Humanity has created unprecedented challenges that our current solutions and ways of thinking have failed to meet. These times need a different approach, that asks for collaboration and designing new paths and solutions that can address multiple issues at once while acting directly on the root causes. Patching up isolated solutions for short-term results is no longer an option.
Supporting communities to amplify their usage of ancient and indigenous knowledge while deeply listening and understanding their challenges regarding the land, health, income and political and cultural realities and co-designing nature-inspired paths to restore natural resources and generate multiple cascading benefits in the region is how we collaborate with our programs.
The way we are able to do that is by identifying, resourcing, celebrating and learning from nature-inspired regenerative projects. But what does this mean? In our network we have more than 600 initiatives and projects that have already been vetted and many of those that have received prizes from one of our core partners to fund their work are now ready to receive additional grants to continue or start new projects. We identify those groups whose strategic focus aligns with one of our given programs, matching also what our funders aspire to develop and together we co-design the projects and provide not only financial resources, but also create a support system for the projects based on mutual trust and shared knowledge. We acknowledge those safeguarding the land,celebrating their indigenous and ancient knowledge as an equally valuable form of capital, and promote mutual learning among all stakeholders as they share their diverse expertise with one another.
We invite you to keep discovering the work of Regenerosity with an overview of our process, or a deeper dive to find out more about how we identify, resource, celebrate and learn from regenerative projects around the world.
Theory of Change
Regenerosity Theory of Change
Regenerosity works across scales, weaving action-focused collaboration between grassroots organisations, funders and key actors so as to develop human capacity to be in right relationship with the Earth.
PLACE-BASED IMPACT
We co-design catalytic programs with grassroots organisations based on long-term relationships of trust. We flow capital and resources to these organisations so they can grow their impact and potential of becoming regional hubs of regenerative practice.
NETWORK COLLABORATION
We bring projects together through regional communities of peers. Projects join learning circles in and across cohorts for peer-to-peer learning, storytelling, and strategy development.
MOVEMENT BUILDING
We spotlight evidence and grassroots-led stories that inspire the larger movement.
We engage with funders and key actors to influence the field of regenerative philanthropy and further attract interest and resources for the growth of the grassroots regenerative movement.
Philanthropy for Regeneration. Regenerating Philanthropy.
Members from over 30 regenerative agriculture organisations across Uganda came together for a networking and knowledge sharing event in September 2019, co-organised by Spring Prize winning project YICE Uganda, alongside Spring Prize judge Precious Phiri and a small team from Lush Cosmetics.
Philanthropy is a key component in the construction of a balanced and fair society, but it is essential that it open to a new way of relating to those receiving the resources, creating deep and meaningful relationships based in trust and shared power where financial capital is recognized as just one of the aspects of a system that embraces the expertise and knowledge of those working on the ground as an equally valuable form of capital.
Regenerosity aims to ease the flow of funding to vetted regenerative projects while helping to build the capacity of funders to understand, support and learn from such projects.
Our experienced team is connected to the field and knows how to identify high-integrity projects with the potential for creating cascading benefits using regenerative principles. We have created a portfolio of the winners and finalists of three regenerative prize programs- the Lush Spring Prize, the UN Equator Prize and the Buckminster Fuller Institute's Fuller Challenge. The projects in this portfolio are an inspiring global ecosystem of initiatives doing some of the planet’s most critical tasks, regenerating land and the communities that live with it.
We believe that this new field of regenerative philanthropy:
Rwamwanja Rural Foundation train refugee farmers in Uganda how to grow nutritious mushrooms using farm ‘waste’ as substrate.
1. Supports projects that combine ecological, social and economic benefits while addressing root causes of degradation.
2. Transforms financial capital into living capital, in cooperation with nature’s healing capacities while supporting communities’ capacity to be stewards of these resources.
3. Creates space for developing authentic relationships. Evolves the power dynamics between funder and fundee towards shared learning, shared power and mutual development.