Regenerative Design Institute

What Regenerative Design Institute does

Regenerative Design Institute is a non-profit organization headquartered in Bolinas, California, that delivers education, programs, and skill training focused on regenerative design. Its online presence is maintained at regenerativedesign.org. The organization is classified as a private non-profit with no publicly traded shares and no disclosed parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliated entities in the available data.

The institute's documented scope is limited to its educational and training mandate. No information is available regarding its specific curriculum content, course catalog, instructor base, learner demographics, pricing structure, programmatic outcomes, or operational scale. There is no evidence of proprietary technology, digital learning platforms, or technology-enabled product offerings within the supplied material, and no management roster, headcount figure, or leadership biography is provided. As a non-profit education provider, the implied revenue model would rely on donations, grants, and program fees, but no financial disclosure, donor base description, or fee schedule is included in the input.

The available data for this entity is unusually thin: only firmographic descriptors — name, company type, location, short description, and website URL — are supplied, with all management_team, investments, funding_rounds, mergers_and_acquisitions, restructuring_and_leadership_changes, and regulatory_actions fields returned as empty. A substantial portion of the supporting input block contains detailed information about Commonweal, a separate Bolinas-based non-profit organization with a different mission and a different web domain; that material is not treated as evidence about Regenerative Design Institute in this analysis. This data sparsity constrains the depth of analytical conclusions that can be drawn, and the description above reflects only what the firmographic inputs directly support.

Name

Regenerative Design Institute

Legal name

Commonweal

Website

https://regenerativedesign.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Regenerative Design Institute is a Bolinas, California-based non-profit organization that delivers education, programs, and skill training in regenerative design. It maintains an online presence at regenerativedesign.org and operates as an independent private non-profit entity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regenerative Design Education and Training

NAICS

Landscape Architectural Services (541320), Other Specialized Design Services (54149)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Ecological Restoration Planning & Monitoring (Habitat, Wetland, Stream) (EUAHAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Landscape Design, Build & Installation (Hardscapes/Softscapes) (BPABADAF), Historic Preservation & Conservation Planning (BPAHAKAH)

Keywords

• Regenerative design education
• Permaculture training
• Sustainability skills
• Ecological design programs
• Regenerative agriculture courses

Headquarters

HQ city

Bolinas

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Contributions: Commonweal is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that relies primarily on donations from individuals, foundations, and charitable contributions. The organization accepts one-time donations, monthly recurring donations, and annual gifts.
2. Estate Planning and Planned Giving: Commonweal encourages supporters to include the organization in estate planning. The organization also accepts contributions of land, houses, and other objects of value.
3. Program-Specific Donations: Donors can support individual projects or programs within Commonweal's portfolio of approximately 30 programs, including the Cancer Help Program, Collaborative for Health and Environment, Healing Circles Global, and others.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Regenerative Design Institute is a non-profit institute based in Bolinas, California, that offers education, programs, and skill training focused on regenerative design. The institute develops and delivers learning experiences aimed at building practitioner capacity in ecological, land-based, and regenerative design practices. Its offerings emphasize hands-on skill-building, place-based learning, and community-oriented training for individuals seeking to apply regenerative design principles.

Product overview

Commonweal is a single unified organization (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit center for healing, resilience, and justice) founded in 1976, not a software product or technology platform. Rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture, Commonweal offers a portfolio of distinct programs and facilities. The core programs include the Cancer Help Program (offering week-long retreats for people with cancer since 1985), the Collaborative for Health and Environment (CHE, environmental health science communication), and the Commonweal New School (podcast and learning community). Supporting programs include Healing Circles Global, Omega Resilience Awards, The Resilience Project, GoCompassion, Center for Ethical Land Transition, Natura Institute for Ecology and Medicine, West Marin Climate Action, and the Retreat Center Collaboration (which includes the Racial Healing Initiative). Commonweal also operates physical facilities including the Commonweal Retreat Center in Bolinas, California, a second location on Whidbey Island, Washington, and Gallery Commonweal. Programs focus on integrative cancer care, environmental health, youth arts education, polycrisis resilience, land stewardship, racial healing, and prison hospice care. The organization has almost 30 programs total spanning health, environment, youth, arts, polycrisis, integrative medicine, and education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Regenerative Design Education Programs

Quantifiable outcome

• 230+ cancer retreats conducted over 40 years
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, moderate and minor.

