{"title": "Magenta Ceiba Regen Citizen", "logoImg": "bafkreiafk7dswxsxmaui7arw6nr3sfx266dqwrfgvlgnnec5tvpx3xwfrm", "website": "https://bloomnetwork.earth", "bannerImg": "bafybeiflsyysbufilhgwczmjpfcndbabem2n6doe5uwpdnwzbxetc6ntlq", "createdAt": 1729533797034, "userGithub": "magentaceiba", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..-Lq2efKsyvHBXR3cpaZj18SumlQMJDeLEAXcsTPtzhbTTrKINn6uCgUpIHnzEZLP8mRRzRFFvaxsuXHXLgd1Ag", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-10-21T17:54:52.886Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-10-21T17:54:52.886Z", "expirationDate": "2025-01-19T17:54:52.886Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xe96056A9936C58e89D1703cF6bD97F134341EE44", "hash": "v0.0.0:4+bmRFw3QAuN3BC7bB5U89QnSCOraBa85iPHc6Vk+VU=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#BloomNetwork#38021350"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..941-NEwrHjHl1C4GGGuOYVF-ec8iTMMGj7hF-9sJ88NU40mlUkVuWf6X5P_APtxYl8E9opnxRHXYTNJlBxygAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-10-21T17:55:28.075Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-10-21T17:55:28.075Z", "expirationDate": "2025-01-19T17:55:28.075Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xe96056A9936C58e89D1703cF6bD97F134341EE44", "hash": "v0.0.0:a3bWS40cdiFeFLP5m+dxMR8QjFETXt5aa16VXfBXsp4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#OurBloomNetwork"}}}, "description": "**Catalyzing Regeneration for Over 25 Years**\n\nFor more than two decades, I have been a driving force in the global regenerative movement, dedicating over $500,000 worth of unpaid labor to create lasting impact across arts, technology, ecology, and justice. Despite living below the poverty line since 2009, I have worked relentlessly to transform global culture and establish the infrastructure needed for sustainable, place-based economies.\n\nThrough my efforts, Bloom Network's social platform is active at[ www.bloomnetwork.earth](http://www.bloomnetwork.earth), showcasing regenerative progress across local nodes worldwide. I seek recognition and tangible support for both myself and Bloom Network to significantly expand our regenerative impact and accelerate critical systems transformation across all continents.\n\n*If my work has touched your life meaningfully, please share your thoughts on Twitter, tag me @magentaceiba and link to this grant page.*\n\n**Bloom Network: A Platform for Global and Bioregional Change**\n\n[Bloom Network.earth](https://bloomnetwork.earth) is the culmination of my work, providing  a social platform for communities to share regenerative practices, document local impacts, and collaborate globally. **Owned and governed by grassroots organizers, it challenges extractive media models by directing capital and resources to on-the-ground communities, prioritizing local empowerment and regenerative action.**\n\nI have designed and developed core features of Bloom Network, creating an economic model that channels revenue from consulting and marketing directly to DAO-led communities. This unique approach fosters peer-to-peer support and accelerates transformation at the local level, empowering diverse movements to collaborate and share knowledge.\n\n[![bloom-Leaders-For-GG22.png](https://i.postimg.cc/nhns4MsM/bloom-Leaders-For-GG22.png)](https://postimg.cc/vcSHMYtd)\n\n*Three of my heroes in Bloom: [Charles Mugarura](https://bloomnetwork.earth/uganda-jinja), biz genius!, [Datu Lanelio Sangcoan](https://bloomnetwork.earth/mindanao) (center), tribal chief of the Higa-onon in the Philippines, and [Flávia Macêdo](https://bloomnetwork.earth/view/distribution-of-agroecological-food-9e1d8aefd922), leader of a successful regional currency project in Brazil. Hyperlinks are to their impact reports on Bloom showcasing their work.*\n\n# Operational Support: \n\nSince 2011, I have provided daily support to local regenerative organizers worldwide, achieving key outcomes:\n\n\n-  **Financial and Strategic Support**: My advisory work has connected organizers with funding opportunities and provided business development guidance, leading to **over five stable regional-scale regenerative economies in Uganda, the US, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil.** I also serve as a spiritual counselor to grassroots organizers worldwide.\n-  **Leadership Transition Plan**: I coordinated voluntary teams of dozens of high level professionals to develop Bloom’s social platform, designed by local regenerative organizers. Where we did not have money or talent, I upskilled to cover frontend code, design, grants and administration.  *We are now shifting leadership to[ specialized teams](https://bloomnetwork.earth/bloomers-without-borders) in community, marketing, software, finance, and administration, to expand Bloom's impact.*\n-  **Path to Revenue Sustainability**: Bloom Network is positioned to become revenue-positive with the right capital investment, enabling us to hire or coordinate volunteers to grow the media and marketing efforts. **Our network has been a driving force in the regenerative and bioregional movements for decades.**\n\n\n# R&D Since 2009\n\nI developed a sustainable business model for grassroots organizers aiming to build regenerative communities, addressing current climate and economic crises to enable marginalized groups to scale impactful solutions. This model serves as an intervention point to leapfrog extractive “impact capitalism” and establish permanent, place-based, regenerative economic systems at both bioregional and global scales.