Our partnerships

We work by invitation to support community-led, Indigenous-led, and governmental initiatives across the Americas.

NY & MA

Hudson Valley / Berkshires

Rising Tide Capital, the Schumacher Center for New Economics, and allies

The Third Horizon Fund is an emerging, impact-first financing facility for the Hudson Valley and neighboring regions. It aims to fill the “missing middle”: projects too large for grants but too unconventional or slow-growing for conventional loans, by blending philanthropy, investment and existing local financial institutions. After workshops in July 2026 and a gathering at New York Climate Week, the team is building a prototype portfolio, designing its financing model and governance, and forming local partnerships. We’re supporting the fund’s design and implementation as it takes shape around three priority areas: regenerative enterprises, bridge financing for local governments’ climate-smart projects, and the bioregional commons.

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US & Canada

Salmon Nation / Cascadia

Salmon Returns

Salmon Returns is a cross-border platform working across Salmon Nation, the bioregion defined by the range of Pacific salmon from California to Alaska. It treats “the bioregion as the portfolio”: it starts from what a place needs, with priorities set by Indigenous Nations and local leaders, then braids grants, patient loans and investment capital to fit each opportunity’s stage. In the Klamath and Six Rivers region, it structured a patient loan for the region’s first Tribally owned commercial native plant nursery, and the loan’s interest is seeding a community capital pool for local food producers. As it develops its first catalytic capital fund, we advise on strategy, fund structure and portfolio composition, and on the design of the Salmon Biocultural Stewardship Credit.

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Ecuador & Peru

Amazon Sacred Headwaters

Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance

The Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance (ASHA) brings together 28 organizations, 25 of them Indigenous, across 35 million hectares of Ecuador and northern Peru. Its ASHA Bioregional Fund is an Indigenous-governed fund with five investment windows: grants for self-determination and for Indigenous bioeconomies, patient loans for enterprises, biocultural stewardship units, and advocacy to change the incentives driving extraction. Ultimate authority stays with ASHA’s General Assembly and Board, and the fund’s legal structure spans the U.S., Switzerland, Ecuador and Peru. After two years of co-designing the fund together, we’re now advising on its implementation and strengthening ASHA’s organizational capacity as it works toward deploying $30–40 million a year by 2030.

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NC & TN

Southern Blue Ridge

Blue Ridge Foodshed Commons

Blue Ridge Foodshed Commons is designing a network of food businesses and farmland in Western North Carolina, held in trust for the farms and communities that depend on them. A perpetual purpose trust protects each business’s mission, a separate entity holds the profits and recycles them as patient capital, and farmers set prices and standards together through Stakeholder Councils without having to own the infrastructure. Its first project is a farmer-designed creamery in Rutherford County, for which it is raising $1.3 million in below-market loans, capped-return investment and grants, with grain mills, meat processing, food hubs and farmland to follow. This is our core team’s home bioregion, and we support the Commons with strategy, relationship-building and regional coordination.

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