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Kripalu Donor Newsletter SPRING 2019 Inside: Gratitude Report 2018 “Kripalu’s such a gift. I want to give back.”

Plus: Your generosity lights new paths.

Looking Back, Looking Ahead

2018 Financial Snapshot These summaries are drawn from internal accounting. Kripalu’s audited financial statements will be available after October 15, 2019.

UNAUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 5% RETAIL SHOP COST OF SALES 6% GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

1% FUNDRAISING

7% PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES 81% PROGRAM SERVICES

Our families, communities, and nation need more calm, compassion, and connection to the things in life that truly matter. Thanks to your generosity, Kripalu was able to give these gifts in 2018.

Last year, your donations helped • P rovide $250,000 in scholarships to diverse and financially stressed people • L aunch a new Kripalu School focused on the healing power of nature •G ive free RISE training to 655 teachers, police officers, and nurses serving the public good.

FY2018 USE OF FUNDS Program services Promotional expenses General administration Retail shop cost of sales Fundraising

$27,062,919 $2,297,447 $2,142,119 $1,743,875 $224,253

Total

$33,470,613

With your help, Kripalu will sustain and accelerate this progress in 2019.

The year to come will also see us tackling ambitious and long-overdue upgrades to the campus. The most important work at Kripalu takes place in your mind, body, and spirit, but this is best supported in space that is less congested, more comfortable, and more conducive to the quietude of reflection and retreat.

Kripalu is humbled and grateful to be part of your vision for a more caring and compassionate world. Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you on your next visit!

With gratitude,

Barbara Vacarr, CEO

4% DONATIONS 7% HEALING ARTS

1% FUNDRAISING

9% RETAIL SALES 78% RETREATS, EDUCATION, ETC.

FY2018 SOURCES OF FUNDS

Retreats, education, etc. $26,754,491 Retail sales $3,124,336 Healing Arts $2,528,967 Donations $1,483,238 Other $362,437 Total

$34,253,469

Coming Together at Kripalu There’s so much fear around cross-cultural integration. But when it happens, we love it. How much are we missing out on by not knowing each other in an intimate way? By intimate, I mean eating together, praying together, dancing, laughing, and crying together. Kripalu can grow these paths to intimacy and understanding.”

That quote comes from Maya Breuer, president of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance and Kripalu Trustee Emeritus, who chatted with us after wrapping up one of her twice-annual Yoga Retreat for Women of Color programs at Kripalu. Donations to Kripalu’s Scholarship Fund allowed 25 women to attend who would have been unable otherwise.

Thanks to all of you who help grow these channels of communication.

YOUR GIFTS AT WORK...

Erin, at left, with Daneen in Kripalu's demonstration kitchen

An unexpected journey in the Kripalu School of Ayurveda.

A Path to Freedom Daneen had been in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction for more than three years when she enrolled in the Kripalu School of Ayurveda ... an idea that suddenly didn’t seem so great once she was on campus.

“I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’” Daneen recalls. “I was surrounded by all these yogis—and I don’t even like yoga. I felt like a black sheep.”

Erin Casperson, the school’s Dean, reassured her: “Find your own path.”

Daneen took the advice. But she couldn’t have done it without your help.

Your gifts to Kripalu’s Scholarship Fund made it possible for Daneen to earn her Ayurvedic Health Counselor certification. She graduated in June 2018, and started a business called The Loving Ladle, making organic soups, kombucha, ghee, and elixirs. She offers Ayurvedic health consultations, dietary counseling, meal prep, and personal shopping for her clients, many of whom are in recovery.

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“I was trapped,” Daneen says. “I have freedom now. Freedom in myself.

I can breathe now. It gives my clients hope to see the change in my life.”

She adds, “Kripalu was such a gift. I want to give back.”

There are many ways to give back. Helping people like Daneen is one.

She thanks you, and so do we.