We build living curriculums, community archives, programs and partnerships grounded in ancestral wisdom, nature's intelligence, creativity, regenerative economics, and the knowing that well resourced, holistic communities build reciprocal ecosystems.
Most financial literacy and economic development programming is built on extractive frameworks designed to plug people into systems that were never built for them. CPN takes a different root.
We start with what communities already carry: ancestral wisdom, relational wealth, land memory, creative intelligence.
We use the Root-Bridge-Inheritance model: a three-generational framework that treats economic life as a living, cyclical system.
We build archives, alongside our programs, so that our community's wisdom becomes an inheritance for those who come after.
We hold the full picture: material, knowledge, story, relational, spiritual, and land wellth, together.
Curriculum Licensing · Full Program Delivery
Organizations can engage with CPN's Rooted & Resourced Economies curriculum in two ways: license it to run internally with your own team, or have CPN and our trained facilitators deliver it fully on your behalf. Every module is customizable to meet the specific context, culture, and goals of your community.
The curriculum and facilitation infrastructure become yours to run.
Organizations that want to facilitate the curriculum with their own team can license it by tier. Licensing gives you everything needed to deliver independently: the materials, the facilitation structure, the exercises, and ongoing support.
| Tier | What's Included |
|---|---|
Rooted |
1 module of your choosing · Facilitator guide · Participant materials for up to 40 people · Ideal for orgs testing the waters or running a single focus program |
Resourced |
Full 3-pillar curriculum (Root · Cultivate · Transmit) · All facilitator guides · Unlimited participants · 2 support calls/year with CPN |
Each module can be customized to fit the specific needs, community context, and program goals of your organization.
Plug and play. CPN handles everything from design to facilitation.
Organizations that want CPN to handle everything: design, facilitation, coordination, and delivery. You provide the community. We bring the curriculum, the care, and the full facilitation experience.
Organizations that want a ready-to-run, professionally facilitated regenerative economics program delivered directly to their community, without building internal capacity first. Or organizations ready to bring this framework in-house as a sustainable, recurring program.
Three pillars. One interconnected curriculum.
We begin with the wellth already within every individual and community, the traditions, the land, the inner knowledge, the relationships that sustain life. From there, we build through the practical and conscious infrastructures of financial literacy and regenerative economics, allowing wellth and resources to be in service of humanity and life.
We then enter the sacred work of transmission, where all that is built, healed, and remembered is ethically documented and intentionally carried forward as living inheritance.
Grounding communities, families, and individuals in the wellth they already carry: ancestral wisdom, earth connection, story, creativity, and cultural identity.
Who came before, what they built, and the economic intelligence they carried
Exploring inherited and created fears and blocks, cultivating financial sovereignty internally, somatic release
Land relationship, seasonal cycles, ecological memory as economic intelligence
Community trust networks, reciprocal bonds, and social capital as currency
Financial memory, named wisdom, and the wellth the elders hold
Creative economy, cultural production, and craft as intergenerational wellth
Building the practical knowledge and living structures that translate ancestral wisdom into contemporary economic power.
Personal Economy Mapping, financial planning and impact investing
Sou-sou, tontine, ubuntu, lakou: ancestral systems as living financial models
Worker coops, housing coops, CDFIs, land trusts, collective wellth design
Mapping what the community holds and building systems to circulate wellth
Apprenticeships, mentorships, and the living knowledge economy
Building the living archive, legacy infrastructure, and documented blueprint that ensure nothing is lost and everything is passed forward with intention.
Living documentation of all six streams: material, knowledge, story, relational, spiritual, land
Family financial history, elder testimonies, oral records, and the community timeline
Trusts, wills, beneficiaries, family LLCs as ancestral care structures
The structured intergenerational family conversation: the modern lakou system
The living financial chapter: documented, dated, and added to the archive each year
Letters to descendants, collective legacy statement, and succession of the archive keeper
the canopy becomes the roots for the next generation · the cycle renews
Living Infrastructure of Community Memory & Resources
CPN's deepest, most transformative offering. We work with your organization and community to build a living, multi-generational archive that documents, preserves, and activates everything your community carries across six streams: Material, Knowledge, Story, Relational, Spiritual, and Land & Earth.
The community is not just the subject of the archive. They are its co-creators, activated and centered throughout.
Every form of wellth: material, knowledge, story, relational, spiritual, and land, documented using oral, visual, written, spatial, somatic, and data-driven approaches.
This is not a report or a database. It is permanent cultural infrastructure, built with succession planning and archive keepers from day one.
Arts organizations, CDFIs, cultural institutions, community land trusts, healing organizations, and place-based nonprofits ready to invest in durable legacy infrastructure.
The Community Wellth Archive has its own dedicated site with the full scope, six-phase process, and deliverables.
Explore the Full Archive Offering →The archive is the griot's work made permanent. The elder's testimony made transferable. The ancestor's provision made real.
Reciprocity · Shared Values · Right Relationship
CPN builds partnerships that are reciprocal, values-aligned, and grounded in a shared knowing that we can build something better than extractive systems. The following structures are available for organizations, consultants, and individuals who want to be in relationship with this work in a meaningful, clear, and mutually beneficial way.
Strategic advisory in cultural preservation, community archiving, creative economy, or regenerative economics, for teams building programs, designing initiatives, or navigating complex decisions who want a grounded thought partner at the table.
Know someone who needs what CPN offers? If you make an introduction that leads to a signed contract, you receive an agreed-upon percentage of that contract value. We honor the people who help this work find its way to the right communities.
Sponsor community members, cohorts, or individuals into CPN's curriculum and programming, covering access for people whose organizations or communities cannot fully fund the work themselves. Sponsors are acknowledged as culture stewards and listed as community partners.
Have a program idea, a community, or a platform that aligns with CPN's work? Let's build something together. Co-Creator partnerships are for organizations or individuals who want to design and deliver a joint program, curriculum, or experience alongside CPN, sharing in both the work and the revenue it generates.
We build in right relationship, which means the exchange is clear, the value flows both ways, and the work actually serves the community at the center.
CPN's work is not separate from the community. It is the mechanism through which the curriculum reaches more people, through the organizations that already hold trust with the communities we care about most.
Every organization we work with becomes a partner in a larger network of regenerative economic building. Every archive we build becomes a permanent experience of cultural infrastructure and grows with the community it serves.
Root · Cultivate · Transmit