Hi, my name is Doshia White and I am the founder of Pineapple Fields and the creator of Resilience Rooms.  

In 1997, at the age of 23, I suddenly found myself homeless, living in the cab of my truck in a Central California winter.

I was cold, hungry, exhausted, and completely lost.

I didn’t know where it was safe to sleep. I didn’t understand the systems I suddenly depended on. Other unhoused people warned me not to go to shelters because many didn’t feel safe. If I slept in my truck, law enforcement noticed immediately. So I left it parked in public lots and slept under bridges and behind buildings instead.

What stayed with me most wasn’t just the hunger or fear.

It was the exhaustion.

The constant hypervigilance. Never truly resting. Never feeling safe. And always feeling alone.

People often say, “That could never happen to me.”

I used to think that too.

I came from a middle-class background and had attended a private Bible college. I wasn’t who people imagine when they picture homelessness. But when every safety net disappeared at once, I learned how quickly life can change.

During that time, I met a man named John Earth. Together, we used my truck to collect donated vegetables so he could make soup for people living on the streets downtown.

Before I left California, John handed me a packet of drawings — blueprints for a sustainable community he dreamed of building someday: a place where people could find housing, food, dignity, and belonging.

I didn’t understand then why he gave them to me. I was so young and so lost.

Recently, I learned the John died without ever seeing his vision become reality. He was still homeless.

I never forgot those drawings. As life moved on and I built a family, I put them away in safekeeping, but would occasionally pull them out and wonder again why he'd given them to me.

Today, John's vision has become Pineapple Fields — a community designed not just to shelter people, but to help them heal and rebuild through housing, food access, education, skills training, mental health support, addiction recovery resources, and genuine community.

But Pineapple Fields is a long-term vision. 

Resilience Rooms are what we can do right now.

What Are Resilience Rooms?

Resilience Rooms are rapidly deployable private living spaces designed to fit inside existing shelters and emergency facilities. (External versions are in design at this time.)

Each room provides:

• Privacy
• Security
• A lockable personal space
• Built-in furniture and storage
• Electrical access
• A safer environment for true rest

Most importantly, they give people something many lose during crisis:

Dignity.

In many large shelters, people sleep in open rooms filled with rows of cots. There is little privacy, little security, and very little opportunity for restorative sleep. People remain in a constant state of alertness — worried about theft, harassment, violence, or simply being unable to relax enough to sleep.

Over time, that exhaustion affects mental health, physical health, emotional regulation, and the ability to move forward.

People cannot rebuild their lives while trapped in survival mode.

Resilience Rooms were created to interrupt that cycle.

They are designed to restore a sense of safety, autonomy, stability, and rest within shared shelter environments — helping both residents and shelters function better.

And while they were designed with homelessness in mind, they can also be used for:

• Disaster response
• Emergency shelters
• Evacuation sites
• Transitional housing
• Crisis recovery environments

Why We Need Your Help

We are currently in the active development phase — finalizing engineering, securing patents, and building the first working prototypes with a local fabrication partner.

This is the moment where the idea becomes real.

Your donation helps fund:

• Prototype construction
• Materials
• Engineering and patenting
• Pilot-ready Resilience Rooms
• Real-world testing with shelter partners

This is not just an idea.

It is a practical, buildable solution designed to restore privacy, dignity, safety, and rest to people who need it most.

Help us build the first Resilience Rooms — and help create spaces where recovery can truly begin.

*Some of the finer technical details of Resilience Rooms remain confidential while our patent is pending, but the overall design remains firmly focused on delivering privacy, structure, and personal security within shared shelter environments.

Your Impact

Because we know that Resilience Rooms could not happen without your support, we strive to recognize each and every person who has given of themselves to help ease the burden of another.

Every contribution goes directly toward creating safe, private spaces and restoring dignity to individuals working to rebuild their lives. The levels of recognition listed below reflect the depth of impact your support helps make possible.

Resilience Rooms Benefactor - $1000+

Benefactors of Pineapple Fields / Resilience Rooms are permanently recognized as foundational partners in this work. Their support is honored through lasting acknowledgment, meaningful engagement, and direct connection to the impact they help create.

Supporters at this level are honored in the following ways:

Permanent Founders Recognition

Benefactors are included in the Resilience Rooms Founders Circle, with permanent acknowledgement across select digital and physical platforms associated with early Resilience Rooms deployments.

Private Impact Updates

Direct, periodic updates on the progress, deployment and impact of Resilience Rooms and related initiatives.

Personalized Stewardship Acknowledgement

A formal letter of recognition from leadership expressing the specific impact of their contribution.

Invitation to Witness Impact

Opportunities to engage with the work through curated site visits, project briefings and milestone moments.

Resilience Partner - $500-1000

Your support helps provide additional components to the Resilience Rooms, beyond our base model, such as ventilation window systems & canopied ceilings for privacy and sound reduction.

Supporters at this level are honored with their name displayed on a sponsored Resilience Room and inclusion in our annual impact report.

Transition Partner - $250-500

Your support helps provide further components to the Resilience Rooms, beyond our base model, such as additional ventilation window systems & canopied ceilings for privacy and sound reduction.

Supporters at this level are honored with a personal highlight video on our website’s “How We Grow” page, and updates throughout the process of building Pineapple Fields & Resilience Rooms.

Stability Builder - $100-250

Your support helps provide Resilience Rooms marketing and press materials’ distribution throughout the U.S.

Supporters at this level are honored with name recognition on our website’s “Community Supporters” page, and Pineapple Fields/Resilience Rooms branded merchandise.

Community Supporter - $25-100

Your support helps provide bedding, towels & toiletries and small building components (ie electrical outlets) in one Resilience Room.

Supporters at this level are honored with a digital certificate and shout-out of appreciation on social media.