Grant Offerings for NKH Graduates
Since 2019, The Max Kagan Family Foundation has partnered with The Foundation for Nonduality to support the development and implementation of community member-led projects that further the mission of the Foundation for Nonduality.
Dear NKH graduates:
The Foundation for Nonduality (FND) is pleased to announce 2023 grant
opportunities for NKH graduates funded by the Max Kagan Family Foundation.
The Max Kagan Family Foundation, through two of our graduates, is partnering
with the FND to support projects that will bring the principles and practices of our
work to the public.
These grants will range from $500 to $5,000, depending on need, audience,
impact and other criteria. $5,000 is the maximum available for an individual grant
annually. Proposals will be reviewed and selected by a committee designated by
the Foundation Board.
The first important note is that the grants are for supporting educational
projects which use Jason’s nondual work to encourage others to be “a healing
presence in the world” or to “help the world not destroy itself” further subject
to the criteria listed below.
Criteria for Proposals:
1. The project must be in alignment with the mission statement of the
Foundation for Nonduality. (Please see the mission statement at the
bottom of this letter.)
2. The project must have a nondual focus and be clearly and reliably rooted in
the principles of the nondual work as developed by Jason Shulman. Use of
any of Jason’s meditations or practices will need to be pre-approved by
Jason and the Foundation for Nonduality.
3. The proposals need to be creative and original. The applicants have taken
the nondual work and concepts and worked them/developed a project in
new and innovative ways or combined them with other systems of
understanding in such a way as to bring healing to the suffering world
through specific targeted programs and audiences.
4. These could include but are not limited to addressing suffering in the world
working with nondual concepts in education, arts, social welfare, conflict
resolution, community development, addiction, ecology, race, gender,
poverty, equality, and so on.
5. The submission must be an educational outreach program for the public
and must expand the work into a new and/or broader specifically targeted
audience(s).
6. Only graduates of Nondual Kabbalistic Healing™ are eligible to apply for a
grant.
7. The project must not solely be an idea. There must be a developed plan for
the project and some level of contact/outreach already made with the
intended targeted audience(s). The plan should be outlined in the
application, noting some of the nondual concepts to be included in the
project.
8. The grants are not designed as seed money for a new business idea for the
NKH practitioner.
9. The grants are designed to support specific outreach projects for
populations that might not seek out this work, either because they do not
know that this work exists or because they cannot afford it.
10. We will evaluate the impact of this project on its effect upon suffering in
the world.
11. No grants will be awarded to subsidize individual NKH healings or the
standard six week Instruction Manual for Receiving God or Kabbalistic
Healing study guides of ASOS being taught to general audiences.
12. Projects using the six week Instruction Manual for Receiving God which are
targeted specifically as an outreach program to an under-served, under-
privileged or low-income populations will be considered for a grant.
13. If the project involves more than one graduate, all of the graduates should
create and submit the application under one application.
14. Successful candidates will be expected to submit progress reports to both
the FND and the Max Kagan Family Foundation at appropriate intervals, to
be determined when the grant is awarded. Both Foundations may use the
contents of these reports for marketing and communication purposes.
15. In addition, successful candidates will be expected to inform the
participants in their project about the FND as the source of the nondual
work. This will include having information about the FND, including a link to
the FND website on all written materials, social media and websites.
Successful candidates will also be asked to verbally encourage attendees to
go to the Foundation for Nonduality website to learn more about the
nondual work. The FND will provide the necessary language.
16. Grant proposals must be submitted no later than October 5, 2023.
Proposals received after that date will not be considered this year.
17. Grant proposals must fully answer all of the questions below. Incomplete
proposals will not be considered for this year.
Written Proposals: On a sheet(s) of paper, please answer these questions one
by one, in the order they are noted below.
1. Name(s), phone number, email, year graduated from NKH.
2. Describe your educational project using a few paragraphs or a page or two.
3. What are the issues/challenges/suffering in the world you will be
addressing in your project?
4. How will your project use the work of nonduality and nondual concepts to
support healing in the world and engage with suffering?
5. What are some of the nondual concepts you will be working with in your
project? What other fields of studies will you be including, if any?
6. What is the impact you envision having with your intended audience? What
will they complete the training with, i.e., in terms of support, knowledge,
skills or increased capacity for healing, change and transformation?
