Thank you for finding us.
As we come to the end of 2023, the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund is partnering with our friends at Flourish Trust for a matching campaign. For each dollar you donate between now and December 31st, they will match up to $50,000.
We’re ambitious, and we hope to raise at least $100,000, for a total of $150,000 that will go directly to our partners on the ground who are doing important biocultural conservation work.
As a lead-up to #GivingTuesday, we will be featuring our partners’ work in a series of social media posts. We invite you to Get Behind the Medicine, donate to the campaign, and share widely.
What will your donation do?
Our mission is to ensure a future where Indigenous peoples, their medicines and their knowledges are thriving.
We have 15 active partner relationships across 5 keystone biocultures:
— Peyote, Ayahuasca, Iboga, Toad and Mushroom.
Your donation will contribute to not only the long-term success of carefully chosen, Indigenous-led grassroots organizations, but also to immediate needs and impacts.
Between now and the end of December, our partners on the ground are busy:
Sacred &
Traditional Plants
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Planting of 2000+ Iboga trees
Blessings of the Forest, Gabon
Seeding of 4000+ Peyote cacti
Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, USA
A group spiritual encounter and ayahuasca ceremony for local leaders and youth
ASOMASHK, Peru
Community medicinal plant nurseries in 2 villages
Sierra Mazateca, Mexico
Construction of a Comanche Peyote conservation nursery
Sia: Numu Husi Kahni, USA
Agroforestry
& Reforestation
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Planting of 1000+ seeds and tree saplings
Instituto Nixikawá, Brazil
Harvest of 200kg in Gabon and support for cacao production
Blessings of the Forest, Gabon / UMIYAC, Colombia
Development of a nursery and a water system for regeneration of Peyote
Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, USA
Salaries for 4 technicians working in agroforestry and fish farms
Instituto Yorenka Tasorentsi, Brazil
Education for Indigenous Youth
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Diplomas and graduation ceremony support for 97 Shipibo youth
Oni Xobo, Peru
Support for 185 children with end-of-year school activities
Blessings of the Forest, Gabon
Spiritual and cultural support for rural schools and teachers
UMIYAC, Colombia
Arts, Culture
& Conferences
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Preparation for 5th Indigenous Ayahuasca Conference
Yawanawa/Asháninka Organizations, Brazil
Intercultural holiday celebration for up to 1500 Shipibo children
Oni Xobo, Peru
Support for interethnic gatherings and community festivals
UMIYAC, Colombia
Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission & Intercultural Health
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Open house for 400+ Native American Peyote Practitioners
Indigenous Peyote Conservation Initiative, USA
Community ayahuasca ceremonies with elders and youth
Asociación Yage Tsampi A’i Kofan, Ecuador
Construction of Indigenous health-provider center, and cost-free care for 10 weekly patients in a Shipibo intercultural health center
UMIYAC, Colombia / Oni Xobo, Peru
Our partners in the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Ecuador and Gabon are counting on us, and we are leveraging our networks to fulfill our promises with them. We invite you to be part of the movement, to move from Appropriation to Appreciation and to Get Behind the Medicine.
Getting Behind the Medicine
Various Indigenous cultures have worked with sacred medicines for millennia, maintaining their practices despite many challenges. Did you know that the psychedelics boom is threatening the people and ecosystems who have long stewarded these healing medicines?
If you or someone you love has received healing from these medicines, one way to express gratitude is to help support the conservation of these keystone biocultures and the communities who maintain sacred medicine practices.
At IMC Fund, we have engaged in many processes of deep listening, and provide financial and technical support in carefully cultivated relationships with our partners on the ground. When we say Get Behind the Medicine, we mean get behind the people, the cultures and the territories that are doing this work.
We humbly invite your trust. We are a bridge between our partners on the ground and the Western World. Through community-based assessment, rigorous due diligence and an Indigenous-led decision-making process, we are confident that the people we support are doing important good work. Join us in supporting them. Join us and #getbehindthemedicine.
