Join the Mission.
Build the Vision.
Become the Ripple.
Your generosity helps create safe, brave spaces of grace where individuals navigating trauma, chronic stress, burnout, grief, chronic pain, and life's difficult seasons can reconnect with hope, healing, and wholeness through nature, movement, nourishment, and supportive community.
Why Your Gift Matters?
Healing rarely happens in isolation.
Every person who finds hope at Wild Haven Sanctuary carries that hope home—to their loved ones, coworkers, neighbors, patients, clients, churche, and community.
That's the Ripple Effect.
Your generosity helps provide trauma-informed, nature-based opportunities that many people cannot access elsewhere or afford on their own.
Together, we're cultivating healthier people, stronger families, and more resilient communities.
Who You Help
Most people who come to Wild Haven Sanctuary are:
• Survivors of trauma and abuse
• Living with chronic pain or invisible illness
• Caregivers
• Healthcare professionals
• First responders
• Ministry leaders
• Helping professionals
• Individuals experiencing burnout
• People grieving loss or facing life transitions
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We offer anyone longing for hope and healing something often missing from traditional healthcare systems and recovery programs:
Gentle, trauma-informed, whole-person care through nature, movement, nourishment, education, and meaningful connection.
 Choose How You'd Like to Make a Ripple
Every gift creates a ripple.
Whether you give once, monthly, sponsor a participant, or help build the future, your generosity makes hope more accessible.
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Give Where Needed Most
Life happens. Help meet the greatest needs of Wild Haven Sanctuary when the best made plans don't work out and surprises happen. Your gift goes wherever it can make the greatest impact.
Become a Ripple Effect Partner
Provide reliable monthly support that allows Wild Haven Sanctuary to grow sustainably, plan confidently, and make healing opportunities accessible all year long.
Gift a Scholarship
Help remove financial barriers by providing scholarship support for those navigating financial hardships.
Sponsor a Retreat
Help create safe, brave spaces where participants can pause, rest, reconnect, and gain practical tools for long-term healing and resilience.
Sponsor an Immersion
Provide 1:1 personalized support for individuals seeking focused time for restoration, education, reflection, and whole-person healing through a 7-day immersive experience.
Build the Vision
Together, we're creating more than ADA compliant buildings and safe spaces—we're cultivating a movement. Your generosity helps build spaces where healing flourishes today while equipping tomorrow's Wild Haven Warriors to plant seeds of hope, healing, and wholeness for generations to come... here, near, and far.
Give 100% of Your Gift to Hope & Healing
If you'd like 100% of your monetary gifts to go directly toward Wild Haven Sanctuary's mission or vision without processing fees, we gratefully accept donations by check or Zelle. Every dollar of your gift goes directly toward cultivating hope and healing.Â
Leave a Legacy
Let's schedule an appointment if you would like to discuss providing a lasting ripple through planned giving, donor-advised funds, stock gifts, employer matching, or other legacy opportunities that will help sustain Wild Haven Sanctuary and continue to impact future generations for years to come.
Volunteer Your Gifts & Talents
Whether you have skills in hospitality, healthcare, construction, landscaping, administration, fundraising, or simply a willing heart to set up for events, or break down after events, or serve behind the scenes (there's always something to clean!), your time and talents help make Wild Haven Sanctuary possible.
Stewardship Promise
We believe every gift is a sacred trust and deserves faithful stewardship.
At Wild Haven Sanctuary, we are committed to integrity, transparency, accountability, and wise management of every dollar entrusted to our mission. We strive to maximize the impact of each gift while providing regular updates that demonstrate how your generosity is cultivating hope and healing.
When you choose to support a specific program, initiative, or campaign, it is our sincere intent to honor your giving preference and apply your gift accordingly whenever possible. However, if the designated need has been fully funded, circumstances change, or pressing operational needs arise, Wild Haven Sanctuary's Board of Directors and/or Executive Director may redirect funds to closely related mission priorities where they are needed most to ensure the continued health and sustainability of our organization. We are committed to stewarding every gift with wisdom, integrity, and in a manner that best advances our mission.
As our community grows, we will share annual impact reports, financial summaries, participant stories, measurable outcomes, and progress toward our mission and vision so you can see the ripple your generosity creates.
Wild Haven Sanctuary was incorporated as a North Carolina nonprofit on May 6, 2025. As a young organization, our impact reports are just beginning—but every journey starts with a single step. Our founding partners are helping write the very first chapters of a legacy that we believe will bless individuals, families, and communities for generations to come.
Thank you for joining the mission, building the vision, and becoming part of the Ripple.
If you have specific questions, please contact us at [email protected].
View Your Impact in the Growing Resources Hub (Impact Report Available by January 2027)Donate Supplies
We are still recovering from Hurricane Helene. Wild Haven Sanctuary suffered the loss of nearly all our client-serving investments and we had to pause our work — but we have resumed our mission and our vision to bring beauty from the ashes that remains unshaken! Even moreso, now!
We invite you to help us rise from the ashes and restore a sacred space where healing, joy, and wild freedom can flourish again.
Most Needed items:
- Portable Defibrilator and 2nd EMS bag
- Hand Washing Stations
- Showers with hot water heater for glampers/campers
- Exercise Props & Supplies: natural fiber bolsters, and woven blankets
- Organic/Eco-friendly spa-like gifts and gift bags (journals, fine-point pens, post-it-notes, refillable water bottles - with our WHS logo would be AWEmazing, soaps, candles, lip balms, lotions, eye masks, shower steamers, bath salts, loofahs, essential oil rollers, etc.)
- Eco-Â cleaning supplies (low odor if possible)
- Eco- soaps, shampoos, conditioners (for sensitive skin and organic)
- Hiking Gear (still replacing since Hurricane Helene swept away our hiking poles, backpacks)
- Creative Workshop materials (art and craft supplies, natural resources, etc)
- Outdoor Gardening Supplies, Native Pollinator plants + Native seeds (native to Ashe County/Blue Ridge Mountains, NC)Â
- Glamping Tents, "Tiny Home" Supplies to glam-up our tents to feel more comfortable and inviting.
- Calming Decor, Large Indoor Plants, and Furniture with storage Â
Purchasing Options
You can browse our Amazon Wishlists by clicking the words in BLUE below to shop for the items above + more...
NOTE: to the right of the "search bar" on the Amazon Wishlist page you can set the list to prioritize highest to lowest needs for your convenience:
One and Done Wishlist - typically our reusable items (until they wear out and need replaced)
Replacement Wishlist - the things that have worn out or been used up over a long period of time.
Continuously Needing Wishlist - things we use up year round or seasonally.
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Source Items Yourself:
New- Able to find these items at the same or better quality for less cost? Contact us to arrange shipment or pickup.
Gently Used- Already have gently used items you would like to donate? Contact us to arrange shipment or pick up.
We are grateful for your donations that will help us build new (and better) retreat and wellness spaces so that we can serve more trauma survivors even better!
Final Invitation
Hope grows when people come together.
Healing ripples outward.
Lives are changed.
Families become stronger.
Communities become healthier.
Will you help cultivate the next ripple?
