IMPACT, NEEDS AND BUDGET REPORT

Sacred Community Project works to lower the barriers of access to contemplative and devotional practices through through affordable, free, and donation-based offerings, spiritual support, and prison outreach.

Continue reading below for the full report.

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 2027 and beyond.

We could easily achieve $25,000 worth of pledges by having:

108 people
at $54/year

27 people
at $108/year

11 people
at $1008/year

1 person
at $5000/year

$17,000 in pledged donations so far!

These pledges will help us to achieve our 2026 goals:

“It’s a place where I feel at home with other people. I can be myself. I feel free.”

—Cornelia

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 his hours. 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.

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

SCP IMPACT REPORT 2025

In 2025, SCP volunteers spent over 2,000 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 15 people per group

• Facilitated a low-cost, sliding-scale retreat that served 60 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 60 hours of individual spiritual support to over 30 people

• Relaunched our prison pen-pal program that is currently responding to hundreds of letters.

Education

• Re-developed and relaunched our Loving Rock Training that is currently serving over 20 students.

• Brought the next SCP publication, Loving Awareness: Awakening the Heart-Mind through the Path of Grace, to the final stages of completion.

• Gave away over 60 malas with instructions on how to use them

• Finished Season 3 of the Sacred Community Podcast, which has now been listened to and watched over 40,000 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 2026 expense budget totals $40,000 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 2025 revenue streams, which totaled $43,000. For 2026, we plan to continue increasing 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 SCP retreat] has brought me much joy and even deeper belief in my spiritual practices.”

—Jackie