Safe Ground™
No one should sleep without safety, dignity, or shelter.
Yet millions are displaced by poverty, crisis, or systemic failure — with nowhere to call home.
Safe Ground™ is The Soil Institute’s housing innovation initiative, creating modular, transitional, and eco-friendly shelter solutions for those who need it most. We don’t just build structures — we design dignity-centered environments rooted in justice, healing, and resilience.
Because shelter isn’t a luxury — it’s a foundation to sustain life.
Housing Built for Humans, Not Profit
Safe Ground™ develops regenerative housing models that center people, not politics. From tiny home villages and modular pods to trauma-informed transitional spaces, each solution is designed with care, dignity, and cultural relevance.
Designed with Communities — Not for Them
We co-create each Safe Ground village with residents, community leaders, and local governments. From layout and amenities to shared gardens, healing spaces, and cultural symbols — every detail is tailored to local context.
Sustainable, Scalable, and Site-Ready
Our units are built from recycled farm byproducts, renewable, and climate-adapted materials. They’re affordable to construct, fast to deploy, and adaptable to urban or rural environments — whether for individuals, families, or entire unhoused communities.
Integrated Support Systems
Safe Ground isn’t just shelter — it’s a system. Each site is linked with wraparound services like a grocery store, health care, employment assistance, mental health support, community kitchens, solar power, and digital access. We build environments that restore.
A Blueprint for Every City
Whether it’s for disaster relief, transitional housing, or long-term community design, Safe Ground offers a scalable, modular blueprint that can be activated anywhere. We’re building homes — but we’re also building models of what’s possible.
Help Keep the Ground Safe — Every Month
Your monthly gift helps us provide shelter, dignity, and stability to those without it. From construction supplies to community support services, every dollar lays a foundation. You can donate your expertise, resources, skills & knowledge. Donations don’t just mean money. Just help the people in need.
Monthly Giving: Build Safety One Square Foot at a Time
Your monthly support helps us build, maintain, and expand safe spaces where people can reset their lives with dignity.
Your Impact Could:
Sponsor the construction of a tiny home or sleeping pod
Furnish a shelter unit with bedding, heaters, storage, and personal hygiene items
Provide welcome kits (food, hygiene, clothes, job leads) for newly housed residents
Fund on-site trauma counseling and case management
Support community meals and healing circles within Safe Ground villages
Sponsor job training or ID recovery services to help residents re-enter the workforce.
More Than a Donation — Be a Neighbor
You don’t have to be a builder to help us build lives:
Donate or build furniture, heaters, or solar kits
Offer your time as a volunteer or job mentor
Cook or donate meals for residents
Host a donation drive for coats, blankets, or supplies
Sponsor one home on behalf of your family, faith group, or business
Join us in community advocacy to change housing policies
Donate construction tools and building materials (wood, nails, insulation, roofing, heaters, etc.)
Volunteer for build days or become a project mentor
Organize a coat or blanket drive for winter months
Help install gardens, compost toilets, or solar energy systems
Sponsor an entire home or communal space as a family, business, or church group
Together, We Create Safe Ground
We are not just building houses. We are building new beginnings. Together, we’re creating Safe Ground—where healing happens, stories are honored, and futures are rebuilt.
→ Donate Monthly to Keep Homes Open
→ Volunteer or Fundraise
→ Become a Shelter Sponsor
Bring Safe Ground™ to Your City
We provide the blueprint. You provide the heart and the land.
Safe Ground™ can be launched in cities, tribal lands, or communities facing housing injustice. We work with municipalities, landowners, nonprofits, and community leaders to design, fund, and deploy solutions where they’re needed most.
We Provide:
Modular housing unit designs + construction plans
Technical and on-site training
Infrastructure planning (water, solar, kitchens, WiFi)
Policy guidance + city collaboration models
Grant support and donor/sponsor matching