Describes regenerative finance and illustrates current efforts to make it work.

"Regenerative finance meets this moment. It integrates various types of capital — investments, loans, grants and more — to give social enterprises, community-led projects, and restorative cultural and environmental initiatives financing that’s tailored to maximize their success. It takes a holistic approach, accounting for interlocking causes and effects. And it deploys capital more equitably by eliminating repayment terms and collateral requirements that extract resources from communities — revising exclusionary credit standards, involving core stakeholders in decision-making, and otherwise rebalancing the scales of economic control. Finally, regenerative finance transcends the transactional: It’s relationship based — an attribute that may sound impractical but actually opens the door to all of its other qualities."

by Jasper van Brakel published in Sustainable Brands

HT Gayle Peterson