A Swiss-rooted platform, linking networks globally for a regenerative economy. 

Who's in it

Our Network.

The regenerative network list 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.

Primary Focus
Member compositions
Ecosystem Builders, Policy & Research
Fund & Asset Managers
Investment & Wealth Advisors
Institutional Allocators
Capital Owners & Private Wealth
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Mission Investors Exchange

Mission Investors Exchange is the leading member network for foundations and impact investors dedicated to using their capital for social and environmental good. We provide a platform for learning, collaboration, and networking to help our members develop and implement effective mission-aligned investment strategies. Our mission is to accelerate the growth of the impact investing field and to maximize the positive impact of philanthropic capital.

Swiss foundations - Finance Working Group

Founded in 2001 as a joint initiative of foundations, SwissFoundations is the most important association of charitable grant-making foundations in Switzerland

Philea - Beyond Grants

Philea nurtures a diverse and inclusive ecosystem of foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good.

Impact Investing Institute

The Impact Investing Institute is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to transforming capital markets to support a fairer, greener and more resilient future. We work to grow and strengthen the impact investing market, raising awareness, building expertise and advocating for policies that unlock private finance for public good.

With Life

The With Life Collective is an online learning community that gives you unlimited access to self-paced and live online courses and offerings from Capital Institute and nRhythm, our founding content partners. Build your capacity to regenerate the systems you're a part of.

Wellbeing Economy Alliance

The Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) is the leading collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working towards a Wellbeing Economy, delivering human and ecological wellbeing. We were born in 2018 as a time-bound project to catalyse a transition towards a Wellbeing Economy by promoting radical connection and collaboration between different actors of the new economy ecosystem, so we can achieve impact larger than the sum of our parts.

Transition Network

Transition means change — a shift from one way of living to another. The Transition Towns & communities Movement, which began in Britain and Ireland in 2006, has since grown into an international network of communities spanning 67 countries. It envisions a world where every individual can become part of a supportive community, feeling safe, welcomed, and empowered to thrive. It is only at the level of community that we are able to imagine and create resilient and thriving living conditions that actually work within a turbulent transition era. We can’t rely on others anymore. Transition emphasises local, community-led actions. It explores new ways we can work together to create communities that are fair, strong, and healthy for everyone.

The Economy of Francesco

The Economy of Francesco is a global movement of young economists, entrepreneurs, and changemakers who are working to build a more just, sustainable, and inclusive economy. Inspired by the vision of Pope Francis, we seek to develop an economic model that prioritizes the poor and the planet. Our mission is to foster a dialogue between generations and to promote a new economic thinking that leads to a more humane and fraternal world.

The Cooperative for the Common Good

The Cooperative for the Common Good emerged from a civil society initiative that formed in 2010 in response to the last major financial crisis. In Austria, we are the largest newly founded cooperative in recent decades, based on membership. Our shared goal of aligning our monetary and financial system with the common good continues to unite over 4,000 people in German-speaking countries. The cooperative as an organizational form and its internal structures reflect our self-conception as a civil society, democratic, and participatory initiative: It is important to do the right thing in the right way!

RIPESS

IPESS is an intercontinental network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring. The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels.

REVES Network

Founded in 1996 , REVES is the European network promoting partnerships between cities/regions and the social and solidarity economy . Jointly with its members, it pursues the objectives set out in the REVES charter , in order to stimulate and accompany the transition to a fairer, more inclusive, participatory and responsible society all over Europe.

Regenerative Economies Organizing (REO) Collaborative

The Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative (REO) aligns funders and movement leaders to build frontline power and accelerate the transition toward regenerative, just, and equitable local economies.

List of Glossaries about Regenerative Economy

European Commission Social Economy Definitions and Glossary
Better Society Capital Glossary
Mission Investors Exchange Glossary
Participatory Investment Glossary of Terms
Social Investment Jargon Buster
Boston Impact Initiative Glossary of Terms
Runway Roots Essential Terms for Economic Justice and Social Impact Investing
Trust-based Philanthropy Glossary of Terms & Phrases
Impact Terms
Post Growth Glossary

Definitions used in recent policy documents that generally align, although there may be slight variations in nuances.

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Industry jargon and terminology can be confusing. While we make a conscious effort to use language that is simple to understand and use, in some cases this can be difficult. This glossary provides definitions for some of the key terms and phrases used in social impact investment. It is not intended to be definitive.

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Glossary created by Mission Investors Exchange, the leading impact investing network for foundations.

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A PDF and page dedicated to providing common language for terms found in the social investment industry.

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Glossary created by Boston Impact Initiative, a nonprofit impact investing fund and certified Community Development Finance Institution focused on entrepreneurs and impact fund managers advancing economic justice and community development.

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This glossary of terms serves as a foundation for our collective journey, defining key concepts that reflect our values and the theories and frameworks that influence our work.

