Learning for Living Institute

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“Education that use coaching, facilitation and teaching methodologies to help college sudents discover their passions, develop their strengths, and become adults capable of succeeding in their lives and contributing to their communities. The learning for living institute 325 canyon blvd www.learningforliving.org [email protected] the learning for living institute develops experiential, life success skills programs for college-age students which can help them gain the knowledge and skills they need to achieve success in their lives during and after college. During our fiscal year june 1, 2015 to may 31, 2016 we continued our work with highly respected, national experts in the different life-skills areas to build our program curricula, our coaching and facilitation methods, and program evaluations including formative, summative, and follow-up assessments. Our work has been influenced by the field of positive psychology and during this fiscal year we attended their national conference, and adapted some of their more innovative work to our program content and teaching methodology. We developed 12 pilot curriculums for our flagship program, discover the work you love. We created and put in place essential policies and procedures to provide the foundation for learning for living's life success skills programs. With the assistance of our in-house computer database expert and a recently-hired database professional, we began building the cohesive cloud, computer, and paper database systems necessary to organize, hold, and retrieve learning for living's knowledge, and research and make it easily accessible to our curriculum and methods developers, facilitators, program providers and evaluators, outreach marketers and fundraisers - the people who will work with us to develop life success programs for college-age students. We've hired a project manager to develop clearly-written manuals detailing learning for living's policy and procedures for our administration, technology, hr hiring, on-boarding, and maintaining of employees and independent contractors, care of our physical plant, carrying out of our legal and government requirements, as well as a style guide for our growing number of written documents. This recording of learning for living's business policies and procedures strengthens our organization's structure and helps ensure a higher level of efficiency in our day-to-day work. This work will provide foundational support essential for learning for living's success over the next several years.”

“Yard supplies and service 3,454 864 0 computer supplies 3,254 814 0 strategy & policy consult 2,850 713 0 utilities 2,508 627 0 repairs and maintenance 2,367 592 0 human resources 1,950 487 0 telephone & communication 1,882 470 0 methods manual administra 1,426 356 0 management consulting 1,240 310 0 dues & subscriptions 1,194 298 0 book and publications 1,148 287 0 insurance workers compens 1,146 286 0 probationary period 905 226 0 operations 826 206 0 staffing appreciation 594 149 0 organizing 432 108 0 administration 413 103 0 minor furniture 247 62 0 interest expense 8 283 0 house plans and garden ca 227 57 0 bank charges 191 48 0 website 177 44 0 odd jobs 166 42 0 reimbursed expenses 203 1 0 trial assignment 156 39 0 computer consultant 118 29 0 annual certification 118 29 0 non-violent communication 110 28 0 licenses & fees 64 16 0 bank credit card charges 58 15 0 office systems 16 4 0 curriculum development 11 3 0 reconcilation discrepanci -14 -3 0”