BioFi Cultivator

In January 2025 we launched a learning, design, and capital raising journey for 21 bioregional organizing teams across the Americas.

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Our Purpose: To work at the speed of trust to accelerate antifragile, investment-ready Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) that catalyze the transition to bioregional regenerative economies.

Through the Cultivator, the BioFi Project is guiding these teams to design, create, and capitalize the world’s first BFFs and facilitating collaborative relationships between them. Learn more here.

Who is along for the journey?

Working with the participants, the two high-level continental groupings laid out below represent our initial sense of what could serve best as the two practice groups within the overall cohort.

The regional labels applied below should not be taken to be bioregional identities - rather broad approximations of geographic location.

South & Central America (Practice Group 1)

Argentinian Andes — Acción Serrana
Mata Atlantica, Brazil — Recôncavo da Guanabara Bay Bioregional Fund - *Gitcoin Grant Page*
Amazon — Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance / Fundación Pachamama- Gitcoin Grant Page
Amazon — Intercultural Reserve Huwa Karu Yuxibu
Ecuadorian Andes — Chocó-Andino DAO
Panama — Panama Restoration Lab
Costa Rica (Osa Peninsula) — Centro Estratégico de Desarrollo Península de la Osa (CEDPO) - *Gitcoin Grant Page*
Costa Rica (Osa Peninsula) — RegenerOsa - Gitcoin Grant Page‍
Costa Rica — Diamante Bioregional Consortium - Gitcoin Grant Page

North America & the Pacific (Practice Group 2)

Hawai’i — Hawai’i Investment Ready
Pacific Coast — Cali-Baja WELLSPRING
Pacific Coast (East Bay, SF Bay Area) — YARD
Pacific Coast — ReVillage Green Valley
Pacific Northwest — Salmon Nation CoLabs
Pacific Northwest — Regenerate Cascadia
Nila Vena (Lake Iliamna) Alaska — Nila Vena Sustainability Forum
Appalachia — Regenerating Asheville
Hudson Valley — Hudson Valley Resilience
Northeast — Dawnlands Bioregioning Collective
Northeast — The Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed‍
Northeast (Casco Bay, Maine) — Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning and Transformation (COBALT)

We also invited a few individuals to participate who don’t represent a particular bioregional leadership team that is participating in the Cycle I cohort, but value to offer and receive in their roles as investors, funders, weavers, technical partners, or bioregional organizers.