\n\nI lived in a gift economy for seven years, engaging with community organizers globally to understand their needs and gap, leading to the creation of financial mechanisms that empower local regenerative work. I architected Bloom’s Regenerative Economic Protocol, combining retroactive public goods funding with mechanisms to kickstart bioregional economies, enabling us to scale impactful climate solutions.\n\nI managed Bloom Network’s first Local Action Rewards funding round, incentivizing [75+ impact reports](https://bloomnetwork.earth/communityposts) from local organizers worldwide, distributing $15,000. It features integration with [https://www.inverter.network/](https://www.inverter.network/), [Capsule Wallet](https://www.usecapsule.com/), and [Karma GAP](https://gap.karmahq.xyz/), streamlining reporting labor for grassroots leaders and increasing their visibility for Web3 grants.\n\n\n# Cooperative DAO Governance: \n\n**I co-wrote Bloom's open source decentralized governance model, which supports community-owned infrastructure across sectors like food, energy, and housing.** Our cooperative framework, detailed in the [whitepaper](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xZFoS7EHlmPfnAKAOHdbK0FTHBMSrItO/view?usp=drive_link), is adaptable for other shared infrastructure needs, from manufacturing to local government. This involved over a decade of research, active participation  in multi-stakeholder funding collaboratives, and obtaining several certifications in governance and economics. \n\n\n# Scaling Up for Broader Impact\n\nTo achieve Bloom Network's full potential, we need resources to expand our team and bring on experts in media, marketing, and revenue development. I seek support to continue scaling our regenerative systems and bring our innovations to a broader audience. Together, we can catalyze transformative change at local, industrial, and global levels.\n\n**This is a massive, Earth changing approach to what a social media company is.** This approach was designed by grassroots leaders through profound relational processes, including guidance from Plant Teachers and Indigenous elders. I orchestrated their visions together into a sustainable business model, alongside the invaluable operational support of Meg Rivers, who balances her contributions as a single mother working full-time, and Danibelle Gennety’s leadership in land-based governance and development, counsel governance, and her experience in global telecomms project management. They are Bloom’s fellow nominees in the Gitcoin Citizens Round.\n\n\n# My Local/Bioregional Work & Its Impacts\n\n**I’ve been a local community organizer for 25 Years.** In the San Francisco Bay Area, I fostered collaboration between artists, activists, and technologists through events like the **HiveMind Event Series**, which blended elements of a hackathon, festival, and church. \n\n[![9010122-orig.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/NMZ9m4Tw/9010122-orig.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/DJdwK1BC)\n*Chris Tittle, [Sustainable Economies Law Center](https://www.theselc.org/), leading a workshop at HiveMind at Cloud9.*\n\nNotable outcomes: \n\n-  **Diverse movement leaders shared resources and  methodologies to advance their missions and businesses.**\n-  **Decriminalize Nature Movement**: Facilitated connections that led to the successful decriminalization of plant-based entheogens in 10 cities, with over 100 cities engaging in similar policy efforts.\n-  **Regen-Pilled Benjamin Life:** He started [OpenCivics](https://opencivics.substack.com/about) after the last HiveMind.\n-  **Bioregional Organizing in the Northeast U.S. or Dawnlands, the Wabanaki name for this region**: Building a bioregional finance facility in collaboration with Design School for Regenerating Earth and the BioFi project. \n\nFeedback from events I’ve produced has been overwhelmingly positive: “life-changing,” “the most generative gathering of the pre-COVID era,” and “the most high-value gathering I’ve ever attended.”\n\n**Global Advocacy and Governance**\n\nSan Francisco has served as a global hub for activists, and I frequently spoke at events, sharing solutions and strategies from local Bloom nodes while learning from diverse leaders in community organizing, Indigenous activism, and business innovation. These learnings continue to inform my capacity-building work with local Bloom nodes.\n\nAdditionally, **I trained for three years with Radical Women in women’s leadership and decentralized governance**. I now apply these principles to build decentralized finance tools, including a grants tool for the Ethereum Foundation, and supporting various groups in developing their governance protocols.\n\n# The outcomes of my work empower communities to regenerate their economies, sustain local businesses, and promote decentralized, nature-based governance.\n\nOur team has answered the question: *“How do you make a social network that helps diverse subculture movements share knowledge and resources across different aesthetics and political differences, so the general public can find them and participate, while channeling revenue to place-based regenerative communities instead of advertisers and political manipulators?”*\n\nI invite your recognition and support to rapidly scale what we know is working well among  regenerative nodes around the world! Please share this grant, and generously make introductions to people you think would want to be involved as partners and catalysts. 🙏", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectGithub": "BloomNetwork", "projectTwitter": "ourbloomnetwork"}