• UCSF Industry Documents LibrarycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025CHE collaborated with the UCSF Industry Documents Library and other organizations to help establish the Center to End Corporate Harm, supporting researchers in countering industry intimidation.
• Center for Environmental Health (CEH)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2021Because Health, created at Commonweal under Karen Wang, was transferred to CEH in 2021 to continue its mission of environmental health education for mainstream audiences.
• Center for Environmental Health (CEH)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommonweal and CEH have been close partners in environmental health and justice work for more than two decades. Because Health was transferred from Commonweal to CEH. CEH CEO Michael Green and Commonweal founder Michael Lerner are close friends and colleagues.
• Cascade InstitutemoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Cascade Institute, directed by Thomas Homer-Dixon, was named a recipient of an Omega Resilience Award Research Grant. Commonweal's adoption of 'global polycrisis' terminology influenced the Institute's framework.
• Sustainable Economies Law CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLegal team partner working with Commonweal's Center for Ethical Land Transition and the Winnemem Wintu tribe to develop solutions for non-federally recognized tribes to secure land titles.
• Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerPYE joined Commonweal bringing youth empowerment programs including Power of Hope and a network of 2,000+ creative facilitators worldwide. PYE's leadership is exploring deeper collaboration with Commonweal programs.
• Platform Impact Leaders FellowshipmoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerA year-long fellowship for mid-career nonprofit and social change leaders of color, providing facilitated retreats, peer leadership circles, and executive coaching.
• Whidbey InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInitial connection with PYE occurred at a gathering at the Whidbey Institute about the future of earth's environment and climate justice.

Scale indicators13 records

Direct peers

• Findhorn Foundation: Scotland-based intentional community and education center focused on holistic living, sustainability, and spiritual practice; comparable as a long-running nonprofit combining place-based programming with global education and ecological values.
• Esalen Institute: Long-running California holistic education and retreat center founded in 1962; directly comparable as a coastal California-based nonprofit offering workshops, retreats, and personal transformation programming with similar place-based healing positioning.
• Omega Institute for Holistic Studies: Major holistic education and retreat center in Rhinebeck, NY; comparable as a nonprofit offering workshops, retreats, and integrated learning across wellness, arts, and social change with a similarly diverse programmatic portfolio.
• Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health: Yoga, wellness, and retreat center in Stockbridge, MA; comparable as a retreat-based nonprofit offering programs on healing, mindfulness, and personal transformation with overlapping retreat programming model.

Emerging players

• Pachamama Alliance: San Francisco-based nonprofit combining indigenous wisdom with environmental sustainability; comparable for its land stewardship, climate action, and indigenous solidarity programming that overlaps with CELT and West Marin Climate Action.

Broad incumbents

• Bioneers: California-based nonprofit focused on breakthrough solutions for pressing environmental and social challenges; comparable for its convening role in resilience, environmental health, and indigenous knowledge work.

Others

• Fetzer Institute: Michigan-based private foundation funding spiritual and social transformation work; comparable as a major institutional funder closely aligned with the subject's healing, justice, and resilience focus and a direct current grant provider.
• Center for Environmental Health: Oakland-based nonprofit focused on environmental health advocacy and corporate accountability; directly comparable as a longtime partner organization, with Because Health and CHE programs transferring between the two entities.

Regional players

• Whidbey Institute: Whidbey Island, WA-based retreat and learning center focused on equity, ecology, and education; directly comparable as a fellow Whidbey Island organization partnered with the subject on climate justice convenings.
• Hollyhock: British Columbia-based retreat center offering personal growth and social change programming; comparable as a place-based nonprofit retreat center serving a similar audience focused on transformation and learning.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CommonwealCA
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/regenerative-design-institute
• Instagraminstagram.com/commonwealbolinas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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