The ReWoven Fund supports regenerative projects — land-based and digital — on one defining condition: every funded project includes a paid storyteller. Each grant builds two things at once: the project itself, and the bioregional media network that makes every future project easier to build.
Storytellers write the future. When people can see the extraordinary work already underway — and feel themselves invited into it — that inspiration becomes one of the most powerful levers we have. The ReWoven Fund is our answer — a mechanism where the community decides, contribution is rewarded over extraction, and every story told widens the on-ramp for the next person.
Ecovillages, permaculture sites, community-governance pioneers, and land stewards are everywhere, doing the work. What the movement lacks is capacity — in four specific areas.
Regenerative projects are chronically underfunded, with no relationship to the emerging mechanisms that could serve them.
Many communities survive rather than thrive; few have pathways from sustainability to regenerative livelihood.
The networks holding this movement — GEN, FIC — hold decades of wisdom but are under-resourced. We partner with them, not replace them.
The deepest gap. The work is happening, but almost none of it is documented — so it can't inspire, teach, or raise funds.
Storytelling is the lever that moves the other three. The ReWoven Fund is built to address all four at once.
The fund makes grants to regenerative projects that document their work — and in doing so, deliberately grows the infrastructure the movement needs.
Local filmmakers and media teams — a piece of infrastructure every bioregion needs. The documentation requirement gives them paid, meaningful work embedded in the movement.
The facilitators, governance designers, and regenerative-design experts who help communities transform. Funded projects give consultants stages to shine from; their work, once documented, teaches far beyond a single site.
Physical and digital places where people inspired by these stories learn to become land stewards — and find communities ready to welcome them.
The artifacts accumulate into a searchable knowledge library — imagine the world's permaculture library, and beyond it: governance, conflict transformation, community economics, ecological restoration.
Reachable through many access points: a searchable archive, books, podcasts, and eventually a TV network.
Storytelling advances all three at once. That is why documentation is the fund's non-negotiable.
They can see that this life exists — and that people like them are living it.
There are visible doors: classes, communities, networks, land.
Personal and collective — to move through the fear and practical blockers before the leap.
Beneath the four practical capacities named above — funding, business models, coordination technology, and storytelling — we hold a fifth: the emotional, spiritual, and cultural capacity to actually do this work and live this way. It is architected into everything the fund touches — the eligibility criteria, the consultant network, the stories we ask projects to tell — rather than treated as a nice-to-have.
ReWoven began as a documentary reality series — "Queer Eye for intentional communities" — piloted at Liminal Village in May 2026. Working toward it taught us the infrastructure has to come first. So we made the pivot: the fund becomes the heart, and the show is born from the fund.
The storyteller network becomes the show's crew pool.
Documentation doubles as a screen test; a great on-camera teacher becomes cast for that bioregion.
The accumulating archive becomes the show's knowledge base.
Educational spaces welcome every viewer who finishes an episode asking "how do I get that life?"
In the old game's language, this is a flywheel. In the language we actually live by, it's a trust network — growing outward the way mycelium spreads: thread by thread from node to node, reaching toward nourishment and routing it back to wherever it's needed, knitting separate roots into one resilient, living web that feeds every part of itself.
Thirty years living, building, and facilitating in intentional community. Co-developed Jackson Place Cohousing in Seattle in 2000 — an $8M, 27-unit community — and worked at Hylo building coordination technology for regenerative communities in 2025. In between: community organizer for education equity, large systems-level consultant undoing institutional oppression, and Executive Director of the Seattle Human Services Coalition, a coalition of ~200 nonprofits. She brings a Cherokee lived worldview in which mutual care is the default. The Cherokee greeting of choice is dohiquo — are you at peace?
A documentary filmmaker since 2008. His first film, Edible City, documented Bay Area food systems — and showed him that media is movement-building infrastructure. He has spent nearly twenty years making media with regenerative and permaculture organizations, visiting ecovillages first-hand, and now works in community technology: network capacity building, coordination, and fundraising. His networks run deep and wide — he is actively weaving together the regenerative movement across land-based communities, media, and tech spaces alike.
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