SACRED COMMUNITY PROJECT NEEDS AND GOALS

We are in need of yearly and monthly pledges to meet both our short and long term goals. Pledged donations will allow us to plan for our development goals into 2026 and beyond. We could easily achieve $20,000 worth of pledges by having:

50 people
at $54/year

20 people
at $108/year

10 people
at $1008/year

1 person
at $5000/year

These pledges will help us to achieve the following 2026 goals:

These pledges will also help us to work towards our long-term goals:

  • 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.

    As our volunteer-run-organization continues to grow, we will need to expand our contractor hours to manage this. In addition, we see the need for 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 or grants could help us create a sustainable executive director position that could steward our organization’s health and growth into the long-term future.

photo of redwood tree

Photo by Nandita Damaraju

If you are interested in making a larger pledge to SCP, please contact 
info@sacredcommunityproject.org

SCP IMPACT REPORT 2024

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 mailed three books

• Appointed a community organizer, spiritual support coordinator, and prison outreach coordinator to expand our offerings in 2025.

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

• Provided over 100 malas with instructions on how to use them

• 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 (President, Hanuman Maui)

“Satsang hangs have been the wind to my sail, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

—Danny

Budget

Our 2025 expense budget totals $32,000 and is divided between our three service categories: Community, Outreach, and Education. You can find a breakdown of these categories and their associated activities in the Impact Report above.

Revenue

This chart shows our 2024 revenue streams, which totaled $32,000. For 2026, we plan to increase our events and media revenue, however, due to the sliding-scale and donation-based nature of our offerings, we require continued tax-deductible pledges, grants, and donations so we can continue to lower the barriers of access to our offerings, expand our prison outreach, and steward our organization’s growth.

“[The retreat] has brought me much joy and even deeper belief in my spiritual practices.”

—Jackie