Where Did the Money Flow?
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Unitarian Universalist Youth Program in Gloucester, MA (587)
United States - Massachusetts / $250
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared with this Unitarian Universalist Youth Program for new supplies, including a new rug, books, easels, and dry erase boards.
Desda Zuckerman & The Spirit Way Healing Center (586)
United States - Massachusetts / $300
Year Funded: 2010
Core Individuation is a healing modality based on a comprehensive One Body approach to achieving wholeness and well-being. At its heart, Core Individuation is a new paradigm for how to view individual human potential and how to own personal transformation. A gift was shared to help secure a location for Desda to share an afternoon Core Individuation healing workshop on Cape Ann, Massachusetts USA.
Ken Maley (583)
United States - Missouri / $1,000
Flow Funder: Penny Kelly
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared with this former Catholic bishop who is working to build a small retreat center in Missouri USA for advanced thinkers to meet and have conversations on spirituality.
Circulos (577)
United States / $500
Flow Funder: Penny Kelly
Year Funded: 2010
A gift was shared with this American Indian organization, to buy Christmas gifts for Indian children.
Tamera (575)
Portugal / $1,500
Flow Funder: Siri Gunnarson
Year Funded: 2010
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A gift was shared with this cooperative of people in Portugal who work towards a non-violent future. The people of Tamera engage peace work in a holistic way, following the belief that the outer revolution in the world has to go hand-in-hand with an inner revolution. Their projects include: permaculture gardens, water landscapes, a solar village, a children's village, the Peace Research Village of the Middle East, peace pilgrimages, the Monte Cerro Global Campus for a Peace Culture, and collaborative work with other peace centers located in crisis areas. At Tamera, the most important focus is love and sexuality. They believe that there cannot be peace on earth as long as there is war between the genders. This philosophy and peace work moved us and challenged some of our foundational beliefs, inspiring us to learn more and share the story.
Institute of Culture & Ecology (IFCAE) (552)
Kenya / $2,000
FFCH: First Peoples Worldwide
Year Funded: 2010
The Institute of Culture & Ecology works to revive and promote Indigenous knowledge for environmental rehabilitation and conservation and to enhance local communities' resource-based livelihoods and sustainable development through local knowledge. The goal of this project is to promote the role of Indigenous knowledge and sacred sites in protecting natural ecosystems at Kivaa Hill. Kivaa Hill has an important sacred site at the top, with other smaller sacred sites in surrounding areas. However, the primary sacred site is being threatened by over-grazing, and local elders have raised their concern over imminent desecration of the site and eventual loss of natural biodiversity on the hill. The project is restoring respect for the identified sacred sites on and in the area of Kivaa Hill as a strategy for conservation of local biodiversity and responding to adverse climatic changes. This grant is helping the community at Kivaa Hill protect the assets, including local biodiversity and sacred sites, and maintain their cultural relationship with the Hill, which in turn protects their livelihoods and livestock.
10th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World (538)
Egypt, India / $950
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
A gift was shared to support Yasser Mohamed Adel of Egypt in traveling to India for the 10th International Conference of Chief Justices of the World, which held a global symposium on "Awakening Planetary Consciousness." Yasser was selected as the only Egyptian delegate, and was asked to present a workshop on interfaith dialogue. Yasser is a Board Member of the International Council of Christians and Jews, co-founded as a cooperation circle for interfaith dialogue in Egypt, and has organized youth, intercultural exchange programs between Europe and the Middle East.
Judith Morgan, Shamanic Healer (535)
United States - California / $1,500
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
A leadership award was shared to support the work of Judith Morgan, a Shamanic Healer and Community Wellness Facilitator in Santa Cruz, California USA. Judith's work helps facilitate healing with many activists and changemakers in the community.
Joseph McCormick & The Transpartisan Alliance (533)
http://network.transpartisan.net/profile/JosephMcC
United States / $1,000
Flow Funder: Ocean Robbins
Year Funded: 2009
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This leadership award was shared to support Joseph McCormick, founder of the Transpartisan Alliance and Reuniting America, to take time to work on a book capturing the stories and learning from his work bridging the partisan divide in America. Joseph has convened leaders from groups like Moveon.org, The Christian Coalition, Freedom Works, and the Green Party, as well as movement icons like Grover Norquist and Al Gore, to engage in the revolutionary act of speaking their truth and listening. His work is helping end the “civil war” in American politics, bringing all of America to a vibrant win-win democracy.
