Our Initiative in a Nutshell: 

The Northeast Bioregioning Collective is a collaborative effort working toward bioregional regeneration of the Northeastern “United States.” Our principle proposed activities include co-developing a regional intertribal alliance for the regeneration of ancestral watersheds, drafting a bioregional regeneration strategy, hosting convenings, and creating a Bioregional Financing Facility to enable systemic and regenerative investments in support of bioregional regeneration. We are a diverse network, co-led by an intertribal alliance, working together to strengthen connections and enable resource allocation across communities in our bioregion.

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Our Origins and Direction:

Our team was born from the impetus to create coherence in the bioregional space of the northeast - weaving together existing bioregional and regenerative organizations in a new formation. Together, we have identified a foundational need to strengthen resurgent Indigenous governance to guide the development of a bioregional regeneration strategy and financing facility.

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Our 21-member Collective includes representatives from the Mashantucket Pequot and Eastern Pequot Tribal Nations, the Intertribal Alliance, the Alliance for the Mystic River Watershed, Aton Forest, Bio-Based Materials Collective (BBMC), Center for an Ecology-Based Economy (CEBE), Connecticut River Valley Bioregioning Collaborative, Design School for Regenerating Earth, Garrison Institute, Mycelial Law, Northeast Healthy Soils Network (NEHSN), Sirius Ecovillage, and Wellspring Commons. This constellation has significant and deep expertise in social and ecological systems transformation.

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This team is supported by network and blockchain finance experts from Bloom Network, Capital Institute, r3.0, Regen Foundation. Our members have conventional finance and investment banking experience, including managing DAFs, investment funds, and private placements; finance innovation experience, including DAO governance, community lending pools, federated cooperatives, retroactive public goods funding; and government grants.

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To further expand our diverse networks, we are actively communicating with and recruiting other key bioregional actors and working diligently to expand leadership and peer organizing to fully include the movements we aim to support.

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Co-led by intertribal groups, we are bringing together diverse stakeholders to strengthen relationships and create regenerative pathways for people and the planet. Our core goal is to increase coherence among regional actors currently working in largely siloed ways to address the interdependence of our regional challenges through systemic interventions.