Heart Mind Foundation

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“Podcast in 2022 we continued to release new episodes of the freely offered buddhist geeks podcast,including 6 new episodes. In addition to the archived episodes, the buddhist geeks podcast, received a total of 1,883,286 podcast listens in 2022, making a combined 2.3 million listens from 2018 2022. Youtube in 2022 we released 11 new public clips to the buddhist geeks youtube channel. In addition to the archived clips, we received 17,649 views for a total of 1,885 watch hours. Retreats in 2022 we held one week-long mindfulness retreat online, with 60 participantsand 4 mindfulness teachers. We also held 3 in-person week-long retreats in 2022, including 16 participants at the garrison institute in new yorl, 18 participants at moulin de chaves in france, and an annual teacher's retreat for 14 participants in western north carolina. In total we hosted 108 participants in week-long meditation retreats. Trainings in 2022 we continued our 10-week virtual training opportunities, with 6 different teachers running 3 unique training programs with 137 registered training participants, who donated a total of 27,739.00 to support these trainings over the course of the year. In 2022, we completed a 2-year teacher training program cohort, working closely with 11 long-term students who trained and graduated as dharma, meditation, & mindfulness teachers with buddhist geeks. Mentoring in 2022 we had 6 teachers offer a total of 257 contact hours with private students, supporting them personally with the development of their contemplative practice. Our teachers operate on a transparent generosity basis, and received an average donation of 115 / hour in 2022 for a total of 29,840 in donations. Network in 2022 we continued to operate our private social network and live event space for our community, the buddhist geeks network. Operating on the mighty networks platform this network was sustained by totally optional donations, receiving a total of 17,898 from network members in 2022. In the last month of the year, december 2022, we had 1,231 total members, and 194 active members on the network. We also launched a weekly community event in the summer of 2022, dharma gatherings, which was offered 25 times, led by 12 different teachers, and was supported by optional donations totaling 3,900. Partnerships in 2022 we were awarded 2 new grants, one from the gehm lab & templeton foundation in the amount of 50,000 cad, in order to study the science of social meditation. The other came from the hemera foundation & lenz foundation, in the amount of 22,000 usd in order to kick-start a mew community podcast series called our beloved teachers.”

“Outside contract services 18,729 0 0 teacher pay 104,337 0 0 total 123,066 0 0”