Fund Karma Compass' Startup Online Magazine

We Lost our Funding- Help Us Get Off the Ground! 

Our fiscal sponsorship was lost in February 2021, leaving us without access to non-profit funding avenues.  As devout believers in the power of the written word and the visual arts, we are choosing resilience and creativity over defeat and pivoting as we grow.

Help us get #SmallBusinessRelief from GoFundMe by donating today.

Help us to fund the launch of Karma Compass Magazine, featuring writers and artists from around the world and continue to fund our arts mentorship, internship and not-for-profit enrichment programs.  

Our new online magazine website will expand our potential and reach.  We need funds to fuel this transition. Help us to continue and expand our Programs while paying artists, writers and interns living wages as they share and develop their talents and skills.

All of us here at Karma Compass are staunch believers that the Arts fuel the soul of every society.  It is our aim to nourish souls around the world while doing our part to smash the myth of the “starving artist” that our current modern culture so deeply perpetuates. 

Your support here will be crucial in allowing us to continue the work we have begun. Our gratitude for your contribution would be deep and vast.  Each contributor of $50 or more will receive a gift of annual membership to our upcoming Karma Compass arts enrichment,  book club & classes are in the works! 

Karma Compass began as one audacious woman’s vision of a collaborative hub for writers and artists to share and amplify their talent, perspectives, and voices that has grown into an organization that mentors, supports and pays established and emerging artists, filmmakers, writers and youth to create new and relevant content for the society we envision.

 We support women, youth, artists and writers through our online platform, direct career training,  and experience through our internship and residency programs which offer online publication opportunities and new skill development. Karma Compass fosters and co-creates a healthy professional, collaborative community around our individual gifts, skills and contributions and operates under an anti-oppression, engaged multicultural work environment. 

Karma Compass subsidizes our not-for-profit children’s, youth and adult programs with professional mentorship and internship opportunities.  We offer our communities a wealth of experiential and professional growth to advance our collective well-being and ability to thrive, using sustainable, multi-generational, Third-World Feminist principles as a foundation for our work. 

Karma Compass does all this by producing vibrant, responsive, holistic, creative, and educational content that speaks to health, wellness, food, art, poetry, and everything in between. We contribute and work in an environment where we can all best thrive, while transforming society for the better. Every one of the Karma Compass programs is born from the belief that our youth, young adults, and artists are, without exception, our future.  Their talents, ability to connect, communicate, and create deserve to be nurtured, uplifted, amplified, and cultivated in a way that brings real-world and next-level skills into being. We believe that Humanity’s future flourishing absolutely depends on this.  


See our current work and youth programs at www.karmacompass.me.

Your generous contributions will impact the lives of numerous individuals, the programs in our organization, and readers around the world. 






Want to know more about our programs right now?  Keep reading for detailed descriptions of each program. 

*Karma Compass Pen Pals Program* 
A pen-pal relationship is a life-long gift of friendship, community and mutual development. In  the immediate moment, owing to COVID-19, our children are isolated, missing crucial age-mate  socialization and unable to learn without the barrier of technology. Pen pals give children  something to look forward to: A new friend, personal mail arriving at their home, curiosity and  cultural exchange, social etiquette, self-expression and social-cognitive development, as well as teaching and providing praxis in delayed gratification, composing, drafting (spelling /grammar/  syntax), communication and writing skills, penmanship, off-line friendship and expanded social  community. Now more than ever, these are resources that are meaningful to our children. 

Personally, as a child, I had my first pen pal when I was eight. My practice of writing grew over  the years, expanding into my late adolescence (and beyond) when I met some International  students in college. The joy of getting personal mail, hearing stories of ‘parallel universes’ and  sharing intimacies via correspondence with a new friend is incomparable to any other form of  communication. What’s more, these skills directly translate into real-world, academic and  professional skills. Without being able to write, our children cannot be successful in our  increasingly technology-driven world, where communication reflects their interior reality and their emotional intelligence. In short, we all have to know how to express ourselves effectively  in order to thrive. I can testify that my passion for writing and learning grew over the years, and  until this day, I have many wonderful correspondents all over the world in many languages. 

Through this not-for-profit program we offer Peer-to-Peer, Classroom-to-Classroom & School-to-School Pen Pal Matching in our national Karma Compass Pen Pal  program.

This is designed to foster understanding, friendship, community and connection between  peers through our safe, off-line program, working with teachers and parents to keep our children engaged. We also aim to encourage youth leadership and mentorship skills by giving  paid opportunities to junior and senior adolescents to write, mentor and tutor younger children  virtually and in person as a way to encourage cooperation and develop skills. To be sure, having  a pen pal is not like a homework assignment. In our current pilot group, the children eagerly await mail,  exchange letters, tokens of affection and improve their skills with each letter they write. It’s a  beautiful process to witness. 


*Karma Compass Youth Speak Out Series* 

Youth between the ages of 12-18  with an interest in  the written and visual arts are invited to publish their work as a part of this series.  They are provided mentorship with Karma Compass artists to assist them in developing their ideas into reality.  This provides them the support, encouragement and perspective of other existing artists, as well as accountability in the form of scheduling, developing, editing, formatting, and posting of their work.  It is our goal to expand this program to include Filmmaking by youth.  


Karma Compass Youth Mentorship 
A sister component to our Youth Speak Out series, the Karma Compass Youth Mentorship program is the personal connection and accountability aspect.  This mentorship program is meant to include and support youth in the development of their artistic and professional skills through meaningful connection with established writers and artists working for and with Karma Compass.  This includes regular scheduled check-ins with their mentors and the creation and publication of their own content; written or visual.  


Karma Compass Professional Internship 
This program is intended to offer young adults paid, professional training in the world of creating and publishing the content of Karma Compass.  It is our goal that each staff position be paired with a paid Intern to facilitate both the work itself and the Intern’s professional and personal growth.  From Content Creation, Marketing, Business Management, Project Development and Managing to Program Development and Management and Event Facilitation- we are building a place for young adults to learn, build and expand marketable skills for the world.  They will be trained and contribute to ongoing and new content and programs and receive written recommendations when their internships are completed; all while being paid.  We believe wholeheartedly that we must model a new paradigm for the worth of our time and skills (even as they are being developed) in order to shift the current concept of the value of a human’s time and energy.


*Karma Compass Living Artist Project*
This project is a non-competitive collaboration between culturally, creatively and ethnically diverse artists of all kinds. Living Artist Project contributors showcase their original art (painting, photography, poetry, sculpture, refinishing, design, essay, memoir, film and more) on Karma Compass and connect with other artists while getting exposure and participate in a living venue based on healing, wellness and passion.  LAP contributors also receive editorial and marketing support while engaging with other emerging and established artists to share ideas and collaborate on a range of common concerns.