So, for clarity, this began as an idea to form a small meditation group for the benefit of the forum. It sounds as though the idea now is to create another administrative aspect of the forum that would provide services to the members in the form of 1) requested healings 2) emergency funding. Is this okay for everyone or is this too large a time/energy commitment?

For myself, I can offer to compile your group's ideas and write up some of the sections for the initial web-site setup. I'm not sure to what extent I can participate beyond that if the project becomes really large. I am monitoring myself these days on the amount of time I put into non-paying work involvements! But seriously, I think we all have other commitments, so time factor here should be discussed.