TiLT’s Partner Organizations
In our era of massive environmental and economic crisis, we want to wake up from sleepwalking through life, and instead respond with urgency, creativity and aliveness. We want to resist conformist consumer culture and disrupt business-as-usual to spread a lifeway that is more place-based, service-oriented, spirit-led, gratitude-filled, earth-honoring, community-engaging, despair-erasing, simple-living, and culture-changing.
to do this work, tiLT conspires with the following PARTNERS…
Roots and Wings Community School [K-8 public school] - provides an innovative, adventurous learning curriculum, engaging the head, heart & hands in a rural farm & forest setting. We at TiLT provide an opportunity for our interns to work two days a week as education support staff, in order to assist the school in their mission, and to give our interns powerful educational experiance as part of their time at TiLT.
Plastic Free Taos (PFT) - a citizen action group organizing with the intention of reducing plastic consumption in Taos. Through goals like reducing single use plastic consumption, enacting effective recycling in town, and educating the community about issues dealing with plastic, PFT members strive to make a difference locally on an issue that is daunting globally. TiLT shares the same concerns about issues related to plastics as PFT, and as such, works with them as members and organizers of the citizen group.
Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance - this organization aims to create a resilient Rocky Mountain West by connecting communities with the seeds that sustain them. They are building a network of seed stewards, distributors, educators and seed storage facilities throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Their work emphasizes the sharing of seed saving knowledge to preserve and promote the use of regionally adapted crops, working to ensure that an abundant, uncontaminated, and diverse supply of seeds is available for present and future generations. TiLT has recently joined as a member of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance and has proudly become one of their many seed stewards. With them, we look forward to conducting grain trials.
Renewable Taos - is an organization dedicated to promoting and facilitating a full transition to renewable energy and energy efficiency in Taos County and the surrounding region. They advocate for local generation of renewable energy with an emphasis on local ownership. TiLT is a partner of Renewable Taos, and helps to facilitate the transition to renewables, and propose and support projects with them.
Shared Table - Located at El Pueblito Methodist church, Shared Table distributes food commodities, basic health-care items, school supplies, and other essentials twice a month, all year long. TiLT works with them to help with the goal of ensuring enough food for all in our community.
Taos Village Farms - just down the street from TiLT, this farm aims to grow local food for local people, building community resiliency and capacity, and training young farmers. The TiLT team works with this farm regularly, adopting their goals as our own and contributing to their progress.
Vagrant Heart Gallery- a gallery that showcases the alternative arts such as Street-Art, Graffiti, Lowbrow and Avant-Garde artwork. They aim to incubate creative social expression and cultivate community empowerment through art, and TiLT has teamed up with them for creative events like poetry slams and youth discussions, as well as social justice gatherings and art installations related to the Global Climate Strike.
RYNO [Rewiring Yourself, New Opportunities] - a small group with a vision to create a Center for Hope & Healing in Questa, NM. Together we host workshops showing how to build adobe structures and garden, as dignifying, earth based methods of building community. They also aim to supply meeting rooms and residences for those transitioning from addiction and/or incarceration at their Center for Hope and Healing. TiLT works with them, and gives them support when necessary, with the mutual of building community.
Lama Foundation- an intentional living community with a vision, a clear intention and a strong invocation: to foster “the awakening of consciousness” through spiritual practice with respect for all traditions. TiLT joins Lama Foundation for conscious conversations, weekly Earth Sabbath, and both of our communities support one another in their goals of being incubators for personal change.
Neem Karoli Baba Ashram- The ashram is a sacred space for meditation, devotional singing and satsang or spiritual discourse among aspirants. the ashram is also a haven of peace and spiritual inspiration for hundreds of visitors and guests each year. TiLT is located very near the ashram and engages in shared activities such as apple pressing, conscious conversations, and Earth Sabbath.
Taos Coalition to End Homelessness (TCEH) are the owners and operators of the Taos Men's Shelter. They offer low-barrier access to overnight shelter, food, laundry, showers, peer support and case management 365 days a year for the homeless men of Taos County. TiLT contributes food and support to this organization on a monthly basis, and also works with one of the shelter’s action groups, “The Taos Privateers”, who performs community service works to benefit the homeless women, children, vets, pets and men.
Taos Land Trust - a non-profit that empowers people to protect the land and traditions they love through education, advocacy, and conservation, with a vision of leaving a legacy of open, productive, and natural lands for future generations. TiLT and the Taos Land Trust share in common neighborhood causes such as protecting the Rio Fernando and initiating Safe Routes to Parks & Schools along our street, La Posta Road.
Tewa Women United- Located in the ancestral Tewa homelands of Northern New Mexico, Tewa Women United is a multicultural and multiracial organization founded and led by Native women. They believe in and work for strengthening and re-strengthening beloved families and communities to end violence against women, girls, and Mother Earth. TiLT works with them in order to honor Pueblo lifeways, protect seed sovereignty, provide earth-based education and safeguard clean water in northern NM.
Growing Community Now- Provides Gardening and Nutritional Education to Students: Pre-K to High School. They are the USDA Farm to School Project Manger for Taos County, and also run a Farmer/Rancher Coop, build School Gardens, and much more. TiLT works with Growing Community Now to help expand the Farm-to-School program, creating a robust local food web in Taos.
Taos UCC— TiLT is often in cahoots with Taos UCC, a community church dedicated to environmental and social justice. Housed in a cozy bookstore, Taos UCC welcomes all people as children of God and uplifts “Jesus for the rest of us.”
New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light - TiLT partners with this organization in order to link with 200+ diverse faith communities statewide to organize for interfaith water protection, environmental justice and a rapid transition to renewable energy. NMIPL works for climate justice by mobilizing faith communities to reduce the causes and consequences of global climate change through inspiration, education, outreach, implementation of sustainable practices and advocating effective climate protection policies.
Mountain States Mennonite Conference - The TiLT affiliates with MSMC, encouraging Mennonite congregations in NM and CO to strengthen their capacity for transformative discipleship, place-based living, radical inclusion, environmental justice, & active peacemaking.
New Community Project- A network of some 11,000 people, with a focus on environmental sustainability and social justice. The New Community Project nurtures a growing group of Sustainable Living Centers across the country, of which TiLT is an affiliate.
SouthWest Intentional Communities Alliance- an emergent regional network for existing and forming intentional communities, affiliated groups and individuals interested in community. TiLT enjoys being part of SW ICA because it provides an infrastructure for sharing of information, ideas and resources to assist in the creation and growth of new communities, increase awareness about intentional community for the general public and maintain visibility in the worldwide community movement for our region.
YUCCA [Youth United for Climate Change Action]- a local nonprofit that trains young activists in social and environmental justice organizing and supports intergenerational campaigns to advance climate justice, transformative education, sustainability, democracy, and civil rights. YUCCA is focused on growing grassroots leadership and civic infrastructure from the ground up. TiLT has assisted YUCCA in organizing people from the North to join in on the International Climate Strike, and has supported their lead for working toward an urgent statewide transition from dirty energies including coal, methane, gas & oil.
Local & national organizations to grow the Watershed Way as a social-spiritual covenanted order
Initiatives such as Renewable Energy for All, Regeneration Festival, and Taos Supports Standing Rock