha Power in conversation with Katie Teague Films.
Salmon Returns: Building Bioregional Capital Flows
A cross-border platform across Salmon Nation that treats the bioregion as the portfolio, braiding grants, patient loans and investment capital around regional priorities set by Indigenous Nations and local leaders.
Sinal do Vale: Financing a Regenerative Bioeconomy
A 15-year place-based lab in Brazil's Atlantic Forest moving from restoration, supply chains, and regenerative hospitality toward a blended bioregional finance architecture.
Spruce Root: Building a Regional Financial Ecosystem
An Indigenous-led CDFI in Southeast Alaska that has layered small-business lending, a $30M permanent trust for regional coordination, and a clean-energy bank into one place-based financial system.
Turtle Island Community Capital: Native-Led Financial Infrastructure from the Ground Up
An emerging Native CDFI in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US pairing relational lending with technical assistance and community convening, and raising an $11.2M Watershed Fund.
What the Trade Routes Remember
Revitalizing Indigenous economies through bioregional coalition-building.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Connecting Financial Resources to Regeneration
Episode 11 of the Capital Institute series.
A Guide to Bioregional Mapping & Planning
Ecological Design for Place-Based Regeneration. A method for mapping a region's assets, actors, and flows before designing a facility.
Bioregioning 101
Reality Roundtable #14, hosted by Nate Hagens.
Brandon Letsinger and Michelle Lee on Bioregional Finance in Cascadia
Recorded at the Cascadia BioFi Conference.
Connecting the Flows of Capital to the Flows of Life
The BioFi Project in conversation with Jeremy Lent.
BioFi Design Principles
Sixteen principles for designing BFFs, eco-credits, complementary currencies, and other BioFi mechanisms.
A Transformative Conversation on Moral Economies
A conversation hosted by the Garrison Institute.
Reimagining Finance to Regenerate the Planet
Samantha Power interviewed by Conservation Strategy Fund.
The Promise of Bioregional Economies
The 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture, with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield.
A Self-Assessment Framework for Bioregional Organizers
Thinking about designing a BFF? This spreadsheet helps you see your initiative's strengths, areas for growth, and next steps. Also available in Spanish.
Urban Futures: Reimagining Finance for Regenerative Cities
Samantha Power of the BioFi Project with Regen City.
The Bioregional Weaving Lab in South East Ireland
An example of a multi-stakeholder process for bioregional regeneration.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
Samantha Power presents the ideas behind the book.
Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet
The rationale and templates for a critical layer of place-based financial institutions.
Bioregional Funds for Nature
Samantha Power at Finance for Gaia.
Presentation to the COBALT Community on the BioFi Project
An introduction to the BioFi Project for the COBALT bioregional learning community.
Creating Bioregional Funding Ecosystems, Part 1
Joe Brewer and Samantha Power in conversation with the Legacy Project.
Earth Commons: Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs)
A session on BFFs hosted by Ma Earth.
The Edge Prize
Scaling what's possible by supporting and connecting regenerative innovators.
BioFi Pathfinders Gitcoin Round Overview
An overview of the BioFi Pathfinders round on Gitcoin Grants.
The BioFi Glossary
Our perspective on 65 key terms and ideas for the BioFi movement, from anti-fragility to worldview.
Golden Bay and the Wellbeing Protocol
Participatory grant-making through quadratic and conviction voting in practice.
Growing New Ways of Seeing and Being in Place Through Bioregional Finance
Published in Culture Hack, Issue 7: Beyond the Carbon Fixation.
Hylo
A coordination platform for the future of bioregional organizing.
The Bioregional Learning Center in South Devon
Modeling bioregional hubs.
Nature States, Nation States
An essay by Samantha Power.
Open Conversations: Samantha Power
Samantha Power in conversation with Earth Commons.
ReCommon
Regenerative common land trusts.
Bioregional Finance with Samantha Power
Season 4, Episode 1 of Regeneration Nexus from ReFi DAO.
Regen Network and Eco-Credits
A novel funding mechanism for regeneration.
Regenerate Cascadia
Coordinated and coherent bioregional organizing.
Regenerosity
Flowing capital to grassroots regeneration by cultivating trust.
Salmon Nation: Envisioning a Nature State
How Salmon Nation is building toward a bioregional "nature state" across Pacific North America.
Weaving Bioregional Waves
A recorded conversation on bioregional organizing and finance.
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