My name is Meg Rivers and I have been helping to build Bloom Network since 2009, which Magenta Ceiba (my regen culture hero!! Please support her at XYZ) and I, along with many others on every continent, created to build permanent hubs of regenerative culture in every bioregion on Earth and promote a billion acts of regeneration. We have 28+ local chapters on every continent performing climate impact and social justice work - I helped create the network and platform to facilitate and elevate these communities for the last 15 years.
I have given countless unpaid hours to the cause as a cofounder, and feel passionately that a shift in global consciousness towards a healthy biosphere is the most worthwhile goal I can work towards.
I have been volunteering as a single mother for the last 15 years with Bloom, and was recently laid off from a job that meant a great deal to me - anything you give is such a blessing and I’m so grateful for your contribution to help me be able to give more time and service to Bloom.
FINANCE
I created a beginner class called “How Do I Crypto” to help people learn to set up a wallet, so they can be paid by our Local Actions Rewards which I also helped design the process for and training around. Local Action Rewards pay grant funds based on the hourly earning of our token FLO, which pays out to local Bloom hub members performing tangible and documented climate impacts around the world.
TECHNOLOGY & SYSTEMS
I was instrumental in designing Bloom's decentralized global governance model for how our social network is owned and governed by Local Bloom hubs, as well as how we plan to facilitate global industry transformation as we scale larger.
I was a volunteer technical project manager for a year in 2021-2022 to codesign and build our platform at www.bloomnetwork.earth, and I feel incredibly humbled and grateful for the parts of myself that I see there, represented alongside this beautiful work everyone is doing in climate impact, social justice and food systems transformation.
I created an automated workflow for registering new local Bloom hubs, and helped it get translated into Spanish and French. I orchestrated volunteer days with a cloud computing firm I worked at previously, and recruited an engineer from there who helped us to architect the Bloom platform and manifest into an online reality the dreams of this community that has been with us since its conception in 2009.
As mentioned previously, I created a beginner class called “How Do I Crypto” to help people learn to set up a wallet, and have created countless other trainings over the years to help people learn the basics of what we do at Bloom.
I function as a systems admin, orienting people to the landscape of Bloom, the marketing materials available and how to navigate in our now enormous body of regenerative culture work and play.
I helped design our Calls to Bloom, in which we send out recruitment when we are ready to take on new Blooms and continue to build the network, which is at 28+ Blooms on every continent right now. We hope to make it past 100 by the end of 2026, connecting regenerative culture efforts with support and funding in every bioregion on the planet. Once we attain the reach and permanence intended we will intensify our efforts to become stewards towards and activists for water protection worldwide.
I have been instrumental in creating and helping design and manage operations for Bloom Network. In the early days of the network I secured volunteer GoToWebinar channels to facilitate our global connection and used my skills as an expert facilitator to ensure connections were fruitful and long-lasting.
As time went on I architected many of our systems we use to manage the network and also helped with initial design for theory and UI on the platform at www.bloomnetwork.earth. 15 years later our beautiful community has stayed together and planted things that we hope will bloom always, not just priceless relationships but also flowers, gardens, projects, businesses and so much more.
I secured a Digital Marketing Intern in 2022 who helped us put together a branding guide and hone our beautiful design system, which I also codesigned over the last 15 years. I created a full professional communications plan based off my professional expertise in the field, which I have replicated for other refi and regen orgs across the world for free to give them a corporate-level advantage.
Considering the immense depth, breadth and diversity of people who participated in bringing Bloom Network into reality, we worked really hard to create a design system and materials that have non-partisan, earth-based, friendly and bright tones in an effort to convey Earth’s voice if it could speak, one that works towards the equity and wellbeing of all peoples and beings in our biosphere.
I have for 15 years helped manage the intake and training of new local Bloom hubs, managing the communications and screening as well as designing screening processes that help ensure Bloom organizers are aligned with the unity of our vision and purpose in regenerative culture values.
I help manage the administration of our organizer lists and local Bloom hub listings, making sure that only those who want to stay in the community get communicated to and with and ensuring those who want to stay connected are a part of it all.
I am the creator of our program in design process now called Local Love, which splits the incorrectly politicized climate change narrative into digestible, local-focused efforts based on a) local food systems transformation (Local Love) and b) local anti-pollution and anti-corruption efforts (Poison Planet).
I’m so grateful to be a part of this grant round and thank you so much for taking the time to read about how much love and devotion has gone into the Bloom network, from Magenta and Dani, from myself and from hundreds of beautiful Earth lovers working in these regen spaces over the last couple decades. We love you!