Heart Mind Foundation

“BUDDHIST GEEKS”

“Expenses advertising 3,070 office 5,969 information technology 11,798 travel and subsistence 92 insurance 221 meals & entertainment 751 outside contract services 885 teacher pay 70,809 creativetools 1,618 facilities and equipment 30,563 bank service charges 1,770 telephone 1,761 books, subscriptions, ref 497 operations, other 384 development expense 4,460 charity 130 total 134,778”

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

“Podcast in 2019 we continued to release new episodes of the freely offered buddhist geeks podcast, including 11 new episodes . In addition to the archived episodes, the buddhist geeks podcast, received a total of 593,687 downloads in 2019. Retreats: in 2019 we hosted the following in-person retreats , ranging from a 2-6 days in length, hosting 50 participants total in these immersive learning environments: embodied mindfulness, with vince horn & emily horn (february 21st 24th, 2019) awakening presence, with vince horn, emily horn, & lisa sherman (june 9th 16th, pragmatic dharma, with kenneth folk & vince horn (october 27th november 3rd, in addition to our in-person retreats, we also hosted 3, virtual day-long retreats, which were attended by slightly over 100 people, in total. Trainings in 2019 we continued our virtual pragmatic dharma training , led by teacher vincent horn. Over the course of the year, 114 people registered for this training. Together we spent a total of ~ 500 contact hours training participants, who together donated 40,669 to support the training. In 2019 we also continued a 2-year teacher training program , working closely with 5 individuals who are training to be dharma, meditation, & mindfulness teachers. Privates in 2019 we had 3 teachers who did a total of 90 contact hours with private meditation students, supporting them personally with the development of their contemplative practice. Partnering lastly, buddhist geeks participated, and helped organize 1 in-person event, partnering with san francisco dharma collective to put on a metadharma daylong workshop .”