From Ownership to Donorship: Valuing Contributors for a Caring Economy
Building the capacity of communities to create regenerative economies around sustainability activities that support public goods and personal livelihoods — with Dani Bellavita
How can we increase the capacity of communities to sustain locally resilient economies? It begins in the place where public goods and private ownership meet personal responsibility and collective power. Find answers here in this review of lessons from living in the gift economy, building a culture of community, and bridging technology with ground-level activism. Together, we can redefine real value by re-aligning it with our shared values.
Meet Danielle Bellavita, an activist for ecological restoration, an architect of place-based communities, and an alchemist of decentralized governance economies. Dani bridges the virtual technological world with the natural living wild, making maps, matches, magic, and a bit of mischief. She is a village building matriarch and a crypto evangelista, giving globally as a digital nomad in web3 technology while living locally in communities from Cascadia to Standing Rock, Cataluña to Black Rock and Costa Rica.
Dani has been facilitating personal and systems transformation for over 30 years. A corporate project manager until 2013, she has since co-founded and led many organizations including Our Sacred Acres , Bloom Network, Giveth DAO, Gaia Gives, ReFi Costa Rica, the Diamante Bridge Collective and Diamante Luz Trust. She is a published author in Reinhabiting the Village, co-producer of DECENTRAL at Burning Man, and was featured in the documentary Standing Rock: A Vision for our Future and the international film More Than A Pipeline.
She has articles in Mel Magazine and Reality Sandwich, has served on councils and boards for organizations including Women of Wisdom Foundation, Wilderness Awareness School, and The Earth Gym, and hosted a radio program, The Village Portal, on Lucid Vibe Radio.
She currently contributes to cultural exchange projects with real life application of blockchain-based tools that incentivize human coordination toward valuing the care of nature.