Applicant Name: Nicole Reese

Applicant ETH Address: 0xaF8e9b1416Ff91D64b5C6602Bc950f24B786800b

Organization(s) or Affiliation(s): Terrenity, Regen Tribe, Global Ecovillage Network, Blue Dot Project

Why do you want to serve as an Expert Evaluator for the Localism Fund?

I've built a platform on local-scale societal redesign using regenerative community frameworks.

Designing collective ownership models to participatory systems, as applied to physical community hubs in the bioregions of Southern California, central Mexico, and Western Europe.

🪴 Grant-Making Expertise

Program Design & Management: ****2

Evaluation & Impact Learning: 1

Financial Strategy & Fundraising: 2

Governance Systems & Mechanism Design: 2

Experiences, Highlights & Evidence:

I was involved in grant making for an international nonprofit with chapters on every livable continent. As an org focused on regenerative community building with a wide and diverse network, they had high standards of inclusivity in stakeholdership. We wrote and budgeted for programming that supported locally focused groups to carry out their social impact work. We worked on research groups modeling new tools and frameworks for dealing with climate change adaptation in local community contexts. We managed ongoing data collection and sensemaking in a 2 year period for this project.