Regenerate Cascadia is building the cultural, structural, and financial foundation for regeneration across the Cascadia bioregion. Through mapping, storytelling, education, and decentralized organizing, we support communities in reclaiming relationship to place, designing regenerative strategies, and stewarding collaborative funding ecosystems. From a month-long bioregional activation tour to a six-month learning journey and the co-design of new Bioregional Funding Frameworks, we are seeding the conditions for long-term ecological and cultural transformation across watersheds and bioregions.
Regenerate Cascadia is excited to use this Gitcoin round, in partnership with Regen Coordination, to model a live bioregional flow funding round during the upcoming Cascadia BioFi Conference—directly disbursing funds to regenerative projects in real time. This participatory governance and funding experiment will help onboard new communities into Web3, demonstrate flow funding in action, and bring the shared theories of change from the BioFi Project and Regen Coordination to life.
The Cascadia BioFi Conference, taking place May 16–18, 2025, at the historic Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle, will convene 200 leaders from the edges of finance, circular economy, land regeneration, Indigenous rematriation, community art, technology, and participatory governance. Together, we’ll co-create pathways for bioregional funding ecosystems that support long-term regenerative work throughout the Cascadia bioregion.
Regenerate Cascadia’s mission is to regenerate the Cascadia bioregion by co-creating the conditions for a thriving, place-based regenerative movement. We do this by supporting bioregional organizing, catalyzing community-led strategies, and aligning funding, governance, and shared infrastructure across landscapes. Rooted in love of place, we aim to steward long-term biocultural regeneration through participatory processes that honor Indigenous sovereignty, ecological integrity, and local self-determination.
Regenerate Cascadia exists to address the compounding ecological, social, and economic crises we face—by grounding systemic transformation in the unique needs and capacities of place. As climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and extractive financial systems accelerate planetary breakdown, the need for localized, regenerative responses has never been more urgent. Within the Cascadia bioregion—spanning from Southeast Alaska to Northern California and east to the Yellowstone Caldera—communities are experiencing intensifying wildfires, droughts, housing precarity, displacement, and cultural erosion. While hundreds of regenerative projects, Indigenous-led initiatives, and local movements are working to address these challenges, they remain under-resourced, fragmented, and constrained by legacy funding models that fail to recognize the interconnected nature of bioregional systems.
Regenerate Cascadia was created to respond to this gap by activating bioregional infrastructure for long-term regeneration. Our mission is to co-create the conditions for a thriving regenerative movement across Cascadia through coordinated organizing at the landscape and watershed level. We convene communities to map assets, identify high-impact opportunities, co-develop place-based regeneration strategies, and prototype new governance structures. However, regeneration cannot scale without a fundamental redesign of how capital flows to support this work.
That’s why we are building Cascadia BioFi—a Bioregional Finance Facility (BFF) designed to connect financial resources with regenerative initiatives through participatory and transparent mechanisms. Cascadia BioFi aligns with the emerging global movement of bioregional finance (BioFi), which applies decentralized tools, Web3 protocols, and community-led governance to rewire capital allocation in ways that are accountable to place. It bridges regenerative economics, data sovereignty, and mutual aid with technologies like quadratic funding, DAO-based governance, and on-chain attestations. This approach decentralizes resource control, increases local agency, and creates new infrastructure for funding regeneration at scale.
In partnership with Regen Coordination, we are using this Gitcoin GG23 round to power a real-time, participatory funding experiment at our upcoming Cascadia BioFi Conference, May 16–18, 2025 at the Georgetown Steam Plant in Seattle. The event will convene 200 leaders at the edges of regenerative finance, circular economy, Indigenous rematriation, community technology, and participatory governance. Together, we will explore how bioregional finance can transform systems of capital—and what it looks like to put these ideas into action.
This round will fund the first live bioregional flow funding round, allocating capital transparently and collaboratively to regenerative projects during the event. We’ll demonstrate how quadratic funding and community voting can be used to direct resources to where they are most needed, guided by bioregional logic and community consent. Participants will gain hands-on experience with Web3 tools, while showcasing how they can support real-world ecological and social impact.
This initiative is a testbed for new funding architectures that regenerate land, culture, and economy—while meeting the goals of Regen Coordination’s North Star Outcomes. Together, we aim to build trust-based funding systems that scale across bioregions and offer a credible alternative to extractive finance. This round is not just about raising funds; it’s about demonstrating what regenerative coordination truly looks like—on-chain, in-community, and in service to place.
Regenerate Cascadia is building the connective tissue for long-term bioregional regeneration by developing the Cascadia BioFi Facility—a decentralized, community-governed funding ecosystem designed to move capital toward regenerative initiatives across the Cascadia bioregion. Our solution integrates bioregional organizing with emerging Web3 mechanisms, creating a financial architecture that is participatory, transparent, and grounded in the needs of place.
At the heart of this solution is bioregional flow funding—a methodology for allocating resources based on bioregional logic, collective intelligence, and community consent. Rather than top-down or siloed grantmaking, our model engages stewards from across watersheds, Indigenous communities, local economies, and regenerative projects to collaboratively determine priorities, pool resources, and fund work that supports biocultural regeneration. By leveraging Web3 tools like quadratic funding, DAO-based coordination, and on-chain attestations, we are creating a prototype for a truly decentralized regenerative finance ecosystem.
The Cascadia BioFi Facility is being developed through a multi-phase strategy, starting with the formation of local landscape hubs, capacity-building programs, and alignment with shared values and data standards across the bioregion. This Gitcoin round represents a critical milestone: demonstrating live participatory capital allocation at the Cascadia BioFi Conference, May 16–18, 2025 in Seattle. Through this event, we will model a “live round” that simulates a full end-to-end bioregional flow funding process—including onboarding participants into Web3, introducing shared governance tools, showcasing regenerative projects, and disbursing funds in real time through community voting.
This conference will convene 200 leaders from regenerative finance, circular economy, Indigenous rematriation, mutual aid networks, digital public goods, and climate justice movements. Together, we will co-create funding blueprints and governance pathways for the Cascadia bioregion and offer a replicable model for bioregions globally. Attendees will engage in both strategic visioning and hands-on governance simulations, applying the theory of Bioregional Finance (as defined by the BioFi Project) and Regen Coordination’s shared principles to real-world funding decisions.
We are also building aligned infrastructure for long-term impact. All funded projects will be invited to join a regional community of practice to document learnings, share metrics, and engage in ongoing governance dialogues. We will track activities and outputs through Karma GAP, aligned with Regen Coordination’s North Star Outcomes, using EAS attestations and optional hypercerts to demonstrate transparent, credible impact.
Ultimately, our solution aims to re-localize capital, decentralize governance, and rebuild trust—by aligning the flow of resources with the ecological, social, and cultural realities of place. Through the Cascadia BioFi Facility, we are developing a living, evolving system that supports regeneration not just as a theory, but as a lived and coordinated practice.
This round allows us to operationalize our vision, prototype in public, and contribute meaningfully to the broader Regen ecosystem. By demonstrating how participatory capital flows can function at the landscape and bioregional level, we’re advancing the future of regenerative finance—where every dollar is accountable to community, and every decision is made in right relationship with the land.
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