What we’re building
We move trusted capital to the people regenerating their bioregions.
Kinship Earth began by reigniting Susan Davis Moora’s KINS Innovation Networks - self-organizing circles of high-integrity leaders from widely different fields, working from a strategy of generosity to drive social, economic, and environmental change. Susan was one of Marion Rockefeller Weber’s original Flow-Funding recipients, and what she built with that trust shaped our path. Our board chose Flow Funding as the way to make an impact - and since the end of 2024 we’ve moved trust-based, unrestricted capital to grassroots bioregional leaders across the globe.
And we’re evolving. Communities need more than capital. They need capacity - the structures, tools, stories, and infrastructure to steward their futures.
We're weaving within a global ecosystem of people devoted to co-creating a bioregional future; a future of organizing around Earth's natural rhythms and borders; working together to heal the places we call home; returning to ancient ways of honoring Earth; sharing resources locally; strengthening the cross-bioregional learning network; choosing oneness over separation; prioritizing the common good of all.
Our mission within this vision is to move unrestricted capital to bioregional communities through Flow Funding Grants - capital that trusts in the wisdom of communities to deploy the funds based on the needs that emerge, so long as the activity is educational or charitable. No mandates; no grant applications; simple onboarding and reporting.
We are also currently piloting a Flow Fund Development Program - guiding bioregional communities on how to launch their own unique Flow Funding Foundations.
We're initiating this work as a part of a Bioregional Activation Series in the Hudson Valley of Turtle Island, starting in July 2026, in partnership with Susanna Choe of Bioregional Embassy and the Planetary Party Protocol and our global ecosystem of partners.
Since we began deploying flow funds
$360K+
moved to grassroots leaders, communities, and organizations
23
Flow Funders across 3 cohorts
30+
bioregions reached
Trust-based, unrestricted, peer-nominated
How We're Building Capacity
These five realms run alongside our grantmaking:
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Venture Philanthropy
Making the flow fund self-sustaining through recoverable grants.
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Bioregional Activations
Helping regions organize, govern, and resource themselves.
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Flow Funding Playbooks
Open-access guides for communities and funders.
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Bioregional Storytelling
Communities own their stories.
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Digital Infrastructure
See your capital at work, without burdening communities.
Venture Philanthropy
Building a self-sustaining flow fund
Today, 100% of our operating revenue comes from donations. Every dollar of overhead is a dollar that doesn’t reach a Flow Funder.
We’re changing that. Within five years, we want less than half of our operating revenue to come from traditional grants. We're aiming for the rest to come from three pillars:
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Venture philanthropy — capital designed to come back and fund the next community: recoverable grants, catalytic first-loss capital, and Program Related Investments (PRIs).
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Earned revenue — consulting and trainings, fiscal sponsorship fees, and ticketed convenings.
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Community-sourced capital — pooled contributions from the communities our work serves.
A PRI is a low-interest or recoverable investment a foundation makes from its own funds. It counts toward the required 5% annual distribution while putting impact ahead of return.
Capital is patient, below-market, and mission-aligned. Playbooks are free. Flow Funds are unrestricted.
Plug in if you're
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A funder or family office exploring PRIs, recoverable grants, or below‑market regenerative capital
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A funder interested in helping seed catalytic, recyclable capital
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An advisor who can introduce us to aligned capital allocators
Flow Funding Playbooks
Closing the gap between funders and communities
We’re developing two companion playbooks — free, open access, both targeting Q4 2026.
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The Bioregional Flow Funding Playbook - guiding communities to launch Flow Funds. Being built from three cohorts of operational experience across 2 years, and inviting collaboration across the Flow Funding sector.
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The Bioregional Flow Fueling Playbook — peer-to-peer guidance from one foundation to another: DAF, family-office, and foundation pathways.
One community playbook can catalyze dozens of bioregional Flow Funds; one funder playbook can redirect millions toward trust-based models.
Production covers writing, design, legal review, template toolkits, Spanish translation, and print plus digital distribution.
