Wrap up of year one as part of the Kinship Earth flow funder community of practice
The Wrap Up
Over the past year, support from the Kinship Earth Flow Fund has been catalytic in strengthening and advancing our work in the BioRegen project of Regenerate Cascadia. Through an $18,000 flow funding grant, Kinship Earth supported our Landscape Hub Cultivator (LHC) pilot, forming the backbone of our Year One LHC Flow Funding Sandbox and enabling us to move from concept to practice. In addition, these resources have been deployed as targeted micro-grants to individuals and housing networks actively stewarding land within their bioregions, including microgrants for emergency housing groups and to members of the Cielilo Tribe.
Bioregional Flow Funding
We’ve developed a scalable model, which aligns funding, allowing resources to move efficiently through trusted relationships while maintaining accountability to place. Kinship Earth’s emphasis on cultivating generosity with new hands, new hearts, and new eyes has directly shaped how we design funding pathways that are both equitable and effective. Through this Bioregional Flow Funding model, Regenerate Cascadia will continue to develop coherent strategies and plans.
Watch the Wrap-Up Video
Watch the video which shares RC’s BioRegen co-administrator giving an overview from this one-year period with Kinship Earth’s first year as a flow funder community of practice. We are deeply grateful to Syd Harvey, Stephen Gomes, and Marion Weber for their leadership. With continued investment, we see strong potential to further democratize funding and expand this model’s impact across bioregional landscapes. By prioritizing trust over transaction, flow funding has unlocked timely, place-based action—supporting regeneration efforts that are guided by community-identified needs rather than externally imposed priorities, strengthening local capacity for long-term stewardship.
Big props to Taya Seidler for the beautiful image that helped visualize this work—capturing not just projects, but the collective “we” that is Regenerate Cascadia.
