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Baba's Feed Project was founded in May 2020 after a trip to India, cut short by COVID-19. We began the project in response to the urgent need to serve the poorest of the poor who were faced with the economic shutdown and the inability to work and provide for their families. With Pintu on the ground and us in New Zealand and the US, ready to help, we found ourselves to be in a perfect position, with the perfect team, to really make a difference. And we did so in the name of Neem Karoli Baba Maharaj-ji, and by his grace. 700,000 meals later (along with shelter, water, blankets and more) we are ready to go phase 2 and increase distribution and create employment with that module. We dream to then create sustainable employment for women and widows, as well as an education program for all children who do not have access and are destined for a life of hard labor.

BrainFutures accelerates adoption of effective applications of neuroscientific advances. We provide rigorous analysis of these interventions, write translational issue briefs that fill knowledge gaps, and build coalitions of influencers to advocate for equitable and responsible access to the best brain-based innovations science has to offer.

BrainMind is a platform and community catalyzing innovations in neuroscience that further human potential. With new philanthropic and investing approaches, BrainMind cultivates ideas that can be translated from labs into interventions that will benefit mankind. BrainMind Ecosystem members include top brain scientists, entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and policymakers.

The Center of Consciousness Medicine has pioneered an approach to working with psychedelics that blends indigenous wisdom with modern psychotherapeutic knowledge in order to address suffering and restore balance within the individual and globally. We train guides to use this approach in safe, effective, and ethical ways.

The Center for Humane Technology tackles the problem of how technology externalizes a cascade of harms to individuals and to our society, including addiction, manipulation, propaganda and undermining social relationships.

The Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at UC Santa Barbara combines science, technology and education to create optimally effective mindfulness training that gives students greater influence over their thoughts and emotions.

Through an annual conference, an entrepreneurial academy, and local chapters around the world, the Center for Transformative Technology aims to serve as the nexus point for technologies that will radically enhance mental health, wellbeing and human flourishing.

California Institute of Integral Studies created the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research (CPTR) in 2015. CPTR conducts the Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research to train licensed psychotherapists and medical professionals to become psychedelic researchers and practitioners in legal clinical studies. Information about CPTR is available at www.ciis.edu/psychedeliccenter.

The Dzokchen Project explores innovative ways to contribute to the preservation, development, and support of the living transmission of the Great Perfection traditions in the present and future, both in their traditional forms in the past and in new creative extensions, for the benefit of all.

Brown’s Contemplative Studies Initiative is the pioneering program in the US devoted to the balancing of humanistic, artistic and scientific knowledge of mindfulness, meditation, flow and vital energy cultivation with the acquisition of techniques needed to utilize this knowledge. We confer not only a knowledge base but also theskills that truly define “contemplative intelligence.”

Fireside Project is a non-profit that operates the Psychedelic Peer Support Line. They provide free, confidential emotional support by phone and text message to people during and after their psychedelic experiences. Fireside Project’s mission is to help people minimize the risks and fulfill the potential of their psychedelic experiences. If you are looking for free, confidential peer support during or after a psychedelic experience, please contact Fireside Project by calling or texting 6-2FIRESIDE (623-473-7433).

The Foundation for Self Leadership is driven by a vision of a world in which all individuals, regardless of background or fortune in life, can harness their innate wisdom to achieve and sustain emotional healing and well-being. Inspired by the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, we promote the paradigm and practice of Self-discovery and development through scientific research, public advocacy, and responsive services to communities in need.

The Friendship Bench provides sustainable community based psychological interventions that are evidence based, accessible and scalable. We’re on a mission to get people out of depression by creating safe spaces and a sense of belonging in communities to enhance mental well being and improve quality of life.

With GRIP, students engage in an in-depth, yearlong journey, rooted in restorative justice principles, to comprehend the origins of their violence and develop skills to track and manage strong impulses. They transform destructive beliefs and behaviors into an attitude of emotional intelligence that prevents re-victimization.

The Healing Advocacy Fund is the nonprofit organization supporting the implementation of Oregon’s voter-created psilocybin therapy program through education and advocacy.

Based in Los Angeles, iACT is a groundbreaking international action organization with a vision of a world where the dignity, humanity, and agency of conflict-affected people are recognized, affirmed, and supported. To achieve this, iACT invests in individual and community growth and wellbeing; utilizes education, sports, and human rights program frameworks to create opportunities and spaces for refugees to lead; and, provides training and technical advisement to humanitarians, NGOs, and philanthropists to steward systems-level change. Our team of influential and experienced changemakers—refugee and non-refugee alike—work with agility and creativity to shift power to communities and create long-term individual and community transformation. We are accountable and responsible to the communities we work alongside.