Why this matters: when a community builds its own vehicle to receive and move capital, money stops passing through distant gatekeepers and starts flowing on the community’s own terms. Every new trust-based fund shifts resources toward the people closest to the work - and that shift, repeated across bioregions, is where systemic change and lasting healing can take hold.
Plug in if you're:
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A funder willing to contribute case studies from your own trust-based vehicle
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A funder interested in underwriting production
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A community organizer or legal practitioner with relevant templates, frameworks, or governance models to share
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A translator, designer, or editor who wants to shape the open-access edition
Digital Financial Infrastructure
See your capital at work — without burdening the communities it reaches
Funders need accountability. Heavy reporting is challenging for local grassroots communities. We’re exploring the rails that solve both. The stack has four parts:
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Pooled Funds & Vaults organized by bioregion
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Commitments — public pledges, backed by deposits, that communities can plan around
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Predictable Disbursement — steady, scheduled funding
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Impact Credentials — lightweight, verifiable records of work done
A note on the tech: we are in a learning and exploration phase, and raising capital to implement tools and processes that can support funder reporting requirements while lessening burdensome reporting for grantees.
Plug in if you're:
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A DAF sponsor, foundation, or family office wanting verifiable transparency on bioregional flows
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A protocol team, builder, or researcher working on verifiable impact reporting or regenerative finance
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A pilot community ready to test the infrastructure in your bioregion
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A funder ready to underwrite the Pilot phase
Bioregional Activations & Planetary Parties
Helping bioregions organize, govern, and resource themselves
A Bioregional Activation is a living, co-created process that involves people of a place coming together to build the relationships, governance, tools, and capacity to attract and steward resources for their bioregion. It’s not a single event but a journey - co-stewarded with Susanna Choe of Bioregional Embassy, moving from online preparation into in-person gatherings at local hubs.
Six pillars guide every activation:
Relationship-building and mapping
Governance education
Tools, tech, and frameworks
Healing and conflict transformation
Honoring place — the Indigenous traditions of the bioregion
Culture, arts, and storytelling
Our role is to amplify and resource what’s already alive in a place — and to offer trainings and open curricula so any community can run an activation themselves.
OUR GOAL: Out of each activation, a bioregion grows what it needs to attract and steward resources - a trust-based fund of its own, and shared agreements for pooling time, skills, land, and capital; collectively stewarded land-based hubs, and a culture of collaboration that outlasts any single gathering. There’s more to how this works in practice - read the Bioregional Activations page.
Underneath the activations is the Planetary Party Protocol - a shared protocol and process we co-create with communities and move through together.
The Planetary Party Protocol (PPP) is coordination architecture aligning communities, capital, culture, and governance at the bioregional level to accelerate regenerative development and planetary awakening.
It is a living ecosystem, an operating system, and a shared protocol for coordinating regenerative action across bioregions - places defined by their natural ecology and culture (watersheds, forests, food systems) rather than by political borders.
The Planetary Party Protocol provides the shared language, frameworks, and step-by-step rhythm that a community moves through. It does not own that work or run it top-down. An ecosystem of partners, technologists, facilitators, and funders are coming together to share their tools in service to local communities organizing bioregionally. Kinship Earth is one of those partners.
The Planetary Party Protocol:
Five-phase rhythm (Sense → See → Activate → Celebrate → Regenerate)
1. SEEING - relationship-building and deep listening. Mapping the people and projects in a place: who is doing the work, what they need, what they're offering, what solutions exist. This process is relational.
2. SENSING - sense-making and governance. How do we make decisions together? This is where communities build the capacity to decide as a wider group, and practice collective governance in the process.
3. ACTIVATING - coordinated action on the ground around food, water, shelter, energy, etc.. Leaving a positive trace. Lasting infrastructure to support community resiliency.
4. CELEBRATING - the big Planetary Party festival moment. Think Burning Man, but instead of burning art down, we leave behind regenerative infrastructure. We showcase solutions, demonstrate the impact of donors' dollars, and attract more capital. A peak moment to celebrate coherence and results, and the collaboration that will follow.
