✦ The Founding Fund of the Hollow Bone Initiative
THE
WELL
The First $222,000
A campaign to fund the Hollow Bone Initiative — the independent mission born at Shope Creek. The Well does not fund Shope Creek itself.
Fill The Well — Donate NowFor years, hundreds of children, families, artists, educators, and nature mentors have gathered on a remarkable piece of land in the Appalachian Mountains outside Asheville, North Carolina.
They came to learn. To explore. To reconnect with nature. To build confidence. To discover wonder.
For many, Shope Creek Wilderness became the place where they realized what they already knew.
Forest Floor grew here.
Children learned here.
Families gathered here.
Stories were created here.
The land already knows what it is.
You come to the water, and you remember.
✦ Why This Matters
Shope Creek proved what's possible.
The Well carries it forward.
Shope Creek is Stephen and Mary's family home — the place where the Hollow Bone Initiative was born and first tested.
The Well exists to give that initiative its own life: an independent organization exploring whether we can move the collective beyond fear and shift the nature of exchange.
Every dollar in The Well funds the Hollow Bone Initiative's mission — not the purchase or development of Shope Creek.
The first $222,000 allows Hollow Bone to build its own new home and carry the work forward independently.
Without fear, the future holds infinite possibility — what has always been present becomes available, reliable, and can be seen.
✦ The First $222,000
Not for the land.
For the initiative born on it.
Establish the Hollow Bone Initiative as an independent organization.
Finish the documentary recording its birth.
Carry Camp Mary forward as Hollow Bone’s experiential gathering.
Build Hollow Bone’s new home in the greater Asheville area.
Fund the people, programs and pilots that test a new form of exchange.
Film what happens.
Share what remains.
✦ The First Music Video Shot on the Land
The Deer Trail · Shope Creek Wilderness
From Kenny McCormick IV
✦ Fill The Well
The Well does not buy, build on or give back to Shope Creek.
It gives the Hollow Bone Initiative the resources to carry what began here into the world.
Born at Shope Creek.
Funded by The Well.
Carried Forward by Hollow Bone.
Who Fills the Well
Shope Creek Wilderness