Rooting Resources in Place, Guided by Trust
Over the past year, Regenerate Cascadia had the honor of participating in the Kinship Earth Funder Community of Practice — a global experiment in trust-based, place-rooted giving. As we close this chapter, we celebrate the profound ripple effects already beginning to take form. This community was designed to explore how resources can flow through kinship, and how we can transform philanthropy to serve life, not institutions.
What Is Kinship Earth?
Kinship Earth is a global flow funding initiative that entrusts local leaders to heal the places they call home. Built on a decades-long legacy of trust-based philanthropy and inspired by the pioneering work of Marion Rockefeller Weber, Kinship Earth supports stewards, visionaries, and healers with the freedom to direct funds where they believe they can make the greatest impact.
- No grant applications.
- No rigid reporting requirements.
- Just trust, relationship, and resource flow.
Their philosophy is simple and powerful: Money should flow like rivers, bringing life to ecosystems, nourishing communities, and restoring harmony to the world around us.
At the heart of Kinship Earth is a commitment to bioregionalism — the idea that regeneration begins in place, and that ecosystems thrive when those closest to the land are given the tools to care for it. By recognizing watersheds, biomes, and cultural landscapes as organizing principles, they are helping reshape how philanthropy can be both more equitable and ecologically aligned.
Our Involvement & Impact
Regenerate Cascadia was selected to participate in the 2024 Kinship Earth Funder Community of Practice. Over the course of the year, we joined other grassroots networks and funders from around the world to:
- Share stories and struggles from the frontlines of bioregional organizing
- Learn from each other’s models of regenerative funding and resource redistribution
- Co-create a shared vision of flow funding ecosystems grounded in trust, place, and relationships
As part of our participation, Kinship Earth provided $18,000 to support our Landscape Hub Cultivator pilot — a first-of-its-kind initiative designed to seed local regeneration teams across Cascadia, and experiment with flow funding “sandbox” grants for emerging place-based projects.
This support was catalytic. It helped us launch the pilot with nine landscape groups across the bioregion, and has laid the foundation for new experiments in bioregional finance, including the early stages of the Cascadia Bioregional Finance Facility.
We are especially grateful to Syd Harvey, Stephen Gomes, and Marion Weber — the visionaries behind Kinship Earth — for their care, guidance, and belief in what we are growing together.
What Comes Next
Although the formal Community of Practice has come to a close, its relationships and values live on in our work. We hope to deepen our collaboration with Kinship Earth in 2026 and beyond, and continue exploring:
- What bioregional flow funding can look like at scale
- How to democratize access to funding across Cascadia
- How to build networks of generosity that mirror the living systems we seek to protect
We’re not just reimagining how money moves; we’re rebuilding the mycelium that makes regeneration possible. Stay tuned as we share more about the Landscape Hub Cultivator, the Cascadia Finance Facility, and other ways you can support or get involved.
