New Year, New You
Transform Your 2026—Perfect Your Giving in 2025
Goal
$250,000
The new year is coming right up, and Asian Classics Institute/Five Houses invites you to make the coolest New Year's resolution ever: transform your life in 2026 with the Perfection of Giving in 2025!
The year is coming to a close, and we need your help.
Help ACI with a one-time gift now.
As you know, ACI works tirelessly to make the precious teachings available to everyone who wants and needs it, at home and across the world.
We offer thousands of hours of free classes every year, in up to fifteen different languages, taught by some of the world's best teachers. And we help individuals across the world reach their highest goals.
How Your Support Fuels Technology That Transforms Lives
ACI's Francisco Miranda, head of our technology department, has a lot of New Year's resolutions. One of them is to reach even more ACI/Five Houses students in 2026.
"I love my work," says Francisco. "While things can get a little crazy from time to time, the great joy I have in working on my own highest good by spreading the dharma far and wide every day more than makes up for it. I can't imagine anything else I would rather be doing!"
Francisco heads a large team of over 50 volunteers who support the massive technological effort needed to bring all the classes, retreats, and events that ACI/Five Houses produces to ACI's students around the world. It's possible Francisco has even recruited you to help if you met him at an event! "We offer some amazing teaching almost every day of the week," says Francisco. "We have multiple classes a week, often seven days almost around the clock, and at least four major events in different parts of the world each year. Not only that, but we offer each of them in six to ten different languages, all in simultaneous translation. It would take me an hour to describe the many, many technical production steps each one-hour class requires, not to mention a week-long retreat. I really bow down to the feet of my wonderful volunteers!"
Would you like to help keep Francisco and the ACI volunteers going? Would you like to get a piece of that super-powerful goodness?
It's easy: give to New Year, New You right now and help ACI increase its 2026 teaching offerings by a measurable percentage.
Remember, what you give comes back to you many, many times over. Just remember to dedicate.
How Your Support Opens Doors
One of the super things ACI does is give scholarships to deserving individuals throughout the year. This includes gifts for high school students to go to college and ACI students to attend Geshe Michael events. Last year, ACI gave a scholarship to Liudmyla Podorozhko, a student from Ukraine who told us this:
"In the summer of 2024, I received a full scholarship from ACI for a trip to Mexico for a retreat with Geshe Michael. I know it's how my seeds were working, but it would not have been possible without ACI and everyone who helped me create and manifest this. I am eternally grateful to my ACI benefactors for your kindness, your wisdom and generosity. Your support means an opportunity for me and many others to learn, to practice, to transmit dharma for the benefit of everyone. Geshe Michael teaches us that all the walls of all the buildings are held up by kindness. And in my experience, I know that your kindness and generosity can also create gateways to a world of unlimited possibilities, where there is happiness without suffering for everyone. Thank you so much, ACI! Thank you to all my ACI benefactors for every bit of your generosity, which ends up being a huge whole in realizing goals, dreams and great desires."
— Liudmyla Podorozhko
How One Teacher Inspires Hundreds Worldwide
In ACI Executive Director Timothy D. Lowenhaupt's latest class offering, Kompletion Karma, there were 775 people registered, and up to 350 attending online in any one of the classes.
A great teacher can inspire many. "I didn't know a lot of the people who showed up in my first few classes," says Tim. "A lot of them were new. They had heard about this new 15-month teaching I'm offering to help people finish the 15 ACI Foundation Courses. It really seemed to spark some deep interest. In Kompletion Karma, we are going to cover ACI 16, 17 & 18, the review courses that cover the fifteen Foundation Courses. I knew that a lot of our students were having trouble finishing their courses, doing the homeworks and exams needed to get their course certificates, so I decided to offer this 15-month mega-course to help!"
Ask any ACI teacher, and you are likely to hear a touching story about how their words and their teachings inspired somebody. Many times a teacher has changed someone's life for the better with their teaching. Inspired by a bit of Buddhist wisdom skillfully communicated, someone may get the tools they need to fix a family situation, end an addiction, heal and comfort someone who is ill, or create a whole new life situation that is much better than the old one.
Help us train more teachers and unleash them on a world that needs them badly!
Give today to ACI's year-end giving campaign, New Year, New You. And dedicate your amazing generosity to whatever change your heart desires the most.
We need everyone to join in.
Students of ACI share a secret, and we want to remind you of it today. It's a secret you, as a student of wisdom, already know: the more you give with a free hand and a whole heart, the more you get. It's the seed system in action.
Do you have personal goals for 2026? Well, giving to a wonderful to an organization that benefits so many people around the world like Asian Classics Institute/Five Houses—founded to spread the ancient wisdom by our amazing teacher Geshe Michael Roach 32 years ago in 1993—is the best way to guarantee achieving them.
Create a new you! No amount is too small or too big. We need everyone to join in. Make your giving more perfect right now!
ACI and Geshe Michael thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
