We are honored and excited to receive funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for an important two-year project: “Biomimicry and Social Innovation: Trust-building for Health Equity in the Ecological Age.”

In collaboration with Biomimicry 3.8, we will explore the theme of “trust” in nature, a human challenge that underpins many of the issues we currently face in equity-focused social change efforts, with nature as mentor.

This project will focus on 1) identifying lessons from nature relevant to trust-building within health equity change efforts; 2) demonstrating biomimicry’s application as a future-oriented strategic lens, implementation tool, and regenerative practice for complex social innovation and health equity challenges; and 3) developing pathways for propagating the application of nature’s lessons among change agents.

BSI and Biomimicry 3.8 will convene a Learning Community of practitioners to focus the research and lead on implementation. We will ultimately publish a framework, toolkit, and documentary to share key takeaways with the larger field.

If you work in health equity and want to learn more about becoming involved in this project, please let us know here.