Memorial, Tribute and Naming Opportunities.
La Cosecha de los Sueños has designed thoughtful ways to provide enduring tributes to a friend, family member or loved one. We thus offer opportunities for attractive, permanent memorials to those whose lives have made our own lives richer and more meaningful.
Memorial or tribute plaques do not include all the possibilities to consider in paying tribute to those who have been loved or held in high regard. We will be happy to discuss a number of ways in which these gifts might be recognized.
Buildings, floors, rooms, or other portions of the campus will have tasteful plaques recognizing donors – individuals, families, or organizations – and a companion plaque will be sent to donors as a memento of the enduring impact of their gifts.
These gifts made be made singly or in regular installments (monthly, quarterly), or in some cases, over a period of several years.
$1,000,000
La Cosecha de los Sueños Campus
The entire campus, which will be a multi-faceted center of flourishing for the community and region as well as needy children, will be a beacon of light to people throughout Ecuador and perhaps eventually to all of Latin America.
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$500,000
The Home
La Cosecha de los Sueños will be the first safe, stable, loving, and nurturing home many of these children will have had. This will truly be a home for the children of La Cosecha, not merely a house. As with natural families, younger kids will be paired with older kids in “big brother, big sister” relationships. Our home environment will be a place for constant learning opportunities. From interpersonal relationship skills to picking fruits and vegetables in the home garden and learning to help with family meals, each child will be a valued and loved member of a healthy family system.
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$10,000
Classrooms
La Cosecha classrooms will consist of traditional classrooms in tandem with workshop areas and open-air laboratories. Traditional classrooms will harness the power of instructional technology to expand the range of subjects available to students while increasing the quality of instruction beyond what residential, full-time teachers alone could provide.
Classroom curriculum will focus on personal character development – spiritual, moral, social -- along with essential life and employment skills. Under the watchful and discerning eyes of La Cosecha staff, students will explore and discover their individual developmental and career paths. Some will choose to work in La Cosecha-related businesses and be an asset to the local community. Others will seek employment elsewhere or continue their education at institutions of higher education in Ecuador or internationally.
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$500,000
The School
The children’s school will be the primary driving force in the transformation and eventual flourishing of children’s lives. It is here that hearts and minds will be shaped by the power of ideas. Where education will not merely equip generations of students to think broadly, deeply, imaginatively, and critically, but where visions of inspiring possibilities will be awakened, encouraged, and nourished.
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$250,000
Regenerative Farm and Dairy
In addition to providing a sustainable source of quality food and learning experiences for the children of La Cosecha, we aim through the farm and ancillary activities to equip children with valuable life and business skills. Through visits by agricultural specialists, veterinarians, and other experts, we seek to enrich students’ appreciation and understanding of the miracle of life, ecology, and creation care.
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$250,000
Dairy Farm and Animal Care
Consistent with our emphasis on experiential education, we aim to expose our students to a combination of ‘hands-on’ and ‘big picture’ business practices and skills. ‘Hands-on’ by physically getting hands dirty in the soil of La Cosecha’s farmland, and ‘big picture’ through exposure to the full scope of business agriculture from crop production to packaging, marketing, operations and finance.
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$25,000
Dormitory Bedrooms
La Cosecha kids will room with four to six other children in rooms of a higher quality than these children have ever known. Initially, boys and girls will live in separate wings of a building. As the number of kids grow, separate buildings will be available boys in one, girls in the other.
While shared space will be common as in college dormitories, each child will have their own “nook,” a private space in which they can be alone to study and engage in personal interests when not in school or working on school projects. We also aim to pair slightly older girls with younger girls and older boys with younger boys in a “big brother, big sister” modeling and mentoring program.
Make a difference.
Ways of Giving.
While many friends of La Cosecha de los Sueños may wish to make single gifts, others may wish to give monthly or quarterly. Provision has been made to make gifts through a variety of regular giving options, including electronic funds transfer.
In addition to gifts of cash, a growing number of partners have discovered the tax advantages often available through gifts of appreciated securities, real estate, life insurance, special collections (e.g., art, stamps, coins) and other planned giving means. Since federal laws encourage contributions by permitting tax deductions, donors should be aware of the tax benefits available to them. (U.S and Ecuadorian tax laws vary.)
Additional information on ways of giving is available from La Cosecha de los Sueños. We would be happy to discuss a variety of giving plans with interested individuals. Interested individuals are also encouraged to discuss their particular circumstances with their own attorneys or other professional advisors.
If you would like to learn more about different ways of supporting La Cosecha de los Sueños, please fill in the contact form below and a member of our team will get back to you as soon as possible.