Anticipated revenue from predictable contributions and from sales
  • Voluntary individual contributions: Once we are operational, we expect to receive regular contributions from supporters and friends of Nanish Shontie. This will include not only individuals but also Native American and tribal organizations as well as ecological organizations. Visitors who have spent time at Nanish Shontie and returned to their homes will add to the number of continuing contributors. Our active website and the internet will enable us to remain in close contact and to encourage contributions. Our website will enable us to transmit our newsletter and to accumulate additional entries to our e-mailing list. It will also provide a medium for continued education and focus via forums, listservs and even video-conferencing channels.
  • Contributions from visitors: While our traditions preclude us from imposing "room and board" charges, our experience with Meta Tantay was that at least 1/2 to 2/3rds of our visitors responded to our suggestion of a voluntary contribution by making generous contributions which more than covered the actual expenses of their stay. We expect at least the same response at Nanish Shontie.
  • Contributions from retreats, workshops, and seminars in lieu of fees

  • Newsletter contributions in lieu of subscription charges

  • In-kind contributions (including from former visitors): Our website will be an active posting place from which we will be able to solicit donations of specific items, such as vehicles, tools, computer equipment, and farm implements, for which contributors will be able to claim appropriate tax deductions
  • Business contributions in gratitude for consultative services: We expect that businesses for which we provide the assistance of Elders in solving ecological and managerial challenges will make significant contributions to Nanish Shontie Contributions from ecological organizations and other Indigenous programs
  • Anticipated Revenue from Sales Sale of seeds: We intend to grow plants such as soybeans for purposes of harvesting the seeds and selling them to seed banks and to individuals, as a means of resisting the trend toward genetically-altered hybrid seeds for which certain companies are responsible. There is a growing market for organic natural seeds.
  • Sale of Art and Crafts: Works of art and crafts constructed by Native artisans among our residence will also yield revenue to help to support Nanish Shontie and could be sold on the website Sale of Wool from our sheep herd
  • Sale of Publications

  • Sale of seasonal produce