7. Where will your project be located, i.e., city, state, country, and/or online?
8. Who is your target/core audience(s)? Be specific. This could include race,
gender, lower income or targeted groups such as religious groups, social
groups, school groups, addiction recovery groups and so on.
9. Why have you chosen them?
10. How many people do you plan to reach in 2024 with these grant monies?
11. What is your plan for reaching your audience?
12. What contact/outreach and/or activities have you already done with the
intended audience?
13. What is your targeted start date and end date(s) in 2024?
14. Give us an estimate of how much financial support you need to support you
in your outreach and/or teaching the intended audience.
15. How will this financial support make a significant difference in your ability
to bring this project to the intended audience, i.e., development,
marketing, teaching, event facilities, online work, tuition for low-income or
under-privileged?
16. Knowing that you may receive less than the largest amount available this
year of $5,000, tell us what is most important/will have the greatest impact
on your ability to make this project happen/meeting your goals with the
audience in 2024.
17. Do you plan on charging tuition for this program? If not, why? Is this an
under-privileged or low-income audience?
18. Do you envision doing follow-up work with this audience beyond the initial
offering? If so, what? Do you envision this project continuing beyond 2023?
If so, how do you see this project being funded going ahead?
Submitting Your Proposal
Please submit your proposals via email to: foundation@nonduality.us.com
Put Grant Application in the subject line of your email.
If you have questions prior to submitting your application, please send them to us
at foundation@nonduality.us.com no later than September 20, 2023.
The deadline for submission is: October 5, 2023
Recipients will be notified no later than December 15, 2023
The Foundation for Nonduality is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, or scientific purpose, whereby it will make the principles of nondual thinking and practice, as developed by the work of Jason Shulman, available to a greater public for the purpose of transforming the individual in order to help alleviate suffering in the world.
Grants are awarded based on the fulfillment of the mission of the Foundation for Nonduality and these criteria:
The proposals are deeply and reliably rooted in the nondual work as developed by Jason Shulman.
The proposals are creative and original. The applicants have taken the nondual work and concepts and worked them in new and innovative ways or combined them with other systems of understanding in such a way as to bring them into a broader conversation in the world.
The proposals expand the work into a new and/or broader targeted audience.
2022 awards
Eloiza Jorge, Graduate, Class of 2012
Main intent of project: Working with the nondual principles/wisdom to help heal racial discord, using a variety of instructional methods including somatic exercises, guided visualizations, meditations, role play scenarios and creative expression. The curriculum will go beyond covering basic definitions of historical or current events, but will invite in new nondual ways of perceiving, contemplating and engaging with some of the most challenging aspects of reality, including the black/white dichotomy which has played out through history. The aim of the program is to help the attendees engage/meet any shame, guilt, rage or hopelessness that arises with open-heartedness and compassion. The nondual perspective simultaneously acknowledges individual suffering while honoring the truth of oneness and our interconnectedness. The hope is to work with opposites in a way that fosters awakening to what is. To grapple with the limitations of our current perceptions of reality while desiring and having the courage to envision a more healed and inclusive world. Along with many others, some of the opposites that will appear in this course are: individual identity/collective identity; belonging/exclusion; exile/intimacy; inside experience/outside projection; conflict/peace and so forth.
Tim Rothschild, Graduate, Class of 2016
Main intent of project: This project will offer podcasts, videos, radio shows, other online events, music and workshops that feature the work of nonduality. This includes a series answering such questions as, “What is nonduality?” “How can nonduality help me suffer less?” “Why nonduality?” “What is healing and awakening?” The project will also address exploring the differences between nonduality and dualistic thinking, such as learning to include versus exclude; the preciousness of life, including our challenges, inviting everything in, giving everything a place, the nondual process for conflict resolution and so forth. The main goal is to reach primarily younger people 18-40 who haven’t heard about the work of nonduality, to inspire them to explore and discover more. The main audience are comedic, musical and spiritual communities.
2020 Awards
The Center for Illumination
submitted by Rita Yevzelman
This grant will support development and outreach to make more people aware of the MAGI Process and to make it more accessible to those who may not seek out alternative ways of working with their suffering.
