Plenty Charter

Plenty, a new non-profit charitable corporation, was founded in spirit during the summer of 1974 at a Sunday morning service on the Farm. Plenty was created as a means to extend ourselves so that we could better provide substantial aid to the rest of the world. On October 3, 1974, Plenty was officially chartered as a charitable corporation with the State of Tennessee.

The Plenty charter outlines our purposes and intentions; to help share out the world’s food resources, materials and knowledge equitably for the benefit of all;

To help and aid any people anywhere in the world who due to any natural or man-caused disaster such as drought, famine, flood, storm, earthquake, tidal wave, weather imbalance, disease epidemic, fire, insect devastation, crop failure, population imbalance, war, political oppression, religious oppression, racial discrimination, or greed, are in need of food, clothing, shelter, medical aid and supplies, resources, materials, agriculture, engineering, or scientific assistance or education, or anything else, to enable them to lead healthy, comfortable, responsible, and productive lives in the pursuit of happiness;

To establish and operate orphanages and foster homes to care for and provide homes for orphans from all countries of the world;

To help and aid in finding homes with adopting parents for orphans from all countries of the world, and to help these orphans settle in these homes with adopting parents;

To accept donations, gifts, bequests, and loans of food, resources, materials, equipment, funds, stocks, bonds, and property of all kinds from any and all sources and help achieve the purposes of the corporation. Contributions are deductible from the income tax of the donor.

Members and officers of the corporation will not be salaried but will receive only necessary subsistence.