Documentation
Below you can find the main resources and materials produced so far in the Regen Funding Support (RFS) journey:
- 📘 Regen Funding Support Handbook — financed by Regen Network (current sponsor).
- 📝 First iteration report — funded by Regen Tokenomics DAO.
- 🎤 Presentation of second iteration — funded by Regen Network Development.
- 🧩 Process & workflow draft (Notion) — early design and experimentation notes.
- 🎥 Video recording — First Regenerative Funding Meetup (Catalunya).
- 🎧 Audio recording — Second Regenerative Funding Meetup (Catalunya) (video unavailable due to connection issues).
Project Evolution
Regen Funding Support (RFS) began in October 2024 and has evolved significantly since its inception.
The initiative was initially incubated by Commons Agency — a systems design and research collective — and is now being fully stewarded by ReFi Barcelona, a worker cooperative that will continue the work.
Early development was funded first by Regen Network Tokenomics DAO (≈1.2k € — report here) and later by Regen Network Development PBC (≈7k € — presentation here).
This relationship and co-design process continues, and Regen Network remains a sponsor for 2025.
The initial concept — the Regen Fundraising Open Dashboard — aimed to connect funders, regenerative projects, and fundraisers in one global platform.
Testing showed this approach was ineffective at a global scale: the funding landscape is too diverse and dynamic for a single centralized system to serve all stakeholders well.
The project then pivoted to a local-first model: Regen Funding Support now focuses on empowering regenerative projects and hubs directly, helping them:
- understand and articulate their funding needs,
- access and curate relevant opportunities,
- and connect with aligned networks.
We produced a 40-page handbook and a simple first website.
Our research showed that effective funding intelligence must be locally stewarded — no single global platform can keep up with the diversity of opportunities across regions and regenerative fields (agriculture, watershed restoration, renewable energy, etc.) without major, ongoing resources.
Current Research Questions
- What processes most effectively enable local nodes to autonomously discover and access regenerative funding opportunities?
- Which tools best support these nodes in managing, curating, and sharing funding intelligence?
- What collaborative practices foster effective and sustainable cooperation between nodes?
- How can decentralized knowledge-sharing scale support across diverse bioregions and thematic areas?