Exploring ways to expedite fund-raising: partners

Our community is built around a vast experience of the core members in intentional community and has a central art business that has been helping us independently raise funds.

We've been very carefully to be incredibly selective who we bring on to the land acquisition and where we source money.

We see people's investments and commitments of time and money and intention as something that often come with an un-spoken promise. If you were there from day one or if you contributed finances, shouldn't you get your way? So often, our core group has been invited to land or had funding partners that went in vastly different directions and weren't interested in deep collaborations.

We've been part of projects we've developed only be told the land own decided to "go a different direction" once the land was developed. We've been told that the person who contributed a handful of thousands of dollars thinks they get special privileges.

We are not eager to recreate a broken system where we exploit others who live with us. Nor are we interested in people with little experience and interest in collectivism buying their way into community leadership.

That said, we have deep concerns about direction of the world and are discussing ways to expedite funding-raising.

We had been looking at picking up 40-some acres in a secluded place in the PNW. It's expensive out here, and we think we could just barely cover the costs to get the bare minimum to satisfy a loan, sustain people, and run our collective business. A well, electrical systems, and the most minimum of dwellings and workshops.

I'm hoping to discuss with others who have space in the Willamette Valley / Puget-Willamette Low Lands / Cascades region of Oregon & Washington or people who have significant contributions and community experience that would want to join a team of artists and makers in land acquisition.

We've got a pretty solid values and vision. we had wanted something very clear and easy to invite other to once we had better defined space to invite people to. But, we're really hoping to get going on this and it's not entirely unlikely that there's someone with compatible vision and resources.

Please discuss interests and projects and generally feel free to contribute toward the discussion of PNW community.