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How You Can Help
The Mind and Life Institute is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that has been supported since 1987 by an exceptional group of deeply committed and visionary benefactors. To continue with our transformative mission, we seek support at all levels from many new individuals and foundations. Multi-year commitments affirm your dedication to the important work of the Institute, keep us on a stable footing, and enable us to plan both current and future scientific investigations with confidence.
Project Sponsors focus their gifts on a particular program or area of research and underwrite its costs, either on a multi-year pledge basis or by annual contributions. Scientific pilot projects, the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, and archival preservation are the specific reasons that the Mind and Life Institute exists. Your support in any of these areas, at any gift level, is invaluable.
Sustaining Patrons recognize the vital importance of the work of the Mind and Life Institute and provide unrestricted gifts to the organization on a multi-year basis. We welcome new supporters who hold our vision and are willing to provide long-term opportunities for the organization to proceed with its work.
These pledges of support are of such value that we encourage all those interested in committing amounts of $5,000 and more annually to speak personally with the Chairman, Adam Engle, and our staff. Your interest and generosity are greatly appreciated!
You may contact the Institute by phone, email, or letter, as follows:
Adam Engle, Chairman
Mind & Life Institute
589 West Street
Louisville CO 80027
303-665-7659
adam@mindandlife.org
You can make gifts in the following three ways:
By Mail: Mail your check, and/or pledge of gifts up to $5,000 to:
Mind and Life Institute
589 West Street
Louisville, CO 80027
Attention: Nancy Mayer
Online: Please go to Make a Pledge or Gift Online to review the pledge or gift timeframes, amounts, and the funds to which you may wish to contribute."
Direct Contact: Phone or email Chairman Adam Engle or a member of the staff to discuss sustaining and multi-year gifts at levels of $5,000 or above.
What We Seek to Accomplish
Based on a 16 year record of achievement, the Mind and Life Institute seeks support to meet its objectives in four areas:
Support to strengthen and sustain the Mind and Life Institute:
$300,000 per year
For 16 years, dedicated volunteers have run the Institute. Its scope of operations has expanded, and now requires a small professional staff. To move the mission forward, to plan for future conferences, and to marshal resources for research, we seek Sustaining Patrons who will make a three- to five-year commitment to support our work.
Support for educating the next generation of scientists and Buddhists:
$125,000 per year
 Scientists commit to their life's work early in their careers. To educate up-and-coming researchers as well as young Buddhists, the Institute seeks to engage them in dialogue and expose them to research possibilities. In 2004, we will begin the annual Mind and Life Summer Research Institute, a one-week symposium for post doctoral and graduate students in psychology and neuroscience. This will be a residential meeting taught by senior faculty of scientists and Buddhists examining the latest research, developing new research projects, and learning and practicing meditation. The budget for the first Mind and Life Summer Research Institute is $125,000 for 50 students. As we expand, the budget will grow.
Support for pilot research projects:
$125,000 per year
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seldom funds new ideas. Instead, federal money goes to research findings generated by promising pilot studies. Scientists from prestigious universities-Harvard, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin-have expressed interest in researching how aspects of meditation can help us understand how the mind works. The Institute hopes to "prime the pump" by strategically initiating one or two pilot studies each year that will in turn attract NIH and other mainstream support.
Support to preserve and distribute media archives:
$150,000
The Institute has recorded 15 years of meetings in various formats of audio and videotapes. Some of these media are in danger of disintegrating and being lost forever. We need to transfer this vital material into a stable medium and make it available to researchers and others in digital format over the Web, guaranteeing its availability into the future.
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