About Bloom Network
Where local action changes the world.
Join 30,000 changemakers across 40 communities restoring land, building local food systems, and creating economies that care.
Our story: Bloom began in 2008, sparked by the Occupy Movement, Arab Spring, and visions from plant medicine experiences for the future of society. Before algorithms divided us, we gathered for in-person skill shares and deep dialogue - artists, business and community leaders, government workers, and visionaries united by one belief: we can do this together.
Kampala, Uganda
Türkiye
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Our Mission & Vision
🌍 Mission: To connect people, projects, and businesses doing the work of healing communities and land - and help them go further, faster.
🌟 Vision: A world where power flows back to the people and places that need it most - and communities everywhere have the freedom to flourish.
Bloom is a verb. It's the act of expressing yourself, forming healthy relationships, and scaling your success in ways that uplift everyone around you.
Who Bloom is For
Bloom connects the people who make change happen, through local chapters at the center.
What Bloom Gives You
Find your people
Your town has more people like you than you think. Find them and do something great together!
Get on the map
Discover local projects, businesses, and initiatives near you, who are building the world you want to see.
Share what you're great at
Contribute to inspiring projects and companies who need you.
Get rewarded for your work
No grant applications. Document your work, demonstrate your impact, and Bloom rewards it.
Learn as you go
Permaculture, local economics, and community governance - knowledge shared by people with deep experience.
Trade locally
Exchange goods and services using community currency that keeps value circulating close to home.
Build the Economy You Believe In
Find the customers, collaborators, and visibility that your work deserves - in a community already building the world you're working toward.
Own what you build
Co-own the platform. Vote on its future. Share in what it creates.
It's Already Happening!
In 40 communities across 14 countries, Local Bloom chapters are already achieving remarkable transformations. Here's what they're doing:
🌊 Watershed Restoration
Texas Panhandle
- 280+ leaky weirs built
- Native perennials planted
- 350+ community members educated
Diamante Bridge Collective, Costa Rica
- Greywater installations
- Zero waste program
- Watershed-protecting economy
🌱 Local Food Systems
Broadfield Enterprises, Uganda
- 5,000-farm cooperative
- 100,000+ children trained
- National curriculum integration
Los Higuerones Cooperativa, Costa Rica
- Farmers markets (50+ people each)
- 50%+ household income for vendors
- Complementary currency system
💚 Ecosystem & Culture Protection
Tribes and Nature's Defenders, Mindanao
- 500 hectares rainforest protected
- 50 sacred caves safeguarded
- 300 tribal members benefited
Rifai Sicilia, Italy
- 2,800+ trees planted
- 100+ people educated
- 5,000 aromatic cuttings
🏛️ Bioregional Economies
Diamante Bridge Collective, Costa Rica
- 200+ projects connected
- 1,000+ people hosted
- Community economy established
Earthist, Turkey
- 4,272 acres regenerative cotton
- 35 local farmers engaged
- 35 tons hemp cultivated
These are just a few examples from our network. Every one of these started with someone deciding to act where they live.
"Bloom is a live-action demonstration of people weaving the fabric of mutual support, not against things, but for each other's autonomy and well-being."- Tricia Stapleton, Cooperativa Los Higuerones
The most important news isn't on CNN. It's in communities like yours.
Most media is optimized for fear. Fear keeps you scrolling. Scrolling keeps you passive. Passive keeps you consuming.
Bloom is built on the opposite principle. Our feed shows you what communities around the world are building - solutions you can learn from, replicate, and scale where you live. Watersheds healing. Food systems growing. Economies that keep wealth close to home.
This is a deliberate choice about what deserves attention, and who holds the power to act on it.
How Communities Get Funded
Bloom channels grant funds and cooperative profits to the communities doing the work. No lengthy grant applications, just you documenting the work your community is doing, so people everywhere can learn from and support it.
This is called Retroactive Public Goods Funding, and it's how we're building self-sustaining local economies.
How It Works
- 1. Communities take action: watershed restoration, food systems, ecosystem protection, and more.
- 2. They document their impact: in plain language, on their own terms
- 3. Peers verify the results: transparent, community-led
- 4. Funding follows: distributed quarterly, proportional to contribution
- 5. Wealth circulates locally: Members use local treasury funds to invest in community businesses, exchange goods and services through the time bank, and build the kind of local economy that lifts everyone up - not just those at the top.
Proven at scale:
- • $26,600 distributed to 120 participants across 34 communities
- • 32,464 hours of regenerative work documented and compensated
- • $543,920 worth of labor rewarded at grassroots scale
- • $4 in fees and 30-second settlement for international payments (vs. $1,000+ and 3+ days with traditional banking)
Funds flow directly to the communities doing the work - transparently, "on-chain", with minimal fees.
We're building something the internet has never seen.
Most platforms are built to extract - your attention, your data, your community's value - and send it to shareholders you'll never meet.
Bloom is built to do the opposite.
We're a nonprofit today, and we're transitioning to a platform cooperative, meaning the people who build this network will own it. Members, contributors, and local chapters will hold real stakes, vote on real decisions, and share in what Bloom creates.
This is already in motion. Members propose, discuss, and vote on the platform's future today.
We believe the only way to build a network that genuinely serves communities is to make sure communities genuinely own it.
How Bloom Sustains Itself
Bloom makes money three ways:
- • Grants - from foundations and organizations who believe in community-led change
- • Affiliate marketing - values-aligned partners only
- • Co-investing in local businesses and supply chains - we grow when communities grow
We're raising $2M in cooperative-aligned capital to reach the scale where these revenue streams sustain everything. Unlike extractive platforms, every dollar Bloom makes is designed to flow back into communities.
Ready to Bloom?
When you join Bloom, you get: access to a network of 30,000+ changemakers, funding opportunities through Local Action Rewards, project templates and support, and a platform to amplify your work.
We need you. Whether you're just learning or have deep expertise, your voice matters. Join thousands of changemakers who are already building the world we want to see.
- Volunteer your skills
Apply your expertise to work that matters. Build real relationships along the way.
- Subscribe and learn
Access solutions, stories, and education from a global community of practitioners.
- Start a Local Bloom chapter
Get comprehensive support, resources, and funding to launch where you live.
Put serious capital behind proven, community-led change.
Community members around the world
