About Bloom Network
Bloom Network
Where local action changes the world.
This is where you find your people, and the people who've already figured out how.
Bloom was built by community organizers from around the world. Different roots, different places, all with real experience in what makes a community healthier and happier.
A seed library two blocks over. A repair café this Saturday. A chapter in Uganda that'll teach yours how they built a 5,000-farm cooperative. Find a chapter already doing this near you, or be the one who starts it.
Join 30,000 changemakers across 56 communities restoring land, building local food systems, and creating economies that care.
This is where you start, and grow!
Bloom is a verb. It's what happens when you stop waiting for permission and start where you live.
We've built 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 does the opposite.
Bloom Network currently operates as a nonprofit. As we transition the platform itself to be a cooperative owned and governed by its members, contributors, and local chapters, the nonprofit will remain to continue distributing grants to local communities.
This is already in motion. Members propose, discuss, and vote on the platform's future today.
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, new economics, community governance, and mentorship from chapters who've already done it.
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 56 communities across 17 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
Bloom's Economic Protocol
Platform revenue and grants flow directly back to the members and chapters creating this network
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: Communities invest their rewards in local enterprises, pay contributors who've been working without compensation, and shift spending toward neighboring farmers and makers. Money that arrives from outside the region stays inside it and multiplies.
How Bloom Sustains Itself
Bloom is built to be self-sustaining, not dependent on any single funder or revenue stream.
We generate revenue four ways:
- • Member subscriptions - individuals and businesses who support the network and access premium tools
- • Grants - from foundations and organizations backing community-led change
- • Partnerships & marketplace - values-screened brand placements, featured sponsorships, and affiliate commissions from products sold through the platform. We don't feature extractive brands. Partner with us · Browse the marketplace
- • Co-investment - we grow financially when the communities we serve grow
We're also raising $2M from aligned investors to reach the scale where these four streams sustain operations independently.
Every dollar Bloom makes is designed to flow back into communities - through Local Action Rewards, platform development, and chapter support.
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 every place has the freedom to come back to life, culturally and ecologically, where the wealth it creates stays to fund innovation and well-being, and the best ideas move freely between every community doing this work.
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
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.
The work is already happening. In 50 communities across 17 countries, people are restoring land, building food systems, and creating economies that keep wealth close to home. Bloom connects them, and the stories they're living, so every community can learn from what's working everywhere else.
We need you. Whether you're just learning or have deep expertise, your voice matters. When you fund it, more communities get the resources to go further.
Community members around the world
