Cattail Strategy: KinMakers
Preparing the Ground for Life-Affirming Investments
Our current systems are no longer fit to sustain life. Relational economies—the ways communities have survived through cultural practices, knowledge of the land, and mutual care—have faded, but never disappeared.
Today they are found in Indigenous lifeways, ancestral/family knowledge, and the enduring wisdom of place. Today, the relational economy is gaining power.
Systemic KinVesting: Preparing the Ground for a Great Wealth Transfer to Life
There is not enough absorption capacity. The streams of philanthropy and Impact Investing need living regenerative economies, community wealth system, productive climate resilience, and systems change initiatives, at scale.
Our challenge not a shortage of capital or promising ideas. It is the limited capacity of communities to absorb, coordinate, and steward complex investment over time.
Many of us have spent years building regenerative finance and community economic initiatives. Yet familiar patterns continue to emerge: coalitions lose momentum, shared governance becomes concentrated power, participation declines, and promising projects struggle to become durable institutions.
These are not only technical or financial problems.
They are signs that the relational and economic foundations beneath the work need strengthening. Find the critical path forward.
Discover KinPact
For philanthropists and investors seeking relational models of proof.
How do you know your investments reinforce life and aliveness? KinPact offers frameworks to learn from your own investing through established methods, adaptive learning and whole systems health.
KinKitchen
We are women shaped by modern Western culture—often far from ancestral wisdom traditions, land-based practices, and the living rhythms that once taught us how to belong.
We gather in vibrant alive places to remember what our grandmothers once knew: how to listen to the land, nourish the body, and live in reciprocal relationship with the world around us.
Through seasonal food, sensory experience, communal practice, and the living intelligence of place, we begin to rediscover unexplored parts of ourselves—and the forgotten gift of relationship, belonging, and aliveness.
KinMaker Return
A 3–5 day immersive experience to reconnect with the deeper sources of wisdom that shape how we relate to wealth, generosity, and responsibility.
Through land-based practice, regenerative philanthropy frameworks shared meals, and collective reflection, participants are invited to:
restore connection with self, community, and the living world
explore grounded and relational approaches to giving and investing
identify personal and collective practices
In their own words…
“Suzanne’s understanding of the dynamics of family and personal generosity coupled with decades of experience in social impact are gifts to any wealth holder looking to advance their giving strategy or sharpen their practice.”
—Judith Hyde, Philanthropist and Board Member of Andes Amazon Conservancy
“I loved learning from Suzanne. She is so professional and always willing to go the extra mile to help you achieve your goals.”
— Zikora Ibeh, Spaces for Change
Contact
I look forward to the connection.
Email
suzanne@cattailstrategy.com
Phone
(978) 895-2661