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Your time and your gift fund research and free public education on natural psychedelics for personal growth in healthy adults.
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Metanoia is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity. Your contribution directly supports rigorous research and open, science-based education, and gifts may be deductible for federal income tax purposes, depending on the donor's own tax situation. The donation disclosure below gives the details California law requires.
Where your gift goes: research on psychedelics for growth in healthy adults, free educational resources, and the ethical frameworks that keep this work safe. See exactly how we're governed and funded on our transparency page.
Educational materials. Research support. Help funding a study. Every gift moves the work forward, at any amount.
Recurring giving is something we want to offer and cannot yet process. If you would like to give monthly, email us and we will tell you as soon as it is set up.
Metanoia is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation, EIN 39-2328100, 2108 N St #5956, Sacramento, CA 95816-5712. This site does not process donations. The donate button opens an email to main@metanoia-ca.org and we arrange each gift directly, so you always know who receives it. Metanoia is exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, effective 26 May 2025. Metanoia does not yet hold a California state tax exemption from the Franchise Tax Board. You receive no goods or services in return for a gift, so the full amount of your gift may be deductible as a charitable contribution for federal income tax purposes, if you itemize and within the limits that apply to you. California allows a charitable contribution deduction by applying the federal rules in Revenue and Taxation Code section 17201, but California conforms to the Internal Revenue Code only as of a fixed date under section 17024.5, so the California treatment of your gift can differ from the federal treatment. Ask your tax adviser about your own position. Metanoia uses no paid solicitor. After every gift we email you a receipt and this disclosure card.
Volunteer
Volunteer help is what will make the research and the free education possible. Every role below is remote unless noted, the hours are flexible, and each one is described as it is rather than as a pitch.
Review the volunteer agreement, the bylaws, and the governance questions that come up as the organization grows. Right now this role is the one thing standing between us and signing any other volunteer.
Set up bookkeeping, support the annual IRS and California filings, and reconcile two active bank accounts. A pre-revenue charity with simple books, but two filing deadlines already on the calendar.
Advise on research ethics questions as our content and our future research plans take shape, ahead of building a full review board.
Advise as we plan for the regulatory steps a future research facility will need, from controlled-substance handling rules to laboratory accreditation.
Build the tracking behind our applicant pipeline and support the data fields our research records are built around. Careful, structured work, not glamorous, and currently unowned.
Literature reviews, source verification, fact checking, and chapters for the coming volumes.
Run the expert panel process for validating the measure, coordinate the raters, and keep meticulous records.
Help build a validated scale for the twelve dimensions of flourishing that our research is organized around.
Support our IT infrastructure and access management under staff supervision, and help our systems stay secure as we grow.
Maintain and develop metanoia-ca.org.
Map the foundations that fit our work, draft letters of inquiry and full proposals, and build a reusable grant library.
Infographics that explain a mechanism in one picture, social content carrying real information, and illustrations for the books.
Film and edit the record of our first convening, and turn the twelve dimensions and the coming book chapters into short explainers.
Edit federal submissions, website pages and regulatory comments.
Build the outreach plan, the one-pager, and the pitch for each audience.
Handle inbound press and interview requests, and draft responses for approval before anything goes out. A gatekeeping role, not a spokesperson role.
Run Instagram and Facebook against the content calendar.
Help screen applications, coordinate interviews, and keep every candidate moving through the intake steps. Once volunteers join, the intake work will be more than one person can run alone.
Mail, forms, and deadline tracking.
Local presence and the errands that need someone on the ground.
Volunteers are not onboarded until the volunteer agreement is in place. Until then we read applications and talk to people.
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