Solitary Confinement
Goal $9000 • Raised $8360 (2015) Mindfulness Peace Project’s program, Solitary Confinement, which was initiated at a request from the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) addresses the two current...
View ArticleMindfulness Program for Homeless
Goal $ 8000 • Raised $5725 (2015) The purpose of this pilot program is to offer former homeless people now living in a permanent housing facility, in Fort Collins, Colorado, to learn mindfulness...
View ArticleMilk Lake Director’s House Roof
Goal $3000 CN • Raised $3000 CN (2015) The Director’s house at Milk Lake is in need of a new asphalt roof. The existing roof dates from 1985 and definitely needs to be replaced. Once all funding is in...
View ArticleSnake River: Prison Meditation Group
Goal $2430 • Raised $2430 (2016) To provide funds for director travel, Acharya honorarium, and texts for a Meditation Intensive for the Snake River Shambhala Meditation Group in June 2016. The...
View ArticleDKD Water System
Goal $ 7000 • Raised $6000 (2016) This grant would be used to help fund the replacement of underground potable water piping that has frozen in three of the last four winters. Frozen water pipes...
View ArticleMindfulness and Leadership (Chile)
Goal $3280 • Raised $3280 (2016) Mindfulness and Leadership: Strengthening the School Community The general aim of this project is to share the practice of mindfulness suffused with Shambhala vision...
View ArticleAging Hub
Goal $5700 • Raised $3250 (2016) The Shambhala Working Group on Aging ~ The purpose of this project is to create the Aging Hub, an accessible, relevant and easy-to-sustain website for Shambhalians. The...
View ArticleShambhala Civilian Awards
Goal $5000 • Raised $2525 (2016) This proposal includes the redesign of Shambhala Civilian awards as cloisonne enamel pins. This would make the awards more modern, wearable, and easy to understand in a...
View ArticleInternet Upgrade: KCL
Goal $7827 • Raised $2650 (2016) Karme Choling’s current Internet service is a DSL system (running on two lines for staff and a third line for guests), which has very limited capacity to carry data....
View ArticleAshoka Credit Union
Goal $4000 • Raised $4000 (2016) To fund a complete upgrade of Ashoka Credit Union’s old HTML website by converting it to an elegant WordPress theme. This conversion will allow Ashoka to have direct...
View ArticleShambhala Online
Goal $5000 • Raised $5,375 (2016) Expanding global access to Shambhala using online tools to build and support the global Shambhala Community. The Shambhala mandala’s growing presence in Latin America...
View ArticleMonastery Treasures Manual
Goal $5000 • Raised $5000 (2016) Treasure Caretakers is proposing an on-line manual as a source for monasteries to learn how to best preserve, protect, and safely use their Buddhist lineage treasures,...
View ArticleZiji Innovative Grant
Goal $3,275 • Raised $3,375 (2016) The Ziji Innovative Grants (ZIG) is a new initiative to support the development of youth groups in Shambhala. The aim is to encourage and empower innovative...
View ArticleShambhala School: Dojo of the Noble Child
Goal $4,140CN • Raised $4,140CN (2017) The purpose of this project is to uplift the multi-disciplinary Dojo in the Shambhala School. The Dojo is an open classroom space on the second floor, with...
View ArticleGrowing Brave: Families and Children in Shambhala
Goal $6,250 • Raised $6,250 (2017) Growing Brave is a group of Shambhala practitioners who are working to raise the awareness and support of families and children within the Shambhala community and...
View ArticlePrison Mindfulness/Freedom Project
Goal $881 • Raised $1,431 (2017) For the past 16 years Freedom Project has provided prison mindfulness at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington state. We wish to introduce prison mindfulness to...
View ArticleShambhala People of Color Scholarship Fund
Goal $16,000 • Raised $14,050 (2017) The purpose of the Shambhala People of Color Scholarship Fund (SPOCSF) is to support the Shambhala mandala’s aspirations related to diversity by making available...
View ArticleMonastery Treasures Manual
Goal $5000 • Raised $5000 (2016) Treasure Caretakers is proposing an on-line manual as a source for monasteries to learn how to best preserve, protect, and safely use their Buddhist lineage treasures,...
View ArticleZiji Innovative Grant
Goal $3,275 • Raised $3,375 (2016) The Ziji Innovative Grants (ZIG) is a new initiative to support the development of youth groups in Shambhala. The aim is to encourage and empower innovative...
View ArticleShambhala School: Dojo of the Noble Child
Goal $4,140CN • Raised $4,140CN (2017) The purpose of this project is to uplift the multi-disciplinary Dojo in the Shambhala School. The Dojo is an open classroom space on the second floor, with...
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