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Community Grant Rounds
We raise money for the members of the Front Range Bioregional Commons to allocate to regenerative cultural and ecological projects along the Front Range using community-led coordination and resource-disbursement technologies.
CGR
Pillar · Flowing money to the work
Community-decided grant rounds that put funds directly into the hands of the people doing the work of caring for the Front Range.
Commons members propose projects that support the regeneration and resiliency of our ecologies and cultures (think: planting trees to restore the watershed, creating neighborhood microgrids, planting native pollinator gardens, offering participatory cultural events, etc.) and the larger membership of the Commons votes on which projects to fund in each round. Anyone from the Commons can propose a regenerative project to the Bioregional Flow Fund, and then the larger body of the Commons votes on which projects will receive allocations.
This is not a boardroom deciding what’s good for our lands and the life that lives here. It is the care-hearted people of this place deciding for ourselves.
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The SPIRIT programs all interconnect.
Each program weaves with the others.
Solidarity Suppers foster relationships, the Commons Sense teachings build understanding, the Neighborhood Resiliency Program builds enduring capacity, and the Grant Rounds put resources in motion.
Culturing
Commons Sense Education
We offer Commons Sense teachings to educate people on the history, present, and future of the Commons, particularly as it relates to our responsibilities to the living land and to each other. Drawing on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize-winning research, Indigenous stewardship traditions, and the practical wisdom of communities that never stopped commoning, we educate participants in the learning journey about practical paths toward bioregional self-organizing, resiliency, and regeneration that address the Common Good.
Belonging
Solidarity Suppers
We host small Solidarity Suppers to nourish and council with indigenous relatives, community elders, mothers, and movement leaders. They are invitational spaces where people show up on behalf of their communities, organizations, neighborhoods, and ecologies in the spirit of regenerating our capacities for fellowship and solidarity. We are creating spaces that intentionally lift up the existing leaders of the regenerative movement in our bioregion.
Coordination
Neighborhood Resiliency Programs
When the power goes out on your block, do you know which neighbor has a generator? When the creek floods, do you know the evacuation routes? We run our Neighborhood Resiliency Program to help neighborhoods organize their resources, relationships, and knowledge to support healthy, vibrant, and connected communities-of-place to cultivate their practical preparedness in case of emergency.