Jae Haggard & jody jewdyke

I AM WORKING ON THIS SITE NOW AND WILL HAVE IT ORGANIZED SOON. PLEASE DO COME BACK LATER IN JANUARY. SMILE.

    YOU CAN MAKE DONATIONS BY CHECK OR THROUGH PAYPAL. WomanEarthandSpirit@gmail.com. 

    THANKS SO MUCH!                                    ~ Jae


Founded in 2003, WE&S received final IRS 501-c-3 approval in 2007.  Administered by skilled volunteers, all highly regarded in the Lesbian community, WE&S sponsors a growing range of workshops, spaces and projects that expand possibilities for women and Lesbians— our primary mission.  Each addresses a real need in our Lesbian and women’s lives.

Our oldest sponsored Project, Maize Magazine, has been serving our community for 25 years.  Outland was founded in 1989, ALIC in 1998 and the Media Project in 2006.  Most of our other Projects are rapidly growing toddlers.

30 women are actively involved in our range of Projects~ all volunteers who donate skills and time.  We each bring different skills and skill levels and we share skill-building.

    All our projects andevents are offered on a sliding scale with an offer whatever you can option.  In our experience, women donate geerously, whatever their economic status. That generosity is at the heart of our success and growth. At the same time we do serve a community with a significant low-income population.

Energy.  We invite your questions and welcome your energetic or financial support. See a Project that you find exciting?  We’d love to have you join us in unfolding its potential.  We’d love to add your vision to ours. Choose any of our Projects that sparks your enthusiasm. We'd love to have you coordinate, do a range of tasks, or donate.

Have a Project or Creativity of your own?  Part of our mission is to make our equipment and knowledge available to other women.

Donations.  We have accomplished small miracles with an impressively tiny amount of money.  Laugh, we are women of big vision with resources just sprouting to match.

Most all of our impressive array of equipment has been donated.  We welcome your equipment and supplies donations.

Please consider what financial donation you are able to offer to promote and expand these wondrous Projects.  You many designate your donation for particular Projects or to our General Pot of Abundance for distribution as needed to Programs.  Although we have already been designated as a primary beneficiary in three wills, we have accomplished our wonders so far on several small donations.  

Building Materials.  We in particular in the Spring of 2009 need donations or loans to cover advance costs of our delicious buffet of Outlandish Workshops and to cover cost of building materials for the wood and adobe cabins we are building during the Workshop Season (about $7000 each to complete).  

Besides creating a wonderful learning environment for Participants, the Affordable & Accessible Housing for Women Workshops also create more needed living spaces at Outland in order to make the land and opportunities available to more women.  These living spaces are small and beautiful, constructed aligned with our Simple Living philosophy.  Outland herself is a unique opportunity for women to come to regenerate, listen to ourSelves, create and heal.  In a word, Connect—with the Earth, Self, other Women, and Spirit.  We also believe that Connection is fundamental to creative expression and wholeness/ healing.  Part of our mission is to make this opportunity available to as many women as possible for as long as they wish to be here.

The cabins we are building in the summers of 2008 and 2009 will then be used to make both the land and future Workshops accessible to even more women.  If you are able to offer a construction loan, we expect that Rental donations from the cabins will be used to repay building materials loans on a 2-year or other arrangement contract.

Our Workshop model worked so well in 2008. We are tweaking big and little and will offer Another Women Build Our Own Houses Workshop Series in 2009.  Again to focus on small house Construction Principles & Skills, Connection, Creativity and Wholeness/ Healing. Our goal is that women return home with the basic skills and the self confidence to build a small, beautiful, environmentally sound, low- cost house that can be constructed in one season with local materials and limited resources, skills or help.

Tweaking as needed yet again, current plans are 2010 construction start-up of two designated buildings: 1)  Library, Archives & Media Production Studio and 2)  Wholeness & Healing Arts Center.  Both will be beautiful simple adobe mid-sized buildings to house these great projects.   

Immediate Expenses to Fund

We, of course, do expect the Workshops themselves to generate income to cover most expenses related to holding the Workshop Program.  The Workshops are not designed to raise the money for actual construction expenses or to cover many subsidized registrations.  Donations in 2008 enabled us to subsidize 37 weeks of workshop participation by low-income and disabled women. We are just so pleased with this breadth of support and so inspired by the women who participated. 

    We expect that ongoing rental income from the new cabins will eventually pay for building costs and provide seed money for future Workshop Projects.

Meantime,  specific Workshop costs to fund for 2009 by loan or donation are:

    A.    Must Do
    1.    Materials for cabins constructed during the Women Build Our Own Houses Workshops--  $7500 each to complete and furnish.
    2.    2009 start-up food and supplies purchases-- $1500
B.    Most Helpful Additional Donations or Loans
    1.    Subsidize attendance by low-income women-- any donation, large or small helps enormously. We subsidized 37 weeks of participation in 2008 with a cost of over $7000 in actual workshop expenses and lost GuestHouse income for rooms used by Participants.
     2.    We really need a used electric golf cart for accessibility-- $1900
    3.    We have over a mile of disintegrating water lines. Replacement will be around $10,000 which can be done section by section.