Coyote Helps: My Dream of a Foundation

Nonprofits we long to support with hefty financial gifts that we currently do not have:

• Mayhew International (based in England, this organization helps animal-welfare organizations around the world, including in Afghanistan and Romania)
• animal shelters serving rural counties in the USA, such as Desert Haven Animal Society, serving Nye County, Nevada
• Appalshop
• HAWCA (Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan), an Afghan-based NGO that works to encourage the active participation of Afghan women in the reconstruction and development of a safe, just society where all Afghans - regardless of race, ethnicity, tribe, language, gender or religion - benefit equally from development. 
• Business Council for Peace (BPEACE)
• Riders for Health
• Planned Parenthood International and local clinics in Kentucky and throughout the Southern USA
• CARE International
• NGOs in Afghanistan, India, Mexico and Central America that help women and girls, train local people in good jobs (anything from being a motorcycle mechanic to nursing to ecotourism), and help preserve precious wildlife.

I would also love to fund nonprofit organizations and NGOs that provide training to other nonprofits & NGOs regarding any activity that helps them to become more sustainable, effective and ethical.

I would also fund a series of scholarships for students studying theater, journalism, music or English at Western Kentucky University that attended their last four years of high school at a Kentucky public high school. 

It would not fund organizations that promote religion, organizations that discriminate on the basis of religion (or lack their of) or sexual orientation, nor those that promote the limiting of women's rights, including reproductive choices.

I'd also would love to fund:

• a nonprofit traveler's Hostel in Louisville, Kentucky.
   
  
• a nonprofit wilderness hostel in Tillamook Forest, Oregon.
   
  
• a national movement to create hostels across the USA - wilderness hostels like in Canada and regular hostels like in England and Germany. With a web site that outlines how a community can build support for a nonprofit traveler's hostel, how to form a nonprofit for the effort, what the different roles for volunteers are in building support, an outline of a business plan, the variety of ways a hostel can look and what it can offer, etc.
   
  
• a community radio station wherever I'm living - and a movement to create these across the USA. As local newspapers continue to die, and as more and more people get their information from podcasts and social media, and as we become more and more divided socially, the need for community radio has never been greater.
   
  
• a women's Retreat in Kentucky, Oregon and/or Idaho. A female-only space. Beautiful, somewhat isolated place, with beautiful, natural vistas and lots of opportunities to just sit alone and read (or think), or to talk in small or large groups. A one-room library full of a variety of books. Smart phones checked upon check-in - residents can go to a special room and spend up to one hour - no more - with their smart phone. Single room and dorm rooms available. Laundry facilities (but not laundry services) provided. Horse-back riding, hiking, tai chi, yoga, secular meditation, massage, drumming/percussion, delicious healthy food options (including MEAT), workshops on astronomy, history, cooking, keeping a journal, safety and protecting mental health online, how to relax (especially to fall asleep), how to recognize depression, and how to get involved in your community (how to find and test out volunteering options, how to find arts-related activities). Featured after lunch and evening movie showing or podcast-presentation followed by a guided discussion. No essential oils, no anti-science information, no lectures to carnivores regarding the evils of eating meat, no makeovers, no beauty tips. Alcohol-free.
   
  
• Hike and bike trail from Atkinson Park in Henderson, Kentucky to Spottsville (Kentucky). It would require a pedestrian bridge over Highway 41 to Barrett Blvd., and then the trail would be on the South side of Highway 60.