Benefits/What you Gain
Whether you're nominated or applying yourself, joining Localism means becoming part of a community working toward similar things across the Fraser Lowland.
Not everyone will receive project funding, but everyone who participates gains support, connection, and resources for the work they're already doing.
We think about support through eight different types of resources - what permaculture designers call "capitals." Real change draws strength from many sources at once, not just money.
Material Capital
Tools, infrastructure, and tangible support
Access to online spaces and shared tools (Discord, documentation systems, community platforms).
Help and support for your projects - particularly for those carrying out March projects, but also available beyond these.
Connections to local spaces, resources, and tools through other participants.
Natural Capital
Deepened relationship with place
Guided exploration of the Fraser Lowland as a living system - not just a backdrop for your work.
Support for grounding projects in local land, watersheds, ecosystems, and climate realities.
Growing ecological understanding through peer learning and systems mapping.
Opportunities to align your work with restoration, resilience, and care for the more-than-human world.
Social Capital
Trust, relationships, and mutual support
Entry into a carefully held community of people doing meaningful work across the region.
Connection with collaborators, mentors, stewards, and allies.
Practice in cooperation, collaborative decision-making, and shared governance.
Belonging to both a regional network that continues beyond the pilot and a growing global community using similar approaches.
You don't have to carry the work alone.
Intellectual Capital
Ways of thinking that scale wisdom, not burnout
Exposure to systems thinking, frameworks for understanding complexity, and bioregional approaches.
Learning through shared sensemaking, pattern recognition, and peer exchange.
Tools for mapping complexity without losing nuance.
Language for describing your work in ways others can understand and support.
Experiential Capital
Learning by doing, together
Hands-on practice designing and carrying out real-world projects.
Experience working in time-bound, supported project cycles.
Skills in facilitation, collaboration, documentation, and reflection.
Understanding of what actually works in your local context.
Knowledge that lives in practice, not just theory.
Cultural Capital
Stories, symbols, and shared meaning
Participation in a playful, story-rich approach to change-making.
Contribution to emerging regional stories of care and resilience.
Shared practices of reflection, celebration, and storytelling.
Strengthening of values rooted in care, reciprocity, and creativity.
Spiritual Capital
Why you're doing this work at all
Space to reconnect with purpose, meaning, and inner alignment.
Opportunities for reflection, grief, hope, and renewal - held in community.
Recognition of change-making as a path of becoming, not just producing.
Support for showing up as a whole person, not just a role or resume.
Financial Capital
Resources to act, not just ideas
For selected participants: $2,500 in direct project funding, delivered transparently.
Experience working with funding models tied to values, trust, and community accountability.
Increased visibility that can open doors to future funding, partnerships, or opportunities.
Understanding of how resources can flow in regenerative, place-based ways.
Not charity. Not extraction. Resources as nourishment.
A Different Kind of Wealth
This isn't just about outcomes - it's about building capacity.
By participating, you gain:
- Stronger roots in place
- Deeper trust in community
- Clearer purpose
- More ways to act, adapt, and care
This is wealth that compounds.
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