5. REGENERATING - harvesting the learnings, collecting data, documenting the impact, and carrying it all to the next bioregion we serve - strengthening the bioregional learning network in the process. Then the spiral begins in the next place.
What a "bioregional activation" is:
A bioregional activation is a community going through that Planetary Party Protocol arc, of which Kinship Earth takes part. As a global ecosystem, PPP provides the frameworks, tools, and resources to amplify what's already alive in a bioregion. Within that, Kinship Earth specifically guides communities through a process to prepare for launching and stewarding their own Funds Funds.
For the Hudson Valley series, we're exploring a nine-month gestation.
OUR GOAL: At the end of the series, the community has launched a Flow Fund with a map of where the funds will flow and the impact they'll make - in a strong position to receive and deploy capital.
We're running this process now in the Hudson Valley with Susanna Choe of Bioregional Embassy who is organizing on the ground; our first online gathering drew 25 people - organizers, funders, and potential hosts of the series’ gatherings. We’re also preparing to launch a bioregional activation series in Mexico City as part of Mexico Climate Week, anchored at Huerto Roma Verde, in early October.
Where Kinship Earth fits
Kinship Earth's role in the Planetary Party is flow funding, flow fund development training, and storytelling.
Kinship Earth is an initiator of the bioregional activations, and a partner among many. Other PPP partners bring a wide variety of wisdom, knowledge, frameworks, and tools that support bioregional coherence and resiliency building - including relationship building, resource sharing, mapping, practicing collective governance, implementing living solutions in service to water independence, food justice, affordable regenerative housing, clean energy; on-the-ground coordinated action / mutual aid; event production; and more.
Bioregional Activations in 2026
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NE Turtle Island — starting in the Hudson Valley (Spring 2026), in partnership with Bioregional Embassy, honoring the Haudenosaunee Great Law of Peace around the US 250th
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Mexico Cloud Forest & Mexico City (Summer / Fall 2026)
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On the horizon: Bioregions across Colombia, Montego Bay, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and beyond.
Plug in if you're:
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A funder ready to underwrite a bioregional activation
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A community, hub, or convener in one of the active or upcoming bioregions
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A practitioner across any of the six pillars
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A festival organizer or potential circle member ready to plug into the PPP
Bioregional Storytelling
Storytelling as infrastructure
We are excited to be helping communities and groups tell the story of the work they’re already doing, so it can attract financial resources for the people and places that need them most.
That support takes a few forms:
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Storytelling support for groups and leaders. We help shape, produce, and share it.
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Documenting a Bioregional Activation - when we’re walking a full activation with a community, we can collect moments of the journey too: short clips, mid-form segments, and eventually long-form documentaries.
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Local filmmaker partnerships - embedded in a place: sourcing existing footage, commissioning new work, and routing resources into local creative economies.
The ownership principle: bioregional groups own their stories. We aggregate, post-produce, and distribute - the narrative stays with the community, and shared assets serve both the bioregion’s fundraising and ours.
First focus: NE Turtle Island and Mexico Cloud Forest. We’re fundraising to bring this to more bioregions.
There’s more to how this works in practice — link: read the full Bioregional Storytelling page.
Plug in if you're:
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A funder ready to sponsor storytelling for a bioregion or the program overall
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A filmmaker, photographer, or writer embedded in a given bioregion or excited to travel to many
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A distribution partner - festivals, networks, publishers
How to plug in
Pick the starting point that fits.
Our work is to help bioregional communities build a Flow Fund, and to step back once they have. These five realms run alongside our grant-making. Each stands on its own; together they’re a living system.
A funder, foundation, or family office
Make a gift, recoverable grant, or PRI
A community that feels ready to launch a Flow Fund
Get help telling your story; co-create a Bioregional Activation
A storyteller, filmmaker, or distributor
Send a portfolio with content collected from the bioregion you’re rooted in
A DAF holder
Direct a grant; or make a program related investment.
A builder, organizer, or researcher
Co-develop the infrastructure stack
Someone with a relevant introduction
Make the intro