Support Us

Supporting what we do

There are two primary ways you are invited to support us;

Support us financially, and contribute to the gift economy experiment that sustains all the work we are doing. (See below)

Support us by joining a Task Support Group and increase our ability to do what is ours to do.

 

Take a Step towards a Global Gift Economy

We invite you to care for the material needs of people who give the gift of contributing to creating the NGL Commons.

By sending money, you acknowledge this is a true gift given, with no expectation of receiving anything back. 

 

Thank you for this gift—we are immensely grateful for every contribution.

If you are challenged to contribute using the PayPal link, contact us here for other methods of contributing. Bear in mind that you don’t need to have a PayPal account to use it; any credit card is enough.

If your gift comes from an organization that needs a receipt or other documents linked to the gift, please fill in this form. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

We invite you to contribute to us.. We want to remind everyone that every little bit counts and that we only want to receive money that is freely given.

More about the NGL Gift Economy

We invite you to continue to read more and learn about our grand experiment with sustaining all the work we do within the gift economy.

Our purpose as the Resource Flow Design team is to design systems and tools for stewarding the resources within NGL with reverence and to uncover pathways for prototyping a global maternal gift economy.

Everything we do in the NGL Community – all our projects, any work we do in support of organizations and communities, our courses and everything else we make available – are offered as a gift. This is one of our core experiments: how do we sustain the work of dozens of individuals entirely based on needs, without any exchange or incentives?

This is where you come in.

Three times a year, we organize a “Financial Gift Hub” (FGH) in NGL. A number of people who contribute their life energy to bringing NGL’s purpose into the world, both internally and when we offer our learning to others, are then invited to make a financial request that would support their material needs.

We then ask our larger community, which includes those we serve directly and goes far beyond them, to support the NGL Community by contributing financially towards those requests. Everyone is asked to contribute financially, including those who contribute their life energy, because we uncouple giving from receiving and base everything on needs. Sometimes, people contribute both many hours of work and money. We are blessed to have so many who are passionately connected to us and want to see us thrive.

We invite you to contribute to us.. We want to remind everyone that every little bit counts and that we only want to receive money that is freely given.

We have a shared value of “trust in life”– we trust that gifts will flow to us in diverse ways to support our collective needs. And, we trust that we will find creative ways other than money to attend to our needs beyond what we receive. NGL’s experiment in operating fully within the gift economy has been ongoing since we started functioning in 2017 and has expanded with every passing year. We are humbled and awed by seeing that life has unfolded in this way, and continue to be in surrender about whether and how long this miracle will continue.

It is from within our deep trust that we ask if you see yourself as a pathway for life to flow gifts to us? This means complete openness on our part to whatever you choose, without any expectation.

If you would like to learn more about what we offer, please check here.

NGL Community Financial Landscape

Because we focus on sharing resources for the upcoming term (four months each time), we are not able to predict how much our community’s collective financial requests will be. There are many unknowns, and therefore how many people make requests and what those requests are fluctuates every term.

So, we would like to show you a snapshot of our recent needs, because we believe this will give you a clearer sense of what our collective needs could be like in the coming distribution.

In 2025, it has taken about €500,000 to care for our minimal infrastructure and for the basic material needs – such as shelter, food, healthcare, transportation, clothing, and utilities, including internet to do our work – of more than thirty people who gift their energy and do all it takes for NGL to function. Most of this money has come to us as gifts from hundreds of people and a few organizations who respond to our requests – either because they have participated in some of our offerings, or simply because they want what we do to continue. Most of the gifts are small amounts of money that add up, and we received €100,000 in 2025 from one person who strongly believes in what we are doing and supports it consistently. There are about thirty other people who gift their energy and love to NGL and have other ways of caring for their material needs, including a few who also give us financial gifts.

For the last three terms, NGL has received less money than is needed to meet the minimum requests of those receiving from the FGH. As a result, the Resource Flow Design team decided to implement an “FGH Freeze,” so the FGH has a chance to recalibrate to the available capacity and resources in the field. This means that no one new is invited to make a request of the FGH until the conditions change, thus limiting our capacity to attend to our purpose.

This decision comes with significant mourning, because of the likely impacts on our capacity to share more of our gifts with the world. As more people are willing and able to step into stewarding NGL’s purpose and mission, we don’t currently have access to sufficient resources to support their material needs.

Financial Gift Hub (FGH) Report 

You can find a link to the full report for the 2026 January-April Financial Gift Hub over here.

