Support the work
Two quiet doors
Not everyone is at the same place in life. So there are two ways to give — a recurring path and a one-time path — and no tier is ever closed. The transaction is not the point. The relationship is.
Recurring
Patreon
Steady, ongoing support that lets us plan. Choose your level, change it anytime, and receive updates from inside the work.
One-time
Give once
A single gift, whenever you're ready. Our secure one-time processor is being finalized — check back soon, or reach out and we'll help directly.
The Founding Archive Collection
Come as you are
8 individual tiers and 4 organizational tiers — open supply, no caps, no expiration. Entry begins at $10, and every tier carries a Community Vote (how that works, and where it stands). The archive does not belong more to those who give more — it belongs equally to everyone who shows up.
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$10
Community Voice
The archive begins with you.
Community Vote -
$25
Seedling
You came back.
Community Vote -
$50
Scholar
You learn in order to act.
Community Vote -
$150
Steward
You have decided to tend something beyond yourself.
Community Vote -
$500
Patron
You believe that culture is infrastructure.
Community Vote -
$2,000
RIP Steward
You have been thinking about this longer than you have had words for it.
Community + Deliberative Vote -
$4,000
Reckoning Partner
You understand that reckoning is not a moment. It is a practice.
Community + Deliberative Vote -
$7,500 – $8,500
Architect
You build things that outlast you. So does this archive.
Community + Deliberative Vote
Organizational track
Built for collectives, not corporations
Four tiers priced for the realities of small organizations — budgets built on grants that arrive late, on community dues, on the goodwill of people who could be paid more elsewhere and stay anyway.
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$75
Grassroots Partner
Your organization was built because the existing systems were not built for you.
Community Vote -
$300
Ally Organization
Your organization does not just believe in this work. It uses this work.
Community Vote -
$1,000
Institutional Ally
Your institution has learned, through its own history, that neutrality is not possible.
Community + Deliberative Vote -
$2,500 – $3,000
Design Justice Alliance
You have been doing this work long before you found Deconstructing Design.
Community + Deliberative Vote
Where your gift goes
From Guardian to Garden
Support is not extraction. It is a loop. What comes in through a Food Guardian or a Founding Archive tier is reinvested — by policy — back into community-controlled programs. Select each stage to follow the money.
Sixty percent of every dollar goes directly into programs and community initiatives; the rest keeps the work standing. No profit is distributed.
1 · Give
A supporter acquires a Food Guardian or enters the Founding Archive at any tier. The transaction is an entry point, not the point — “these are not solicitations, they are mirrors.”
2 · Fund
Proceeds follow the policy-mandated split: 60% directly reinvested into programs and community initiatives, 20% project upkeep, 10% future work, 10% compliance. No profit is distributed.
3 · Participate
Funds activate hyper-localized farming, public art, and education — community-controlled, not merely community-consulted. Neighbors shape what gets planted and built.
4 · Belong
Every tier carries a Community Vote. Growers, cooks, and neighbors become co-authors of the archive. Belonging loops back into the next Guardian — the garden feeds the story.
No profit is distributed — the work funds the work. Sixty percent of every dollar goes directly into community-controlled programs.