About Bloom Network
Your local-first social network for creating bioregional economies that care for people and place.
Join 30,000+ members in 40 communities who are restoring watersheds, building local food systems, and creating cooperative economies. Here, you'll find the people, resources, and support to turn your vision for a better world into reality - starting right where you live.
Our Mission & Vision
🌍 Mission: To connect people, projects, and businesses to rapidly scale initiatives locally, bioregionally, and globally.
💡 Vision: To create a world where social media participation directly leads to regenerative community action, where local stories inspire global change, and where every interaction on our platform contributes to healing our relationships with place, community, and planet.
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.
Everything You Need to Build Your Community
Bloom is a complete local-first social network designed to empower you to find your people and build your dreams. Our platform provides all the tools you need to connect, collaborate, and create change in your community.
Regenerative Economy Map
Discover local projects, businesses, and initiatives on an interactive map
Discover Your Community
Browse local events, projects, and actions in your area
Share Your Gifts
Connect your skills with community needs
Growth Support
Access project templates, guides, and community coaching to accelerate your work
Bloom Wiki
Learn about permaculture, regenerative economics, and community governance
Grants for Actions
Get funded for proven community impact
Trade with Your Community
Exchange goods and services using community currency
Grow Your Impact Business
Find customers, partners, and marketing support in a values-aligned network
Own & Govern Together
Co-own the platform and vote on its future
Our Ecosystem
Bloom brings together people in your community, impact entrepreneurs, and funders who want to support systems change - helping them find each other, share resources, and create lasting change together.
This Isn't a Dream. It's Happening Now.
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 transformation started with people like you taking action where they live.
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 humanity, we gathered through in-person skill shares and deep dialogue - artists, business and community leaders, government workers, and visionaries united by a passion for thinking big and "doing it together".
Kampala, Uganda
Türkiye
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
"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
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 professional skills to transformational change and build meaningful connections
- Subscribe to learn
Access inspiring solutions, educational content, and join a values-aligned community
- Start a Local Bloom chapter
Get comprehensive support, resources, and funding to launch your community project
How We Fund Communities: Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Bloom uses Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) - a revolutionary model that rewards proven impact rather than proposals. Unlike traditional philanthropy that requires lengthy grant applications, our regenerative economic protocol funds communities after they've demonstrated results on their own terms.
How It Works
- 1. Communities take action: Local Bloom Chapters organize regenerative work - watershed restoration, food systems, ecosystem protection, and more.
- 2. Impact is documented: Communities write impact reports documenting their work and measurable outcomes.
- 3. Peer verification: Reviewers verify the reports to ensure accuracy and impact.
- 4. Rewards distributed: Funding is distributed quarterly to individuals and Local Bloom treasuries proportional to their contributions (measured in FLO tokens).
- 5. Goods & services exchanged: Funds circulate back into local economies, supporting more regenerative actions.
Proven Results
- • $15,600 distributed to 120 participants across 34 communities
- • 11,464 hours of regenerative work documented and compensated
- • $343,920 worth of labor rewarded at grassroots scale
- • $4 total fees for international payments (vs. $1,000+ with traditional banking)
Key Benefits
- • No grant applications required—the money follows the work
- • Rewards proven impact rather than promises
- • Transparent, blockchain-based tracking of all contributions
- • Low-cost global distribution enables international reach
Learn more about Local Action Rewards →
Unlike extractive media platforms, Bloom channels financial resources directly into community projects, fueling real-world transformation and catalyzing economies.
How Bloom Makes Money
This is the question we get most.
Bloom is built to sustain itself while supporting local, community-owned projects. To reach that point at scale, we're securing $2M in cooperative-aligned capital to grow the platform and cover operating costs as revenue ramps.
Today, Bloom makes money in three simple ways:
- • Grants
- • Affiliate marketing
- • Investing alongside communities in local businesses and shared supply chains that generate real revenue
All three are active right now. As Bloom grows, these revenue streams fund operations, strengthen local economies, and help bring the practices you see on Bloom into the mainstream.
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Blooming in Los Mochis, Mexico