Gifts at Work

Your gift to the California Institute of Integral Studies goes to support our students and our educational mission. Here are some examples of recent donations and how they are having an immediate impact at the Institute and in the community.

• CIIS alum Meili, who received her doctorate in Transformative Learning and Change in 1998, set up with her sister Charlene a $20,000 scholarship to honor the memory of their youngest sister. The Carol Ann Wang Scholarship will be awarded each year to a student in the fields of spirituality and expressive arts, areas especially meaningful to Carol Ann, who studied in the Sound, Voice, and Music Healing program with Silvia Nakkach.
• The J. C. Kellogg Foundation has offered up to $60,000 per year over the next five years for scholarships for students of color entering the Integral Counseling Psychology (ICP) program. Philip Brooks, a core faculty member in ICP, explained the purpose of these Leadership in Diversity Scholarships: "We hope the students who receive these will become leaders in their communities, and that they will bring the openness, spirit of transformation, and learned clinical skills back to institutions and individuals who can benefit from the unique program that ICP offers."
• The John and Lisa Pritzker Family Fund is providing $100,000 in scholarships for members of the first cohorts of the new Community Mental Health program. This innovative program is designed to provide skilled therapists for low-income clients and to deliver those services directly to those in need. Instead of learning on the job how to help at-risk clients who sometimes have dual and triple diagnoses, the students will hit the ground running with a curriculum and placements that prepare them for these challenging assignments.