Ladakh Nunnery Center Building Project (515)
India / $1,250
Flow Funder: Aigul Dyusenova
Tibetan Buddhist nun, Tsering Palm, lives in Ladakh, India. She is also a Tibetan traditional medicine doctor and directs a nunnery school which supports young women from poor families to gain proper education. There are twenty nuns staying at the nunnery center, five of whom are staff, and the rest students. There is big shortage of rooms at the nunnery - currently six nuns have to share one room, and seven nuns are sleep in the office. A Flow Fund Gift supported new rooms to be built for the nuns.
Tibetan Women's Association (487)
India / $10,000
A gift was shared with the Tibetan Women's Association to cover board, lodging and tuition for one Tibetan refugee nun to pursue Buddhist Philosophy study for 11 years at Dolmaling Nunnery and for an additional 2 refugee nuns to study for 9 years at Shungseb Nunnery.
European Tibetan Nuns Project (475)
India / $1,500
A travel scholarship for a project based in Europe that supports Tibetan Buddhist nuns.
One People in Prayer (467)
United States / $1,160
This annual Prayer Vigil includes 30 hours of continuous prayer and unity, to create a healing Sacred Hoop of the four races, and provide a forum for elders to share their wisdom with the youth of all cultures. A gift was shared to help pay for plane fare for two indigenous elders to attend this annual Prayer Vigil, and participate in the "Honor Indigenous Elders" section of the vigil, in which members of the Oneida, Cherokee, Chippewa, and Sioux tribes come together to pray for three days for the present and all future generations, the health of Mother Nature, and unity as one people.
Wiraqocha Foundation: Ecumenical Community Services (464)
Peru, United States - California / $2,500
A gift was shared through the Wiraqocha Foundation's Ecumenical Community Services to assist three elder Andean Priests from the Q'ero Nation of Peru, including Don Maneul Q'espi, to come to the United States to share their prophecies and wisdom with the Native elders of North America.
Eric Vormanns, African Healer (462)
Ghana / $3,000
Flow Funder: Angeles Arrien
A gift was shared to support the work of this African healer and Founder of the World Federation for Spiritual Healing. He has developed a model of health that incorporates ancient, modem and "etheric" methods of healing called "Vormanns Method."
S.A.N.D (Support After Neonatal Death) (451)
United States - California / $4,000
S.A.N.D. is a bi-monthly support group for parents who have lost an infant through miscarriage, genetic abortion, stillbirth or death during or shortly after birth. The purpose of this unique bereavement group is to enable parents to grieve, preserve their marriages, and to continue to confidently parent their existing children (if any). This is the only group of its kind in San Francisco, California USA.
Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) (448)
Thailand, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic / $2,000
A Flow Fund Gift was shared for training and travel costs for non-government leaders and community activists from Thailand, Laos, Burma and Cambodia (including two people from Thailand's Forum of the Poor) to attend Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) training programs.
Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute (SPDI) (445)
Thailand / $1,500
Translated into English, Santi Pracha Dhamma Institute stands for Peace, People (Participatory Democracy), and Justice. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to support the training of Thai forest monks in environmental activism and education techniques. In part, the gift was used for travel expenses for the forest monks to meet with other monks and share their teaching and collaborate on future actions.
Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) (444)
Thailand, India / $1,000
Year Funded: 1998
A Flow Fund Gift was shared with Pracha Hutanuwatr, director of the Spirit in Education Movement. These funds help Pracha to travel to the World Wilderness Congress in Bangalore, India to present a model of spiritually-based environmental education and action. He is one of the few Asian presenters at this event.
Travel Grant Buddhist Activist (441)
Thailand / $1,000
Moo is a colleague and young activist we have known for the past three years: This grant enabled him to travel to Burma and meet with the Christian Kachin leaders we have trained in northern Burma for discussions on the development of an Interfaith Southeast Asian Regional Training Center on Alternative Development.
