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Zendo Project: Peer-based Emotional Support and Compassionate Care for Non-Ordinary States

Creating communities of compassionate care to transform difficult emotional experiences into opportunities for learning & growth.

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Challenging or intense emotional experiences can be moments of profound insight, healing, and transformation. But they can also be disorienting, isolating, and overwhelming. In these moments, having access to compassionate support and culturally attuned care can make all the difference.

Zendo Project offers peer-based emotional support at events and provides educational resources to individuals, communities, and organizations. Our aim is to help people navigate complexity with greater resilience, care, and self-awareness. Through grounding, presence, and connection, we reduce potential harms and create space for learning, repair, and deeper relationships with self and others.

Supporters like you are essential to making this work possible. In a world where distress is often met with fear or force, our mission is to ensure that people in vulnerable states are met with compassion instead. Your contribution helps us continue to offer trauma-informed, non-judgmental care, and to create environments where all people can feel supported, seen, and safe—especially in moments when they need it most.

Please visit https://zendoproject.org to learn more about our mission.

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A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 88-3852704

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2026 Summer Fundraiser: Help Us Expand Compassionate Care

Event services are at the heart of everything Zendo does: events inform our curricula, shape our work with professional crisis teams, and feed Zendo Lab, where field experience becomes evidence that strengthens how we care for one another. When you give to our summer fundraiser this month, you're funding the whole model, and above all, the next person who needs caring support in a difficult moment. We are counting on our community to help ensure Zendo can continue its life-saving work for years to come. For 14 years, Zendo has supported 7,500+ people across 70+ events on four continents and trained 10,000+ in our peer support model. As we move into the second half of 2026, Zendo Project is is  building toward an innovative event model that will ensure Zendo’s gold standard of care can continue to grow at events large and small.  Through our growing partnership with Stadium Medical, we're now embedded at Red Rocks and other Denver-area venues, reaching more than 200,000 patrons this year with skilled, on-the-ground peer support. And through our training programs, we're taking that work beyond events and into communities, clinics, and crisis teams. Please take a look at our Mid-Year Impact Report ! Thank you for being an integral part of what makes Zendo's work possible. Thank you!
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$400,000
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  • Adora Diaz
    To the fundraiser: 2026 Summer Fundraiser: Help Us Expand Compassionate Care

    Zendo—Truly thank you from the bottom of my heart. My first burning man, I volunteered with Zendo and it made my experience so meaningful. It also fundamentally changed the direction of my personal and professional life. This work is so im...

  • Shirelle Noble

    Zendo was my first home in psychedelic community and I continue to to use the skills I learned and practiced there. I am so grateful to the team for their dedication. It makes a big difference in the lives of the people we touch. Thank you ...

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