SOLA 2025 Spring & Summer Fundraiser

Why Does SOLA Need Donations?

Support from varied and diverse income streams, and Member contribution of services and skills are essential to SOLA’s economic wellbeing. However, in order for SOLA to accommodate an economically diverse learning community and SOLA’s sliding-scale fee schedule, work-trade scholarships, and learning sponsorships, our community of support must expand beyond SOLA families. This fundraising campaign is designed to be shared far and wide! We ask SOLA members to assist in the expansion of our appeal to others.

Rather than substantially increasing SOLA fees, we choose to engage the Spirit of Giving both within and outside of SOLA’s learning community.

SOLA’s Leadership Circle is doing its part by working to develop the supportive cottage industries that operate (or will operate in the future) alongside SOLA at Sacred Mountain Sanctuary: 3 Hares Farm, Bountiful Bakery & Teahouse, Sanctum Hermitage, The Living Library, & Sanctum Wellness - are new impulses that we hope to develop as additional economic support for SOLA’s economic & learning ecology.

How Should I Determine My Level of Support, or Ask Others for Theirs?

Consider the following questions:

• How has my family's participation at SOLA expanded my community of friends and enriched my sense of belonging?

• How does my child (niece, grandchild, young friend) express his/her eagerness joy for his/her learning ad love for SOLA?

• How does the magic and beauty of natural world, so tangible on SOLA’s campus, touch my heart when I visit or attend a SOLA festival or gathering?

• How can I reciprocate in a way that reflects my recognition of the value SOLA provides?

• Who else can I invite to offer a gift in support of SOLA….grandparents, aunties, uncles, friends, philanthropic individuals/organizations?

How Else Can I Contribute?

• Please share this page, donation link, and your love for SOLA with anyone and everyone!

• If you work for or own a business that provides products or services that would be useful to SOLA- let us know! We always need organic farm/animal supplies, natural building materials, organic/natural landscaping materials, good skilled labor, Waldorf & high quality art supplies

• Also, please don't hesitate to contact us with your questions or ideas for support!  Email Septimbor Lim, or call 828.242.3937.

To Donate by check, make checks payable to SOLA Fellowship, & mail to PO Box 1965, Skyland NC 28776

Where Does SOLA Receive Other Economic Support?

SOLA and all impulses operating on the lands of Sacred Mountain Sanctuary, are engaged in various forms of reciprocal economics. In regards to SOLA, the income received from SOLA’s membership fees are one of several other resource streams intended to nourish SOLA programs.  for example - a portion of the cabin rental income from Sanctum Hermitage goes to support SOLA’s work trade scholarships, sponsorships, and sliding scale fees. Our goal is to achieve manifold, reciprocal, economic relationships, wherein SOLA programming fees, income from on-site cottage industries, and gifts/donations are equitably balanced to create a healthy, flowing ‘resource ecology’.  In keeping with Rudolf Steiner’s social impulse of three-folding, we are striving to diversify our economic relationships through our annual gift campaign, and the supportive new impulses that operate on the land at Sacred Mountain Sanctuary.

Several economically supportive impulses are currently in various stages of development, including:

3 Hares Biodynamic Farm, Bountiful Bakery and Teahouse, Water of Life Springwater subscription service, Sanctum Hermitage and Sanctum Wellness, The Living Library, and land or facilities leases to partner programs.  Diversified resource streams create a resilient non-profit organization!

REMEMBER: SOLA is a non-profit organization, and your donation is tax deductible!