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“Fundable and Investable 2025”:
Possible Planet
Center for Regenerative Community Solutions (CRCS)
Fundable & Investable Projects
October 2025 | Primary Region: Genesee Finger Lakes | Expansion Potential: New Jersey & Beyond
🌱 Overview
CRCS and Possible Planet work together to advance regenerative community solutions that bridge ecological restoration, community empowerment, and innovative finance. Rooted in the Genesee Finger Lakes bioregion, our initiatives build replicable models for local resilience and planetary regeneration.
We seek philanthropic partnerships to strengthen local capacity, expand education and engagement, and demonstrate scalable systems for climate adaptation, regenerative living, and bioregional collaboration.
I. CRCS: Community Organizing around Regeneration
1. Suburban Homesteaders Bioregional Network
A growing network of households practicing regenerative living—urban gardening, water management, renewable energy, and mutual aid. The project connects suburban residents through workshops, mapping tools, and neighborhood-scale resilience hubs.
Funding priorities: Outreach, digital platform, community education.
Outcomes: Climate resilience, food security, local cooperation.
Expansion potential: Replicable in NJ and other regions.
2. Genesee Finger Lakes Bioregional Organizing Hub
A regional coordination center linking local governments, nonprofits, and citizens to advance regenerative development and ecosystem restoration. The Hub will host participatory mapping, bioregional assemblies, and collaborative projects.
Funding priorities: Staff, convenings, communication tools.
Outcomes: Regional resilience strategy, coalition building.
Expansion potential: Model for Delaware River and Raritan Basin regions.
3. Sustainable Home Loan Program (“Bioregional PACE”)
An innovative financing model enabling homeowners to invest in energy efficiency, water conservation, and renewable energy improvements. Adapting the proven C-PACE framework for residential use, the program combines community financing with equitable access.
Funding priorities: Seed capital for pilot revolving fund, design of underwriting and support tools.
Outcomes: Reduced emissions, lower household costs, green jobs.
Expansion potential: Integration with NJ municipal sustainability programs.
4. Community Economic Development through C-PACE
Leveraging Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) financing for local economic revitalization and job creation. CRCS provides education, project support, and municipal engagement to align private investment with public benefit.
Funding priorities: Outreach and training for municipalities, technical assistance.
Outcomes: Local clean energy investment, inclusive economic growth.
Expansion potential: Collaboration with the NJPACE Alliance and other state programs.
5. Capacity Building for Local, Bioregional, and Global Organizing
CRCS acts as a fiscal sponsor and incubator for regenerative initiatives worldwide. Current projects include the Design School for Regenerating Earth, offering training and coordination for global ecosystem restoration.
Funding priorities: Administrative capacity, micro-grant fund for sponsored projects.
Outcomes: Scalable support infrastructure for regenerative practitioners.
Expansion potential: Creation of a Regenerative Projects Incubator across bioregions.
- Ecorestoration Investment Trust (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZEI891Jl_MZZUp52fOZaJdkJ9SxO-9u4-nd5mg06iY/edit?usp=sharing)
A blended-finance vehicle designed to channel public, private, and community capital into ecological restoration and community resilience projects. EIT treats natural systems—forests, wetlands, soils, and watersheds—as productive assets, generating measurable ecological, social, and financial returns. Goal: To enable neighborhoods and communities to thrive while regenerating the region’s ecosystems, creating wealth that circulates locally, and fostering long-term resilience.
Funding priorities: Regenerative projects, including ecosystem restoration
Outcomes: Ecological restoration,community engagement, learning
Expansion potential: Integration with private impact funds and philanthropic investment networks.
II. Possible Planet: Research, Media & Cultural Transformation
7. Possible Planet: Pathways to a Habitable Future
A forthcoming book and multimedia project exploring the pathways toward a regenerative civilization—bridging science, philosophy, and practice. With a completed manuscript and companion research underway, this initiative seeks support for publication, distribution, and educational programs.
Funding priorities: Editing, production, public engagement.
Outcomes: Public awareness, systems thinking, educational resources.
Expansion potential: Workshops and courses co-hosted with CRCS and partners.
8. The New Transcendentalism (Research & Field Program)
An interdisciplinary project exploring ecological restoration as a pathway to human transformation. Featuring field events in the Genesee region and Panama, the program will produce peer-reviewed research and documentary films.
Funding priorities: Participant scholarships, event logistics, media production.
Outcomes: Cross-cultural learning, ecological restoration, scholarly output.
Expansion potential: Integration with university and NGO networks.
💠 Unified Vision
Together, CRCS and Possible Planet advance a holistic agenda:
- Local: Supporting regenerative homes, neighborhoods, and municipalities.
- Bioregional: Strengthening networks across the Genesee Finger Lakes.
- Global: Linking communities through shared learning and restoration.
Primary Focus Areas for Funders:
Climate Resilience • Ecological Restoration • Regenerative Economy • Community Empowerment • Transformative Education
Contact:
Center for Regenerative Community Solutions (CRCS)
Email: info@crcsolutions.org | Web: crcsolutions.org
Possible Planet — possibleplanet.org