A NEW NONPROFIT TAKING ROOT

This summer, we’re building the first Soulful Forest.

A living sanctuary where children and the caregivers who love them can breathe, heal, and reconnect – right where they already are.

SUMMER 2026 SEED FUNDING CAMPAIGN

Goal: $200,000

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You can help plant the first Soulful Forest and launch a model that can serve children and caregivers nationwide.

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THE CHALLENGE

Children are anxious, overwhelmed, and rarely off their screens.

The adults who care for them are running on empty.

And the help that arrives is almost always one more app, one more program, one more thing to do.

What if the antidote was right outside their window?

THE SOLUTION

Soulful Forest turns the unused space right outside their window into a device-free sanctuary where children and the adults who care for them can step away from the screens, breathe, and heal in nature, music, and each other.

GUIDED BY EXPERIENCE

Soulful Forest is being shaped by educators, clinicians, artists, and wellness and business leaders including an original soundtrack by a Disney and Broadway composer.

ROOTED IN WHAT WORKS

Soulful Forest draws on proven practices: Nature, Mindfulness, Music, and Social-emotional Learning—shown to ease stress and build resilience in children and caregivers alike. This isn’t one more screen. It’s a return to what heals.

THE PROJECT — WHY NOW

Children’s anxiety and screen dependence are at record highs — and this summer, one courtyard becomes the proof that something different is possible.

The very first Soulful Forest comes to life this summer. What begins as one courtyard in an Elementary school in Connecticut, becomes a model that can grow in schools and healthcare facilities nationwide.

Summer 2026 Seed Funding Campaign

Goal: $200,000

You can help plant the first Soulful Forest.

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JOIN THE MOVEMENT

Every child deserves a sanctuary. Every caregiver deserves to be restored.

Join us at the very beginning.

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TODAY

THE VISION

“The bones are already here. The koi pond. The benches. The brick walls on every side.

We are not building something new.

We are transforming what was always there.”

Thank You to Our Supporters

Confirmed partners/supporters to include:

  • Fiscal sponsor: Soulful Sydney / The Healing Chickadee (healingchickadee.com)

  • In-kind & community support: Tower Farm Nursery (native plantings), SignCraft, Naugatuck (signage), Freddy & Co. (donated landscaping services – freddyandco.net), the Soulful Grandma Brigade, High School students
  • Grant funders: Harcourt Foundation (Funding for program materials and Able Table)
  • Creative contributor: Tian Datta, Kolkata, India — graphic art & video inspiration
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