Travel Grants Thailand (439)
Thailand / $1,000
We made three travel grants to enable 3 full-time activists to attend meetings, trainings and workshops in other parts of the country. 1) Tuentje Deetes (Director ofHADF to attend meeting of leadership of the Forum of the Poor in Bangkok; 2) Sean Kennedy, an American video cameraman to travel to villages in northern Thailand to teach them how to use video to preserve their culture and, 3) Sulak Sivaraksa to join the Yadana gas pipeline protest at its most intense period.
Gifts of Delight (434)
United States - Arizona / $1,000
A gift was shared with a Catholic health care volunteer who works with Hispanic elderly and sick women in the Tucson, Arizona USA region. While she herself does great hands-on healing and is a nurse, her desire is to use this gift to bring "gifts of delight," such as food and flowers, to the people she works with.
Brother Pasqual (433)
http://www.deserthouseofprayer.org/
United States - Arizona / $1,000
This gift was shared with a Catholic priest, Brother Pasqual, who has dedicated his life to running the Desert House of Prayer, a small retreat center outside of Tuscon, Arizona USA, which offers rest and revitalization for burned-out or ill Catholics, activists, priests and nuns. He also does extensive work with Hispanic youth in the Tuscon area, and we shared a $1,000 gift with him for that work. When he heard the philosophy behind the Flow Fund gift-giving, he would only accept the gift if he could follow the same rule we follow and give it away. He ended up sharing the money with people "in their time of need," which included a young woman dying of AIDS.
Interfaith Solidarity Walks (428)
Thailand, India, Lao People's Democratic Republic / $2,000
Year Funded: 1999
A Flow Fund Gift was shared for the travel expenses of four Asian activists to participate in the Interfaith Solidarity Walks: an Indian activist from the Gandhi Peace Foundation in Delhi, an Indian activist from Ekta Parishad (an organization representing tribal peoples in Madya Pradesh), and two Laotian activists from Lao Prabang and Vientiane. These four people were walking in support of the indigenous people of northern Thailand. As one activist remarked during the final debriefing circle: "This experience has changed my life. I understand now how people can make a difference and really help each other by bearing witness without judgment. I am very hopeful now. There are many problems in my country and I want to do this kind of work there."
Travel Grant for Interfaith Pilgrimage of Peace (426)
http://www.brushmind.net/kaz.html
Syrian Arab Republic / $1,800
Flow Funder: Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon
Year Funded: 2002
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to enable the Buddhist artist and peace activist Kazuaki Tanahashi to join an Interfaith Pilgrimage of Peace to Syria, May 4-18, 2002, and to provide translation services during the pilgrimage. The purpose of the pilgrimage is to bear witness to Muslim-Christian relations and to encourage deeper understanding and respect between these religious cultures.
Sufi Way International's Senior Leadership Trainings (425)
France, United States / $4,000
Year Funded: 2002
This gift was shared to help with the travel expenses of senior teachers of the Sufi Way International to attend two, 5-day seminars. The Sufi Way is a western "universalist" Sufi tradition. While not exclusively Islamic, it does has deep roots in that lineage, which makes it well-suited for developing spiritually-based actions dedicated to deepening understanding between Islam and the West. These training seminars focus on developing a wide range of approaches to spiritually-based activism. Our interest is to support the development of an "engaged Sufism" similar to the emergence of engaged Buddhism
Travel Grant for Catholic Activist (424)
Thailand, Philippines / $600
"Betty" is a creative and influential Catholic activist who is interested in working with indigenous tribal peoples in her region of the Philippines. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to provide travel costs for "Betty" to attend the Interfaith Solidarity Walk.
Scholarship to Attend Death & Dying Workshop (423)
United States - New Mexico, Thailand / $1,200
This gift was shared with Wisit, a Thai educator and Buddhist activist, so he could attend to attend one of Roshi Joan Halifax's death and dying programs at Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Wisit is doing pioneering work with the dying in a northern Thailand hospital, and this gift enabled him to develop a culturally-adapted model for working with death and dying in his own country.
