By connecting the regenerative investing ecosystem, it can act at the scale the moment demands.
Inclusion Criteria: The regenerative network map includes organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, that are a network or community with a focus on impact or sustainable investing, finance, or the economy. Inclusion in this directory does not imply a regenerative certification or a collaborative relationships with Regenerative.
Definitions and Frameworks
Innovative finance includes a wide array of approaches to managing capital and ultimately resourcing enterprises and interventions that create positive social and environmental outcomes.
The social economy encompasses a variety of legal entities that share the objective of systematically putting people first, producing a positive impact on local communities and pursuing a social cause.
The Circular Economy is a model of resource production and consumption that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling materials and products to extend product life cycle for as long as possible.
The Doughnut of Social and Planetary Boundaries (the Doughnut) offers a visual monitor of progress towards the goal of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet.
Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying and place-based set of principles, processes, and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy.
The Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) is an alternative to capitalism and authoritarian, state- dominated economic systems. In SSE ordinary people play an active role in shaping all of the dimensions of human life: economic, social, cultural, political, and environmental.
Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets.
A Wellbeing Economy is an economy designed to serve people and the planet. Rather than treating economic growth as an end in and of itself, a Wellbeing Economy puts our human and planetary needs at the centre of its activities, ensuring that these needs are all equally met, by default.
An economy that serves people and nature, now and for future generations
Restorative Economics centers on the healing and restoration of vulnerable communities who have been marginalized and oppressed by a polluting and extractive economy, by investing in strategies that create shared prosperity and self-determination for a just transition to the next economy.
Regenerative economics, as defined by the Capital Institute, is an approach that redesigns our economic and financial systems to emulate the universal patterns and principles of healthy, sustainable living systems.
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About Us
We are connective tissue between impact and funder networks, for-profit and non-profit. We are the shared map and meaning, structurally independent so we serve the whole. By connecting the regenerative investing ecosystem, it can act at the scale the moment demands.
Connect
Amplify the work of existing impact and funder networks for visibility and collaboration across the sector.
Act collectively
Connect and engage impact and funder networks towards alignment and collective action.
Reflection
A safe space to constructively challenge assumptions and move the field toward concrete action.
Upcoming Next Economy Events
Step into the rooms where the future of the new economy is being shaped. Discover impact investing and regenerative economy gatherings, both in-person and online. These events are a gateway to build meaningful connections and find your place in the movement.
In March 2027, the Just Finance Gathering will bring fund managers, investors, foundations, and allies together to accelerate the shift of power toward community-rooted capital funds. Grounded in the themes of Rest, Resources, and Resilience, the Gathering will offer space to connect, recharge, and strengthen our collective work through shared knowledge, practical learning, and relationship-building.
A four-day in-person course on new economic thinking — open-minded, pluralistic, and grounded in practice. For professionals, facilitators and leaders who sense that the economy is changing, and want the concepts, cases and confidence to work with that change.
Toniic's annual global gathering will be on the Costa Brava coast in Spain. The days are built to deepen relationships through collaborative sessions, field time and shared meals — all of it shaped around what we're trying to build with our capital and what it would take to get there.
This webinar will explore how Indigenous leadership and values are shaping the future of impact investing and community wealth building. Join us to learn how our T25 funds are creating opportunities for economic empowerment, cultural preservation, and sustainable community development.
Join us for our December Meet the Funds Webinar featuring our 2026 T25 Funds! For the month of December, we will explore community ownership and discover how collective stewardship and shared economic power can create more equitable, resilient, and thriving communities.
NEF is a convening space for everyone who envisions a socially and ecologically just economy. It is a space for those who are actively trying to create just economies in their lives, communities, and businesses by expanding and unfolding human potential and development.
Reading Room
Discover key reports and foundational research driving the impact investing and new economy movements.
The following collection charts the trajectory and ups-and-downs of the Community WealthBuilding model and approach in the intervening period, as it has progressed in fits and starts, experienced setbacks and challenges, and moved forward across geographies, incrementally or in great leaps and phase-changes.
Taxonomies are science-based and create standardized definitions across themarket to help companies, investors, and lenders make more efficient and informed investment decisions.The Canadian taxonomy is a voluntary tool to identify what projects and economic opportunities arecredibly aligned with the country’s path to achieving net zero emissions by mid century.
For the second year in a row, the WWF EconomicForum, this year in collaboration with the StockholmResilience Centre (SRC), presents a report on the interplay between nature and the economy. This year’sreport explores possible pathways toward a sustainable economy within planetary boundaries, how thesepathways complement and challenge one another,and how they contribute to a resilient economyin which both people and nature can flourish.
For foundations, impact investing offers the promise of moving beyond grant dollars to dramatically increase the flow of capital into the solutions we care about. Yet, impact investing remains a niche activity among foundations. We believe Impact investing is doable for foundations of every size. This report, “Our Journey Toward Mission Alignment,” shares nearly two decades of work and charts our learning and progress along the way.
In 2026, Earth4All conducted our third G20survey with Ipsos. Following our previous surveys on the global commons and planetary stewardship, this time we wanted to understand social cohesion and social tension - important factors in building momentum for transformation. People across the G20 want their economiestransformed, but they no longer trust theirgovernments to achieve this change.
Corporate insights on the value of science-based targets for nature, addressing nature-related pressures is a strategic investment in business continuity and development, supporting long-term performance in a landscape of increasing resource constraints and rising stakeholder expectations.
Designed to help you move from intention to implementation, this guide introduces a practical framework to identify where you are in your impact investing journey, what questions you should be asking, and what resources can help you as you build a strategy that uses capital across all forms to create lasting, meaningful change.
Kataly Foundation's investment philosophy is to divest from state-sanctioned violence and to nonextractively reinvest our assets into communities in ways that build their political, economic, and cultural power. We strive to ensure the Foundation’s mission not only pertains to our grantmaking, but to our investment strategy as well.
This paper challenges one of the sector’s most persistent myths: that impact-first funds are inherently inefficient. The data show the opposite.
The Roadmap puts forward a toolkit of concrete policy measures that offer a vision and strategy for building a global economy that places human rights, ecological justice, and participatory governance at its center.
This paper models how declining returns to labor and rising unemployment could ripple through consumption, tax revenue, mortgage and corporate debt, equities, pensions, and insurance assets - and ultimately diversified investment portfolios.
This strategic brief provides evidence-based framing to connect jobs with broader economic justice. The brief equips communicators to articulate how the 1% rigs the economy—and how collective worker action can successfully unrig it.
How rethinking retirement savings could help us ensure wellbeing for all.
Mapping the Private Wealth System is an invitation to see, understand, and reimagine how private wealth shapes our world.
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