Founding Wild Hearts
A Bridge Fund for a Non-Profit Dedicated to Human Connection.
A Beginning That Matters
We live in a time where (too) many people feel disconnected: from themselves, from one another, and from the natural world around them. Not because they lack information, but because something more essential is missing: spaces where it is safe to feel and to be who they really are, to slow down, and to remember what it means to be human ... Fully Human.
Wild Hearts is being founded to respond to that need, steadily, concretely, and with care.
This crowdfunding campaign exists to support the "starting-up" phase of Wild Hearts as an independent non-profit organisation, and to help this work take root with integrity.
What Wild Hearts Is
Wild Hearts is an emerging non-profit initiative dedicated to reconnecting people — to themselves, to one another, and to the natural world they live in.
At its core, Wild Hearts brings together emotional intelligence, embodied awareness, and relational work rooted in direct relationship with the natural world.
Nature is not used as a backdrop or a setting, but as an active teacher and mirror , a way for people to reconnect with their own inner nature through contact with living systems, landscapes, and rhythms.
By spending time in real environments, slowing down, listening, and sensing, participants are invited to rediscover a felt sense of belonging — to their bodies, their emotions, their communities, and the wider web of life. This naturally deepens ecological awareness, care, and respect, not through ideology, but through lived experience and relationship.
The work of Wild Hearts takes many forms, including:
coaching events and workshops,
retreats and journeys in natural settings,
ongoing group practices and online spaces,
and quieter forms of presence in social, educational, and humanitarian contexts.
Some of this work is visible and participatory. Other parts happen quietly, in places where there is no market, but real need.
Wild Hearts exists to hold both.
To explore the vision and approach of Wild Hearts in more depth: https://www.yourwildheart.org
Why Wild Hearts Exists
We live in a time of fragmentation — within ourselves, between people, and across societies. Alongside the search for meaning and aliveness, there is a growing and very real need for inner safety: the capacity to feel grounded, regulated, and at home in oneself and in relationship with others.
Many existing models focus on performance, productivity, or rapid transformation, while the deeper emotional and relational foundations of being human — safety, trust, and belonging — are often overlooked.
Wild Hearts exists because:
people need spaces where they can feel safe enough to be real,
emotional literacy and embodied awareness are essential life skills,
and reconnection — to self, to others, and to the living world — is a prerequisite for meaningful and sustainable change.
By supporting inner safety as well as aliveness, Wild Hearts creates conditions where individuals and communities can meet life with greater resilience, responsibility, and care.
This work is not about scale for its own sake. It is about depth, presence, and rootedness.
Why This Fund Exists
Wild Hearts is currently in its founding phase as an independent non-profit organisation.
Rooting a project like this properly takes time. It means building structure without rushing, growing without overextending, and making decisions that protect integrity rather than chasing visibility or premature expansion.
This crowdfunding campaign exists as a bridge fund to support that process of rooting:
without needlessly taking credit or shortcuts,
without injecting capital that isn’t yet sustainable, and without compromising values under financial pressure.
The financial needs of this phase are being met through multiple channels: this crowdfunding campaign, ongoing applications for public and private subsidies, and the development of sustainable partnerships — some of which are already in place and actively growing.
Together, these elements allow Wild Hearts to develop as a stable, ethical non-profit — grounded in relationship rather than urgency, and built to last.
How the Funds Will Be Used
The funds raised through this campaign will be allocated approximately as follows:
- 40% — Non-Profit Foundation & Structure. Legal setup, accounting, administration, governance, insurance, digital infrastructure, and basic operational costs required to establish Wild Hearts as a solid, transparent non-profit organisation.
- 30% — Social & Humanitarian Projects (Wild Response). Seeding non-commercial initiatives in social, educational, and humanitarian contexts; partnerships with organisations and communities with limited resources; accessibility measures; and early-stage responses where human presence and emotional support are urgently needed.
- 20% — Core Coordination & Work Capacity: Partial salary compensation and main coordinator during the founding phase. This role includes project development, partnerships, facilitation, coordination, communication, and holding the overall coherence of the non-profit. This is not personal profit, but functional sustainability.
- 10% — Communication & Outreach
Website development, multilingual communication, documentation, and outreach needed to make the work understandable, accessible, and accountable to a wider public.
Transparency and ethical use of funds are core values of Wild Hearts and will remain central as the organisation develops.
About the Founding Phase
Wild Hearts is not built by one person — but in its early phase, it is carried by a small number of people who take responsibility for its direction, integrity, and continuity.
Supporting this campaign means supporting the conditions that allow this work to exist sustainably, without relying on unpaid labor, burnout, or urgency-driven decisions.
This is a conscious choice to build something that can last.
How You Can Support
There are several meaningful ways to support Wild Hearts:
- by contributing financially to this bridge fund,
- by sharing this campaign with people who resonate with grounded, human-centered work,
- by participating in events or practices as they become available,
- or by simply helping this initiative live in conversation and community.
Every contribution — financial or otherwise — helps this non-profit take root with integrity.
A Final Word
Wild Hearts is not about grand promises. It is about creating and protecting spaces where human connection, emotional presence, and responsibility can exist — especially where they are least visible and most needed.
This campaign is an invitation to support the foundation of that work.
Thank you for standing with this beginning.
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