KinHubs
The Living Network of Our Economy
Across continents, watersheds, and languages, Indigenous communities are weaving a new world — one where economy is an ecosystem, and value flows through relationship, care, and reciprocity.
From Uganda’s Lake Victoria to Nigeria’s Niger Delta, from Ecuador’s Andes–Amazon corridor to Aotearoa’s Bay of Plenty, and across the Eastern Woodlands of Turtle Island, these KinHubs form a planetary field of coherence — a STREAM of Value Creation flowing back into the Earth.
$5M for Generations of Land and Life Restored
As we embark on a new generation of proof of concept with Kinship Finance we set a new target: $10 million to complete the Indigenous Systems infrastructure needed move money back to living systems.
We are a practice-based movement. Our impact and lessons arise in participatory design between KinHubs and Indigenous Praxis Labs where we set our own inquiries and hypotheses.
Ultimately, we are making the case for Indigenous Knowledge as a new standard of rigor in impact measurement and reporting.
A KinHub is a place where ancestral memory and modern innovation meet. Here, leaders and community members reimagine economy and governance as acts of care, guided by the wisdom of their lands and ancestors.
Our Commitment to KinMakers
When you join our effort to flow the first $5 million back to life and land:
$3.5M goes to strengthen KinHubs—community-led centers of multi-cultural regeneration, led by Indigenous principles, and
$1.5M to advance critical infrastructure: Kinship Financing Facilities and BioCultural Praxis Labs, and
You deepen a relational journey with us- opening opportunities to contribute to strategy, networking and retreats that delve into your own ancestral wisdom and repair. See KinMakers
KinHubs: Living Labs, Rooted in Culture and Place
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Uganda Buddhist Centre (UBC)
Restoring Harmony Between Humanity and Mother Nalubaale, Lake Victoria
• Bioregion: Lake Victoria (Nalubaale)
• Funding Goal: $ 2 M
• Primary Focus: Securing land along Imperiled wetlands, Center for African Medicine and Healing
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KinRay Hub
Indigenuity Tensegrity Lab — Transboundary Soil and Water Health Governance for AgriFood Systems Futures
• Bioregion: Andes & Amazon, Ecuador
• Funding Goal: $0.50M
• Primary Focus: Biocultural food, tek, Indigenous systems design
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No Loose Braids (NLB)
Reviving Eastern Woodlands bioculture and freshwater stewardship (Nipi) across Nipmuc homelands
• Bioregion: Eastern Woodlands, Turtle Island
• Funding Goal: $1 M
• Primary Focus: Imperiled Cedar wetland, youth/family resilience, land-based education
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Kebetkache Women’s Development & Resource Centre
Women Arts for Indigenous Biodiversity — Restoring the Sacred Relationship Between Women, Land, and Water
• Bioregion: Niger Delta, Nigeria
• Funding Goal: $0.25M
• Primary Focus: Women-led biodiversity restoration, cultural repair
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Papamoa Whenua Resilience
Restoring Balance and Revitalising Whenua in the Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa
Bioregion: Bay of Plenty, Aotearoa
Funding Goal: $1.0M
Primary Focus: Regenerative infrastructure, Māori land governance
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Kiwaatule-2030
Tusimbudde! We’ve set off — growing together from struggle to joy in Obuntu
Bioregion: Nalubaaga Wetland Valley, Kampala Urban Basin (Uganda)
Funding Goal: $2M
Primary Focus: Legal and digital infrastructure, land restoration
How the STREAM flows
20% of each KinHub’s raise circulates back into the Indigenous Commons — the living financial architecture that powers the GrandMothering Economy itself.
This ensures that each investment doesn’t just fund individual projects, but also strengthens the infrastructure of reciprocity and protection that sustains all KinHubs.
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These are the learning engines of the GrandMothering Economy — inter-tribal hubs for research, ceremony, and design.
They document ancestral technologies of care, governance, and biocultural metrics, ensuring that each KinHub is supported by shared learning, data, and ritual protocols.
→ Value created: KinHubs access technical, spiritual, and cultural innovation in real time — scaling collective intelligence across regions. -
A regenerative financing pool designed by and for Indigenous stewards. It channels relational capital — philanthropic, community, and blended finance — to fund KinHubs and emergent initiatives.
→ Value created: KinHubs gain access to low-barrier, values-aligned funding without extractive terms. They remain financially sovereign while being supported by a shared treasury of trust.
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The movement arm of the GrandMothering Economy — nurturing networks of donors, allies, and community stewards through ceremony, storytelling, and shared governance.
→ Value created: Each KinHub becomes part of a global alliance that amplifies visibility, attracts new partners, and generates collective power for systems change.
Together, these three systems form the core current of reciprocity — ensuring that money flowing into any one KinHub becomes nourishment for all.
Collective Impact
(2026–2028 Projection)
500,000+ hectares of land and water under Indigenous regenerative stewardship.
25% increase in restoration of keystone species habitats (cedar, mangrove, wetlands).
10,000+ trees and 100,000+ native plants restored across all five bioregions.
Reduction of 60+ kt CO₂ emissions through wetland, forest, and agroecological restoration.
Environmental
Regeneration
Direct livelihood or food security benefits for ~1.5 million people globally.
Improved child and maternal nutrition through regenerative food systems in Ecuador and Uganda.
150 youth apprenticeships created in traditional knowledge, land care, and restoration.
Hundreds of families stabilized through food sovereignty and mutual aid programs in Turtle Island and Africa.
Cultural & Economic Transformation
5 Indigenous biocultural economies operationalized — each blending traditional governance with regenerative finance.
STREAM value metrics (Sacred Space, Time, Relationship, Energy, Attention, Matter) applied across all KinHubs.
4 new cultural and learning centers anchoring intergenerational knowledge and livelihood.
Global relational learning network connecting 40+ Indigenous-led organizations and 30 academic and policy partners.
Human &
Social Wellbeing
A Theory of Value
Returning Money to Life
Kinship Economy is reciprocity in motion — returning financial, spiritual, and relational capital to the land, waters, and peoples who sustain all life.
Each dollar raised flows through the STREAM’s six channels of value creation:
Sacred Space – creating sanctuaries and coherent places of connection.
Time – honoring cyclical, non-linear development.
Relationship – repairing social and ecological bonds.
Energy – regenerating the capacity to give and receive.
Attention – guiding awareness and narrative toward care.
Matter – investing in physical assets that sustain life.
When these six converge, money transforms back into meaning — and the STREAM begins to flow freely again.
Join the Movement
Your partnership helps ignite a planetary field of regeneration — where ancient law and modern design meet in the work of healing.
By funding the first five KinHubs, you help establish the world’s first planetary Indigenous economic network.
20% of every gift circulates back through the Indigenous Commons, ensuring your contribution keeps giving — nourishing all KinHubs through shared knowledge, finance, and movement power.
