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<div>Founder: Yahira Lobos
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<div>Crystal Nations Collective is a land-based community initiative rooted in earth stewardship, recovery-informed education, ceremony, and sustainable living.
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<div>I’m Yahira Lobos, founder of Crystal Nations Collective and a long-time facilitator of Rainbow Medicine Wheels built across North America. For over 13 years, I have volunteered my time, skills, and leadership to community spaces centered on healing, recovery, mental health advocacy, and reconnection with the land.
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<div>This work has always been mobile, relational, and service-based.
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<div>Now, at 54 years old, it is time to ground it into land, infrastructure, and a permanent foundation.
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<div>This fundraiser exists to do exactly that.
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<div>The Vision
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<div>Crystal Nations Collective is stewarding a land-based retreat and education model designed to:
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<div>Host small, intentional healing retreats
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<div>Build and maintain a Rainbow Medicine Wheel on the land
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<div>Facilitate fire purification ceremonies, prayer, and ritual
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<div>Offer workshops, potlucks, lectures, and seasonal gatherings
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<div>Support youth, families, and neurodivergent individuals in recovery
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<div>Provide a safe, regulated environment for nervous-system healing and reconnection with nature
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<div>The land will be stewarded respectfully and non-invasively, responding to the needs of the ecosystem itself.
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<div>Long-Term Blueprint: The Crystal City (Eco-Village Model)
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<div>Crystal Nations Collective carries a long-range blueprint for a small-scale eco-village, referred to as a Crystal City — not a fantasy city, but a practical demonstration model for sustainable living.
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<div>This includes:
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<div>Earth-based structures (earthships, hempcrete, air-crete)
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<div>Ethical use of gemstones as structural and educational elements
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<div>A food forest
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<div>Animal sanctuary or foster support (horses, donkeys, goats, sheep, dogs — based on land needs)
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<div>Non-extractive, regenerative land practices
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<div>Education in sustainability, stewardship, and community governance
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<div>The goal is not expansion — it is demonstration:
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<div>A grounded, sovereign model of how humans can live with land, not on top of it.
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<div>Why Now
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<div>For 35 years, I have carried this vision through lived experience, recovery, training, and service.
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<div>I am certified in nine healing and educational modalities and have spent decades facilitating spaces of healing, reflection, and community connection.
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<div>The next phase of this work requires stability:
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<div>A safe home base in nature
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<div>Transportation for materials and people
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<div>Legal nonprofit structure
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<div>Storage, preparation, and retreat infrastructure
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<div>This is not about lifestyle.
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<div>It is about capacity, safety, and longevity.
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<div>Fundraising Goal: $33,000
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<div>This funding anchors the foundation so Crystal Nations Collective can move from mobile service to land-based stewardship.
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<div>Use of Funds:
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<div>$7,000 — Ethical materials &amp; stones
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<div>For building Rainbow Medicine Wheels and educational crystalline grid sets.
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<div>$5,000 — Housing / RV / Land Base
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<div>A quiet, clean, safe space in nature to live, prepare retreats, and steward the land.
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<div>$5,000 — Reliable 4x4 Truck
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<div>For transporting stones, supplies, and ceremonial materials safely.
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<div>$3,000 — Travel &amp; Relocation
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<div>Santa Fe → Payson → Tucson (fuel, lodging, logistics).
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<div>$5,000 — Driver’s License Reinstatement
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<div>Legal requirements for safety, independence, and operation.
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<div>$3,000 — Nonprofit Formation &amp; Website
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<div>Legal incorporation, compliance, and a foundational online presence.
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<div>$5,000 — Stability &amp; Contingency Buffer
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<div>Protection against delays, deposits, or unexpected costs.
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<div>What You’re Supporting
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<div>You are supporting:
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<div>A land-based healing and education model
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<div>Long-term volunteer-rooted leadership transitioning into stewardship
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<div>Recovery-informed, neurodivergent-inclusive spaces
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<div>Ethical ceremony, education, and sustainability practices
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<div>A nonprofit designed to give back, not extract
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<div>All funds will be used strictly for the purposes outlined. Updates will be shared throughout the process.
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<div>Closing
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<div>After 13 years of volunteer service and 35 years of lived experience, it is time to ground the vision — responsibly, legally, and sustainably.
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<div>If you feel aligned, your donation or share helps Crystal Nations Collective take root.
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<div>With gratitude,
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<div>Yahira Lobos
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<div>Founder &amp; Steward
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<div>Crystal Nations Collective
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