Make Sure Your Voice and Story are Included

Ultimately, we will use this proposal to identify our needs for growing Hubs and Guilds and the infrastructure necessary to create a broader Bioregional Financing Facility which will connect larger funding streams to regenerative communities and projects.

This will lead into an online Cascadia Summit for team reportbacks and planning in mid-March 2025, and an in person conference in June 2025 specifically around growing a Cascadia Bioregional Funding Ecosystem.

Proposals will include:

1. Team and Affiliations: A description and biographies of the core team members and active participants within the hub, along with their affiliated organizations.
2. Bioregional Address: A detailed description of the place being stewarded, incorporating bioregional language (not using nation-state frameworks) and identifying necessary physical, ecological, and cultural layers important to consider in regeneration and serve as shared “frameworks of stewardship”. 
3. Traditional Land Stewards: Identify and list the current indigenous land stewards, territories and cultural context of the place.
4. Regenerative Project Portfolio: A narrative of ongoing regenerative work in the landscape that needs to be supported, identifying the people involved, missing voices, core design challenges, and obstacles. Who are “allies” – who are doing this work, and need to be named? What voices are missing? Through the voices of those actively engaged in this work, we will emphasize areas where support is adequate and identify where additional resources are needed to enhance and sustain these vital initiatives.
5. Strategic Opportunities: What are strategic opportunities to help us get there? What are strategic opportunities you don’t want to see Regenerate Cascadia miss that are coming up?
6. Bioregional Resource Hubs: What would a Bioregional Resource Hub look like in your landscape? What functions would you like it to undertake? What are potential possibilities and existing learning sites? What would you need for measurement, verification and reporting of initiatives, and how could this be stored in an informational “commons”?
7. Landscape Vision: What activities would you like to see your hub undertake within 1-3 years? What would you like to see from an ecoregional and bioregional Regenerate Cascadia organization within 1-5 years that can support your work? What is a “500 Year” long-term vision for the regenerated area? What does a regenerative culture, economy, politics, and ecology look like and mean?
8. Team Budget: What do you need to do the work? An initial budget for the group’s short-term requirements to support these processes in the first year, and how they would like to see it grow in the first three years. What would you need if you were to redo this process in a more in-depth, long-term way? Is your group able to assess what a “landscape budget” may look like for the long term regeneration of that area?
9. Who are the funders in the landscape who could support this work? Who are “partners” that the group may want to directly work with?