Community Harvest
Please review carefully to discover if this Community Harvest is right for you.
What is the Community Harvest?
And how do you draw on the Community Harvest fund?
In lieu of a sliding scale or scholarship system, I have developed a Community Harvest fund.*
Each individual who purchases a paid offering above $45** at the listed price contributes automatically to the Community Harvest.
This financial model allows many individuals in the Journeypen Project community support those who may require a little help. In a forest, trees share nutrients among their roots so that each one receives nourishment. Similarly, Community Harvest is intended to make sure that each person can receive what they need.
When you purchase a paid offering at the full price, the Journeypen Project allocates a sixth of that revenue towards the Community Harvest fund.
Some individuals may draw on that fund to pay a portion of or all of the price for the same offering. If this is you, please subscribe to the Community Harvest-specific newsletter for more information. You’ll find a place to sign up on the bottom of the page.
Other individuals may be able to pay more than the listed price, and if so, then that extra amount will also go into the Community Harvest in order to support those who may need to draw on it.
How is the Community Harvest shared?
Once a quarter, The Journeypen Project discerns how much is available in the Community Harvest and transforms it into a limited number of coupon codes at three tiers, which can be used to purchase any of the available offerings above $45.
Those tiers are:
33.3% off the listed price - For those who only need a slightly reduced price.
66.6% off the listed price - For those who would like to pay a portion.
100% off the listed price - For those who require and would like to receive full support from the JourneyPen Project Community.
When that is complete, we email everyone who has signed up for the Community Harvest Fund newsletter (sign-up at the bottom of the page), with a one-question form and approximately 36 hours to answer it.
After the deadline, every single individual who completes the form will then be emailed the coupons.
It’s first come, first serve, but even if the coupon codes run out for that quarter, or you miss the window in some other way, the whole process starts over again the next quarter.
Who decides which tier to use?
The participant decides.
The three tiers are designed to allow those who receive from the Community Harvest to consider and discern:
What do I require?
What am I willing to receive?
The individual chooses how much help they need at that given time.***
This is an on-your-own-conscious system. Beyond the one-question quarterly form, no one at the Journeypen Project is checking up on whether or not you have actual need or imagined need.
The belief is that each individual will take only what you require, because as part of the JourneyPen Project community, you would like others here to also receive as much benefit as possible.
If everyone uses the 100% code one quarter, then only a few people will receive from the Community Harvest in that period, and as long as that was true need, the fund was used well.
But if it’s a mix of individuals using 33.3% or 66.6% off coupons, then more individuals can draw on the Community Harvest at once, which is also a good use of the Community Harvest fund.
If someone draws on the Community Harvest, then what happens to it?
Once you’ve drawn on the Community Harvest, two-thirds of the price go back to the JourneyPen Project, which helps support the costs of the website and content development.
The last third goes to the Outward Share fund, which destined for donation.
How does the Outward Share work?
Shelby, as the founder of the JourneyPen project, picks a short-list of charities to which the JourneyPen Project might donate. Then she sends out a poll only to those who have drawn on the Community Harvest that quarter, and they vote, deciding where the community will donate that quarter.
So, by receiving from the Community Harvest, you initiate the process for an Outward Share. So, by receiving from the Community Harvest, you too are sharing with those who require help.
For those of you who are good at math, you’ll might have already calculated: at least one-eighteenth (or roughly 5.55%) of every listed price above $45 is destined for donation for the Outward Share.
So, the more that the JourneyPen Project grows, the more can be shared.
A few other notes
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*This is an experiment. I haven’t seen anyone else try this, so it’s an experiment with very little data so far. As we learn, we refine, and we try again. So, the structure of the Community Harvest is subject to change at any time, but the funds in the Community Harvest will always be allocated to support those who require help meeting the listed price.
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**Times are strange, and inflation is rapid. So, this number—as with all prices at the Journeypen Project—may be changed. We review and revise pricing models frequently—at equinoxes, solstices, and cross-quarter holidays.
In 2022, those dates are: 2/2/22, 3/20/22, 5/1/22, 6/24/22, 8/1/22, 9/21/22, 10/31/22, and 12/21/22.
In 2023, those dates are: 2/1/23, 3/20/23, 5/1/23, 6/21/23, 8/1/23, 9/22/23, 10/31/22, and 12/21/23.
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***These questions alone can bring up a lot of big feels around prosperity, trust, and self-valuing. Going through the Community Harvest process may bring up even more. Due to investing so much energy in creating new content, Shelby is not able to hold each person through that journey, but please know that she holds each of you in compassion through it. It’s a lot, and she believes in your ability to walk through it.
Sign up for the Community Harvest Newsletter.
As noted above, this newsletter goes out once a quarter. The first contains the one-question form. The second only goes out to those which contain the one-question form, and that contains the coupon codes that allow the recipients to draw on the Community Harvest Fund.
It is intended for those who require some support to pay for the listed prices at the JourneyPen Project.