Telling the story
of the bioregional
movement
Across bioregions, land stewards, organizers, and culture bearers are laying the foundations for communities to govern, resource, and regenerate their own places. Most of it invisible to the wider world.
Kinship Earth helps tell that story, bioregion by bioregion. As a capital and capacity builder, we amplify what communities are already doing and put the storytelling to work attracting resources. If you're part of a bioregional community, a partnership begins here.
Kinship Earth’s track record
$360K+
deployed to the field
23
Flow Funders, 3 cohorts
30+
bioregions reached
Trust-based Flow Funding, in the hands of the people closest to the work — since October 2024.
Why this work
A pattern, emerging in many places at once
All over the world, communities are reaching the same realization on their own: almost everything their bioregion needs to thrive is already there - in its people, and the work already underway. No central organization, no single campaign - a movement surfacing place by place.
What's missing is the connective tissue to see each other, trust each other, and coordinate.
What bioregionalism is
A bioregion is a place defined by its living systems - its watersheds, foodsheds, and cultures - not by political borders. Bioregionalism holds that the people who live in a place are best positioned to care for it: to steward its water, grow its food, generate its energy, and govern its commons. The movement is communities everywhere organizing around the places they share.
Why storytelling
Most of this work is invisible. Storytelling changes that - gathering what communities already create and weaving it into a picture that can move resources. We help tell each bioregion's story in its own voice, and the larger story of what's possible when places organize. This is storytelling as infrastructure - as essential to resourcing a bioregion as the funds themselves.
Why flow funding and why bioregional
Kinship Earth was built on flow funding: moving unrestricted resources to the people closest to the work, and trusting them to decide where the funds flow. Our aim is to help communities create bioregional flow funds: trust-based capital a bioregion governs and circulates to heal its place and to support its thrivability.
Every form of capital
Grants are only the beginning. We're energized by communities unlocking other forms of capital - impact investment, ecological credits, recoverable capital - and we're weaving with others who specialize in these areas. Different work calls for different capital; our role is to help it find a clear, trusted home.
How we partner
What we're looking for
Telling your story starts with showing bioregionalism in practice - across the areas that keep a place alive:
Regenerative food
Water & watersheds
Community energy
Land & soil
Culture & ceremony
Local governance
Once the network can see your bioregion organizing, our producer can help shape your story for community and funder networks.
· your bioregion
[Bioregion name here]
Bioregional story · 4 of 6 areas shared
Regenerative food
5 Stories
Water & watersheds
3 Stories
Community energy
2 Stories
Culture & ceremony
4 Stories
Land & soil
add content
Local governance
add content
2 more areas to unlock producer support
Share what you already have
Send the videos, footage, and photos you've already made - the everyday record of the work.
Collect more content
Let us know if you need support connecting with local filmmakers and storytellers rooted in your bioregion.
Learn to circulate it
Let's work together to reach the audiences, supporters, and resources that align with your work.
Get rewarded — and amplify each other
As your storytelling attracts resources, they can flow back to your bioregion as grants - seeding your Bioregion's Flow Fund. Contributors also join a network that cross-promotes, so each story lifts the others.
Your story — and its value — stay yours
Bioregional groups own their stories - the voice and narrative stay with the community. When that content raises money, the value circulates back to the people featured in the film, the communities / ecosystems they're serving, to those who filmed the work, and others the community decides to give to. We name that intention together at the start.
Partner with us if you are:
A bioregional organizing group ready to tell the story of your place
A filmmaker, photographer, or writer rooted in a bioregion we work in
A community sitting on footage that deserves a wider audience
Two ways the story raises money
The content we gather and shape together works in two directions, and both serve the bioregion.
You
Raise money on your own terms
The films and media become assets your community owns - to fundraise, build visibility, and attract supporters directly.
Kinship Earth
We raise capital on your behalf
We use the storytelling to reach donors, foundations, and investors - and channel what we raise back to communities as grants and to seed their own bioregional flow funds. We also pay those who facilitate the process - the local film makers, project managers, and others.
Each cycle deepens the next. Over time, the bioregion grows more visible, more connected, and more resourced.
Where we are today
Our aim is a funded storytelling arm that can pay communities directly to create more content.
On the ground
Where the work is happening
Featured bioregion
The Cloud Forest, Veracruz
High in the montane cloud forest around Xalapa and Coatepec, a community of land stewards, coffee growers, and culture bearers is regenerating watersheds and local economies. As the Mexico activation gets underway, we're gathering the footage the community has and connecting them with local filmmakers for new stories on the ground.
Northeast Turtle Island
Cascadia
Colombia
Veracruz Cloud Forest
Montego Bay, Jamaica
and beyond
Bioregional Activations are now underway in the Hudson Valley and Mexico City.
Getting clear on where resources flow
Clarity before capital
Before money moves, we get clear on two things: which group in a bioregion can receive the funds, and who decides - collectively - how they're used.
We've seen what happens when capital lands without a clear home, so we build that clarity first. Resourcing should strengthen local self-determination.
It's the same trust-based logic that runs through all our Flow Funding - the people closest to the work decide where the resources go.
From storytelling to activation
Activations & Planetary Parties
Storytelling is where a partnership begins.
An activation builds the relationships, readiness, and clarity that resourcing depends on. It runs through the Planetary Party Protocol's five phases - adapted to each place, online and in person 0 culminating in a Planetary Party. One cycle, designed to begin again.
01
Sense
Pre-activation
Deep listening and ceremony - surfacing what the land and people are asking for. Held primarily online and in small circles.
See
Mapping
Online sessions that build a living map of the bioregion's assets, needs, offers, and relationships - before anyone gathers in person.
Activate
In-person gatherings at bioregional hubs
Embodied relationship-building, governance practice, storytelling, and design labs - where mapped insight becomes lived coordination.
02
03
04
Celebrate
aka the Planetary Party
The peak of the protocol: a festival weaving culture, ceremony, and coordinated action - making the bioregion visible and drawing resources to local projects. Every party shares the films created across the bioregion.
Hila the Eath performing at Permatours' It Takes a Village Festival
05
Regenerate
Harvest & next cycle
Learnings are documented, the Flow Fund is seeded, and the living system is handed to local stewards - ready to begin again.
Five phases · one cycle · designed to repeat
Each turn leaves lasting regenerative infrastructure behind - and storytelling lives inside every phase, taking center stage at the Celebrate" gathering's film festival.
Who this is for
The door opens with storytelling
For a bioregional community, the first step is shaping the story of your place - preparing you to attract and steward resources in service to your place. From there, an activation takes you through the deeper arc.
Start a conversation
Tell us about your place
Share a little about you and the bioregion you're rooted in, and we'll be in touch.