History · The Long Road

A long road to Life before Profits.

RDC did not begin as a fund. It began as a conviction — held across years of practice in regenerative development, capital structure, and the patient work of getting a new kind of trust built.

Bill Reed

Place · Ecology

Principal of Regenesis Group and a pioneer of regenerative development. Author of the Story of Place® lens — what the land is trying to become — and the ecological conscience of the work.

Dave Ladouceur

Structure · Capital

Founder and steward of RDC. Architect of the DST/PBC structure, the dual financial-and-impact reporting model, and the governed rail that does not bend the place to the return.

Amber Autumn

Founding Principal

A founding principal who carried the work through the long middle years — holding the through-line between place, people, and capital.

The Road

From conviction to a governed rail.

2019
The conviction.

Regenerative development practice and capital structure meet — the seed of a fund that could underwrite regeneration and return together.

2020–22
The framework.

Five Capitals, the three lanes, and the Story of Place lineage are formalized into a repeatable model.

2023–24
The rail.

The Trust structure, dual financial-and-impact reporting, and the shared verification rail are built — capital with discipline that scales.

2025–26
The portfolio.

Five companies on the rail and the Trust in raise under Reg D 506(c). The long road becomes an operating firm.

Dates and milestones are indicative — confirm against the corpus history before publishing.

The work continues

Built by people who decided that life comes first.