Learning for Living Institute

“Board reviews and approves form 990”

“AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC”

“Fiscal year may, 2019 to may, 2020 saw substantial growth for the learning for living institute: five new employees and independent contractors were added to the team to cover positions in the curriculum development, methods, outreach, and operations departments. A recent university of colorado college graduate was brought on board to carry out in-depth interviews with college undergraduates to explore their wants and needs for our new program, -create the life you love". This interview, given to 30 university of colorado students, explored where they were in the process of planning their life after college and what experiences or training they had initiated to carry out these plans. Our purpose for these interviews is to gain a clearer understanding of what students want and need to prepare for their life after college and how we can meet these wants and needs as fully as possible within our new and developing program, -create the life you love". We choose this program topic in response to college student's increased levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and other mental health issues due among other things to the covid pandemic. Another new, but experienced employee began researching and collecting material for this newest program, -create the life you love-; and a temporary independent contractor gave us invaluable input for several key emotional skills needed to carry out this life-long project: managing your fear, maintaining persistence, remaining positive, etc., and gave us ways to improve these skills. The nationally-respected expert we have worked with since 2010, continued to add improvements to all of our curriculum. We initiated our outreach program with another new staff member who researched 50 or more major national surveys and studies to report on college administrator's and student's lifestyle and academic measurements and other factual data. The purpose of her 62-page report was to understand as fully as possible the circumstances, needs, and goals of the people and the organizations we are here to serve (our audience). We strengthened our operations department which includes financial, legal, human resources, it, data storage or information systems, administration, and care of our learning for living offices (all of which are essential to the running of learning for living) with the hiring of two new staff members. And we hired a new deputy director to manage these different, interrelated and expanding parts of our non-profit organization. This last addition helped ease the job of the executive director, increase our efficiency and empower us to better fulfil the mission and vision of the learning for living institute. Our vision to create and promote a vision of education that offers young people the tools they need to live happy, successful lives, and empowers human beings to live sustainably, ethically and kindly on this earth for many generations to come.”

“Supplies 7,128 1,782 0 cleaning services 5,479 1,370 0 curriculum development 3,874 969 0 utilities 2,950 738 0 governance 3,055 113 0 methods consultant 2,933 0 0 telephone & communication 1,573 393 0 staffing appreciation 1,446 371 0 membership dues 1,405 351 0 repairs and maintenance 1,312 249 0 human resources 1,092 273 0 trash services 884 221 0 meeting/workshop expense 512 128 0 book and publications 255 64 0 bank charges 155 40 0 research 146 37 0 annual certification 120 30 0 miscellaneous 93 57 0 methods manual 101 25 0 outside services 52 13 0 reimbursed expenses 49 12 0 printing 49 7 0 parking 40 2 0 methods 25 6 0 bank credit card charges 21 5 0 total 34,749 7,256 0”