The Interdependence Project – Coalition Building

The Lenz Foundation Community — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:37:37 +0000

Our coalition-building is further establishing us with the community we serve the most. With your guidance, we are collaborating with organizations both in NYC and further, to best share resources and maximize our “skillful means”. At our final holiday event this year we met our goal taking in close to $11,000. Kristi from SOMI attended (as did Chodo and Koshin from the NY Zen Center for Contemplative Care) and was keenly instrumental with fund-raising strategies for the evening. To date, we are partnering with the remarkable Garrison Institute for a major Transformation Activism Symposium in March. New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman and other luminaries are lending substantial influence and visible profile to this important effort. Also, environmentalist, entrepreneur and long-time zen practitioner Paul Hawken has very kindly invited me to use home this January 2012 as an IDP headquarters while pursuing Major Gifts in the Mill Valley area. The last week of the year IDP was represented at Shantigar’s 400 acre retreat center in Rowe MA, with whom we are teaming up to share expenses and revenues for an exciting Arts-in-Service program. Further collaborators include: “Off the Mat,” Harvard Graduate School of Education Project Zero research team, NYU’s Anne Waldman, and many more. The coalition-building is on!

Interdependence Project Holiday party 2011: Kristi, MV, Chodo, Peter, Koshin, Kat

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The Interdependence Project – Coalition Building