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Volunteer & Supporter Membership

Walk With Us

There are many ways to carry this work — through volunteer service, supporter membership, and shared commitment to family, heritage, and community.

Volunteer Registration

Lend Your Hands to the Mission

Volunteers are the heart of the foundation. Choose a path that reflects your gifts and register to begin walking alongside our team.

Records Stewardship Volunteer

Assist with cataloging, scanning, indexing, and preserving Indigenous vital records and historical documents under the guidance of our records committee.

Education & Curriculum Volunteer

Support homeschooling families, contribute to curriculum review, lead workshops, or mentor youth in cultural identity and Indigenous history.

Cultural Preservation Volunteer

Help document oral histories, lineage narratives, and matriarchal traditions that strengthen the foundation's heritage archives.

Outreach & Community Liaison

Connect families and descendants with foundation programs, events, and resources within their local communities.

Skilled Pro Bono Service

Attorneys, paralegals, accountants, genealogists, designers, IT professionals, and grant writers are warmly invited to contribute their craft.

Event & Hospitality Support

Assist with gatherings, ceremonies, educational forums, and member events that bring our community together.

Supporter Membership

Stand With the Foundation

Membership is an act of stewardship. Choose the level that matches your calling and receive ongoing connection to the foundation's work.

Community Supporter

Free

Open to all who share our mission. Receive foundation news, governance updates, and notices of public programs.

  • Quarterly newsletter
  • Public program invitations
  • Foundation notices
Become a Community Supporter
Most Common

Sustaining Member

Annual or Monthly

Stand with the foundation as a recurring supporter of records stewardship, education, and cultural preservation.

  • All Supporter benefits
  • Member-only briefings
  • Early access to resources
  • Recognition in annual reports
Become a Sustaining Member

Heritage Steward

Premier Giving

For benefactors and family stewards who wish to deeply underwrite the foundation's archival, educational, and outreach work.

  • All Member benefits
  • Direct briefings with leadership
  • Heritage circle recognition
  • Invitations to stewardship gatherings
Become a Heritage Steward
Community Participation

A Living Circle of Family & Friends

Beyond formal roles, every gathering, conversation, and shared story strengthens the foundation. Community participation is open to all who walk in good faith.

Attend & Engage

Join public forums, educational gatherings, and cultural events. Bring your family, your questions, and your voice.

Contribute Knowledge

Share family records, oral histories, photographs, and lineage information that may support the cultural registry and archives.

Refer Families

Introduce relatives, descendants, and community members to the foundation's records, education, and stewardship programs.

Carry the Story Forward

Share publications, governance updates, and educational resources within your circles to expand awareness of the mission.

Ways to Support the Mission

Many Hands, One Purpose

Whether through time, knowledge, voice, or generosity, every contribution helps preserve heritage and strengthen our descendant community.

Give Your Time

Volunteer in records, education, outreach, or events.

Become a Member

Join as a supporter, sustaining member, or heritage steward.

Share Records & Stories

Contribute family documents, oral histories, and lineage knowledge.

Advocate & Refer

Introduce families, scholars, and partners to the foundation's mission.

Where to Contribute

Focus Areas of Service

Volunteers and members may direct their energy toward one or more of the foundation's core stewardship areas.

Education

Mentor learners, refine curriculum, and help expand homeschooling and youth programming.

Cultural Preservation

Document heritage, support archives, and protect matriarchal and ancestral traditions.

Records Stewardship

Preserve vital records, assist genealogical research, and steward the cultural registry.

Community Outreach

Build relationships across descendant families, partner organizations, and the public.

Begin Your Path of Service

Tell us how you would like to walk with the foundation. Our team will respond with next steps for volunteer registration or supporter membership.