Year end appeals in Shambhala
A key aspect of the Dana Group's mission statement is promoting coordinated fund-raising throughout Shambhala. In that vein we have compiled all year end appeals for 2009 below. Please consider this a year end "one stop giving" location. Here you can peruse the various letters and sites, and link directly to the Shambhala entities with whom you feel a personal connection.
International Shambhala Entities
Shambhala Mandala Services
The Mandala Services are the central services that sustain the whole of the mandala. These include the support we provide to the Sakyong and Sakyong Wangmo and for Practice and Education throughout the mandala.
Since there are a large number of appeals taking place throughout the mandala during this year-end period, Shambhala is not going to launch its traditional year-end appeal throughout the mandala. We have taken this decision to offer more space to everyone else. However, if you are someone who normally makes a year-end offering we will be contacting you individually in the next few weeks and providing an opportunity for you to give now. We will be inviting everyone in our community to make an offering to support our central Mandala Services on Shambhala Day 2010.
Shambhala Europe
Click here to view the recent letter that went out from Shambhala Europe's central office
Chögyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Click here for information detailing the work of the Chögyam Trungpa Legacy Project
Konchok Foundation
Click here to view progress at Surmang and a request for support
Nalanda Translation Committee
Click here to view the Translation Committee's newsletter and appeal
Shambhala Archives
Click here for the Archives' letter and a list of recent activities
Shambhala Practice Centres
Dorje Denma Ling
Click here to view letters sent to Warrior Assembly, Rigden Abhisheka, and Scorpion Seal Assembly participants
Gampo Abbey
Click here to view Gampo Abbey's current fund-raising needs
Karmê Chöling
Click here to view a letter from Director Jane Arthur and a doha by Jane and Acharyas John Rockwell and Suzann Duquette. Click here to view Karmê Chöling's updates on major projects, finances, and staff
Shambhala Mountain Center
Click here to view a letter from President Reoch about Shambhala Mountain
Local Shambhala Centres
Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center
Click here to hear about how things are going on Spruce St
Chicago Shambhala Meditation Center
Click here to view Chicago's letter on their Lion's Leap campaign
Halifax Shambhala Meditation Centre
Click here to view Halifax's letter on their current financial situation
New York Shambhala Meditation Center
Click here to view New York's year end letter
West Coast Dzong
Click here to read about the newest Dzong in our mandala in San Francisco and here to give to this project
The Sakyong Foundation, the community foundation of Shambhala, has a Donor Advised Fund program that can simplify your giving. For more information click here.
We can afford to open ourselves and join the rest of the world with a sense of tremendous generosity, tremendous goodness, and tremendous richness. The more we give, the more we gain - although what we gain should not particularly be our reason for giving. Rather, the more we give, the more we are inspired to give constantly. And the gaining process happens naturally, automatically. -Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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