SACRED COMMUNITY PROJECT NEEDS AND GOALS
We are in need of yearly and monthly pledges to meet both our short and long term goals.
50 people
at $50/year
20 people
at $100/year
10 people
at $1000/year
1 person
at $5000/year
These pledges will help us to achieve the following 2026 goals:
Re-launch the Loving Rock Karma Yoga Yearlong Training with an updated curriculum and user interface
Offer kirtan in 5 prisons and relaunch our prison pen-pal program
Offer a new week-long East Coast retreat for those wanting to deepen their sadhana
Publish the book, Loving-Awareness, Awakening the Heartmind Through the Path of Grace
Start our next book, Ram Dass: An American Saint
Release a new album and continue creating content through the Sacred Community Podcast
Increase our volunteer hours and number of people served through individual and group support by 25%
These pledges will also help us to work towards our long-term goals:
We envision having a fulltime, executive director position.
Since the beginning, we have been a volunteer-run, grassroots organization. This spirit will never change. Currently, we have one part-time contracted employee who helps us with media content and administrative tasks. This role is necessary so that our volunteers can continue to serve. We imagine we will need to expand our contractor hours as our volunteer-run-organization continues to grow. In addition to this, we see the need to have a full-time executive director position.
Currently, our executive director volunteers all of his hours, and he is maxed out on the time he can provide. A few larger and longer-term pledges could help us create a sustainable executive director position that could steward our organization’s health and growth into the long-term future.
If you are interested in making a larger pledge to SCP, please contact info@sacredcommunityproject.org
SCP IMPACT REPORT 2024
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In 2024, SCP volunteers spent over 1,500 hours serving the community in the following three ways:
Community
• Facilitated 4 weekly hour-long spiritual support groups and a monthly grief support group that served an average of 10-15 people per group
• Facilitated two low-cost, sliding-scale retreats that served a total of 80 people with 25% of participants receiving an additional financial scholarship.
• Hosted a 13-hour event in Portland, OR on New Year’s Day Chanting of 108 Hanuman Chalisas that served and fed over 60 people.
Outreach
• Provided 125 hours of individual spiritual support to over 60 people
• Sponsored a prison kirtan, responded to 10 prison letters, and sent three books.
Education
• Trained 18 graduates from our year-long 100-hour “loving rock” program for those feeling called to service as a spiritual path.
• Brought the next SCP publication, Loving Awareness: awakening the heart-mind through the path of grace, to the final stages of completion.
• Gave away 100 malas
• Produced a live kirtan album
• Launched season three of the Sacred Community Podcast, which has now been listened to and watched over 25,000 times
“SCP is a fabulous organization run by a beautiful soul, SitaRam Dass. Great projects have been successfully created and implemented that have positively affected many lives. I love how SCP earnestly shares Ram Dass's teachings and life work.”
—Dassi Ma

“Satsang hangs have been the wind to my sail, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”
Danny
Budget
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“[The retreat] has brought me much joy and even deeper belief in my spiritual practices. Also it was so soul nourishing to connect with other beings who are truly searching to 'be here now.'”
Jackie
“I am extremely grateful to be a part of something so special.”
—Adam