THE NEXT CHAPTER: RIPPLES OF REGENERATION, INC

Dear Community,

In 2015, when New York State banned fracking, I experienced the power of organizing across silos - from nurses to farmers, from meetings in the neighborhood library to the State Capitol and picnics at KanatshioharEke Mohawk Community. “That’s how it goes in the Great Turning,” we say in a Work That Reconnects ritual that calls forward what is going well and how we are showing up for each other in these times. This movement was an example of “Holding Actions,” as in organizing but also as in “to remain secure, intact, or in position without breaking or giving way.”

How do we secure a future and create life-sustaining infrastructure? How do we keep water cycles intact? How can we hold our morals without giving way to something that is not for the good of all?

We continue with these questions, we seek answers, and we have some and then we have none, and then some… We work and pray hard that what we are doing is enduring and regenerative, that our life brings more wholesome life to this beautiful and cruel world. We "find the helpers and build our rough weather networks" as beloved ancestor Joanna Macy advised us, because it won’t be possible to survive otherwise, individually nor collectively.

Which is why I founded Ripples of Regeneration, Inc. — A Social Impact Organization based on the belief that when people have access to climate education, storytelling, and incubation support, they are better equipped to hold actions, sustain life-giving practices, and create enduring networks.

The mission of Ripples of Regeneration is to cultivate the cultural, educational, and relational conditions needed for communities to restore watersheds, renew water cycles, and steward water and humanity as a shared, life-giving commons.

Through our work on Water is Love, a clear pattern emerged: while interest and motivation to restore local water systems is widespread, many communities — particularly in rural and climate-vulnerable regions — lack access to sustained educational resources, peer support, and project incubation needed to move from inspiration to implementation. Ripples of Regeneration was created to address this gap by strengthening the cultural, educational, and relational infrastructure that enables regenerative water work to take root.

​Our Board Members will support:

• Releasing a mini-series and interview archive from the Water is Love production (coming soon!)

• Ensuring that Water is Love continues to reach communities, networks, and activists around the world

• Offering online and in-person workshops, like Healing Our Inner & Outer Landscapes.

• Developing documentary film projects as Creative Stewards, offering our skills and capacities as a fiscal sponsor and consulting on production and impact campaigns - We already have a few projects in the flow - including a documentary about the harms of Lithium Mining in Portugal.

• (MAYBE converting the animation into a children’s book - no promises but we want to!)

  
  

We are so excited for what is in store as we move forward with our work - and as a 501(c)3 in California with a Global audience & projects, we need your help!

You Can:

1 Become a Sustaining Donor

Your monthly contributions provide the stability we need to keep our operations running. Our minimum monthly program costs are $500 just to support the Water is Love documentary having a presence online. In this year alone, we’ve already invested around $1,000 for the bare-bones necessity of being in compliance as a non-profit. Right now, we are breaking even with monthly expenses, through program income (such as screening fees) and a few small donations each month. As we initiate and launch the non-profit, our operating costs will increase significantly. And so will our capacity!

2 Sign up for the Ripples of Regeneration, Inc newsletter where we will share more about our upcoming initiatives & projects.

3 Join the Board!

• Do you have experience as an environmental or fundraising professional?

• Do you know how to oversee an organization's operations?

• Are you excited about figuring out how to support non-capitalist/non-extractive businesses/endeavors in strategic plans for sustainability?

• Do you have the patience to cultivate a nascent non-profit?

• Do you have abundant resources (time, funds, connections) that you would like to overflow into this important work?

• And most importantly, do you have passion and care for regenerating landscapes, communities, economies, and biodiversity through water work?

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If you’re interested in becoming part of the team, send us an email to contact@ripplesofregeneration.earth

4 Become a Major/Founding Donor

Your significant gift will directly enable the expansion of educational offerings, incubation support for artists and community-led initiatives, and storytelling platforms that connect local knowledge to global audiences. These investments strengthen the connective tissue needed for long-term, place-based water stewardship and climate resilience. As a founding donor with an invitation to be on the board, you become a key partner in our mission. We hope to raise $200,000 of seed money this year to cover basic operational and programming costs and establish our roots through 2026.

Please reach out to Emily at contact@ripplesofregeneration.earth and she will be happy to share our business proposal & budget with you.

5 Connect us with people who would support us. Community is everything and we love to expand our network of collaborators. Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think would be a fit for us.

As I finish up this letter to you, I think of Joanna Macy's teachings on Faith, Power, and Deep Ecology in World as Lover, World as Self.

One of the discoveries, she says, of Deep Ecology is "the discovery of what can happen through us. If we are the waters dancing, then the force that evolved us from those waters carries us forward now and sustains us in our work for the continuance of life."

May our work and life continue, for all the generations,

Emily C Bishop Founder & Director Ripples of Regeneration, Inc