By articulating these definitions, we invite you to explore the principles of reparative capital, equitable financing, and impact investing through a lens of justice and Black liberation.

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This handy guide provides a compilation of the most commonly used terms and phrases used in the context of trust-based philanthropy.

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A free curated library of innovations in impact investing terms and investment structures, available to entrepreneurs, investors and impact professionals.

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The Post -Growth Institute is an international organization accelerating the world’s shift to a society that thrives within ecological limits. They’ve curated a glossary of post-growth terms.

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Definitions and Frameworks

Social Economy
Circular Economy
Doughnut Economics
Climate Justice Alliance
RIPESS
The Democracy Collaborative
Wellbeing Economy
Partners for a New Economy
Restorative Economics
The Capital Institute

The social economy encompasses a variety of businesses, organisations and different legal entities. They share the objective of systematically putting people first, producing a positive impact on local communities and pursuing a social cause.

Social economy organisations can include non-profit associations, cooperatives , mutual societies, associations and foundations and social enterprises.

The social economy business models aim at reinvesting most of the profits back into the organisation and/or a social cause, and having a participatory/democratic form of governance. Social economy is known to be anchored at local level and to foster socio-economic cohesion by promoting values such as solidarity, participation and cooperation. Social economy business models operate in a large variety of economic sectors and are therefore linked with other industrial ecosystems.

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Circular economy (CE), or circularity,[1] 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.[2][3][4] The concept aims to tackle global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution by emphasizing the design-based implementation of the three base principles of the model. The main three principles required for the transformation to a circular economy are:

  • designing out waste and pollution,
  • keeping products and materials in use, and
  • regenerating natural systems.[5]

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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.

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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. This means approaching production and consumption cycles holistically and waste-free. The transition itself must be just and equitable; redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for the future through reparations. If the process of transition is not just, the outcome will never be. Just Transition describes both where we are going and how we get there.

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Definition of Social Solidarity Economy according to RIPESS members (Extract of the Global Vision for a Social Solidarity Economy: Convergences and Differences in Concepts, Definitions and Frameworks, paper released by RIPESS in 2015 as part of a process of dialogue conducted between the continental member networks since 2013): The Social Solidarity Economy is an alternative to capitalism and other 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. SSE exists in all sectors of the economy production, finance, distribution, exchange, consumption and governance. It also aims to transform the social and economic system that includes public, private and third sectors. SSE is not only about the poor, but strives to overcome inequalities, which includes all classes of society. SSE has the ability to take the best practices that exist in our present system (such as efficiency, use of technology and knowledge) and transform them to serve the welfare of the community based on different values and goals.

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Articulated by the Democracy Collaborative in 2005, Community Wealth Building (CWB) is an economic development model that transforms local economies based on communities having direct ownership and control of their assets. It challenges the failing approaches that have been widely accepted in economic development for too long, and addresses wealth inequality at its core.

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In a Wellbeing Economy, our definition of societal success shifts Beyond GDP growth to delivering shared wellbeing. This involves a fundamental systems change. A good economy is when the rules and incentives are designed to ensure everyone has enough to live in comfort, safety, and happiness. When people feel secure in their basic comforts and can use their creative energies to support the flourishing of all life on this planet.

When we thrive in a restored, safe, and vibrant natural environment because we have learned to give back as much as we are given. When we have a voice over our collective destiny and find belonging, meaning and purpose through genuine connection to the people and planet that sustain us.

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Nwamaka Agbo’s Restorative Economics framework 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.

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The Capital Institute is a non-partisan think tank working to create a more just and sustainable way of life by building the foundation for a regenerative economy. Together with their global ecosystem of 2000+ change makers, they combine modern science, storytelling, and the knowledge of timeless wisdom traditions to illuminate the path from an extractive economy to an emerging regenerative economy that supports the long-term well-being of people, planet, and business.They have developed 8 principles of a regenerative economy.

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About Us

Learn about Regenerative Network

We are connective tissue between impact and funder networks, for-profit and non-profit. We are the shared map and meaning, the neutral ground, structurally independent so we serve the whole. By connecting the regenerative investing ecosystem, it can act at the scale the moment demands.

What We do

Our work.

Connect

Ecosystem Visibility

Amplify the work of existing impact and funder networks for visibility and collaboration across the sector.

Act collectively

Coordinated Action

Connect and engage impact and funder networks towards alignment and collective action.

Reflection

Critical Friend

A safe space to constructively challenge assumptions and move the field toward concrete action.

Our Aims.

To mobilise capital from foundations for impact investing and participatory grantmaking.

To encourage investors to move towards genuinely, net positive, regenerative investing.

To share regenerative deal flow.

What guides us

Our Values.

Service

Amplify the work of existing impact and funder networks for visibility and collaboration across the sector.

Courage

Connect and engage impact and funder networks towards alignment and collective action.

Collective Value

A safe space to constructively challenge assumptions and move the field toward concrete action.

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