This sounds like a marvelous project! (also very ambitious!) But the ideas melding together – preserving family heritage, ecology, and arts – all fit together so nicely in a projec like this.

I’m retired, so don’t have a lot of financial resources to promise. However, being retired, I do have some time available. One thing I can offer is doing one thing I love, figure modeling. Since your project will benefit artists to a large degree, how about holding regular open figure drawing sessions, with proceeds going to your project. If you can get volunteer models (I would volunteer my time), and have a place, it would be almost pure profit. If you could get 10 people a week to put out $10, that would be $5,000 a year. Not that much, but if you could come up with 20 ideas like this you would meet your goal in a year. With only 4 ideas like this you would meet your goal in 5 years.

What do you think? If you like this idea, I probably can come up with a couple more.