English Training for Activists (422)
Thailand / $2,000
Moo and Lek have become able leaders in the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM) and the Grassroots Leadership Trainings (GLT), both non-governmental organization (NGO) projects. An obstacle to their international work however is their need to improve their English and a Flow Fund Gift was shared for educational and travel expenses to learn English.
Pema ljn Mingaborn's visit to USA (421)
India, United States - Colorado / $1,200
We shared this gift with Pema ljn Mingaborn, a Tibetan Nun from Dharamsala, India, to pay her airfare to Boulder, Colorado for a period of study at Naropa University. Naropa agreed to offer a full scholarship for her. Pema ljn Mingaborn is the head of her monastery and she wished to further her dharma education to bring back the teachings to her sister nuns. She speaks and writes English fluently.
The Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian (419)
Syrian Arab Republic / $1,100
Flow Funder: Elizabeth Roberts & Elias Amidon
Year Funded: 2001
During the winter of 2001, we journeyed through North Africa and the Middle East, meeting with Sufis and other remarkable characters. In the desert cliffs of Syria, several hours northeast of Damascus, we found the ancient monastery of Mar Musa or Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi, literally The Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian. It has been existence from the middle of the sixth century, and belonged to the Syrian Antiochian Rite. The present monastery church was built in the Islamic year 450 (1058 AD) and was active until the early 19th century when it was abandoned. In 1982 a young Italian Jesuit priest, Father Paulo, found the ruins and determined to revive the monastery. He has devoted the past twenty years to rebuilding it and dedicating it as a place for inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and harmony. One aspect of Fr. Paulo's vision is to create a protected environmental area in the valley below the monastery. A Flow Fund Gift was shared to establish this area, which received governmental approval while we were there. The monastery also distributed 10% of the gift to the neediest of the poor in the area. When we heard of their generous tithing plan we added another $100 for this purpose.
AIDS Companion Project at the Village Zen Center (418)
United States - New York / $800
We met with the remarkable female Zen teacher, Sensei Enkyo O'Hara, founder of the Village Zen Center in Greenwich Village, New York. Enkyo told us about several of the projects emerging from the Center, including the newly-established "AIDS Companion Project" which inspired us to share this gift with her and the Zen Center. The AIDS Companion Project networks and provides companions for people with AIDS, who are often lonely and depressed. Services include providing assistance in running errands, cooking meals, or being medical/social service advocates.
Kohala Mountain Mindfulness Center (417)
United States - Hawaii / $300
A gift was shared to help support the establishment of a Buddhist retreat center in Hawaii USA, initiated by Therese & Arnie Kotler.
Ariya Vinaya (416)
Thailand / $500
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to support a series of international meetings, entitled "Ariya Vinaya," to help bring the monastic traditions of Southeast Asia into the 21st century.
Nun Ordination (415)
Thailand, Sri Lanka / $350
This grant helped support the travel of three Theravaden nuns from Thailand to Sri Lanka to study and take full bikkhuni ordination. There has been no full ordination of nuns in Thailand for 1200 years. As a result, nuns have a surprisingly low status in this patriarchal culture. There is a growing movement among women activists to improve the role of nuns and we are actively involved in this work.
International Buddhist Youth Organization (414)
Indonesia / $300
This was a grant to two young Buddhist men from Java, Indonesia, to provide start-up funds for the establishment of a new international association of socially-engaged Buddhist youth.
Research of the After-Death Beliefs of the Fon People (409)
Benin / $2,950
Flow Funder: Sukie Miller
A gift was shared for research on the after-death beliefs of the Fon people, conducted by The Institute for Research of The Republic of Benin. The Fon people are willing to share their understandings of the after-death. Funds will support the creation of audio recordings of oral histories.
Scholarship for Corbin Harney & Peixinho (Matteo) Ferreira (395)
United States, French Polynesia, Brazil / $2,000
A gift was shared with Shoshone elder Corbin Harney and his Brazilian assistant Peixinho (Matteo) Ferreira to travel to Tahiti for the Abolition 2000 conference. Corbin served as the Head of the North American Delegation, and participated in the spiritual leadership and religious ceremony portion of the conference.
