Learning for Living Institute

“Board reviews and approves form 990”

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“The learning for living institute researches and develops experiential, life success skills training programs for college-age young people that will help them gain the knowledge and skills they need to achieve success in their lives during and after college. During our fiscal year june 2014 to june 2015 we continued to work with our nationally-known expert in program curriculum, coaching and facilitation methods, and evaluation to develop our program's formative, end-of-program, and follow-up evaluations as well as five other useful program assessments. With the help of two data entry professionals we gathered and organized cutting-edge methodology to be included in our methods manual. This manual will describe how to facilitate practical, real-life activities and coach individual college students in approaches that will work personally for them. It contains carefully researched, finely detailed methodology which is firmly based on widely accepted psychological, developmental and adult learning theory and research. We completed the re-modelling of a small, centrally located home which serves as our office in boulder. This facility enlarges our office space and placed us in a much stronger position to accomplish learning for living's mission. We've hired a project manager to develop clearly-written manuals detailing learning for living's policy and procedures for our technology, for hiring and working with our employees and independent contractors, for care of our physical plant, as instructions for our legal and government requirements, and as a style guide, among others. This recording of learning for living's business policies and procedures strengthens the company's organization and helps ensure a higher level of excellence in our everyday work. We began up-grading the structural systems for learning for living's knowledge and information, collected over the past several years, into clearly organized paper, computer, and database files to be stored on a cloud, easily accessed by our curriculum and methods developers, facilitators, program providers and evaluators, outreach and fundraisers - the people who will work with us to develop life success programs for college-age young people. In these ways we are structuring and putting in place the foundational physical, technological, informational, and procedural platforms the learning for living institute will require to provide innovative, high- quality programs.”

“Repairs & maintenance 6,227 1,557 0 cleaning 5,315 1,328 0 curriculum development 4,958 0 0 gardening & landscaping 3,840 955 0 organizing 3,165 791 0 telephone & internet 2,633 677 0 utilities 2,622 656 0 dues & subscriptions 2,174 543 0 staff appreciation 1,034 259 0 evaluations 782 195 0 books & publications 461 115 0 fundraising 0 0 279 bank charges 108 80 0 licenses 76 19 0 reimbursed expenses 61 15 0 gifts 28 7 0 parking 4 1 0”