Regenerative Self-Assessment

The Regenerative Self-Assessment is designed as an educational tool to help ReFi companies better align their impact and organisation with the principles of regenerative economics.

Upon completion, you will be provided with a score. As our goal is primarily educational, we will not make these scores public. Whether or not you share your results is your prerogative. You will also be given a badge that will display on your CARBON Copy company profile page.

The methodology behind the assessment was developed by Kate Bennett.

Company

Regenerative Impact

Is your focus primarily on positive change in the real world or on financial and economic activity?

Real-world impact

Elements of both

Financial and economic activity

Regenerative Impact

How do you measure your impact?

Holistically across social, economic, ecological, spiritual, cultural, and political domains

Using reductionist metrics

No measurement

tCO2-e is an example of a reductionist metric.

Regenerative Impact

Are the stakeholders impacted by your work able to negotiate for their own needs and contribute to the health of the whole or are you driven by a desire for action without consideration of those impacted?

Active participation

Some input

No consideration

Regenerative Impact

Are your beneficiaries considered underserved in society or are you just finding alternate ways to serve those who are already covered by existing mechanisms?

Underserved

Somewhat served

Already well served

Rural areas of developing and emerging markets are considered underserved. Urban areas of developing and emerging markets or rural areas of developed markets are considered somewhat served. Urban areas of developed markets are considered already well served.

Regenerative Impact

Do you aim to create a direct relationship between capital providers and beneficiaries or to maximise market efficiencies?

Direct relationship

Some intermediation

Market efficiencies

Reference: Regenerative Principle #1

If capital providers have a direct relationship with the beneficiary (i.e., making a purchase from a specific producer), select Direct relationship. If there is a degree of intermediation, select some intermediation. If capital providers are completely separated from real-world impact, select market efficiencies.

Regenerative Impact

Do your impact metrics take into account indirect impact on stakeholders not directly involved in your organisation’s work or are they purely quantitative in scope and only consider direct beneficiaries?

We measure indirect impact

Some consideration of indirect impact on stakeholders

Quantitative measurement and no consideration of indirect impact on stakeholders

An example of indirect impact on stakeholders is a community adjacent to a carbon project.

Regenerative Impact

Are you offering genuine, value-adding innovation or are you just adding complexity?

Novel innovation

Elements of both

More complexity

Leveraging technologies to enable access to financial services or markets that were previously inaccessible is considered novel innovation. Simply on-chaining off-chain assets is considered more complexity.

Regenerative Impact

Is there a strong degree of certainty that demonstrable real-world impact has been, is being, or will be delivered?

Yes, already evident

Strong indicators of evident impact

Unsure or hasn’t yet been proven

Regenerative Impact

How many forms of capital do you consider?

Multiple forms of capital

A few forms of capital

Just financial capital

For reference: Eight Forms of Capital

Regenerative Impact

Do you consider your impact across operational, direct, and indirect spheres?

All three

Two of three

Just one

Regenerative Impact

Do you allow for customisation or seek to standardise for scale?

Customised approach

Some level of customisation

Standarisation for scale

Customisation means allowing the flexibility to enable diversity and place-based approaches. Imposing a specific methodology or approach is standardisation for scale.

Regenerative Impact

Are your impact indicators and evaluation approaches differentiated according to location or is impact measured and evaluated the same way in every location?

Place-based impact metrics

Mix of metrics

Universal impact metrics

Regenerative Impact

Do you seek to collaborate across all sectors or work within your own?

Cross-sectoral collaboration

Some collaboration

Independent operator

Regenerative Impact

Is your impact achieved through co-creation and collaboration or imposed on others in the belief that it's best for everyone?

Co-created

Supported

Imposed

Regenerative Impact

Do you prioritise diversity and resiliency or do you reduce diversity in favour of standardisation and promote a free, unregulated approach?

Diverse and resilient

Somewhat diverse

Efficient and standardised

Regenerative Impact

Do your impact metrics focus on the depth of outcomes and duration as experienced by stakeholders or on maximum coverage and short-term, surface-level impact?

