The collaboration would expand opportunities for Kalamazoo area residents to engage in transformative spiritual experiences such as retreats, workshops, and guest speakers—many from outside the region.

Over ten years, the funds will be used to launch and sustain the Arthur Zajonc Lecture on Contemplative Education, an annual lecture on contemplative pedagogy and/or epistemology and/or learning to honor Zajonc’s pioneering work as a distinguished thought leader and committed teacher, by supporting eminent scholars and educators in sharing their insights and experience in integrating contemplative practices and perspectives into higher education.

Support for StoryCorps' 2017 Detroit MobileBooth tour.

For a series of gatherings designed to smooth relations and increase understanding between the Native American and white communities in a large reservation near Hackensack, MN

Support for work in ending excessive punishment of children in the criminal justice system or to defending prisoners unjustly sentenced to death.

A collaboration with Nexus to foster transpartisan work to help educate and engage a new generation of philanthropists to the role and importance of working from a heart space to bridge divides and support the common good, with a particular focus on transpartisanship; increase democracy funding overall; and encourage funding streams to prioritize political bridge building.

Support for refugees from South Sudan currently in Uganda

A collaboration between the Fetzer Institute, GNSAH, and the World Health Organization (WHO) to integrate spirituality into a global curriculum that will be advanced by the WHO.

A project to engage Independent Sector, along with the Council of Michigan Foundations and Michigan-based community foundations, to create a series of community-based dialogue dinners as a prelude to the Fall 2017 conference.

The overall objective of this collaboration is to support individuals and communities in Central Virginia to catalyze a transformation towards wholeness and love by organizing racial-healing and relationship-building groups in five Richmond-area faith communities to connect with and support local leaders in launching community-level healing democracy initiatives.