Healing Starts with Stability
Many veterans return home marked by physical and mental trauma. With limited support and no clear path forward, they suffer. Temporary aid isn’t enough – they need a place to rebuild.
At Give Back Center, we provide a place to heal, hands-on training in real skills, and a chance to give back and grow.
How It Works
We combine housing, hands-on training, and desert-specific permaculture skills to break the cycle of poverty—permanently.
- Tiny Homes: Residents build and live in their own homes. When they leave, they take their home with them—and help build the next one.
- Livestock & Agriculture: Residents raise chickens, cattle, and care for fruit-bearing trees. When they leave, they take a cow, a graft, or seeds—and leave behind food for the next resident.
- Skills for Life: We teach permaculture, carpentry, and sustainable desert homesteading—skills that give people a chance to survive and succeed wherever they go next.
No one leaves empty-handed. But no one leaves without leaving something behind either.
This is what makes our model different. It’s not just transitional housing—it’s transmissional living. Skills, structures, and systems get passed down, person to person. It’s generational healing, in real time.
Our Why
Access to food, water, housing, community, education, and job opportunities is essential to building a stable life. Without these basics, individuals face an uphill battle that becomes a cycle—surviving day to day without ever moving forward.
In Arizona, this is even harder. The land doesn’t give easily. The heat can kill. The systems are stretched. People need more than a handout—they need a way forward.
When a person has lost everything – or become homeless – the first thing to go isn’t their belongings. It’s their dignity and sense of purpose.
Without dignity and purpose, it’s hard to get back up. It’s impossible to dream, to plan, or to believe you’re capable of anything more.
At GiveBack Center, we believe people reclaim their lives when they regain control over their future—and the ability to give back. Not just to society, but to themselves, to the land, and to others.
We equip individuals with real, lasting skills—skills they can carry with them for life. Because when someone builds their own home, grows their own food, and contributes to the next person’s journey, they don’t just survive.
They thrive.
Our Approach
Our community is the first of its kind in Southern Arizona – a sustainable, off-grid community where individuals struggling with poverty or homelessness can live for free while learning desert agriculture, construction, livestock care, and self-reliance. Set on 5 acres of land, and will be able to house 5 tiny homes.
This will act as the prototype to help us launch a 20-30 acre sustainable, walkable, off-grid community utilizing the same model.
Our program combines housing, hands-on training, and land restoration to help people rebuild their lives.
Each resident moves into a private, rent-free home designed to offer peace, dignity, and space to recover. From there, they gain real-world skills in our on-site workshop, learning woodworking, tool safety, and construction by building everything from benches and compost bins to site infrastructure.
Training continues in the greenhouse and across the land, where our residents learn plant propagation, irrigation, and how to build rainwater-harvesting basins. These basins grow native food forests, cool the earth, restore habitat, and stand as living proof of transformation.
Every resident receives support, gives back, and helps create a better future for the next generation.
Help the Cause
Donate
At GiveBack Center, every donation helps someone reclaim their dignity, rebuild their life, and become a builder of hope for someone else.
Your donation supports:
- Tiny homes built by and for residents
- Seeds, tools, and livestock to grow food and income
- Training in desert farming, construction, and self-reliance
- Sustainable infrastructure like root cellars, water systems, and solar tools
- Mentorship and community support to launch lasting independence
Every dollar you give is part of a cycle: one person receives, gives back, and makes space for the next.
We are not accepting donations for the following states at this time: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia.
Donate Assets
Thank you for considering donating assets to GBC! Your contribution can make a big impact on our projects and the communities we serve. We welcome donations of any project-related items, including but not limited to:
- Building materials (such as lumber, insulation, roofing materials, etc.)
- Tools (such as saws, hammers, drills, etc.)
- Plumbing and electrical supplies
- Solar panels and other renewable energy equipment
- Permaculture and gardening supplies
- Furniture and home goods (for our Tiny Home project)
- Vehicles (such as trucks or vans for transporting supplies)
Your donations play a crucial role in our efforts to design and deliver open-source solutions that make a significant impact in breaking the cycle of poverty. By contributing to our cause, you enable us to develop and distribute innovative solutions that address the root causes of poverty and improve the lives of people in need. Thank you for your generosity and commitment to our mission.
We are only accepting large asset donations from the local area.
Need Help?
We are a working regenerative permaculture community where people who are homeless – or on the edge – can live, learn, and build their way forward. You’ll have a safe place to stay, real skills to learn, and a community to row with. We are not a halfway house – we are a launchpad.
We serve people who are:
- Homeless or on the edge, but ready to move forward
- Tired of broken systems and ready to build something real
- Veterans, workers, or returning citizens who need a chance—not a handout
- Interested in land, hard work, and starting over with purpose
If you’re willing to show up and help build something—this might be the place you’ve been searching for.
Volunteer
Join the GiveBackCenter team and help make a difference in the lives of those in need. We’re looking for passionate volunteers who can help us run and plan projects, manage social media, and support our organization in a variety of ways.
As a volunteer, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside a dedicated team of professionals, subject matter experts, and community members to develop and implement innovative solutions that will change lives.
Contact us today to learn more about how you can get involved and help us create a brighter future for all.
“Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.”
Nelson Mandela
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