What is Flow Funding?
“Nothing about us without us.”
— a slogan popularized by the disability rights movement.
A transformative approach to philanthropy: no applications, less bureaucracy, grounded in collaboration. Flow Funding centers grassroots leaders deeply connected to their communities, ensuring resources flow where they’re needed most. By empowering those closest to the land and its people, we unlock real-time solutions, strengthen communities, and achieve lasting impact.
“80% of the world’s biodiversity is protected by Indigenous communities, yet they receive less than 1% of climate finance.”
Flow Funding strives to change these statistics. We entrust local leaders with resources to protect and regenerate their ecosystems.
Why Bioregionalism?
Bioregionalism begins with the places communities share.
A bioregion is a place defined by its living systems: its watersheds, its foodsheds, and its cultures. Bioregionalism recognizes that people rooted in a place hold the relationships and knowledge needed to care for it.
Bioregional Flow Funding moves resources to grassroots leaders, Indigenous-led initiatives, and bioregional groups working where ecological, social, and humanitarian needs meet. These challenges arrive together, and communities need the freedom to respond to them together.
"There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new consciousness... a time when we must pay back what we owe to the Earth."
— Chief Oren Lyons (Onondaga Nation Faithkeeper)
In Partnership With
Events
ORIGIN : OCTOBER 17Sat, Oct 17https://ourorigin.earth/
Mexico Climate Week: México por el ClimaThu, Oct 08Mexico City
Global Heart Sync ⋅ Sound of Care SymposiumFri, Sep 18https://hub.globalheartsync.org/SoundOfCare
Turtle Island Bioregional Congress 11Thu, Sep 17Vernonia
The gift is still moving.
In 1991 Marion Rockefeller Weber began entrusting money to people she believed in and letting them decide where it went. Years later one of her flow grants reached Susan Davis Moora, who used it to clean a poisoned site in Ecuador. Susan went on to co-found Kinship Earth.
The Ecuador film above is a Kinship Earth flow fund, stewarded by Walter Moora, thirty-five years after Marion gave the first gift away. A lasting legacy looks like this: the gift keeps arriving somewhere new.
"May the rivers of wealth be undammed and flow freely over the earth. May the gifts move through increased hands until all people experience the abundance of life. "
— Marion Rockefeller Weber (Flow Funding pioneer)
Supporting Kinship Earth moves resources to grassroots projects working on ecological and social challenges where they live. The model runs on trust, transparency, and the stories communities tell about what changed.
Your Support Enables:
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Community-led change. Resources go to the people who hold the relationships and knowledge to regenerate their own ecosystems and communities.
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Transparency and accountability. Narrative reporting and our Communities of Practice keep you connected to what your contribution made possible.
