Support Us

Hello there! We are raising $5000 to fund our project called Rewild Camp. Rewild Camp is a Saturday afternoon social networking picnic where people make new friends and hang out with old while sharing skills, ideas and strategies for creating new cultures based on our hunter-gatherer ancestral heritage. In a world where people are continually becoming more and more isolated, Rewild Camp offers a safe place for families and friends to bond over shared interests, as well as an opportunity to make new friends, connections, and discoveries. We are an entirely volunteer-run group that works with people of all ages to create a lasting community centered on earth-based ancestral technology. Rewild Camp provides a comfortable social environment for students and teachers of all kinds, creating a constant resource for learning and teaching skills such as fire-making, archery, cordage, flint-knapping, among others. It is held on the last Saturday of the month. In order for us to continue to build our community, we need our annual expenses of $5000 funded. This money helps us maintain our webpage, provide materials for free classes, healthy snacks for people to enjoy at Rewild Camp, and pay for our insurance. Rewild Portland is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation; your donations are tax-deductible.

2011 Rewild Camp Gallery

Rewild Camp Empowers You & Your Community

• Building Social Capital
We live in an era of digital isolation. Rewild Camp’s main focus is on building “social capital”. Humans are social animals; we need to spend time with other people in order to feel whole. “Social Capital” is the idea that your social system provides “capital” in the same way that wealth does. We believe that social capital, the wealth of our social network, is more valuable than money. The DIY (do-it-yourself) movement is becoming an increasing economic burden as individuals find it difficult to live “on their own.” It is also psychologically unfulfilling. We are part of the growing “DIT” (do-it-together) movement. Rewild Camp encourages the sharing of ideas and the strengthening of bonds between people during a time when we need these things most.

• Nature Deficit Disorder
As our culture becomes more urban and digitized, we have lost our deep connection to the sensory experience of living in a natural world. This lack of connection to nature and lack of sensory exploration has been scientifically proven to lead to higher rates of anxiety, attention deficit disorder, and depression. In order to reclaim our peace of mind, we must take time away from our computers, televisions, schools, work, and the other stresses of modern life and instead spend it in the green spaces that exist within city limits. Rewild Camp creates the space for you to regularly fulfill this need.

• Life Skills
Most people have never been taught the most rudimentary life skills: how to make a fire from scratch, what plants are edible in your region, the principles of building a natural shelter, how to purify water. We do not know these skills because, as technologically complex as our culture has become, we no longer need to know them. However, as our world changes dramatically in the next few decades, these simple “survival skills” may become more of a necessity than mere parlor tricks. Rewild Camp teaches these ancient skills. Knowing how to take care of yourself, your family, and knowing that your children could take care of themselves if something were to happen, fills your entire family with a sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerment cannot be emphasized enough.

• Free
We do not charge money for Rewild Camp and often tell people that it is “free”. This is actually not true. Rewild Camp is made possible by individual donations from supportive people like you! In order to serve low-income families, disadvantaged youth, starving artists, debt-riddled college students, and soon-to-be homeless foreclosed families, we do not require a fee for instruction. Instead, we rely on connecting with people who have the funds to support a great cause like ours.

Rewards!

• The Raccoon Observer

When you donate $50 you will receive a subscription to our newsletter the “Raccoon Observer”, which is published twice a year. Inside the Observer you’ll find simple how-to guides for things like which edible plants to eat, philosophy of rewilding, artwork from local rewilders, updates on Rewild Camp, and other such fun stuff!

• People of the Raccoon Button

You’ll also get one of our “People of the Raccoon” buttons. Let others know that you are a friend of Rewild Portland by pining this button to your jacket.

Payment Options

• Paypal – Donate online at our website at the link above.
• Check – Mail to: Rewild Portland, PO Box 6582, Portland OR 97228
• Direct – Give your donation directly to a Rewild Portland volunteer and get a receipt for you taxes.

Thank you for your support,

Other Ways to Support Us

• Join Mailing List

To stay in touch about our programs, join our mailing list and like us on Facebook. We send out one e-mail a month as a reminder for Rewild Camp along with a brief update about upcoming programs.

• Donate Supplies
We need supplies for the skills that we teach at Rewild Camp. If a student can’t afford to bring the supplies, they can’t learn the skill we are teaching. We are in particular need of: Deer Hides, Brains, Cedar Bark, Vine Maple Staves.

• Donate Equipment
In order to teach a diversity of skills at Rewild Camp we need different kinds of equipment. Frost knives, pallets, kitchen utensils, etc.

• Donate Food
At Rewild Camp, food is central to rewilding. We share food as a way of bonding and creating a community. We eat “paleo” foods like: fresh fruits, free-range, grass-fed meats, vegetables for roasting, salad greens, etc.

• Volunteer Your Services
Web Designer, Web Developer, Marketing Guru, Graphic Designer, Photographers, Filmmakers, other media services.