River Valley KinMakers CoLab
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River Valley KinMakers CoLab *
Repairing our life-centered economy from the ground up.
Calling-in
Friends connected across land by the Connecticut River and her tributaries—
We recognize the gifts that sustain life—and the people who steward and tend them.
Life is valuable. The way we understand our economy should reflect that.
Every day, we are already engaged in caregiving, land stewardship, mutual support, and shared responsibility. These activities form the true foundation of our economy, even when they go uncounted or overlooked.
Over six months, we invite you to gather with us to listen, learn, and design together. We will explore how value can flow back to the people and practices that keep life going—so that our collective wealth can grow and overflow from the center like the watershed of our great river.
Across the Central Connecticut River Valley, people have cared for each other and the land for generations. These ways of caring still sustain life today.
Our mainstream economy does not recognize this care as value. But it lives in homes, in communities, and in our relationships with each other and the land.
KinMakers gather in these places to:
Bring to light the ways people support life
Strengthen the relationships that make this possible
Create pathways for resources to flow back to those who care for life
Over six months (May–November), community members, technical experts, and people who move money come together—shaping an economy that grows from care at its center.
KinMaker Roles
Systemic Investors
Folks who direct monetary flow—philanthropy, investment, or institutional capital to life.
Tech Magi
Rooted Wealth
Collectives already holding community through care, mutual aid, land, food, housing, or cultural practice.Individuals and organizations working at the edges of regenerative systems—technology, governance, data, coordination.
Falling in together…
Extraordinary farmland
Deep Indigenous life-ways
World-class institutions
Entrenched inequality
High potential, fragile food systems
Capital that rarely circulates locally