Lokenath Divine Life Mission (378)
India / $500
Lokenath Divine Life Mission Mission projects include the establishment of women's empowerment groups, women's healthcare, child education, creative development, adult education, eye surgery & care, homeopathy, farmers clubs/conservation awareness. The Mission is committed to raising the socio-economic level of the impoverished people of the slums and villages in and around Calcutta, and addresses fundamental problems at the grass root level. They conduct school classes "on the streets" and health care in a medical mobile where care is needed most.
Universal Foundation for Better Living/Panorama of Truth Youth Program (376)
United States - Florida / $100
A gift was shared to support the Panorama of Truth Youth Program in creating educational materials to be presented a conference in Miami Beach, Florida USA, based on the principles of Maria Nemeth and her "Energy of Money" workshops.
Norbulingka Institute of Dharamsala, India (372)
India / $1,000
Established to begin to fill the gap of the interrupted and precious tradition of the Tibetan peoples culture in both its literary and artistic forms. The Institute promotes the traditional arts and literary studies of Tibet.
Tibetan Refugees (368)
India / $1,000
gift to H.H. the Dalai Lama to support the Tibetan Refugee project. His Holiness has continued to support as best he can these determined souls who have crossed the great mountains at the roof of the world to gain freedom of their religion.
Deep Ecology Training Manuals (360)
Ukraine, Russian Federation / $700
This is the only group I know who is writing training manuals in Russian for young people in deep ecology. They conducted a multi-level three month training for trainers. The money enabled them to carry out their well thought out program after their request for funds were cut beyond capacity to achieve their goals. The manual has been completed and we are now in the process of translating it into English to see if their ideas are applicable here.
Green Dossier, Deep Ecology Handbook translated into Russian (357)
Russian Federation / $554
The teachers needed material in Russian experiential ecological teaching methods. Green Dossier agreed to translate and publish a handbook from the Despair and Empowerment exercises. They chose the 25 most relevant exercises with the author Joanna Macy and produced a handbook which was welcomed by the teaching community.
Ecological information booklet (356)
Russian Federation / $500
Lama Tientsin, Ahalar Ulan Ude 2000 copies of ecological information booklet for local Buryats This respected monk travels between Ulan Ude, Chernigov, and St. Petersburg. He says that the Buryats are destroying their own nature just from lack of education and misinformation. He has included in his booklet inspirational and factual material for the local Buryat population
Ecological Information Booklets Ahalar, Chernigov, Ukraine (355)
Ukraine / $350
This is a Buddhist oriented non -profit environmental organization about three hours from Kiev. Its leaders were fascinated by the American Deep Ecology material and started using it for trainings. Hours were spent on their own translations. When I conducted a deep ecology seminar for them, they wanted to put the material in terms understandable and relevant for their members.
The Buffalo Monument (325)
United States - Utah / $1,000
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
The Buffalo Monument is a large scale, multimedia installation, which is a temple of healing. It is located close to a live buffalo herd. The project includes creative dialogue, architectural design, sculpture, sacred/ritual art, beadwork, sound/music, and holographic technology. Founder Laura May: "The Buffalo Monument was inspired by a vision and has grown out of a desire to speak to the sense of despair I have felt personally and in the collective, over the loss of deep connection with the earth as home. It is designed to inspire and challenge those who visit the site to renew hope, responsibility, and creatively generate actions which can bring healing to our earth/home/environment. The buffalo became a powerful symbol for me, and in continuing to choose the extinction of other species, we ultimately choose our own extinction."
Sri Sarada Society (324)
United States - New York / $1,000
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
A gift was shared with the Sri Sarada Society in Albany, New York, where women are given a platform to teach and express their spiritual insights.
Tibetan Buddhist Nuns Living in Shoto Terdrom, Tibet (319)
China / $1,000
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
I fell in love with the Tibetan Buddhist Nuns living in Shoto Terdrom, Tibet. Their cave hermitage is located at 16,000 feet in one of Tibet's most sacred sites. I carved my "Rainbow Bodhisattva" in one of their local caves. They are extremely poor but courageous and joyous women and I was greatly inspired to share this gift with them.
