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Causes: Education
Mission: Spread mindfulness and meditation worldwide. Offers programs for stress reduction in schools, nonprofits, health care, veterans and businesses.
Programs: 2017 was global investment foundation for tomorrow's (gift) first program operation year. By year end 2017, gift had ten dynamic, part-time professionals on small service contracts. Five leading initiatives were launched, and gift emerged as a nonprofit with big ideas and important traction and results. Our first delaware meeting was june 2016. Gift's goal was to get 6 to 10 mainstream delawareans to support a statewide mindfulness initiative. Test the waters and learn as we go. Today gift has more than 325 mainstream delaware opinion makers supporting mindfulness. In 2017, gift's regional director and gift trained more than 500 delawareans in a variety of mindfulness programs including half day, full day, four week, and eight week training sessions. In 2018-2019, gift will train 5,000 delawareans and impact the lives of 100,000 delawareans. Gift is bringing mindfulness into delaware's nonprofits -led by the boys and girls clubs and dana (the delaware alliance for nonprofit advancement); into health care and mental health - led by dsamh (the delaware division of substance and mental health); and into delaware's schools - led by the compassionate schools initiative and dsea (the delaware state education association. ) in 2017 del tech hosted delaware's first mindfulness summit with 108 opinion makers attending. Gift training reaches educators, helping professionals, business leaders and government.