Monthly Sustainers provide the steady support that helps Plenitud serve, teach, grow, and care throughout the year.

Month after month, Plenitud shows up: tending the land, preparing nourishing food, welcoming students, teaching ecological skills, supporting seniors, and creating spaces where people of all backgrounds can experience what it is to be in community. Sustainers make that continuity possible.

Become Part of the Root System

Why Monthly Giving Matters

Sustainable change is not built in one season or one campaign. It grows through steady relationships, year-round programs, and reliable support. Monthly giving helps Plenitud plan ahead, support local staff, maintain programs, steward the land, and respond to community needs with consistency.

Join the Sustainers Community

As a monthly Sustainer, your support helps provide:

  • fresh, nourishing meals for seniors

  • outdoor, holistic education for children and youth

  • hands-on service-learning experiences

  • natural building and water security education

  • essential services in times of emergency through our resiliency hub 

  • agroecological and permacultural skill building trainings

  • diverse experiences that foster personal transformation and social connection

Become a Sustainer

Plenitud Sustainers are generous, committed, and caring people who believe in this work and choose to stand with it month after month. Each Sustainer has a story and a journey that brought them to Plenitud– hear their stories!

Meet the Community Sustaining Plenitud

“Being a Plenitud Sustainer means a lot to me because it connects me to a community and a mission I believe in. I’ve been involved in Plenitud since 2009, and now I’ve been a Sustainer for 5 years, because I’ve seen firsthand the way that people’s lives are changed by the “Plenitud experience” (including myself!). As a professor, sometimes I live so much in the world of theory—but Plenitud is living this work and I’ve seen the results from the very beginning. I’m proud to be a Sustainer!”

— Tyson Brown

“As a pediatric endocrinologist specializing in the care of children with diabetes, I am seeing more children become sick due to poor nutrition and unhealthy diets.

When I first participated in Plenitud's programs six years ago, I fell in love with their mission and the work they do and became a Sustainer. They are truly committed to our community—not only to our abuelos and grandparents, but also to our children. They visit schools and bring children to their farm, working together in the garden, expanding their palates through harvesting, preparing, and cooking fresh foods.

I have personally participated in these programs and witnessed their impact firsthand. Their work is making an incredible difference in the lives of children and helping build a healthier future for the next generation.”

— Dr. Ileana Vargas Rodriguez

Frequently Asked Questions

  • As a Sustainer, you provide the assurance that Plenitud can carry out the work you care about so much without missing a beat. In addition to the joy of knowing that you are maximizing your impact by being a monthly giver, Sustainers enjoy access to many events, opportunities and behind-the-scenes interactions that one-time givers do not. Some examples include farm tours, roundtable discussions with the Directors, interactive workshops and classes, exclusive Sustainers merchandise, and much more. These experiences are taking place virtually until we can all gather safely in person! In addition, your donation is fully tax deductible.

  • Yes! Your donation is fully tax deductible, and you will receive an email receipt as soon as your transaction is completed.

  • Plenitud Sustainers have access to individual donor accounts where you can adjust your payment method and contribution amount, and where you can keep track of your lifetime contributions. It is not necessary to create one at the time of joining as a Plenitud Sustainer, but will be necessary to create if/when you are ready to make changes to your payment method and/or amount. You can create your account here after signing up as a Sustainer, using the email address you provided at the time of donation: https://plenitudpr.kindful.com/users/sign_in

  • No! In fact, joining here as a Plenitud Sustainer ensures that you are giving directly to Plenitud PR and nowhere/nothing else. If you are contributing via credit card or ACH payments, there is an option to cover processing fees if you would like but this is not required.

  • The simplest and easiest way for us to keep track and collect these contributions is when they are made via credit card or direct ACH payments. That being said, we are so grateful for your contribution and want to make sure you do so in whatever way is more comfortable for you.

  • Yes, you can cancel or change your method of payment and/or amount of contribution at any time using your donor account.

  • Please reach out to us at sustainers@plenitudpr.org or call 787-221-2646 and press 2 for the Sustainers line.

 

More questions/comments?
Please reach out to us at sustainers@plenitudpr.org or call 787-221-2646 x2