Mandala House for Bauls of West Bengal (316)
India / $20,000
Mandala House for Bauls of West Bengal This is the village where I built, with the help of the village, the Mandaela Hous for the eighth site of the World Wheel. The Bauls, the minstrel folk musicians, and the whole village are using it for teaching, puja's, and a place where the wandering Bauls can sleep and eat. Once a year at the birthday of the Mandala House (the completion of the house), Bauls come from all over Bengal to sing and dance in a festival where they feed as many as 1,000 people. food to feed 1,000 people at annual Festival in the Mandala House.
Blue Spruce Standing Deer (Pba-Quen-Nee-e) (315)
United States - Utah, United States - New Mexico / $450
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
Blue Spruce Standing Deer (Pba-Quen-Nee-e) is a Tiwa Indian artist and musician born and raised at the Taos Pueblo in Northern New Mexico. A gift was shared so he could share two workshops at the Earth Mandala Center in Castle Valley, Utah.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (314)
United States - New York / $100
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors series is a unique work of contemporary sacred art created by artist Alex Grey. This installation of 21 framed images, consisting of 19 paintings and two etched mirrors, examines the anatomy of body, mind and spirit in rich detail. Each painting presents a life-sized figure facing viewers and inviting them to mirror the images, creating a sense of seeing into oneself.
White Eagle (313)
United States - California / $100
A gift was shared to support this African American spiritual leader in West Los Angeles, California USA.
Andean Healing Ceremony: Taki Samy (311)
United States - Utah, Ecuador / $1,000
Flow Funder: Vijali Hamilton
A gift was shared with Shairy Quimbo, an indigenous healer and philosopher from the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, to hold a Taki Samy, which is a ceremony that invokes cosmic power for healing, harmonizing energetic music with dance movements and indigenous exercises. In his healing ceremonies, Shairy Quimbo uses the four sacred elements (air, fire, water and earth), combined with instruments, sounds, shamanic breath and crystals. He uses instruments made of condor bones/feathers, ocarinas (pre-Columbian ceramic instruments), and the conk shell, which brings forth the Divine Voice of God, putting order into our lives.
"Silent Reflection" Retreat with Illinois Zen Community (310)
United States - Illinois, China / $1,000
A gift was shared with the Zen Teacher Robert Althouse of the Zen Community of Oak Park, Illinois USA for preparing the "Silent Reflection" retreat, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Nanjing massacre. The massacre was caused by invading Japanese troops in Nanjing (Nanking), the then capital of China, in 1937.
Jizo for Peace Project (305)
United States - Oregon, Japan / $4,000
Chozen Bays Roshi, a co-abbess of the Great Vow Zen Monastery in Oregon, was born on the day of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki. She decided to bring images of Jizo Bodhisattva, guardian of the dead and unprotected, to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the 60th anniversary of the bombings in 2005. A gift was shared to support her Jizo for Peace Project, which creates 270,000 painted and sculpted images of the Jizo Bodhisattva to be exhibited and offered in both cities.
Sangha Savika (295)
Thailand / $2,500
Buddhism came to Thailand over 2,000 years ago and it is its major religion, however, women are considered inferior and women's ordination is even illegal. Women who seek ordination have to go to Sri Lanka to be ordained, but they are not accepted by the Buddhist institution. Sangha Savika is a group of lay women who support the spiritual practice of Buddhist women. Sangha Savika used our Flow Fund Gift to help build a place for Buddhist spiritual practice for women and female monks. Female monks who have no place to stay can also live here. Funds were also used to run four seminars and retreats which aim to support women's ordination, as well as travel to visit with other female monks around the country, and help individual female monks, who still have no place to stay, find a community to live and practice with.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (262)
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared with this Buddhist teaching center in California USA
Mangyan Indigenous Education Program (253)
Philippines / $4,500
Flow Funder: Yoji Kamata
"Mangyan" is the generic name for the eight indigenous groups found in Mindoro island, in the Philippines - each with its own tribal name, language, and customs. The total population may be around 100,000, but no official statistics are available because of the difficulties of counting remote and reclusive tribal groups, many of which have no contact with the outside world. The Mangyan Indigenous Education Program is divided into three main components: Development of Indigenous Curriculum; Development/Production of Instructional Materials; and Actual Implementation of Learning Process. This project is a collaboration between The Mangyan Mission and the Mangyan Heritage Center. The Mangyan Mission, a non-government organization, has been assisting the Mangyans for over 50 years through its integrated programs, and they have started the implementation of a learning process in two pilot schools. The Mangyan Heritage Center is a library, research and education center, which has been gathering and compiling Mangyan stories and poems. It has also documented Mangyan rituals, beliefs and traditions. These materials are being developed to be part of the instructional materials. The educational system that will be developed will be advocated to the Department of Education for recognition and implementation in all Mangyan schools in the province. This project is also working on developing and publishing books and other forms of instructional materials containing Mangyan stories, poems, rituals, beliefs and traditions. All the materials documented will be validated in Mangyan communities to ensure accurateness. Mangyans from each tribe are collaborating on the project, so that they themselves will be involved in the production of instructional materials. Five selected Mangyans with artistic abilities in drawing will undergo a training to harness their skills.