As we all know, conflict has reached an all new level in the U.S. and in other countries. A key goal is to make more people aware of the MAGI Process, created by Jason Shulman, and to make it easy for them to engage with it. The work of The Center for Illumination is to make the MAGI Process more accessible and to expose people to the process who may not otherwise seek out alternative ways of viewing the world and healing work. In our simple and graspable classes, The Center has been teaching in person and via Zoom. Through these classes, people learn and experience how powerful the MAGI Process is. They see how they can easily incorporate it into their lives, changing their relationship to conflict or other aspects of their lives they find challenging.
In 2021, with the support of the grant from The Foundation for Nonduality, the Center for illumination envisions reaching over 200 people via zoom and in person when this is allowed again with Covid-19.
People tend to handle conflicts in one of five ways: avoiding, aggression against others, compromising, accommodating, or collaborating. As the Magi Process states, “Every person who deals with conflict is dealing with two worlds at once: the outer world which seems to be beyond our control, and the inner world ─ which also seems to be beyond our control. So, change, whether inner or outer, can feel like holding back the tide on one hand or trying to pull the mountains toward the sea on the other. The Magi Process supports and illuminates the parallel process of clarifying where the individual is here and now along with the individual’s desire for change or relationship. In so doing the process opens them up to new possibilities and ways of relating, allowing both their ideas and sense of what is and isn’t possible to shift and change”.
Core Audiences: High school teenagers, people in high conflict situations, clergy.
2019 Awards
The Foundation for Nonduality and the Max Kagan Family Foundation has partnered to award THE FIRST GRANTS to support two projects that bring the principles and practices of the nondual work to the public:
Radical Inclusion with a Life of Practice© (RI)
submitted by Sara Eisenberg and Eloiza Jorge
This project is aimed at social workers, psychotherapists, and other helping professionals.
Participants will be introduced to the context and concepts of nonduality which are based on the fundamental truth that Reality is One thing which includes multiplicities—countless pairs of opposites and countless distinct and individual beings continually in relationship with each other.
The RI project is based on working with nondual concepts and ideas to bring into awareness and unified relationship the semi-visible and entirely invisible constructs of identity based on race, gender, and culture, many of which can divide us both from ourselves and one another.
RI offers the healing and awakening balm of the nondual practices, including an increasing ability to include everything with compassion and kindness and wholeness. The class series will take students through the work of inviting everything in; the awakening ego in increasing relationship noticing and bringing into awareness what is often taken for granted or is semi-invisible, including who we believe ourselves to be as a person (race, gender and culture), how this affects our perceptions of the world—from the view of the physical only, to the stories we tell ourselves based on who we believe ourselves to be, and who we automatically make friends and enemies with; and finally, bringing the awakening ego into a more open, spacious and healing relationship with all of who we are, as personal and impersonal beings.
This will also include noticing and working with opposites such as emptiness and fullness, the known and the unknown, sound and silence, spaciousness and holding, as well as working with our biases and intelligence, and the wisdom and preciousness of life as it is, embracing more of what it means to be fully human in relationship with all.
The Work of Nonduality & the 12-step Recovery Program
submitted by Leah Block
This project is aimed at sponsors who are already sponsoring others in the 12-step recovery work. Each sponsor sponsors many others. As noted by Leah, sponsors guide someone through the 12 steps and help them to actively integrate the steps and the process into their lives and then the sponsee in turn works with others in this same way.
This project focuses on the nature of the healing relationship between sponsor and sponsee.
The intention of this series is to deepen and broaden the sponsor’s understanding of the nature of this healing relationship through the lens of nonduality and specifically how it can become such a deep healing vehicle for themselves and others.
This series makes this explicit and transmits our nondual work through discussion and approved non-dual meditations and non-dual writings/teachings on the integration of 12 step recovery process.
This project will explore how to be seated in and to see and listen in this way. The project will include: working to see and be with reality as it is, working to identify ways of being lost in the trance of history, engaging in repair work, building the muscles of compassion for self and others, becoming more transparent and making room for our humanity.
The project will also include working with how we can’t separate what ails us from what heals us, learning new ways to be in relationship, practices to connect with the universal and learning to trust the unfolding nature of our own being and lives. The nondual topics of discovery, including lecture and practices or meditations are: wholeness includes brokenness; addiction as an attempt to heal; a place for resistance; the healing relationship; the embodiment of wholeness; coming out of memory/healing our histories; and a return to intimacy and wholeness.