Aletheia Springs

Ways You Can Support Aletheia Springs

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Volunteer

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Join Our Public Volunteer List

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Volunteering can be such a joyful and productive way to get to know each other as well as meet the land and springs! Our most frequent volunteer opportunities happen in our organic farm & garden, but we also have occasional service work parties on the land helping out with projects like woodland tending and restoration, zhuzhing the thermal baths or community common spaces, or assisting in our longer-term refurbishment work for the public use spaces which most directly serve our wider community.

Click here to sign-up for our Volunteer List:

https://warmsprings.eo.page/volunteer-list

 

 

 

Financial Contributions / Donations

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Cash/Check & PayPal Donations

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First, thank you for considering supporting our project with a financial contribution or donation! These can really bring powerful impacts and offer our progress a real leg up on our years-long journey. We are set up to receive any size cash donation via cash or check (checks can be made out to "Morton's Warm Springs" and sent to our mailing address in the footer below). Any and all donations are very helpful to us no matter how small! You can also donate funds to our project online via our PayPal account here:

 

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Tax-Deductible Impact Donations (for Restore The Springs)

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Through our nonprofit project Restore The Springs we are set up to receive tax-deductible donations of any amount. Restore The Springs is a fiscally sponsored  project of Inquiring Systems Inc, a 501c3, non profit corporation. These funds exclusively support our work planning, designing and implementing a new regenerative water management plan here at the springs, as well as vital watershed and ecological restoration. Your support of Restore The Springs during our planning phase also helps us advance to the stage where we can qualify for grant funding for future phases of the project in the coming years.

Checks can be made out to "Restore The Springs - Inquiring Systems," and mailed to our mailing address in the footer below. Tax-Deductible Donations are a win-win way to give financial support; once we receive your support, you will be mailed a Thank You letter with the EIN # for Inquiring Systems, our fiscal sponsor, for your tax returns. If you'd like more information about how you can support Restore The Springs, please reach out to us using our Contact Us page.

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In-Kind Donations, Professional Skills & Aletheia Wish List

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There are many other ways you can be a part of helping our work unfold fruitfully here. In-kind donations are a type of giving where, instead of giving money to buy needed goods and services, the goods and services themselves are given. If you'd like to make a valuable in-kind donation, you can either take a peek at any of our current items on our Online Wish List and then reach out to us with ideas or questions. Or, if you have professional skills that you feel moved to offer towards the furthering of our goals (e.g. carpentry, plumbing, electrical, legal support, farming, etc.)– either as trade, at a special rate, or as a straight donation please reach out! This kind of powerful community support is not only helpful, it can be a delight to weave our professional skills together in common support of this special place. 

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Aletheia Springs Investment Loans

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Impact Investor Loans

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Impact Investor Loans are the most powerful way to support us. They reduce the total accrued interest we pay each year allowing us to instead dedicate funds in our first and second phase years to restoration and capacity building. This win-win investment generates measurable beneficial social and ecological impact, alongside a financial return that beats savings accounts and even matches U.S. Treasuries rates.

 

Investment Loan Share:              $100K+

Initial Investment Term:              Negotiable (larger amounts often confer longer terms)

Annual Dividend:                        3-4% negotiable interest rate, payable annually (December 31st)

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For more information, talk to your financial advisor and reach out to us using our Contact Us page.

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Community Member Investor Loans

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Aletheia Community Member Investor (CMI) Loans are for people who want to be more involved. This is also one of the ways folks may explore deepening relationship here, which would inform whether there is a mutual fit in beginning the path towards residency. After many years of trust-building, there may mutually emerge a possible option to apply the principal of remaining loans to some yet-to-be-determined form of cooperative share in our future organizational tandem entities.

 

Our CMI loans are the same as Impact Investor Loans, above, except that the terms are always 5 years at 3-4% interest and they also include a Community Benefit Dividend. This Community Benefit Dividend is a model by which all Community Member Investors are invited to participate in and benefit from shared community resources. The Community Benefit Dividend is designed to expand over time as the property and service offerings are developed.

 

The Community Benefit Dividend, for now, includes the following:

• Year-round private daytime access to the land and common facilities, including Thermal Baths, via reservation

• Ability to pre-book overnight stays (of up to ten days per stay); either in our Barn Meadow Room, Oracle House or camping on the land. As further overnight accommodations are developed in the future (such as stand-alone hermitage cabins) some of these will be set aside for investor stays

• Summer season access for you and your guests to enjoy public guest season amenities at Morton’s Warm Springs

• Invitation to host select, vision-aligned retreats on the land which may use the facilities of the Barn, camping & tubs

• Invitation to participate in annual private events, courses, workshops, community practices and other offerings

• Invitation to participate in the collective research, inquiry and practice of developing an embodied, multigenerational, self-organizing, regenerative, land-based learning community

• A mutual exploration that includes the potential for future residency chapters

• + Other community benefits still to be dreamed up!…

 

For more information, please talk to your financial advisor and then reach out to us using our Contact Us page.

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Tax-Free Self-Directed IRA or Solo 401(K) Investment Loans

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For those with savings held in a retirement account, there is also the wonderful ability to designate your IRA into what's called a "Self-Directed IRA." This is a relatively straightforward and surprisingly common process that allows you to then direct your own IRA funds to be invested in private companies, real estate or other funds of your choosing, provided you follow some basic rules, such as not investing in your own or your family's businesses, etc. Any return you then earn on these investments is paid back into your IRA tax-free. It's a pretty fabulous option for those who would like to invest and grow their retirement funds supporting ecologically and socially responsible community-based projects! 

Currently Aletheia has one CMI who is invested with their Self-Directed IRA. Both Community Member Investors and Impact Investors can be done as a Self-Directed IRA investment. To learn more, reach out to your financial advisor, or contact us on our Contact Us page.