The Buckminster Fuller Institute
We seek to make the world work for all of life, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation.
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*Open Future Coalition is fiscally sponsored by BFI, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization.* Solutions to the world’s greatest challenges are all around us. But the most promising local efforts are often disconnected from one another, and from the resources they need to reach their full potential. We build technical, social, and financial tools that support our ability to collectively innovate on, resource, and apply solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges—taking the tools of enterprise and making them accessible at the grassroots. Since 2021, we have launched and grown the Open Impact platform alongside our growing global network, and it has now served efforts in over 60 countries: helping to solve complex coordinative challenges ranging from connecting smallholder farmers with one another and with shared resources; facilitating landscape scale ecological restoration efforts; and coordinating aid in times of displacement. We have convened and facilitated design sprints across the areas of Ecological Restoration, Food Systems, Community Wellness, and Built Environment, including "weaving functions" like funding, governance, media, and metrics. And now, we are moving towards direct investment in local resilience through Open Future Fund. With your philanthropic support, we can: - Continue to support grassroots efforts in solving complex coordinative, measurement, and reporting challenges through access to the Open Impact platform - Document and templatize local success models through our Regional Resilience Fellowship, while providing peer learning and technical assistance - Provide convening and strategic planning services in support of local resilience - Develop shared resources and curricula to support our growing network of grassroots movement builders globally
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BioFi Project-Bioregional Finance for Planetary Regeneration
*The BioFi Project is fiscally sponsored by BFI, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization.* **The ecological crisis requires urgent, large-scale regeneration of the biosphere** rooted in biological integrity and cultural revitalization. This kind of regeneration requires a network of connected and vibrant bioregions, stewarding financial resources to support strategically coordinated portfolios of regenerative projects and organizations working to shift systems. We envision nothing less than the creation of **a new layer in the global financial architecture through the development of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs)**, designed to serve every bioregion on Earth. The BioFi Project is a collective supporting bioregions to design, build, and implement Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFFs) that connect financial resources with regenerators. We partner with bioregional organizing teams and Indigenous communities across North America and around the world to apply the BFF templates and capital raising and allocation approaches laid out in the book [Bioregional Financing Facilities: Driving Finance to Regeneration](http://www.google.com) (published in June of 2024 by Finance for Gaia, Dark Matter Capital, and Buckminster Fuller Institute). The BioFi Project team is made up of practitioners in the areas of economics, finance, governance, bioregionalism, ecology, regeneration, and social justice. Once the BioFi Project establishes a partnership with a bioregion, the team engages in a listening process; supports asset mapping; identifies which BFF is best to start with; designs a detailed proposal for a BFF; and supports the bioregion with capital raising, capital allocation, and governance implementation. At the global level, the team also shares the ideas in the paper, stewards a community of practice, builds relevant software tooling, and supports eco-credit co-design facilitation. The BioFi Project is a fiscally sponsored project of BFI, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt non-profit organization.
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