Build the Financial Architecture your Bioregion needs
The Bioregional Financing Facility (BFF) Game is a collaborative strategy exercise where participants step into the roles of investors, communities, public institutions, philanthropies, project developers, and ecosystem stewards to design financing architectures capable of funding resilience at the scale of a whole bioregion.
How the
Game works
1. Choose your role
Step into the shoes of a different institutional actor with unique objectives, constraints, and resources. Try to imagine and embody their perspective,
Every role has different powers and forms of capital to contribute.
2. EXPLORE THE LANDSCAPE
Discover a bioregion full of projects needing financing to build systemic resilience that benefits everyone. Projects vary in readiness, risk profile, and financing needs.
3. DEPLOY YOUR CAPITAL
Contribute different forms of capital to support projects and unlock possibilities.
No single participant can finance the transition alone.
4. BUILD THE FINANCING ARCHITECTURE
Use Pattern Cards to combine mechanisms and design the right mix.
Create the structures and mechanisms that resource projects long-term.
5. STRENGTHEN THE WHOLE BIOREGION
See the resilience and regenerative capacity of a whole place grow.
When the system is strong all stakeholders can thrive over time.
What’s in the Box?
- Role Cards
- Principle Cards
- Capital Tokens
- Project Cards
- BFF Pattern Cards
- Facilitation Guide
- Printable Map Template
Download the Resources [coming soon]
Print at home
Access high-resolution PDFs for self-printing.
PROFESSIONALLY PRINTED EDITION
Order a high-quality printed version suitable for workshops, teaching, and collaborative design sessions.
FACILITATION RESOURCES
Download guidance for running sessions from 60 minutes to full-day strategic workshops.
Who is it for?
- Bioregional teams working on the design of their BFF to inspire more possibilities.
- Investors and funders to learn about bioregional and place-based financing and understand better some of the knotty issues in it.
- Multi-stakeholder workshops and events to explore the topic of bioregional financing conceptually.
- Academics and teachers who want to further the research and education around Bioregional Financing Facilities.
What learning to expect?
- Understand why isolated projects often fail to secure funding despite strong local and resilience value.
- Explore how different forms of capital can be coordinated rather than treated in isolation.
- Experience the trade-offs and opportunities in building a Bioregional Financing Facility.
- Develop a shared language for place-based investment and long-term stewardship of a bioregion.
Reach out!
If you have questions or thoughts about the game and its underlying methodology, feel free to reach out to our team.
Leon Seefeld
Capital Systems Lab
Dark Matter Labs
