Creating meaningful demonstrations that showcase the promise of Regeneration, using the tools of philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and impact investing to catalyze programs of economic development, community empowerment, and ecological health in the American Midwest. Through a dedicated climate action marketplace of buyers and sellers of eco-credits, a framework will be developed to originate a supply of eco-credits designed to finance and implement climate action in cities in the Midwest bioregion that can be replicated across the USA (and potentially globally); thus facilitating real-world interventions of climate-smart economic development. (the "charter")