Funding Partners

If you fund regenerative change, or help draw resources to it by writing grants or building funding partnerships, a Living Lab offers a different kind of partnership: support that follows a community's own pace, and learning told in the community's own words. In MAGICommons' Code of Resonance, funding partners wear the Wellspring Bringer hat: resourcing the network, without shaping what grows.

Trust-based resources.

  • Grants, gifts, or other support, offered with trust and flexibility, so communities can follow what emerges rather than a fixed plan.

  • Support that can flow to one Living Lab, to several, or to the network as a whole, as you choose.

  • Reporting kept light: we aim to share the community's living story, rather than ask communities for separate reports.

Patience across seasons.

  • Support that follows a community's own pace, ideally over several seasons rather than a single funding cycle.

  • Room for quieter seasons of rest and integration, which are part of how communities renew.

Opening doors and shaping proposals.

  • Finding opportunities: grants, foundations, and partnerships aligned with a Living Lab's purpose.

  • Shaping proposals together with the community and its Stewards, so each request tells the community's story in its own words.

  • Connections to other funders, partners, and communities that might host a Living Lab.

  • Gatherings and advocacy that widen the web of support for regenerative vitality.

What you bring

Close to what grows.

  • The community's living story, season by season, as it unfolds.

  • Recognition as each community wishes, from a quiet thank-you to public credit.

  • Where a community welcomes it, an invitation to witness a Living Lab firsthand.

Impact in the community's own words.

  • Vitality Signal results and findings, where communities choose to share them.

  • Stories and voices shared with consent, so impact is told by those who lived it.

Transparency and shared learning.

  • An open account of how resources are used, in the annual stewardship note.

  • A place in the network's learning circles, alongside fellow Wellspring Bringers, to inform your own giving and the wider field.

What flows back to you

Resources nourish what grows; they never shape what a community's portraits say, and a community's data stays its own. How this is held, and the terms of each funding agreement, are set out in MAGICommons' IP co-stewardship terms.