Both depth and duration

One of depth or duration

Maximum coverage

Regenerative Organisation

Are you a decentralised and distributed organisation that allows all members to be resourced, empowered decision-makers or is there a core team with a clearly defined hierarchy?

Fully decentralised and distributed

Some elements of both

Fully centralised and clear hiearchy

Regenerative Organisation

Does your roadmap include a goal to become a more decentralised organisation or do you intend to remain centralised with a defined hierarchy?

Clear roadmap to decentralisation or already decentralised

It's being considered

Will remain centralised

Regenerative Organisation

Do your organisation's governance, ownership, and financing models meet the needs of all within the means of the planet or is it driven by obligations for growth and returns?

Innovative models that meet the needs of all

Elements of both

Driven by obligation of growth and returns

Innovative models include companies which are self-funded or organically developed through grant funding, donations, and/or revenue-based approaches and operate in harmony with needs of beneficiaries and the environment.

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation share the value created with all who created it or do the investors, owners, and founders benefit disproportionately?

Equitable distribution to all directly involved in value creation

Some value is shared

Investors, owners, and founders benefit disproportionately

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation create spaces for abundance, resilience, and impact to emerge from the interdependent contributions of all stakeholders or does it attempt to plan, curate, and limit the space for emergence?

Organic spaces supporting organisational resilience of and the emergence of new ideas

Some space for engagement and contribution but still heavily curated

Lacks unforced, organic space for stakeholders to engage, contribute, and/or co-create

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation seek to redistribute power to improve equity among stakeholders or is power still retained by those with greatest resources, access, and/or technological capability?

Seeks to balance power and equity

Some attempts at equitable distribution of power

Power retained by a privileged few

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation create the conditions for all members to grow and thrive in conjunction with organisational health or does it restrict the regenerative capacity of the individual?

Strong culture of personal growth and wellbeing

Limited focus on personal development and wellbeing

No culture of personal development and wellbeing

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation simultaneously focus on the following three lines of work: Developing Oneself (Inner Work), Growing the Capability of a Community or Team, Improving the Health and Value of the System?

All three

Two

One or none

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation recognize and respect the complexity of deep interdependence of all stakeholders, including competitors or does it seek to acquire, compete, and control?

Engages vertically and horizontally to identify and build mutually beneficial interactions

Aware of interdependency, but still favours competition and control

Tendency toward acquisition, competition, and control

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation promote diversity, participation, collaboration, and reciprocity or is it largely homogenous?

Diverse team and active, collaborative community

Some diversity and activity

Homogenous team and/or community

Regenerative Organisation

Is your organisation building and strengthening community networks and working in a spirit of high trust and transparency or is there lack of detailed disclosure and a prevalence of hype and rhetoric?

Prioritise transparency, community and trust

Transparent on some counts but not others

Prefer anonymity, closed communities, hype, and unvalidated claims

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation aim to expand through collaboration and prioritise reinvestment in impact or does it pursue growth at the expense of impact?

Expansion through collaboration and reinvestment in impact

Mixed approach

Seeks growth and expansion at the expense of impact

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation focus on ends-state and the beginning of the regenerative process or just on ends and the designing of an end product?

Focus on building conditions for evolution

Considers ends-state, but predominant focus on ends

Focus on outcome / end product

Regenerative Organisation

Is your organisation working to transform the established system, trying to make changes from inside the system, or working within the system?

Focused on transformational change

Making changes from the inside

Working within the system

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation encourage expression of the unique genius of all members in determination of direction and roles or does it dictate direction and roles?

Encourage expression of unique genius

Limited encouragement and/or expression

Dictate direction and roles

Regenerative Organisation

Does your organisation maintain a dynamic balance between ever-changing environmental conditions and is it alert to feedback loops and tipping points or does it attempt to control its environment and predict the future?

Maintain a dynamic balance

Elements of both

Control environment and predict future

Email address

Please use an email address associated with your company's domain, if possible, so we can verify that you do in fact represent the company.