Children/Teens, Cultural Preservation, Education, Spirituality
Alternative Politics for Asia Translation (250)
Myanmar / $1,700
Flow Funder: Anonymous
Our Flow Fund Gift helped translate the Alternative Politics for Asia (APA) books into Burmese. The APA books contain interviews about Asian political/spiritual ideas of important and outstanding Asian leaders. Edited by Pracha Hutanuwatr and Ramu Manivann, the book highlights indigenous spiritual and cultural identity of Burma. The interviews dig deeply into the wisdom of various spiritual traditions including Islam, Buddhism, Hindu, Jainism, Ghandism, Christianity and indigenous wisdom, applying this knowledge to contemporary issues facing Asian society. The aim of the book is to find alternative, culturally and spiritually appropriate bases upon which to build a sustainable Asia. Burma has been largely closed to outside influence for more than 40 years. The positive side of this is that much of the spiritual and cultural richness is intact. The numerous ecological and economic crises that have occurred in nearby Asian countries are a warning to look back on their own wisdom and Asian ways.
Nganga and Village Health Project (229)
Zimbabwe / $2,000
The Nganga Project, a non-profit organization, recognizes that collaboration with traditional healers is essential in confronting AIDS in Africa, and so is working in alliance with the native ways of traditional African people to address AIDS, hunger and other community issues. The project seeks to establish alliances between practitioners of different healing modalities – traditional, Western, Chinese, Native American, etc. Starvation continues to be a major cause of death in Zimbabwe. In addition, Zimbabwe suffers from the highest infection rate of AIDS in the world: 25% of the population is HIV positive. Traditional rites of initiation for young men and women have been largely lost in the past two generations, which the elders see as directly connected to widespread alienation among youth and the exacerbation of the local AIDS crisis. The Nganga Project is collaborating to revive the old rites and make them relevant for those coming of age in contemporary Zimbabwe. The Village Health Project seeks to help alleviate the suffering of those with HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe by starting a free Chinese Medicine clinic there.
Daughters of Copper Woman & Green Economics (214)
Czech Republic, United States / $4,000
Flow Funder: Richard Douthwaite
Year Funded: 2003
A gift was shared with The Stehlik Family Publishing House to publish and promote "Daughters of Copper Woman" and "Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy & Practice." "Daughters of Copper Woman," has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. The Stehlik Family published a new edition that is more complete, with Anne Cameron's timeless retelling of Northwest Coast Native myths that create a sublime image of the social and spiritual power of woman. "Green Economics" by Molly Scott Cato explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and work.
Volunteer Medical/Dental Clinic in Favellas (204)
Brazil / $4,245
A gift was shared to support the opening of the Buddhist Dharma Gardens Meditation Center's Medical/Dental clinic, located in the middle of several Favellas (slums/ghettos). They needed re-enforced doors and windows as well as upgrade work on their used, donated equipment.
Funeral Expenses (198)
Brazil / $2,125
A gift was shared to facilitate the return by plane of the body of a woman who made a three-day bus trip from her home to the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil to find treatment for her cancer. She did not survive the journey and her three children could not afford to bring her body back for a proper ritual burial. This gift helped make that return journey possible.
