Kula Labs partners with organizations that are driving long-term, neighborhood-led initiatives. We are eager to provide tailored support through funding, resources, and strategic guidance to help our partners bring their visions to life in the following focus areas:

• Ecological Storytelling and Advocacy: Through compelling storytelling, educational content, and advocacy initiatives, your organization fosters a deeper belonging between people and their environment, driving collective action towards conservation and sustainability.

• Bioregional Regeneration and Neighborhood Development: Your place-based organization works to promote sustainable land management, restore water systems, and foster biodiversity. Simultaneously, local neighborhoods are supported in creating self-sustaining, nature-based solutions that enhance food security, water access, and provide regenerative livelihoods to the region.

Our collaborative approach strengthens the impact of each initiative, fostering sustainable growth and resilience into a regenerative enterprise in service of Earth. If your organization resonates with our focus areas and would like to receive our support, please get in touch with us, here!

partnerships

ReLocalize Creativity

ReLocalize Creativity is an open platform presenting a living global pattern repository, and sharing tools, skills and methods training. It is intended to enable creatively thinking together and acting together to relocalize patterns that are important to us. At Kula, we use the ReLocalize Creativity framework to see patterns in the systems we are a part of and determine the nature of our entanglements (if any) with patterns from other systems. Kula Labs itself can be seen as a pattern: one that observes, weaves, and supports other patterns in service of Earth.

Leads: Marc Pierson and Kerry Turner

For more, please visit Kula's ReLocalize Creativity FedWiki.

Awakening Lands

Awakening Lands is embarking on a journey of regenerative storytelling and movement building, working towards a happier and healthier way of being human on Earth. Pioneering the “Place Attunement Practices” the team has developed a way to build deep belonging and trust, identifying “gifts” that reveal ways for people to come together to regenerate a landscape, and themselves. When nurtured, these gifts can transform into regenerative projects and initiatives. Kula Labs aids in this process of tending to, by extending resources and support to the people or groups of people leading the initiatives. This organic, bottom-up approach ensures that the support is not only well-aligned but also well-timed.

Leads: Benji Ross and Anna Purpera

For more, please visit the Awakening Lands Substack.

Fertile Foods

Established in 2023, Fertile Foods is a sanctuary within the Roy Creek Watershed in Dripping Springs, Texas. The 23-acre property plays a critical role in preserving water quality and ecological balance at the headwaters of Roy Creek, which feeds into the Pedernales River and eventually supplies Austin with drinking water. Through sustainable land management, spring restoration, and the creation of a food forest, Fertile Foods is dedicated to revitalizing the ecosystem and ensuring a healthy, biodiverse future for and with its community.

For more, please visit Fertile Foods

Green Gate Neighborhood Development Center

In our neighbourhoods, we have largely forgotten how to take care of each other, how to grow our own food, how to build our own houses, how to protect each other, how to educate our children and one another, how to work together for and with people we know, how to care for our elders and children and less fortunate ones, how to be healthy, and how to take care of our place on the Earth.

Hosted at Green Gate Farms, the Neighborhood Development Center is a neighbor-led and inspired applied learning centre where we (re)learn how to belong with each other and nature. Our goal is to empower individuals and our Central Texas neighbors to develop a deeper connection to their local environment and work towards more sustainable and regenerative ways of living.

For more, please visit #RegenerateCentralTexas

Platform of Community Action and Architecture

POCAA is a platform for the exchange of knowledge, formed with a dream to create a network of communities in Bangladesh engaged in self-initiated community architecture. Through the process of "Let's co-create our community?", they facilitate community movement and empowerment by exchanging academic knowledge, available resources and living wisdom within their societal system. Together with POCAA, we are attempting to redefine the image of low-income communities and set examples of nurturing healthy, creative and sustainable environments with limited space and resources.

"What is Community?" with POCAA

For more, please visit POCAA.

Kula Labs offers a three-year fellowship to individuals inspired to do regenerative work in their neighborhood and landscape along the lines of our focus areas. We are interested in supporting individuals who have a bias towards action in their communities and those who are designing systems that can be replicated by folks in other landscapes around the world. If interested in joining Kula as a fellow, please fill out this form.

fellowships