The BioFi Project
Activating financial resources to flow to bioregional organizing groups around the world doing the critical work of on-the-ground regeneration.
Connecting the Flows of Capital to the Flows of Life
The BioFi Project promotes a shift from exploitative economies to regenerative, bioregional systems that honor ecological and cultural connections. Through Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs), BioFi channels resources to foster local resilience and ecological health, identifying Bioregional Organizing Teams around the world that are building on decades of grassroots regenerative work, creating coherence across interdependent regenerative efforts, and engaging in the inquiry and practice of creating bioregional, regenerative economies.
Growing New Ways of Seeing and Being in Place
ArtEcology provides strategic guidance and operational expertise to BioFi, anchoring its work through marketing and communications, bioregional storytelling, programmatic design, and operations. Our goal is to amplify narratives that reconnect communities with their bioregional identities, inspire global solidarity, and establish governance frameworks that prioritize equity, inclusivity, and long-term ecological health. By facilitating bioregional asset mapping and equitable financing, we ensure resources flow into the hands of those who need them most.
The Power of Bioregional Storytelling
With a commitment to building movements across traditional finance, philanthropy, regenerative finance (ReFi), and Web3, BioFi is a trusted framework and movement for composting capital and enabling Bioregional Organizing Teams to build institutions, create strategies, cultivate decision making processes, develop storytelling, and raise financial resources to catalyze this transformation.
We are actively working to broaden the BioFi movement, the BioFi Community of Practice, and a network of capital holders that are committed to flowing resources back to the places from which wealth has been extracted. You can read this retrospective of the recent Gitcoin BioFi Pathfinders grants round held along with partners like Celo, Regen Network, Gitcoin, Open Civics, and The Design School for Regenerating Earth. Beyond the financial outcomes, the grant round’s success lay in fostering connections, generating reach and awareness for bioregional teams, and creating a foundation for future iterations that align with the ethos of collaboration, participation, regeneration, learning, and unlearning.
Catalyzing economic systems transformation and worldview shifts
FAQs
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2024
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Partner and program strategy, bioregional storytelling, marketing strategy and operations
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Programmatic design, Gitcoin grants round marketing campaign, social media marketing
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Regen Network, Applied Alchemy, Buckminster Fuller, Open Future Coalition, Ma Earth, Hylo, Capital Institute, Earth Law Center, Regenerosity, Open Civics Labs, Cisco, Terra Genesis