We Need
Your Help!
ACI'S 2024 FUNDRAISER
Asian Classics Institute is committed to keep timeless wisdom teachings—and access to them—free of charge. But we are in need of a lifeline to keep going. Our budget for this year exceeds $450,000, and where we normally have over six months of reserved funding, we are nearly in a month-to-month situation right now.
We need
1000 Committed donors
at $30/month
Why
30/30/30?
We need a thousand $30/month donors
Asian Classics Institute is now 30 years old
Geshe Michael has an exciting new plan to take us to the year 2030
Geshe Michael's 2030 Promise
Geshe Michael and ACI are making a promise to complete two major teachings by '30: The Gift of Liberation Thrust into the Palm of your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche and the emptiness chapter of Je Tsongkapa's great masterpiece, Lam Rim Chen Mo --in Tibetan, ལམ་རིམ་ཆེན་མོ།.
We will be creating a keepsake teaching for generations to come: 100 video meditations to move through all the steps of the path and an accompanying meditation book, complete with 100 images and commentary to the meditations so you can go deeper into each step and make them real and applicable in your life.
Can you help?
Sign up now to become a
$30/month donor
If you would like wire instructions, please email info@asianclassicsinstitute.org
Introducing the 30/30/30 Ambassador Program
We're looking for special people who can reach out to their friends and bring more donors to ACI. Can you encourage three people to give ACI a dollar a day? Ten people? A hundred? Become an ambassador! If you want to help the dharma in this way, sign up here.
THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR DONORS
HELPS MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
We are very grateful for everything — and anything — you do to support our work and keep our programs running.
There are many ways you can donate — your money, your time, and a bequest in your will.
SUPPORT OUR TEACHINGS
NOW AND FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
HELP US REACH MORE PEOPLE.
YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT HELPS MAKE OUR pROGRAMS POSSIBLE.
THANK YOU!
HELP THE
ASIAN CLASSICS INSTITUTE
ACI does many projects and much work throughout every year, ranging from broadcasting teachings around the world to translating ACI courses to training the next generation of teachers to using cutting-edge technology that facilitates ACI students' access to material.
Our executive director always has a finger on the pulse of what is needed at any given time, at any point around the world.
Your generous contribution to The Asian Classics Institute Fund empowers us to use your donation where it is most needed. It is the most appreciated of all donations, and generally allows us to help the greatest number of people.
Thank you for considering a gift to The Asian Classics Institute Fund!
Casa Jardin Fund
This fund enables ACI Mexico staff and students to serve migrants and indigenous people, often homeless and in need, in the Mexican neighborhood of Guadalajara.
ACI Prisoner Correspondence Course Fund
Help people in prison find and study teachings that can help them improve their lives.
This program is our longest running fund that has the following offerings:
FM4
ACI staff works with FM4, an organization based in Guadalajara, Mexico, through Casa Jardin. Many immigrants are fleeing poor conditions in Central and South America. They travel to Mexico. Some continue to the U.S. FM4 helps migrants with food, shelter, clothing, and immigration services.
STP
Casa Jardin sponsors a Spanish Translation Program that is translating the ACI 18 and some Diamond Way courses as well from English into Spanish. Their work is high quality, and is essential to spread the teachings to the Spanish-speaking people around the world.
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
Through its scholarship program, Casa Jardin helps children of Mexican descent in Sedona, AZ, USA, go to college. Typically six scholarships are granted annually to deserving high school students for $1,500 each (total scholarships each year: $9,000). These students, the children of recent immigrants, come from economically-challenged families. The scholarships open doors of possibility to them.
CASA HUICHOL
Casa Jardin helps the Huichol, an indigenous people of Mexico living in the high mountains of the Sierra Madre. The Huichol are famous for their art, but are very poor.
Casa Jardin helps with medical services. The Huichol come down to Guadalajara from their mountain homes to receive healthcare.
HELP PEOPLE IN PRISON FIND WISDOM
Time in prison can be a kind of living hell for those who are inside. ACI offers prisoners across the US an opportunity to study Buddhism during their incarceration. The 18 ACI Foundation Courses can be taken online. Prisoners can complete their homework, quizzes, and final exams and mail their work to ACI. Senior ACI teachers then review, correct, and grade their work, and return it to the prisoners with comments.
Studying the teachings provides comfort and wisdom to people who are suffering from samsara even more than most. It helps those in prison to change their lives and emerge as better people, more able to live a better life, and contribute to society and the lives of other people in good ways. Also, the connection to their grader gives a much-needed human touch that helps them focus on higher truths while they are in prison.
Your contribution to the ACI Prisoner Correspondence Course Fund helps ACI pay for the cost of grading, mailing, and communicating with prisoners.
PARTICIPATE
WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR ASSISTANCE WITH OUR MANY PROJECTS
Would you like to help with digitizing our media archives?
Would you like to help with our digital marketing and social media outreach?
Do you have fundraising skills to help support our efforts?
Would you like to volunteer to be on staff for our teaching retreats?
Would you like to participate/teach/support any of our programs?
TongLEN SERVICE GRANTS
The Asian Classics Institute & Diamond Mountain Retreat Center are launching a new quest--to raise $100,000 to help pay people to spread the teachings and the dharma around the world.
HOW TO MAKE A BEQUEST
Making a bequest to ACI is one of the easiest ways to make a contribution. It occurs after your lifetime, so it leaves your current resources under your control. And you can change your bequest at any time.
Include ACI in your will. It’s a way to leave a legacy, for yourself, for your children, and for the preservation of the teachings in the world.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for leaving ACI a legacy donation with your bequest!
STEPS YOU SHOULD TAKE TO LEAVE ACI A BEQUEST:
Talk to your estate attorney or estate planner
Ask them to include ACI in your estate
Information to give them:
a. Asian Classics Institute, a 501 (c ) 3 organization
b. Business address: 6490 SR 179, Sedona, AZ, 86351
Please let ACI know when you have left us a bequest in your will or estate plan by filling out this form
