Take a step towards a global gift economy
If you are here because you want to contribute financially to our work and you are ready to do so now, you are welcome to go straight to PayPal to do so. We are immensely grateful for every contribution.
We also 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 team is to steward NGL’s resources with reverence and build pathways for a maternal gift economy future.
Everything we do in the NGL Community – all our projects, all our courses and other offerings – 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 in NGL. Everyone who contributes their life energy to bringing NGL’s purpose into the world, both internally and when we offer our learning to others, is 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 in thriving 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 join this group by contributing to us at this time, the second of three invitations we are making this year, and the first one ever that we are opening to people outside the NGL community. This is a big moment for us.
If you would like to learn more about what we offer, please check here.
NGL Community needs
The total full request for September – December 2023 from the 30 people who currently contribute their life energy to NGL and were invited to make a request is $143,715 and the total minimum request is $87,521. We define a full request as an amount that would support people in thriving and relaxing, and invite people to make that known regardless of any financial constraints that exist in NGL. We define the minimum request as what is absolutely necessary to sustain the bare minimum, without which there are likely to be serious impacts. And we also invite people to name their restrained request, what goes beyond the minimum and makes it possible to sustain themselves without significant impacts.
Some of you are receiving this invitation to contribute for the first time and we want to remind everyone that every little bit counts and that we only want to receive money that is freely given. We trust that we will find creative ways other than money to attend to our needs beyond what we receive. We always have.
We have, currently available from ongoing contributions from those who want to support us and from gifts related to our work in the world, $85,949. This is almost enough to cover the minimum request, and not quite so. It leaves us more in need than we were last time we turned to you, when the minimum request was well covered and even the restrained request was.
At present, our current resources are $1,572 short of covering the minimum requests, and $57,766 to cover the full requests.
Making an actual financial contribution
If you want to support us to continue to offer what we are offering to the world, please contribute. Here’s a PayPal link you can use to make it.
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.
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 team.
In gratitude,
The NGL Resource Flow team
The following four sections are intended to initiate the process of alignment between you and NGL. Please take your time reading them. Our intention in communicating with you in this way is to bring clarity to your involvement in NGL as a Friend and for that clarity to live in both your mind and in your body. The more clearly you understand the invitation by which you are welcomed into NGL, the more ease we anticipate having in meeting our purpose together. For us, NGL Friends contributes to our intent to practice openness and build relationships that will mutually support our collaboration towards nonviolent global liberation.
Before you enter more personal data we want to inform you that in accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR:
The administrator of the personal data collected in this form is Nonviolent Global Liberation.
Your personal information is collected for the following purposes:
– Processing of your personal data is necessary to deliver our service to you, without this data we are unable to register you as an NGL Friend. Collected data will be stored as long as you are registered as NGL Friend and for 3 months after your unsubscribe as NGL Friend, for claiming and defending against claims, unless a longer period is required by law.
– You have the right to request to update or correct your personal information or to withdraw or limit your consent.
– You have the right to data portability, i.e. that on your request your data will be sent directly to another company, where technically feasible.
– Your personal data will be transferred to recipients, who will indicate the legal basis and legal interest, as well as to the following categories of entities: accounting firms, law firms, IT firms, public bodies resulting from the obligation to provide access on the basis of separate law.
– You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
As we mentioned in the introduction to Join NGL Friends, we have a number of requests of you that we want you to engage with seriously as you decide whether being an NGL Friend is a fit for you.
The overall principle we are asking of you is that you recognize the limits of our collective resources as a community, and adopt the attitude of reverence and “do no harm.” We have worked for a long time with much care to create this space. We want it to be as welcoming as we know how, and we know it’s not perfect.
We want to learn from and with you, and our capacity is limited to engage with you beyond what we offer generally. We ask that you act with awareness of being a guest in our community. We have attempted to offer as much guidance as we can to support your journey into and within NGL, and we may have not given sufficient clarity.
If so, let us know when we ask for feedback, and we will aim to find a way to offer more guidance in new ways. We deeply believe that you will learn and get a sense of belonging from attending calls and we ask that you do this with care for all of our specific requests (which mostly focus on your overall intention and focus, not concrete actions):