Скачать или смотреть MASTERCLASS 49: Fundraising Alternatives for Permaculture and Regenerative Projects

Are you looking for inspiration for raising funds for your permaculture or regenerative project and want to explore new and innovative ways to generate the support you need for your project to come alive and thrive?

Funding is a perennial question so we are dedicating this month's permaculture masterclass here at the Permaculture Education Institute entirely to responding with a gathering of people experienced in supporting permaculture projects around the world in quite different ways and at different scales.

The Panel:
MORAG GAMBLE: ETHOS FOUNDATION

Morag Gamble is the Executive Director of Ethos Foundation and the Permaculture Education Institute. She funds permaculture projects every week in a grassroots people-to-people approach - cultivating direct relationships between the recipients, herself and the community of supporters through forums, perma-culture events, storytelling and educational programs. The Ethos Foundation directly supports local leaders and sends 100% of donations directly to East African refugee settlements and communities of youth and women farmers. Through crowd-funding and relationship building using digital platforms and the culture of permaculture, Morag has raised support for thousands of people to receive free locally-adapted permaculture education, creating a dozen Permayouth hubs, developing learning farms, a grandmother's care farm, as well as tools, seeds and resources. Ethos Foundation was the host of the Youth in Permaculture Prize in 2022 in conjunction with Abundant Earth Foundation, Permaculture Magazine and Lush Spring Prize.

RENATA MINERBO: BE THE EARTH FOUNDATION

Renata Minerbo is Head of Philanthropy of Be The Earth Foundation. Renata, an architect from Brazil, is passionate about nature and collaboration and started her activism career in 2009. Previously as a social entrepreneur, she accumulated a lot of experience in engaging and empowering diverse communities while transforming collective spaces with participatory methods with her company Acupuntura Urbana. For 12 years she worked on the ground and trained other changemakers within the Warriors Without Weapons international programme, so they could use these participatory tools to lead the change in their own environments. She’s one of the trustees and is Designing and running programmes, as well as finding new relevant partnerships, she’s passionate about the peer learning journey around trust-based philanthropy.

JAMES ATHERTON: THE LUSH SPRING PRIZE

James Atherton, based in Oxford UK, coordinates Re:Fund, and the The Lush Spring Prize - a £200,000+ prize fund and other support activities run in collaboration between Lush Cosmetics and Ethical Consumer, with an aim of growing capacity for those repairing the earth’s damaged systems and leaving the world lusher than they found it. The 2023 Lush Spring Prize awards will be announced in May 2023, and include two special collaborative prizes with Be The Earth Foundation and the Permaculture Magazine.