💲 Structuring and Capitalization
Activities
SINAL Flow Fund
The SINAL Flow Fund is a locally managed funding mechanism designed to channel diverse capital streams—including public grants, donations, supply chain finance, and investment capital—toward regenerative initiatives in the region. The Flow Fund enables implementation of community-led projects by lowering access barriers to funding and supporting infrastructure for scaling a bioregional economy.
Cascadia Regeneration Fund
The Cascadia Regeneration Fund (“Cascade”) is Regenerate Cascadia’s vision for a living financial architecture for bioregional transition. Cities can raise billions for transit or schools; comparable mechanisms for watershed regeneration barely exist. The fund is structured as a bioregional trust, with nonprofit standing in the U.S. and Canada. The main vehicle combines three back-end donor-advised funds (DAFs) into one flow fund feeding localized landscape sub-funds, governed and regranted by hubs developed through the Bioregion Program. Governance stays as local as possible; funding reflects ongoing evaluation from communities doing the work. The intent is to let money flow like water through a coherent strategy, with metrics defined on the ground. Seeding has reached $40,000 toward an initial $100,000 goal by December 2025 to test regranting—setting up larger flows from 2026.
Bosque Fractal Governance and Finance
To protect the land and its vision beyond individual ownership, Bosque Fractal is developing a collective governance and financing model rooted in the principles of the commons. This includes formalizing a Colombian legal structure that can steward the land collectively, while maintaining international partnerships through a U.S.-based fiscal conduit. The bioregional governance and financing structure consists of three interconnected components: 1. Cobalt, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the U.S., serves as the international partner for receiving donations and stewarding funds with transparency. 2. A for-profit social enterprise, active in Colombia since 2011, collaborates with local projects, the community biohub, and governance councils to direct resources where they are most needed. 3. The Living Atlas serves as a core initiative that blends digital and analog tools to map bioregional regeneration. This structure allows for international funding to flow into the region while maintaining local autonomy and ensuring resources are directed where they are most needed through collaborative governance councils.
Landscape Finance Strategy
The landscape partnership first ran a 4 Returns finance assessment with AlVelAl, allied foundations and enterprises, and Commonland—mapping real interventions and their costs. The results (to early 2025) put total identified need around €177.5 million on a five-year view, with about half of that in grant-like capital. Building on that diagnosis, AlVelAl and Commonland are developing a landscape finance strategy with partners inside the territory and beyond, testing promising mechanisms such as collaboration with the European Investment Bank, cajas rurales (rural savings banks), and other instruments still taking shape—so public, community, and private capital can meet the landscape.
Nature Finance for Scotland's Rainforest
The Alliance estimates that £500 million in long-term investment is needed to truly restore and expand Scotland's rainforest. To date, the Scottish Government has contributed £3.8 million towards ASR's projects, with an additional £6.3 million provided to Forestry and Land Scotland to develop a Rainforest Team and put more than 2,000 hectares of rainforest habitat on the road to recovery. While £8 million has been secured for current projects, this falls far short of what's needed. That's why ASR members are developing an innovative fundraising model that blends private and public capital. This financing mechanism creates accessible, scalable investment models to harness private capital. The project establishes a comprehensive framework including business cases for ecosystem service investments (initially focusing oncarbon credits), governance structures for scaling investment, ecological and social standards, investor integrity requirements, and community benefit protocols. The model includes: - ASR Integrity Charter: An ethical framework ensuring that financial institutions, businesses, and organizations seeking to invest in or purchase ecosystem services from rainforest restoration projects align with ASR's environmental and ethical values. The charter establishes five key requirements including verifiable net zero commitments, ethical direct activities and investments, responsible lobbying practices, human rights compliance, and fair employment standards. - ASR Project Standards Framework: A comprehensive quality assurance framework establishing verification standards for rainforest restoration projects seeking private investment through ASR's funding mechanism. The standards serve as a qualification benchmark for high-integrity natural capital projects, ensuring they deliver measurable outcomes for climate, nature, and local communities. This creates transparency for investors while maintaining ecological integrity and community benefits.
Bioregional Funding Ecosystem
The Bioregional Foundation stewards regenerative value flow and governance in the bioregion. The funding ecosystem is meant to back regenerative projects; mobilize financial, social, and natural resources across the bioregion; track and evaluate progress; convene local groups, organizations, and projects; support meaningful participation in decisions; and improve equitable environmental and socioeconomic outcomes over time. The Earth Regeneration Fund (also called the Bioregional Pando Funding Ecosystem) frames whole-system social and ecological regeneration. The Legacy Project is launching a Catalytic Cohort to establish the first Bioregional Pando Funding Ecosystem—pairing funders with practitioners in a tailored action-learning process. At the September 2024 Bioregional Regenerative Finance Forum in the GTB, the Earth Regeneration Trust was launched alongside the emerging Bioregional Funding Ecosystem.