Universidade da Luz (73)
http://www.universidadedaluz.org.br/
Brazil / $373
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
The Universidade da Luz is a school that promotes the development of consciousness and the awakening of group awareness and leadership. A gift was shared so they could print fliers and share the opening of their school with the community
Benedictine Sisters of the Mosteiro do Salvador (68)
Brazil / $115
Flow Funder: Sonia Cafe
A gift was shared with the Benedictine Sisters of the Mosteiro do Salvador, who are in need of certain household and personal hygiene articles.
Native Exchange Project (61)
United States - New Mexico / $2,000
A gift was shared with a Taos Pueblo medicine man as seed money for a project of cultural and spiritual exchange between individuals from disparate native/aboriginal groups.
Rayenari School (55)
Mexico / $10,000
Flow Funder: Margo Segura and Marine Dominguez
"Rayenari," is a school, whose name in the language of the Tarahumara indigenous peoples of Northern Mexico, means "the sun." Following the school's mission "Educare para Transformar" (Educate to Transform) the teachers use the Waldorf method of instruction, which prepares students in incorporating spirituality and positive human values into their educational development and provides teachers with the required training to help them become role-models for their students.
Echoes of the Ancestors (54)
United States, Ghana, Senegal / $33,216
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared to support the work of Echoes of the Ancestors, an organization that is bringing indigenous wisdom to the West. They also work to provide drinking water to indigenous people in West Africa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center. (48)
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: Sobonfu Some
A gift was shared to support the work of Spirit Rock Meditation Center.
Kill the Buddha (44)
United States / $600
A gift was shared to support an ecumenical web site for individuals to post personal reflections on religion and spirituality.
Spiritual Stories of Personal Transformation (41)
United States - California / $250
A gift was shared to support a web site that is an ecumenical forum where individuals post personal stories of spiritual transformation.
Queer Jihad (40)
http://www.well.com/user/queerjhd/
Thailand / $250
A Flow Fund Gift was shared to support the creation of a web presence, fostering international contact among gay Muslims. The site includes articles on Islamic theology and gay issues.
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco Minority Outreach (33)
United States - California / $10,000
A gift was shared to foster interchange with disadvantaged minority groups, especially those working in the mental-health field, about Jungian and depth psychology.
Elder Pow Wow (28)
United States - California / $2,500
A gift was shared to support a traditional cultural exchange between inter-tribal American Indians and honor their elders.
Day of the Dead (El Dia de Muertos) Ceremony (26)
United States - California / $400
A gift was shared to create a Day of the Dead (El Dia de Muertos) ceremony, which includes didgeridoo sound healing, and honoring the ancestors. From pre Columbian times, El Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead, has been celebrated on November 1st/2nd in Mexico, and other Latin countries. This is a very special ritual in which the living remember their departed relatives.
Women's Conference on Conscious Eating (24)
United States - California / $400
A gift was shared to support a conference on conscious eating as an act of healing.
Tipis for Ceremonial Camps (21)
http://www.ca500milespiritrun.org/index.html
United States - California / $1,819
Flow Funder: John Malloy
A gift was shared to purchase tipis to be used every year as ceremonial camps for the California 500 Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon, which crosses California. The tipis are also used for the 24-hour Spiritual Run held each Easter in preparation for the 500-mile run.
American Indian Spiritual Marathon Runners Team (20)
http://www.ca500milespiritrun.org/
United States - California / $500
Flow Funder: John Malloy
A gift was shared to create T-shirts to honor Sun Dance spiritual leaders and commemorate the California 500-Mile American Indian Spiritual Marathon, which begins in Keen and ends in Ripon, CA
American Indian Sunrise Service on Alcatraz (19)
United States - California / $238
A gift was shared to sponsor drummers, dancers and runners to attend the Sunrise Service ceremony on Alcatraz Island, reminding all of the plight of indigenous people.
Travel Scholarship for Ainu Shaman (11)
Japan / $650
Flow Funder: Leslie Gray
A Flow Fund gift was shared to pay for the travel expenses of an Ainu shaman to attend the Japan Institute of Psychotherapy.