We Need Your Financial Support!

Ancestral Knowledge is a small 501(c)3 non-profit organization that tries to provide a valuable service to the local communities.  We need our communities support to continue to provide free and low cost programs, workshops, and events while providing our staff, instructors, and guests a living wage for their time and experience.  Support from our community allows us to also explore new avenues to reach newer demographics and expand our reach to the public.  Every dollar helps, so please don’t hesitate to help us by donating any amount from $1 to, the sky is the limit! We appreciate every contribution with a thank you note.

If you donate at the following level, we would like to give you a gift By donatingTo show how much we appreciate your support, we would like to offer some gifts of appreciation to you! to receive any of the following gifts, please make a donation to Ancestral Knowledge and provide us with your mailing address and relevant gift choices/shirt sizes where applicable.

  • $100-$199 we’d like to send you a complimentary AK Tee shirt, AK coffee mug, or Mora Knife.
  • $200-$299 we’d like to send you a complimentary your choice of two; AK T-shirt, AK coffee mug, or Mora Knife
  • $300-$499 we’d like to send you a complimentary your all three complimentary gifts; AK T-shirt, AK coffee mug, and Mora Knife
  • $500 – $999 we’d like to send you a complimentary your all three complimentary gifts; AK T-shirt, AK coffee mug and Mora Knife and a coupon for a complimentary one day workshop.
  • $1000 or more we’d like to send you a complimentary your all three complimentary gifts; AK T-shirt, AK coffee mug or Mora Knife, coupon for a one day workshop, and your name listed on our websites donors list.

Please choose where you would like your donation to be used.

Send a kid to Camp

The most direct way to to help us is by helping someone attend our one of our camps or programs. When you donate to our “Send a Kid to Camp fund!” your donation goes directly to sponsoring a kid who otherwise couldn’t join us for the experience.

  • Annually we provide over $3500 in funding towards financial aid scholarships for our camps and programs.

Use this Button to help Send a Kid to Camp!

Still Point Primitive Camp

The next best way that you can help us provide deep nature connection experiences via wilderness immersion is by donating to our Still Point Primitive Camp and Educational facility. This facility will provide us with our very basic needs to use as our base camp for our immersive programs like our overnight camps, and the Mid Atlantic Primitive Skills Gathering (AKA The Flower Moon Gathering). Completing this project will enable us to host larger groups comfortably in a wilderness setting while providing a safe learning environment.

Thank you all to donated over the last 2 years, We have completed stage 1 of building our primitive camp and are now waiting for the well driller, and working on the showers in the fall of 2024

Here is a list of the projects and goals your donations will help support;

5 Year Plan

  • Phase 1 – Build Camp Structures; Outdoor Kitchen, Pavilion, Bathhouse, & Fix driveway
  • Phase 2 – Well Installation, Food storage, Fix road, finish bathhouse
  • Phase 3 – Create research library and nature museum

Donate via GofundMe or Donate via PayPal to help us complete the Primitive Camp!

Donating to General Operations

When you donate to the General Operations Fund, you are directly helping to support our day to day needs and expenses. These needs and expenses include:

  • Field supplies: first aid kits, Field Guides, and supplies for our mentoring programs
  • Camping Gear-tents, backpacks, sleeping pads etc..
  • Non Profit Accounting services
  • Up to date  Computers and software
  • Grant researcher/writers
  • Office supplies
  • Staff Trainings
  • Providing affordable programming for local community groups and schools
  • General liability insurance and operating expenses

Use this button to donate to our general operations.

You can also send your donations in the form of a check or money order to:

Ancestral Knowledge
PO Box 6
Brentwood, MD 20722

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Ancestral Knowledge is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that Needs Your Financial Support! Our NUMBER ONE GOAL is to offer our Programs at prices which our schools and communities in MD, DC and Northern VA can actually afford, provide financial assistance to those who need it, and provide a safe positive environment for our participants to connect with nature! The money you donate will aid this effort and those things we need to make it all possible.

Special thanks to our donors:

Moore Cadillac / Hummer Dealership Chantilly, VA.

RAC Solutions Computer Services

Tom Klein Accounting Services Baltimore, MD.

High Mountain Signs Baltimore, MD.

Innovative Packaging, Reisterstown MD

Jan Macario
Kim Balassiano
Kim Katzenberger
Ned Rod McCracken
Kevin Haney
Jack Davis
Eric Bravo
Mark Worden
Doug Garbini
Joyce Lieberman
Joel Shor
James Mann
Tim Mac Welch
Christy Friske-Daniels
Mindi Weisenbloom
Mona Himmelsein
Jeannie Hong
Barbara Waxman
George Lipman
Jonathan Murray
William & Joan Kaczor
Kira Sekulow
Brandan Sterns
Marsha Verber
John Bowman
Matt Bukowski

Donations/Our Donors