InsightLA provides mindfulness training to our ever expanding community including those working on the front lines of suffering, supporting them to persevere in both personal and collective transformation. With your help, InsightLA will continue to support human flourishing and be a source of comfort and learning for all.

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education builds and conducts in-depth mindfulness programming for youth, parents, and professionals who support them.

Kedumah (Hebrew for “primordial”) is a universal mystical school that teaches a step-by-step approach to spiritual awakening, personal development, and inner freedom.

Founded in 1986, MAPS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that develops medical, legal, and cultural contexts for people to benefit from the careful uses of psychedelics and marijuana. MAPS is sponsoring the most advanced psychedelic therapy research in the world: Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. Since its founding, MAPS has raised more than $117 million for psychedelic and marijuana research and education and has earned both the Guidestar Platinum Seal of Transparency and a 4-Star Rating from Charity Navigator.

Millennium is building a national network of educators, organized peer-to-peer coaching circles, to support each other and develop skills critical to cultivating conscious well-being in the classroom.

Mindfulness Director Initiative (MDI) works to make the transformative power of mindfulness a reality for school communities by facilitating the comprehensive and nuanced integration of mindfulness into schools through the Mindfulness Director Model—thereby enhancing the well-being of students and strengthening our society.

For 20 years, North Country Mission of Hope has educated children, fed starving families, brought hope to orphans, provided clean water to barrios and empowered the people of Nicaragua.

The Ridhwan Foundation supports and preserves the integrity of the Diamond Approach teaching, a path to attain spiritual maturity and completeness, as well as open-ended and on-going unfoldment. The teaching combines time-honored spiritual practices with modern psychological understanding.

Sage Institute creates safe, affordable access to psychedelic therapy that dramatically expands representation in this promising field. Our clinic offers low-fee sliding scale services, including psychedelic therapy and psychotherapy. We are also training the next generation of diverse psychedelic therapists.

Science and Nonduality (SAND) is a community inspired by timeless wisdom, informed by cutting-edge science, and grounded in direct experience. We come together in an open-hearted exploration while celebrating our humanity.

The Sonication Enhanced Mindful Awareness (SEMA) lab investigates technological aids for mindfulness training, like ultrasonic brain stimulation, to help more people experience the deep and broad benefits of mindfulness in their everyday lives.

Sewa International’s mission is to serve humanity in distress, aid local communities, and run developmental projects for the underserved by mobilizing partners, donors, and volunteers. We focus our efforts on disaster recovery, family and child welfare, and promoting volunteerism.

StrongMinds treats depression in women in Africa, so that they may lead healthy, productive and satisfying lives. Our innovative approach adapts Group Interpersonal Therapy, a rigorously- tested therapeutic model that can be delivered by trained community members. StrongMinds is the only organization scaling a proven, cost-effective solution to the depression epidemic in Africa.

Synergos is a global organization that helps solve complex issues around the world by advancing bridging leadership, which builds trust and collective action. Using inner work, systems thinking and other tools, we support philanthropic partners, civil society leaders, and others to build collaboration for a more just, equitable, peaceful, and regenerative world.

Originally incubated within the Rockefeller Foundation 25 years ago and replicated by the Hewlett Foundation, TPW is now the largest network of its kind. TPW's global community of 450+ social investors and philanthropists are united by their shared commitment to unlock resources, lifelong learning, collaboration, and entrepreneurial approaches to tackle the world’s most challenging problems, leading with curiosity, humility, and transparency.

TheraPsil is a non-profit advocacy organization that believes all Canadians in medical need deserve safe, legal, compassionate, & equal access to medical psilocybin /psilocybin therapy. They have successfully supported patients with various conditions in applying for personal use exemptions, and are actively advocating for regulatory change.

UnCommon Law champions the radical notion that people serving life sentences in prison for serious or violent crimes have the capacity for transformation and deserve access to pathways home. UnCommon Law is reimagining life sentencing and parole through legal services, in-prison programming, strategic litigation, and policy advocacy.

The most comprehensive K-5 curriculum study of its kind has become a model for holistically addressing children’s cognitive, emotional, and physical needs—helping to ensure their long-term well-being and build a healthier society. Developed at UVA, the CSP curriculum combines mindfulness, social and emotional learning, movement, and healthy eating.