Crowdfunding Initiatives
resource reciprocity — community invigoration — regenerative pursuits — collective momentum
local Indigenous Food Sovereignty initiative :
Stqeeye’ Learning Society : mi tse’ t’akw Coming Home — link
(more details below)
local Indigenous Land Back initiative :
SȾÁUTW̱ Land Back Campaign — link
(more details below)
Compost Brewhouse Build :
supporting food sovereignty through increasing capacity for local soil fertility systems
(more details below)
Defend the KAXI:KS (Walbran) from Industry’s Exploitation of Old Growth Ecosystems :
Legal Fund for Pacheedaht Land Defender Elder Bill Jones
(more details below)
Crowdfunding empowers individuals and communities to raise funds directly from their networks, bypassing traditional gatekeepers like banks or large institutions. This democratized approach allows underrepresented voices, grassroots efforts, and socially impactful projects to gain visibility and support. By sourcing small contributions from many, crowdfunding fosters a sense of shared investment, collective action, and mutual aid.
Stqeeye’ Learning Society : mi tse’ t’akw Coming Home
Coming Home is a once-in-a-generation campaign, a chance to bring Quw’utsun (Cowichan) People back to live in the traditional territory at Xwaaqw’um (Burgoyne Bay) and steward the land again.
This endeavor provides an opportunity to re-introduce native plants and traditional indigenous food systems, which will knit together many projects, including carbon sequestration, critical habitat protection and food security and sovereignty.
Defend the KAXI:KS (Walbran)
from Industry’s Exploitation of Old Growth Ecosytems
Legal Fund for Pacheedaht Land Defender Elder Bill Jones
Elder Bill Jones of the Pacheedaht Nation is 85 years old. For decades, he has welcomed people into the forests to stand with him in defense of the last old-growth trees on his territory. At Fairy Creek, his invitation sparked one of the largest acts of civil resistance in Canadian history. Now, Western Forest Products has filed a civil suit against him, seeking an injunction that would make it illegal for Bill to be on his own land.
There ARE solutions. Community-led conservation financing, sustainable forestry transitions, value-added milling, and restoration jobs are all feasible, viable and economically valuable components for real change. They can be implemented quickly—if the political will exists. No one is asking for the impossible. We are asking for a government that honours its word, protects communities instead of corporations, and chooses a livable future over short-term liquidation.
you can directly contribute through the procurement of offerings or you can make a donation that will feed into all of these projects!
SȾÁUTW̱ Land Back Campaign
A 2.17-acre parcel on Reginald Hill, adjacent to the existing SȾÁUTW̱ reserve, has become available for purchase. Securing this land will support the SȾÁUTW̱ Nation in reconnecting with their ancestral home and having independent access to the land.
This campaign is a small yet tangible opportunity aligned with the Land Back movement – a broad initiative to return unceded lands to local First Nations to restore Indigenous land sovereignty compromised during colonialism.
Compost Brewhouse Build :
Salt Spring Centre of Yoga
Supporting food sovereignty through increasing capacity for local soil fertility systems.
The Salt Spring Centre of Yoga is a non-profit educational and spiritual retreat centre dedicated to teaching and promoting the core principles of yoga which embody peace, resilience, and belonging.
Compost brewing is a core tool within soil health and fertility. It allows us to strengthen the diversity and populations of micro-biological organisms; the driving force behind all life that emerges from the earth.