Within it you can find:

      • An overview of the experiment
      • The Numbers
      • The FGH freeze
      • How we are addressing the gap
      • & Updates from teams within the Resource Flow ecosystem

Is it your time to step into a task support group?

We imagine that some of you are longing to support NGL within willingness and capacity. We have heard so much feedback about how hard it can be to find your way into offering gifts within NGL online. We are putting effort into trying to make it easier. 

One way we are doing this is by providing a way to support us directly with some tasks that we believe can increase our ability to do what is ours to do: join a task support group and receive (and pick up!) simple requests for task support. We’ve created these task support groups in an attempt to create a pathway that is hopefully simple and flexible, and less of a capacity commitment than other ways that exist. 

We invite you to read below more and discern if this is a pathway for you. We hope that many of you will think seriously about what you can offer and sign up to join one or more of these groups. This is a very significant practical way you can support us, and doesn’t ask any particular time commitment of you.

 

What is a task support group?

These are email groups and there are no meetings or coordination outside of whatever the task needs. Each support group is for a specific type of task (e.g. notetaking, creating visuals, research, facilitating team meetings). 

NGL teams and people stewarding NGL send requests to these task support groups for one-off, individual support tasks as needed. Members of the group are asked to read incoming requests and discern if the task described is something they are willing and able to pick up at that moment. 

See the list of support groups for more specific examples.

Why offer the support?

  • We see joining task support groups as a simple way to move towards supporting NGL that is likely more accessible for many people
  • There is no specific time commitment
  • This is a way for you to offer skills you already have, and it may be joyful to take on individual tasks
  • It may be regenerative to do a certain kind of task for you!
  • We really need the support: many of our teams and projects are really hindered from lack of specific task support, whether that’s notetaking, facilitation, editing, or something else
  • If you find our learning resources supportive, we believe that offering practical support will likely support your learning on an additional level, as well as support your integration of learning and service, one of our key principles

We are aware that there are people who don’t have access to financial resources to gift to us. By taking up these tasks, we can reduce some of our need to increase our financial requests, because the people who are supported by NGL’s Financial Gift Hub are able to give their attention to other types of tasks, and we may need to take on fewer people.

Does it make sense for you to join a task support group?

  • Do you self-assess that you have easy access to the related capacities of the task you are considering joining?
  • Do you have willingness to receive requests with the intention to at least pause to discern if you have capacity to take on those requests?

We do not expect anyone to take on every task that is requested to the task support group and we hope that within the group as a whole, there will be capacity to support with most requests coming in. We ask that participants at least have the intention to sometimes take on tasks as is within capacity for them.

We won’t have capacity to engage with questions, we might not even have answers to questions because this is the first iteration of an experiment!

We ask you to join only if you are willing to give this a try! You are able to leave the groups whenever you choose.

How to step in

  • If you haven’t already, sign to connect with NGL. By signing up, you will be part of the group that receives support for onboarding and orientation to the NGL culture. We believe that by engaging in this way your participation in the task group(s) would more likely support your learning about the NGL framework
  • Review the list of task support groups and self assess if you have capacities needed to take on those kinds of tasks
  • Follow the link in column E to add yourself to the relevant group(s)
  • Leave the group at any time by following the instructions in column F of the Task Support Groups sheet. (We recommend bookmarking this link. These instructions will also be in the footer of every email you receive.)
  • Self assess at the end of the term (we’ll remind you) if you continue to have capacity to engage in the task group, and remove yourself if not (we’ll tell you how)

Other Ways to Contribute

We also invite you to become an NGL friend for more ongoing involvement, to learn together with us, and to contribute your life energy in the form of doing tasks or joining a  support pod.

If becoming an NGL friend is not for you at this time, we invite you to join our mailing list, where you can receive updates about offerings we are giving, as well as our termly ask.

Be a Bridge

 

If you know other people who could be interested in our offerings or in supporting us, you can also contribute by forwarding our invitation to them.

We also invite you to become an NGL friend for more ongoing involvement, to learn together with us, and to contribute your life energy in the form of doing tasks or joining a  support pod.

If becoming an NGL friend is not for you at this time, we invite you to join our mailing list, where you can receive updates about offerings we are giving, as well as our termly ask.

Be a Bridge 

If you know other people who could be interested in our offerings or in supporting us, you can also contribute by forwarding our invitation to them.

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