Heart Mind Foundation

“BUDDHIST GEEKS”

“Expenses advertising and promotion 2,653 office 1,031 information technology 8,315 travel 3,475 bank service charges 2,464 professional pub 84 charity 148 computer & internet 680 meals & entertainment 558 contract services 300 teacher pay 19,216 creative tools 1,206 stripe processing fees 15 telephone 40 program service expense 18,641 other costs 50 total 58,876”

“LOAN REPAYMENT -25,000”

“How can we serve the convergence of buddhism with technology and global culture?”

“In 2018 we continued to release new episodes of the freely offered buddhist geeks podcast,including 12 new episodes. In addition to the archived episodes, the buddhist geeks podcast, received a total of 760,239 listens in 2018. In addition to running the podcast, we also hosted a week-long in-person pragmatic dharma retreat, co-facilitated by teachers vincent horn & kenneth folk. 20 people attended the retreat, from june 24th - july 1st, 2018. In 2018 we also launched a new educational program, called the pragmatic dharma training. Launched in november 2018, this ongoing virtual training has 60 participants, meeting on a weekly basis, along with facilitator/teacher, vincent horn. Lastly, buddhist geeks participated, and helped organize 3 in-person events, partnering with the following organizations: insightla, consciousness hacking, & the san francisco dharma collective. We hosted a number of local meet-ups & events in ashville, north carolina and in winston-salem, north carolina.”