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# Our Story
Ma Earth is part of a growing movement responding to the call of our time — to care for the living world.
We are living through a convergence of ecological, social, and economic breakdowns. And yet, across the planet, communities are restoring land, protecting watersheds, cultivating food systems, and tending ecosystems. Indigenous knowledge holders, local stewards, and grassroots leaders carry forms of care that have sustained life for generations.
The challenge is not a lack of solutions. It is a lack of flow.
An estimated $1 trillion per year funding gap prevents regenerative and community-led initiatives from accessing the resources they need. Most financial systems were designed for extractive industries and short-term returns — not for the stewardship of living systems.
The flow of resources has been dammed.
Ma Earth exists to restore the current.
### The platform is now live!
Ma Earth has launched its collective funding platform, purpose-built for community-led regeneration.
Our inaugural platform round, opening in May 2026, will direct approximately $500,000 in matched contributions to more than 100 community grassroots land and ecological projects worldwide—the largest round we’ve run to date.\
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Prior to this launch, our community distributed over $400,000 to more than 50 regenerative projects worldwide through two pilot rounds. Now we are building the platform for regeneration to ripple outward.
#### Funding Rounds
Each round opens the flow to community-led projects spanning land restoration, watershed protection, regenerative agriculture, reforestation, and more. Community crowdfunding is multiplied through matching pools meaning the more people who participate, the greater the share each project receives. Many small streams become one powerful current.
[Learn more about funding rounds.](/resources-for-land-stewards/about-funding-rounds.md)
#### Verifiable Impact
Built into the platform [Hypercerts](/ma-earth/our-technology/hypercerts.md) and impact attestations create verifiable records of restoration on the ground, while evaluators track ecological outcomes in real time. Together, these tools help resources flow through a funding ecosystem built on transparency, trust, and collective coordination.
#### Learning Lab
To further support land stewards, we offer [Learning Lab](https://luma.com/maearth?period=past), an online space to share workshops and cultivate community. At Learning Lab, we’re asking the question: *What practical tools and guidance can help support land regeneration?* Together, we explore real use-cases for environmental technology (such as monitoring, reporting, verification), traditional ecological knowledge practices, and useful frameworks from farmers, ecological advocates, and regenerators.
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### Where we began
Ma Earth began by listening and learning through [The Regeneration Will Be Funded](https://maearth.com/studio?offering_equal=The+Regeneration+Will+Be+Funded), an interview series exploring regenerative finance and pathways toward a life-affirming economy. To date, we’ve hosted over 150 conversations with leading voices across philanthropy, land stewardship, climate investing, technology, policy, and more.
Ma Earth has been catalyzed by the team at [Biome Trust](https://biometrust.earth/), a philanthropic foundation in service to ecological health and wellbeing. Much of our learning has been at [Mangaroa Farms](https://mangaroa.org/), a living laboratory for regenerative agriculture and community resilience.
### Who’s weaving this together
Ma Earth is a distributed, global effort with a core team, a constellation of extended collaborators, and a growing network of partners, all in service of the same current. We’re grateful for every hand in this weaving. To learn more about the people and organizations behind the work, visit our [team page](https://maearth.com/about).\
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Ma Earth Foundation is established as a tax-exempt foundation in Zug, Switzerland, with Ma Earth Labs AG operating the platform. Ma Earth US is a program hosted at [Commonweal](https://www.commonweal.org/). The platform is built in partnership with [Hypercerts Foundation](https://hypercerts.org/) and draws on a growing constellation of regenerative finance tools and open digital infrastructure.
### Restoring the flow
Ma Earth envisions a world where the economy shifts from extractive to regenerative, transactional to relational, from commodifying the living world to revering it. Where prosperity is measured not by accumulation, but by the vitality of the watershed.
Ma Earth is an invitation to collective stewardship. Small acts of care, multiplied across communities and landscapes, have the power to shift the whole.
> "When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." — Ilya Prigogine
Together, we are restoring the flow. So that in a time of cascading crises, regeneration can take root everywhere.
**Join us.**
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