How to Support Our Work, and What We Do with Your Support!
How to Support Us Financially
For larger tax-deductible donations, contact us to donate easily through one of our umbrella non-profits.
Most of our courses offer chances for people to pay a little extra, and we deeply appreciate those who do (but when you pay via our course platform, we pay sales tax and fees on that money as if it is a course purchase.) You can also make direct donations via check to the address below, or through our PayPal account.
To send a check, our address is:
Land and Leadership Initiative
PO Box 277
Thetford Center, VT 05075
(or send us a message by text or WhatsApp at +1-603-252-1930)
You can also support the work of our founder directly by becoming a free or paid subscriber to The Wisdom Underground.
Want to send encouragement? How about a $5 donation?
Or make the next workshop free for everyone!
How we put your donations to work!
We use your donations to support the work of the Land and Leadership Initiative in a number of ways:
We always have opportunities for skilled people to help with our projects.
We can use your skills with design, editing, research, video editing, video creation, mailing list management, and also land-based skills to develop our home base in Vermont.
For larger tax-deductible donations, contact us to donate easily through one of our umbrella non-profits.
Most of our courses offer chances for people to pay a little extra, and we deeply appreciate those who do (but when you pay via our course platform, we pay sales tax and fees on that money as if it is a course purchase.) You can also make direct donations via check to the address below, or through our PayPal account.
To send a check, our address is:
Land and Leadership Initiative
PO Box 277
Thetford Center, VT 05075
(or send us a message by text or WhatsApp at +1-603-252-1930)
You can also support the work of our founder directly by becoming a free or paid subscriber to The Wisdom Underground.
Want to send encouragement? How about a $5 donation?
Or make the next workshop free for everyone!
How we put your donations to work!
We use your donations to support the work of the Land and Leadership Initiative in a number of ways:
- Scholarships to our courses. and the Land and Leadership Development Community
- Creating materials for the Seed Media Project to help spread the word about living-systems approaches to climate mitigation and resilience, and human and ecosystem health.
- Writing articles and interviewing key people on our founder's blog and podcast: The Wisdom Underground.
- Creating free curriculum and manuals, including our upcoming field training manual for the UN-FAO Farmer Field School Program. and the Barefoot Guide series.
- Sponsorship and support for upcoming conferences, gatherings, and retreats.
- Support for our extensive volunteer work on policy and programming, worldwide, through the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Regenerate Earth, the Soil Carbon Coalition, The Land Care Congress, the Vermont Healthy Soils Coalition, the White River Natural Resource Conservation District, Thetford Planning Commission, and many other groups we belong to and contribute our time.
We always have opportunities for skilled people to help with our projects.
We can use your skills with design, editing, research, video editing, video creation, mailing list management, and also land-based skills to develop our home base in Vermont.