2021 Year in Review
The Boundless Love Project Mission
At the Boundless Love Project, we take action to create a global Beloved Community where all life thrives. We dream of a world where all people have food, shelter, health-care, loving and supportive communities, stable and peaceful environments, clean air, clean water, a healthy climate, and meaningful work that benefits all life while harming none.
We dream of a human society that lives in harmony with our elder siblings the animal nations. We honor, value, and respect them, appreciate all they have to teach us about living sustainably and peacefully, and provide them the habitat and space to live lives appropriate to their needs without causing them harm or violence--as individuals or species.
We dream of a diversity of human cultures and societies that all value, appreciate, respect and honor the dignity of all people, cultures, beings, and all life forms.
With this global vision, we act locally to create models of Beloved Community here at home. To do this, we focus on three areas of activities:
• Awakening: We provide mindfulness trainings and resources to help people use loving intentions, mindfulness, and inquiry to integrate their trauma, transcend unskillful conditioning, and generate insights that liberate themselves from mental and emotional suffering. As a result, they shed fear, anger, and overwhelm, and enjoy a life filled with more love, peace, compassion, courage, and joy.
• Teaching Principled Nonviolence: We provide trainings and resources in the strategy and use of principled nonviolence to help activists, reformers, and healers of all kinds be more loving, compassionate, and skillful. As a result, their advocacy work becomes more effective, sustainable, and healing for their communities and themselves.
• Working for Social Justice and Providing Joyful Service: To end structural and institutional violence, we ally with movements and campaigns nonviolently working to end violence, injustice, and oppression while creating Beloved Community. We also volunteer our time to joyfully serve those in need.
We do our best to integrate all three aspects of mindfulness, principled nonviolence, and social justice into all of the activities we do.
DEEP GRATITUDE TO YOU
Thank you supporting the Boundless Love Project. As a small, volunteer-led, nonprofit with BIG DREAMS, we appreciate your mindfulness practice, your goodwill, your prayers, your financial support, your participation, your volunteering, and your compassionate actions that help us create a global Beloved Community where all life thrives. Thank you!
Income and Expense Report
INCOME
Donations: $3,607.25
Other Revenue: $200.50
Total income: $3,807.75
EXPENSE
Programs: $1,224.01 (94%)
Administrative: $73.15 (6%)
Fundraising: $0.0 (0%)
Total Expenses: $1,297.16 (100%)
NET BALANCE
Total Income: $3,607.25
Total Expense: $1,297.16
Net Gain: $2,510.59
CASH FLOW STATEMENT
Funds at Beginning of Year: $3,244.86
Net Gain: $2,510.59
Funds at End of Year: $5,755.45
ASSETS AND LIABILITIES STATEMENT
Cash Assets: $5,755.45
Other Assets: $0
Liabilities: $1,380.00
Net Worth: $4,375.45
FINANCIAL NOTES
The Boundless Love Project’s preferred method of operation is via a gift economy: We offer our services for free and those who appreciate our work may support us financially, volunteer, or pay the generosity forward by showing generosity towards other life forms in need in our global community.
All board members and officers, who handled the day-to-day administrative work, served as volunteers. Thank you to Colleen Wicklund (Board Member), Richard Wicklund (Board Member), Christy Schick (Board Member and Vice President), and Freeman (President, Treasurer, and Secretary) for your service throughout all of 2020.
Our Mindfulness Teacher Freeman freely offers his teachings and trainings as a gift. When donations come in ear-marked for Freeman, they are split 50% to him and 50% to Boundless Love Project. Using this system, the stipend owed to Freeman for 2021 is $1,380.00, which has yet to be paid to him, therefore it is reflected above in the accounts payable column. During 2021, he was paid his stipend for 2020 which was $722.50. Because donations earmarked for Freeman thank him for his teachings, which are a program, 100% of his stipend is categorized in the programs column.
Operating a successful organization requires administration and fundraising expenses which, when needed, are equally important as our programmatic spending. This year 6% of our expenses went towards administration fees so we could have a dedicated phone line, and 0.0% of our expenses went to fundraising costs.
Thanks again for all of your support. Always remember that: