Water Carriers
Ensure the life-stream never dries up
Collaborate with finance innovators and Indigenous Systems Designers on a financial ecosystem rooted in kinship and protection.
In 2026 we move the flow of $5M to three tributaries:
Kinship Financing Facility
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This participatory financial vehicle patches together a diverse set of nature and life-positive assets stewarded and improved by KinHubs, into crystalized outcome measures, trackable through a Kinship Regenerative Value Index (KRVI)
Investment flows into the Kinship Trust to be governed according to Indigenous economprotocols.
KinHubs & Praxis Labs
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KinHubs in critical regions participate in governance and research innovations for community & market.
Working directly with KinHubs to define value and outcomes arrived at through biocultural knowledge of and relationship with place, back to balance.
GrandMothering Participatory Trust
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A legal body that holds land and cultural rights on behalf of the community and issues “KinPact” — a kind of community share in the value created.
Invest for Impact 2026
After 5 years of Indigenous Systems R&D we’re ready to raise the shield, a field of value creation rooted in the communities where all life is sacred.
First we nurture the seed beds — setting up the legal, technical, and cultural infrastructure that makes the whole ecosystem thrive. This is a painstaking and careful process. It is not the glory of the harvest, it is the tending of the future health of generations to come.
This flow comes in initial grants and participatory notes, to reach our $5 Million launch threshold.
As a 2026 Water Carrier You Support:
Legal and governance frameworks (Co-op, Trust, and data/identity systems)
Capacity for regional KinshipHub/Praxis Labs
The data infrastructure for a Kinship Regenerative Value Index
An 18-month operating foundation for Indigenous Design & Governance
Innovations, Green Shoots:
Kinship Regenerative Value Index
Instead of GDP-style metrics, KRVI tracks:
Ecology – biodiversity, water, fire risk
Wellbeing – poverty, mental health, belonging
Norms – participation, reciprocity
Stories – ceremonies, cultural expression
When these indicators rise, financing automatically converts into community benefit.
A Multi-Sectoral Bridge
Indigenous peoples care for most of the planet’s biodiversity, but our work is undervalued and underfunded. KFF will enale companies, families and governments seeking to fulfill their commitments on the major climate and humanitarian interests of our time - by offering a personalizable and responsive planetary mainframe for investment.
Governance & Safeguards
Elders, women and two spirit folk hold exclusive authority over sacred assets.
An Indigenous Grandmothers Economic Forum in 2026 will grow the network and establish long-term protocols.
Quarterly and ad hoc Embassy gatherings at KinHubs keep the system adaptive and community-led.
Reciprocity in Action
KinMakers are a part of the body and architecture that lets money “remember its responsibilities.” This isn’t a typical fund chasing returns — it’s a living financial commons that turns money back into life, culture, and shared prosperity.
Early investors join as KinMakers and co-designers, not investors — helping to shape a global Indigenous-led financing model grounded in reciprocity, care, and belonging.
ReImagining Wealth
When projects succeed — cleaner water, restored forests, stronger community wellbeing — the money converts into shared community value such as KinPact Units, to be leveraged by Guardians and KinMakers alike. No value leaves the commons.
