We live in a remarkable place
We are determined to do everything we can to champion what works for people and place in Salmon Nation. We know we are not alone.
Salmon Nation
is home
Salmon Nation is a bioregion defined by the historic range of wild Pacific salmon – from the Salinas River in California, north to the Yukon River in Alaska.
Salmon Nation is also an idea – that we can organize ourselves as a nature state in a big, diverse, powerful and holistic integration of people and place, with thriving local communities living in deep relationship with the lands and waters that nourish all of us.
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Changing climate and failing systems demand new approaches to everything we do.
Salmon Nation Trust’s mission is to inspire, enable, and invest in regenerative development through whole-system design and the acceleration and replication of what works.
We know there are many thousands of people in this bioregion engaged in deep innovation that brings vibrant health to our home.
Our offering is to support them.
Our hope is to find truly radical and profound relationship patterns amongst human enterprise, local cultures and healthy natural systems.
Our success is expressed by the number, diversity, and quality of creative individuals who we identify, connect, and support.
Recognizing vibrant local works
Weaving reciprocal relationships
Cross-pollinating what works
Cultivating a healthy home
Now. Here. Together.
Our central observation is that there are abundant enterprising individuals, particularly in ‘edge communities’ outside dominant centers of power and money, who are actively adapting toclimate change and innovating pathways to more reliable prosperity.
At the edges are the seeds of new ways to live in step with natural systems. Edges are rural and urban. Edges are diverse. Edges are innovative.
At the edges are where we spark the wholesale re-imagining of our economy and environment in Salmon Nation.
Finding the threads
The work of the Salmon Nation Trust is holistic, continually emergent, non-linear, and synergistic.
Discovery
Immerse in community, cultivate reciprocity and trust, share/amplify/inspire what works, surface diverse entrepreneurs of place-based creativity and innovation.
Weaving
Connect, share, inspire, and instigate unlikely collaborations and cross-pollinations.
Replication & Acceleration
Apply human, social, and financial capital to support, scale, and replicate regenerative solutions that are already working in the edges. Edges generate system change from the outside in.
Fabric of collaboration
People can enter into the robust flow of people, resources, ideas, and knowhow that is Salmon Nation – a bioregional fabric that continually regenerates, deepens, and surfaces relationships, trust, possibilities and opportunities.
Trustees
The Salmon Nation Trust is designed to be simple, adaptable, and scalable. It is governed by high-profile highly-trusted advisors to maintain mission alignment, integrity and public trust
Napaġiak
Dalee Sambo Dorough
Long-time advocate, scholar, and special adviser on Arctic Indigenous Peoples
Himéeqis Káa’awn
Antone Minthorn
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Kat Taylor
Co-Founder, Beneficial State Bank and TomKat Ranch Educational Foundation
Amalaxa Louisa Smith
Sister of Chief G’psgolox
John Kitzhaber
Three term Oregon Governor
Susan Mac Cormac
Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Spencer Biddle Beebe
Founder of Ecotrust and Co-founder of Conservation International
Nell Newman
Co-Founder, Newman’s Own Organics
Robert Warren
Chairman, Cascade Corporation
Kilslaay Kaajii Sding
Miles Richardson, O.C.
Advocate for the rights of the Haida Nation, and others
Greg Moga
Entrepreneur and Conservationist
Tim Carver
CEO of GQG Partners
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