Give With Purpose
Fund Healing for Those Who Served
Your contribution builds facilities, funds treatments and therapies, and shapes a living legacy of gratitude on Panama's Caribbean coast.
Every gift is tax-deductible through our 501(c)(3) — and every dollar helps a Veteran move from surviving to thriving.
Explore the retreat:
- Overview
- Guests
- Veterans
- Investors
- Donors & Legacy
- Volunteers
Healing Our Heroes
Our wellness center on Panama's Caribbean coast will do more than rejuvenate guests' bodies and minds — it will sustainably finance our nonprofit programs for Veterans in need of holistic healing, transitional support, and community reintegration.
A Retreat With Purpose
A luxury yet accessible retreat offering integrative therapies, stress-recovery, fitness, nutrition, and mindfulness programs.
Every Stay Gives Back
A percentage of every program fee and membership is directed into the nonprofit arm that provides free or subsidized care for Veterans facing PTSD, chronic pain, or reintegration challenges.
Built to Last
This model ensures continuity, transparency, and sustainability. Every guest and investor is part of the deeper purpose of healing our Veterans.
Benefits For All
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For Donors
The satisfaction of knowing your gift improves lives while providing eligible tax deductions through our 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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For Veterans
Access to therapies and resources they might never otherwise afford — delivered in a natural, healing environment.
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For Guests
Top-tier health treatments and protocols known to improve health and longevity.
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For Investors
Participation in a profitable venture with measurable social impact and long-term growth in the expanding wellness economy.
Donation Opportunities
Your contribution builds facilities, funds treatments and therapies, and shapes a living legacy of gratitude.
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$1,000
A 2-day wellness retreat
- 2-day wellness retreat
- Access to select therapies and classes
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Most popular
$2,500
A 3-day retreat + donor recognition
- 3-day retreat
- Expanded treatment access
- Dedicated donor tile on the Healing Walkway
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$5,000
A 5-day all-inclusive retreat
- Up to a 5-day inclusive retreat
- Full therapies and accommodations
- Recognition in donor showcases
VIP Funding, Investment & Legacy
We are inviting founding donors and strategic investors to help build this center from the ground up. Premium giving thresholds open unique legacy opportunities.
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$25,000 – $50,000
Personal dedication plaque on a treatment room or healing garden path.
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$100,000
A private cabana named in your honor.
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$250,000 – $500,000
Dedication rights to a wellness-center building — the clinic, exercise/physical-therapy pavilion, float spa/hydrotherapy center, or recreational center.
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$1,000,000+
Full naming rights to the wellness center, with media recognition, permanent signage, and inclusion in all future branding as a founding benefactor.
A living legacy: imagine the “Jim & Shirley Carpenedo Wellness Center” — your name on a place that heals those who served, for generations to come.
What Your Gift Builds
Your generosity restores a waterfront property in Bocas del Toro into a healing retreat — sustainable, beautiful, and built to serve Veterans for generations.
- Tinted cool-roof thatch coating — solar-reflective and cost-effective
- Earthy eco-resort palette: sage, sand, and stone wall tones
- Fully restored and re-stained local hardwood decks
- Native landscaping and privacy planting throughout
- Integrated solar decks and optimized mini-kitchens
- Over-the-water short-term rental units
- Communal bar & grill and a stone plunge pool
- Private hand-carved stone soaking tubs
Veterans Helping Veterans
Convergence was founded by U.S. Veterans and their supporters who learned firsthand that healing comes from peer connection and purpose. What began at our Mirror Ranch retreat — equine-assisted work and dialectical behavior therapy — grew into SCUBA dive therapy for PTSD, and then into Panama.
Alongside partners like YWAM Ships and SAR Panama, our all-Veteran crews have run mobile medical missions (84 people treated in two days), humanitarian aid deliveries, and healing retreats aboard the M/V Ceaseless Explorer. Now our onshore Wellness Center gives that mission a permanent home.
There, Veterans move from surviving to thriving — turning wounded warriors into healers for both oceans and communities.
Shape a Living Legacy of Gratitude
Make a gift today, or talk with us about founding-donor and naming opportunities that put your name on a place that heals those who served.